This tiny indie movie found the right metaphor for basically all of modern society’s fears and single-handedly spawned a major subgenre that’s lasted until today.
Category Archives: 1960s movies
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964)
Roger Corman and Vincent Price team up for a movie about rich people torturing peasants and partying during a plague.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
Sidney Poitier has to solve a murder in a small southern town that hates him. A great social movie but kind of a blah procedural.
GOLDFINGER (1964)
The late, great Sean Connery stars in maybe the best of all the Bond movies.
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
A vast conspiracy is set to bring down the government, and only Frank Sinatra can stop it.
THE LEOPARD (1963)
I was floored by this Italian epic about the fall of the aristocracy, written by a prince and directed by a Marxist, starring, of all people, Burt Lancaster.
LA NOIRE DE… (1966)
The first film from Sub-Saharan Africa to make a big splash in Europe and the US, its story about the toll of colonization is very relevant even today.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
Nothing good happens after 2am.
SPARTACUS (1960)
As epics of Roman battles go, Spartacus is the thinking-man’s version. It also helped break the Hollywood Blacklist.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
Gregory Peck’s legendary portrayal of Atticus Finch towers above many American’s first story about racism.
Movie Valhalla 