Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

[7] Richard Beymer (West Side Story) stars as Ernest Hemingway's alter-ego, a young man who comes of age by traveling the country and serving in the military during the early 1900s. With beautiful scenery of rural Michigan and Franz Waxman's…
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

[8] Steve McQueen plays a millionaire who robs a bank just for shits and giggles, and Faye Dunaway plays the insurance investigator who will either turn him in... or fall in love with him. Director Norman Jewison embraces the French…
Father Goose (1964)

Father Goose (1964)

[5] I like the premise of this one. Cary Grant plays a beach bum who relays Japanese radio messages to the military during WWII. His life is a solitary one until a plane crashes on the island, introducing him to…
Torture Garden (1967)

Torture Garden (1967)

[5] Burgess Meredith stars as Dr. Diabolo, a sideshow barker who gives daring patrons a glimpse at their untimely demises in this horror anthology flick from Britain's Amicus Productions (ever the poor man's Hammer Studios). The four featured tales include…
Advise and Consent (1962)

Advise and Consent (1962)

[7] In this political drama from director Otto Preminger, Henry Fonda plays the president's newly appointed Secretary of State, but before he can take the position he must pass the Senate's nasty accusations of communism and homosexuality. Advise and Consent…
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)

[6] A passenger plane crashes after a close encounter with a UFO. The survivors are left in a remote desert to defend themselves against a blob-like alien that creates a vaginal slit in its victims' foreheads before crawling inside their…
Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

[7] Warren Beatty made his screen debut alongside Natalie Wood in this Elia Kazan film about sexual repression in 1920s middle-America. Beatty and Wood play Bud and Deanie, high school lovers who plan to get married and consummate their growing…
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

[7] Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey star as returning prisoners of war who have been unwittingly hypnotized to become sleeper agents for Communist China in the American political arena. Whenever either man sees the Queen of Hearts from a deck…
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

[6] After the success of Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger returned to personal storytelling in Britain with Sunday Bloody Sunday, a slice-of-life movie about a middle-aged doctor (Peter Finch) and a divorcee (Glenda Jackson) who knowingly share a bohemian lover (Murray…
Charade (1963)

Charade (1963)

[7] Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain) film about a recent widow fighting off a handful of mysterious bad guys who believe she knows where her husband was keeping a stolen quarter…