1966

Film Decades: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• 7 Women – directed by John Ford, starring Anne Bancroft, Flora Robson, Margaret Leighton, Mildred Dunnock, Anna Lee
• Aakhri Khat (The Last Letter) – (India)
• After the Fox, starring Peter Sellers and Victor Mature
• Alfie – directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin – (U.K.)
• Alice in Wonderland – starring John Gielgud, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers – TV movie – (U.K.)
• Alvarez Kelly – starring William Holden
• An American Dream, starring Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
• Amrapali, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt – (India)
• Andrei Rublev, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R.)
• Any Wednesday – directed by Robert Ellis Miller, starring Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, & Dean Jones
• The Appaloosa – directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Marlon Brando
• Arabesque – directed by Stanley Donen, starring Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck
• L’armata Brancaleone (a.k.a. For Love and Gold), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio Gassman and Gian Maria Volonté – (Italy)
• Around the World Under the Sea, starring Lloyd Bridges
• Assault on a Queen, starring Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa
• Au Hasard Balthazar (Chosen by Lot Balthazar), directed by Robert Bresson – (France/Sweden)
• Aybolit-66 – (U.S.S.R.)
• Bariera (Barrier), directed by Jerzy Skolimowski – (Poland)
• Batman, starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Lee Meriwether, Frank Gorshin
• The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo – Golden Lion winner – (Italy/Algeria)
• Beregis Avtomobilya (Beware of the Automobile) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Bible: In the Beginning… – directed by John Huston, starring Stephen Boyd, Franco Nero, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole
• The Big Gundown (La resa dei conti), starring Lee Van Cleef – (Italy)
• A Big Hand for the Little Lady, starring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy
• The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore & Signori), directed by Pietro Germi – (Italy)
• Birds Do It, starring Soupy Sales
• Black Girl (La Noire de…), directed by Ousmane Sembène – (France/Senegal)
• Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave—winner of Palme d’Or, 1967 Cannes Film Festival – (Italy/U.K./U.S.)
• The Blue Max, starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress – (U.K.)
• Borom Sarret (The Wagoner) – (Senegal)
• Born Free, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers – (U.K.)
• Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Elke Sommer
• A Bullet for the General (El Chucho, quién sabe?), starring Gian Maria Volonté and Klaus Kinski – (Italy)
• Cairo 30 (Al-Kahira 30) – (Egypt)
• Carry On Screaming!, starring Harry H. Corbett and Kenneth Williams – (U.K.)
• Chappaqua, featuring William S. Burroughs
• The Chase – directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Robert Redford
• Chelsea Girls, directed by Andy Warhol, starring Nico
• Chimes at Midnight (a.k.a. Falstaff) – directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Jeanne Moreau, John Gielgud – (France/Spain/Switzerland)
• Circus of Fear, starring Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Klaus Kinski- (U.K.)
• Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky, directed by Jiří Menzel – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1967) – (Czechoslovakia)
• Come Drink with Me (Da zui xia) – (Hong Kong)
• The Creatures – directed by Agnès Varda – aka Les Créatures – France/Sweden
• Cul-de-sac – directed by Roman Polanski, starring Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac – Golden Bear winner – (U.K.)
• Curse of the Swamp Creature, starring John Agar, Francine York
• Cyborg 2087, starring Michael Rennie and Wendell Corey
  Daimajin – (Japan)
• Daisies (Sedmikrásky) – (Czechoslovakia)
• Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
• The Daydreamer, a Rankin-Bass and Embassy Pictures stop motion and live action film
• Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, starring James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Robert Webber, Rose Marie
• The Deadly Affair, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring James Mason – (U.K.)
• Death of a Bureaucrat (La Muerte de un Burócrata) – (Cuba)
• Destination Inner Space, starring Gary Merrill and Sheree North
• Dimension 5, starring Jeffrey Hunter
• Django, starring Franco Nero – (Italy/Spain)
• Don’t Look Now, We’re Being Shot At (La grande vadrouille), starring Terry-Thomas and Bourvil – (France/U.K.)
• Le deuxieme souffle (a.k.a. Second Breath) – directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura – (France)
• Dracula: Prince of Darkness, starring Christopher Lee – (U.K.)
• Drop Dead Darling, starring Tony Curtis
• Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier
• Dutchman, starring Al Freeman Jr. and Shirley Knight
• El Dorado – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan
• The Elusive Avengers (Neulovimye mstiteli) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Eye of the Devil, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Sharon Tate
• The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) – (Japan)
• Fahrenheit 451 – directed by François Truffaut, starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner – (U.K.)
• The Family Way – directed by Roy Boulting, starring Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Marjorie Rhodes, Murray Head, & Avril Angers – UK
• Fantastic Voyage, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch
• The Fat Spy, starring Phyllis Diller, Jayne Mansfield, Brian Donlevy
• Fighting Elegy (Kenka erejii), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
• A Fine Madness – directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O’Neal, & Clive Revill
• Fireball 500, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian Forte
• Follow Me, Boys! – directed by Norman Tokar, starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Kurt Russell
• The Fortune Cookie (a.k.a. Meet Whiplash Willie) – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
• Frankie and Johnny, starring Elvis Presley and Donna Douglas
• Funeral in Berlin – directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – directed by Richard Lester, starring Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford – (U.S./U.K.)
• Gambit – directed by Ronald Neame, starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine
• The Game Is Over – directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli, & Peter McEnery – aka La Curée – France
• Gamera vs. Barugon – (Japan)
• Georgy Girl, directed by Silvio Narizzano, starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates – (U.K.)
• The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, starring Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Nancy Sinatra
• The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, starring Don Knotts
• The Glass Bottom Boat, starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor
• Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (Gojira, Ebira, Mosura Nankai no Daikettō) – (Japan)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef – (Italy)
• Grand Prix – directed by John Frankenheimer, starring James Garner, Yves Montand, Toshiro Mifune, Eva Marie Saint, Jessica Walter
• The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery, starring Frankie Howerd and Dora Bryan – (U.K.)
• The Group – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Candice Bergen, Shirley Knight, Joan Hackett, Joanna Pettet, Jessica Walter
• Gunpoint, starring Audie Murphy, Joan Staley, Warren Stevens
• Harper, starring Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Lauren Bacall, Pamela Tiffin, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh
• Hawaii – directed by George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris
• The Hawks and the Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Totò – (Italy)
• The Hellbenders (I Crudeli), starring Joseph Cotten – (Italy)
• Here Is Your Life (Här har du ditt liv) – (Sweden)
• Hold On!, starring Peter Noone and Shelley Fabares
• How to Steal a Million – directed by William Wyler, starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole
• Hunger (Sult) – (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)
• The Hunt (La Caza), directed by Carlos Saura – (Spain)
• Incompreso (Misunderstood), directed by Luigi Comencini – (Italy)
• Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?), directed by René Clément, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron – (France/United States)
• Island of Terror, starring Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray
• It Happened Here, starring Sebastian Shaw – (U.K.)
• Johnny Reno, starring Jane Russell
• Judith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Finch – (Israel/U.K./U.S.)
• Kaleidoscope, directed by Jack Smight, starring Warren Beatty – (U.K.)
• Khartoum, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier – (U.K.)
• Kill, Baby, Kill, directed by Mario Bava- (Italy)
• King of Hearts (Le Roi de Cœur), directed by Philippe de Broca, starring Alan Bates – (France)
• Kriminal – (Italy/Spain)
• Let’s Kill Uncle – directed by William Castle
• Lord Love a Duck, starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld
• Lost Command, directed by Mark Robson, starring Anthony Quinn, George Segal, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
• Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., starring Dick Van Dyke and Nancy Kwan
• Madame X, starring Lana Turner
• Made in Paris – directed by Boris Sagal, starring Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Chad Everett, Edie Adams
• Made in U.S.A. – directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Pierre Léaud – (France)
• Mademoiselle, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jeanne Moreau – (France/U.K.)
• Mamta, starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
• A Man and a Woman, directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant — Palme d’Or winner – (France)
• The Man Called Flintstone, directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
• A Man for All Seasons – directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, John Hurt – winner of 6 Academy Awards and 5 BAFTAs – (U.K.)
• A Man Could Get Killed – directed by Ronald Neame & Cliff Owen, starring James Garner and Sandra Dee
• Masculine-Feminine – directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – (France)
• Mera Saaya (My Shadow), starring Sunil Dutt and Sadhana – (India)
• Mission to Death
• Mister Buddwing – directed by Delbert Mann, starring James Garner, Jean Simmons, Angela Lansbury, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross
• Modesty Blaise, starring Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)
• Moment to Moment – directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Jean Seberg and Honor Blackman
  Morgan! (a.k.a. Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment), directed by Karel Reisz – (U.K.)
• Munster, Go Home!, starring Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis
• Murderers’ Row – directed by Henry Levin, starring Dean Martin (as Matt Helm), with Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, Ann-Margret
• Navajo Joe – directed by Sergio Corbucci, starring Burt Reynolds – (Italy/Spain)
• Nayak, directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• Nevada Smith – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Suzanne Pleshette, Arthur Kennedy
• Nobody Wanted to Die (Niekas nenorėjo mirti) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Not with My Wife, You Don’t! – starring Tony Curtis, George C. Scott, Virna Lisi
• The Nun – directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, & Francine Bergé – aka La Religieuse – France
• Once Before I Die, starring Ursula Andress and John Derek
• One Million Years B.C. – starring Raquel Welch – (U.K.)
• Operazione San Gennaro (a.k.a. The Treasure of San Gennaro), starring Nino Manfredi and Senta Berger – (Italy)
• The Oscar, starring Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Jill St. John, Tony Bennett
• Our Man Flint – directed by Daniel Mann, starring James Coburn
• Our Man in Marrakesh, a.k.a. Bang! Bang! You’re Dead!, starring Tony Randall
• Paradise, Hawaiian Style, starring Elvis Presley
• Penelope – directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Dick Shawn, Jonathan Winters, Ian Bannen, Arlene Golonka
• Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (Father Christmas Has Blue Eyes), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – (France)
• Persona – directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann – (Sweden)
• Pharaoh (Faraon) – (Poland)
• Phool Aur Patthar, starring Dharmendra – (India)
• Picture Mommy Dead – directed by Bert I. Gordon, starring Don Ameche and Zsa Zsa Gabor
• The Plague of the Zombies, starring André Morell – (U.K.)
• The Plainsman, starring Don Murray, Abby Dalton, Leslie Nielsen
• The Poppy Is Also a Flower – directed by Terence Young, starring Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Rita Hayworth, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson
• The Pornographers (a.k.a. Erogotoshitachi yori Jinruigaku nyumon), directed by Shōhei Imamura – (Japan)
• The Priest and the Girl (O Padre e a Moça) – (Brazil)
• The Professionals – directed by Richard Brooks, starring Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
• The Projected Man, starring Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday and Ronald Allen- (U.K.)
• Queen of Blood – starring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper
• The Quiller Memorandum – directed by Michael Anderson, starring George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger – (U.K./U.S.)
• Rage, starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens
• The Rare Breed – directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills
• A Report on the Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech), directed by Jan Němec – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Reptile, starring Noel Willman, Ray Barrett, Jennifer Daniel- (U.K.)
• Return of the Seven – directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Claude Akins, Warren Oates
• Ride in the Whirlwind, directed by Monte Hellman, starring Jack Nicholson and Millie Perkins
• Roman Candles – directed by John Waters – short
• Rondo – (Yugoslavia)
• Run, Appaloosa, Run, starring Rex Allen
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming – directed by Norman Jewison, starring Alan Arkin, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint
• The Sand Pebbles – directed by Robert Wise, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna
• The Sandwich Man, starring Michael Bentine and Dora Bryan – (U.K.)
• Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Rock Hudson
• The She Beast, starring Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy
  Shiroi Kyotō (The White Tower) – (Japan)
• The Shooting – directed by Monte Hellman, starring Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins
• Sri Krishna Pandaveeyam, directed by and starring N.T. Rama Rao – (India)
• The Silencers, starring Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kovack
• The Singing Nun – directed by Henry Koster, starring Debbie Reynolds and Greer Garson
• Sound of Horror, starring James Philbrook, Arturo Fernandez, Soledad Miranda
• Spinout, starring Elvis Presley
• Stagecoach, starring Ann-Margret, Bing Crosby, Red Buttons, Alex Cord, Mike Connors, Stefanie Powers
• Suraj, starring Vyjayanthimala and Rajendra Kumar – (India)
• The Swinger, starring Ann-Margret, Tony Franciosa, Yvonne Romain
• The Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tōge) – starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
• Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, starring Mike Henry and Nancy Kovack
• Teesri Kasam (Third Oath), starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
• Texas Across the River, starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Peter Graves, Joey Bishop
• They’re a Weird Mob, directed by Powell and Pressburger – (Australia)
• This Property Is Condemned, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid
• Three on a Couch – directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Janet Leigh, Leslie Parrish, Mary Ann Mobley
• Thunderbirds Are Go, produced by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson, voices of Peter Dyneley, Shane Rimmer, Matt Zimmerman, David Graham, Christine Finn,
• Sylvia Anderson, Jeremy Wilkin, Ray Barrett
• Tokyo Drifter (Tōkyō nagaremono), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
• Torn Curtain – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman & Julie Andrews
• Trace of Stones (Spur der Steine) – (East Germany)
• The Trap, starring Rita Tushingham and Oliver Reed – (U.K./Canada)
• Triple Cross, starring Christopher Plummer, Claudine Auger, Gert Fröbe – (U.K./France)
• The Trouble with Angels, directed by Ida Lupino, starring Rosalind Russell,
  Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Gypsy Rose Lee, Camilla Sparv, Mary Wickes, & June Harding
• Trunk to Cairo, directed by Menahem Golan, starring Audie Murphy – (Israel)
• The Ugly Dachshund – directed by Norman Tokar, starring Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charles Ruggles
• Ukamau (And So it Is) – (Bolivia)
• Waco, starring Jane Russell and Howard Keel
• Walk, Don’t Run – directed by Charles Water, starring Cary Grant (in his final film), Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton
• The War Is Over (La Guerre est Finie), directed by Alain Resnais, starring Yves Montand and Ingrid Thulin – (France)
• The War of the Gargantuas (Furankenshutain no Kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira) – directed by Ishiro Honda- (Japan)
• Way…Way Out – directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Jerry Lewis and Connie Stevens
• What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? – directed by Blake Edwards, starring James Coburn and Dick Shawn
• Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (Qui êtes vous, Polly Maggoo?) – (France)
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – directed by Mike Nichols, starring Elizabeth Taylor, (Best Actress Oscar), Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
• The Wild Angels – directed by Roger Corman, starring Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra
• Wings, directed by Larisa Shepitko – (U.S.S.R.)
• Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (animated short)
• The Witches, starring Joan Fontaine
• The Wrong Box – starring John Mills, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Nanette Newman – (U.K.)
• Yesterday Girl, directed by Alexander Kluge – (West Germany)
• Young Törless (Der junge Törless), directed by Volker Schlöndorff – (West Germany)
• You’re a Big Boy Now – directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Karen Black, Julie Harris