51. Midnight Cowboy
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Schlesinger
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Ruth White
Plot: A lonely male prostitute finds an unwanted friend who both try to survive life on the streets in urban New York City.
52. dolce vita, La
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Alain Cuny, Walter Santesso, Yvonne Furneaux
Plot: A serious journalist finds himself seduced by the decadent lifestyle of the hedonistic jet-setters of Rome, and attempts to make sense of it all.
53. Virgin Spring, The ( Jungfrukällan )
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Pettersson, Axel Düberg, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Plot: During the early 1500s in Sweden, a young virgin is murdered. The murders ironically seek shelter in the parents home in which a plot of revenge is taken against the sinners.
54. True Grit
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Jeremy Slate
Plot: A grizzled and often-times drunk U.S. Marshal joins a Texas Ranger to help a stubborn young girl track down her fathers' killers in Indian territory.
55. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Kizo Nagashima
Actors: Burl Ives, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Larry D. Mann, Paul Kligman
Plot: A young reindeer is outcast because of his glowing red nose. He goes to live amongst the misfit toys, only to become a hero when a foggy night threatens Santa's Christmas voyage.
56. Godson, The ( Samouraï, Le )
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: François Périer, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Michel Boisrond, Jean-Pierre Posier
Plot: An expert hitman, living a meticulously planned existence, finds himself
in a web of intrigue after he is witnessed leaving his latest assignment.
57. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bill Melendez
Actors: Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Sally Dryer, Kathy Steinberg, Gail DeFaria, Glenn Mendelson
Plot: Linus tells Charlie Brown the story of the Great Pumpkin on Halloween.
58. Peeping Tom
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Powell
Actors: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Michael Goodliffe, Shirley Anne Field
Plot: A lonely, repressed young man's life revolves around the camera: when not working for film studio or proving pornographic pictures for a local shop, he's exploring the depths of fear as he films women while murdering them.
59. Kwaidan
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Katsuo Nakamura, Kanemon Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Keiko Kishi
Plot: Four Japanese tales revolving around the supernatural: A poor samurai disowns his wife in order to marry for money only to regret the decision and return home, but something has changed; a woodcutter is rescued from a snowstrom by an ice spirit who saves him on condition he never tell anyone about her - 10 years later he breaks the promise; a blind musician in a monastery is commissioned by a ghostly host to sing their ballad, but as his lifeforce is drained the monks rush to save him; finally, a writer recounts the story of man who keeps seeing a mysterious face in his cup of tea.
60. Onibaba
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Plot: As a feudal war ravages Japan, a soldier leaves behind his wife and mother. Together they scrounge by waylaying tired and wounded soldiers and selling their arms to a greedy merchant. An old friend returns and spells out the fate of the missing husband and son - soon the young widow gives into lust and the mother is left lonely, jealous and plotting her revenge.
