The Brides of Fu Manchu

1966

English

5.4

♡ 4

26%

Action

Adventure

Crime

Don Sharp Director

Ric Young as Control Assistant

Howard Marion-Crawford as Doctor Petrie

Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu

Joseph Fürst as Otto Lentz

This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.

Walk Don't Run

1966

English

6.6

♡ 3

Charles Walters Director

Samantha Eggar as Christine Easton

John Standing as Julius D. Haversack

Dale Ishimoto as Plainclothesman

Peggy Rea as Ukrainian Shot Putter

During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.

What's Cooking in Paris

1966

French

6.7

♡ 5

Jacques Besnard Director

France Rumilly as La baronne

Bernard Blier as Le commissaire divisionnaire

Paul Faivre as Le monsieur taché

Louis de Funès as Monsieur Septime

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

Dimension 5

1966

English

4.6

♡ 4

Franklin Adreon Director

Paul Frees as Big Buddha

Jon Lormer as Professor

Bill Walker as Slim

Tad Horino as Squeaky

An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb.

Picture Mommy Dead

1966

English

5.3

♡ 9

52%

Action

daughter stepmother relationship

Bert I. Gordon Director

Don Ameche as Edward Shelley

Anna Lee as Elsie Kornwald

Martha Hyer as Francene Shelley

Wendell Corey as Lawyer Clayborn

Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.

Harper

1966

English

6.8

♡ 15

95%

73%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

husband wife relationship

Jack Smight Director

Robert Wagner as Allan Taggert

Paul Newman as Lew Harper

Roy Jenson as Puddler

Sheb Wooley as Puddler

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

The Fortune Cookie

1966

English

7.2

♡ 16

96%

Billy Wilder Director

Ned Glass as Doc Schindler

William Christopher as Intern

Harry Holcombe as O'Brien

Les Tremayne as Thompson

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

Navajo Joe

1966

Italian

6.3

♡ 5

54%

Sergio Corbucci Director

Pierre Cressoy as Dr. Chester Lynne

Valentino Macchi as Gringo Scalphunter

Burt Reynolds as Navajo Joe

Fernando Rey as Rev. Rattigan

The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

Torn Curtain

1966

English

6.6

♡ 25

63%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Gene Roth as Guard in Post Office

Hansjörg Felmy as Heinrich Gerhard

Paul Newman as Professor Michael Armstrong

Paul Sorensen as Swedish Immigration Officer

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

A Grande Cidade ou As Aventuras e Desventuras de Luzia e Seus 3 Amigos Chegados de Longe

1966

Portuguese

7.0

♡ 5

Carlos Diegues Director

Zé Keti as Compositor

Francisco Santos as Detetive

Hugo Carvana as Pereba

José Cruz as Pivete

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way. Alone in the Marvelous City, she is forced to accept the friendship and protection of Calunga and, later, the company of Inácio.

Au hasard Balthazar

1966

French

7.7

♡ 22

100%

Robert Bresson Director

Jean-Claude Guilbert as Arnold

François Lafarge as Gérard

Walter Green as Jacques

Anne Wiazemsky as Marie

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand

1966

German

5.2

♡ 3

Alfred Vohrer Director

Claus Jurichs as Billy-Bob Silers

Vladimir Medar as Caleb

Aleksandar Stojkovic as German-Joe

Harald Leipnitz as Silers

Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act.

Pharaoh

1966

Polish

7.3

♡ 8

88%

Jerzy Kawalerowicz Director

Jerzy Fidler as Extra

Barbara Brylska as Kama - Priestess of Astharte

Mieczyslaw Voit as Priest of Seth

Annekathrin Bürger as (voice)

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.

The Sword of Doom

1966

Japanese

7.9

♡ 34

80%

90%

Action

based on novel or book

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Yûzô Kayama as Hyoma Utsuki

Tadao Nakamaru as Isami Kondo

Tatsuya Nakadai as Ryunosuke Tsukue

Toshirô Mifune as Toranosuke Shimada

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.

Triple Cross

1966

English

6.3

♡ 9

Terence Young Director

Gordon Jackson as British Sergeant Questioning Chapman

Trevor Howard as Freddie Young aka Distinguished Civilian

Bernard Fresson as French Resistant Raymond

Jean-Claude Bercq as Major Von Leeb

Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the would-be traitor arrives home, he convinces the English to use him as a double agent -- in exchange for a full pardon.

Wages of Sin

1966

German

4.9

♡ 2

Aleksander Ford Director

Sepp Zuger as Abtreiber Herr Wiesner

Franz Matter as Dr. med. Huber

Gert Westphal as Kriminalkommissar

Beate Tschudi as Sophie Rüesch

A serious Swiss melodrama/documentary about abortion, marketed as a sexy exploitation movie in the US. The film contains real medical footage.

Blow-Up

1966

English

7.4

♡ 33

87%

loss of sense of reality

Michelangelo Antonioni Director

John Castle as Bill

Vanessa Redgrave as Jane

Claude Chagrin as Mime

Peter Bowles as Ron

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Manos: The Hands of Fate

1966

English

1.7

♡ 6

Harold P. Warren Director

Len Carlson as Master

Regina Carrol as Master's Wife

Bettye Birns as Master's Wife

Joyce Molleur as Teenager in Car

A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.

Closely Watched Trains

1966

Czech

7.6

♡ 13

90%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

Jirí Menzel Director

Emil Iserle as (as J. Pech)

Jirí Menzel as Dr. Brabec

Jirí Kodet as SS-man

Pavel Landovský as Zlodej

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.