1960 movies

Breathless (1960)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Gere, Richard | Metrano, Art | Ryan, John P. | Tepper, William | Dunn, Robert | Goodrow, Garry | Persky, Lisa Jane | Hong, James | Kalinowski, Waldemar | Leustig, Jack | Lourié, Eugène | Olden, Georg | Pinero, Miguel | Sanders, Henry G.
Directors: McBride, Jim
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Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.

Adua e le compagne (1960)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Signoret, Simone | Milo, Sandra | Riva, Emmanuelle | Rovere, Gina | Gora, Claudio | Garrani, Ivo | Tedeschi, Gianrico | Rais, Antonio | D'Amore, Duilio | Fabrizi, Valeria | Gilli, Luciana | Maggio, Enzo | Meloni, Roberto | Angelini, Nando | Mastroianni, Marcello
Directors: Pietrangeli, Antonio
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Four unemployed prostitutes attempt to open a restaurant in this comedy. They look all over Rome for a restaurant they can afford. When they find a ramshackle cafe. The landlord is willing to let them have it; they can even use his name to buy the food license, but he has one condition: they must also run a little cathouse upstairs. Their restaurant becomes quite successful, but when their personal lives intervene, the business threatens to fold.

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Mills, John | McGuire, Dorothy | MacArthur, James | Munro, Janet | Hayakawa, Sessue | Kirk, Tommy | Corcoran, Kevin | Parker, Cecil | Ho, Andy | Reid, Milton | Taylor, Larry
Directors: Annakin, Ken
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A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a huge treehouse) and explore the island and it’s wildlife. Plenty of adventure ensues as the family deals with issues of survival, pirates, and the brothers must learn how to live on the island with an uncertain future.

The Time Machine (1960)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Mumba, Samantha | Addy, Mark | Guillory, Sienna | Law, Phyllida | Young, Alan | Mumba, Omero | Arias, Yancey | Jones, Orlando | Irons, Jeremy | Kirk, Laura | Stamberg, Josh | Momrow, John W. | Baker, Max | Meyer, Jeffrey M.
Directors: Wells, Simon
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Wild River (1960)

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Clift, Montgomery | Remick, Lee | Van Fleet, Jo | Salmi, Albert | Flippen, Jay C. | Westerfield, James | Loden, Barbara | Overton, Frank | Atterbury, Malcolm | Bess, Big Jeff | Dern, Bruce | Dudley, John | Jones, Robert Earl | Menson, Mark | Smith, Alfred E.
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man’s love affair with that woman’s widowed granddaughter.

Bellboy, The (1960)

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerry, Alex | Clayton, Bob | Sands, Sonnie | Shaeffer, Eddie | Styles, Herkie | Landfield, David | Richmond, Bill | Best, Larry | Middlecoff, Cary | Terry, Art | Carr, Frankie | Mayer, Joe | Allan, Stanley
Directors: Lewis, Jerry
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Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All that he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong - does go wrong when Stanley is involved. Then one day, Jerry Lewis, big star, arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance. Stanley continues to do what he was hired to do while star Lewis has more trouble with his entourage than the hotel accommodations.

Magnificent Seven, The (1960)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Brynner, Yul | Wallach, Eli | McQueen, Steve | Bronson, Charles | Vaughn, Robert | Dexter, Brad | Coburn, James | Martínez de Hoyos, Jorge | Sokoloff, Vladimir | Monteros, Rosenda | Alaniz, Rico | Hern, Pepe | Vacío, Natividad | Navarro, Mario | Bravo, Danny
Directors: Sturges, John
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A remake of ”The Seven Samurai”, this American version star Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Robert Vaughn, just to name a few. They are picked to guard a Mexican village from Banditos that come every now and then to take whatever the town has grown since their last visit. When they are hired, they go to the town and teach the villagers how to defend themselves. When the leader of the bandits come ,they fight him and his men off. the second time he comes the villagers give the seven to them, due to a heated argument. The leader of the bandits take their guns and throw them out of town he gives them horses and gives their guns back to them when they are far out of town. The seven decide that they aren’t going to run, and head back to the village for a final showdown.

Pollyanna (1960)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Burton, Amanda | Cranham, Kenneth | Terry, Georgina | Gillett, Aden | Ferris, Pam | Ashfield, Kate | Bell, Tom | Ellis, Tom | Bamber, David | Thornton, Ben | Flynn, Judy | Walker, Amanda | Duffett, Nicola | Carey, Jan | Nash, Jane
Directors: Harding, Sarah
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Even after having lived the hardscrabble life of a missionary’s daughter all her life and seen the loss of both parents, young Pollyanna Whittier refuses to be depressed. Instead, she must be glad about anything she can think of, and it’s paid off big time. Now, however, she must go to live with her cold, spinsterish aunt in a town inhibited by embittered, unfriendly souls. Can she use her glad game to win over everyone and transform the town?

Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Haze, Jonathan | Joseph, Jackie | Welles, Mel | Miller, Dick | Vail, Myrtle | Kupcinet, Karyn | Michaels, Toby | Wendorff, Leola | Storey, Lynn | Campo, Wally | Warford, Jack | Welles, Meri | Shaner, John Herman | Nicholson, Jack
Directors: Corman, Roger
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Classic black comedy about young schnook who develops a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. The basis for the later hit stage musical.

Psycho (1960)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Perkins | Leigh, Janet | Vera Miles | John Gavin | Balsam, Martin | John McIntire
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.