Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

[9] When cosmic radiation transforms the dead into flesh-eating ghouls, a ragtag team of survivors make a last stand at a remote Pennsylvania farmhouse where tensions rise between the living as much as from the growing zombie horde. Co-writer/director George…
Corruption (1968)

Corruption (1968)

[2] Peter Cushing stars as a doctor who murders people so he can harvest their pituitary glands to (somehow?) restore his fiancée's badly burned face. At first, guilt drives his character because he's partially to blame for the accident that…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

[8] Stanley Kubrick advanced the art of special effects and brought the science-fiction genre out of low-budget purgatory with 2001: A Space Odyssey. With a script co-written by Arthur C. Clarke, based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", 2001 opens…
Teorema (1968)

Teorema (1968)

[6] Italian writer/artist/political activist Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom) paints a bleak portrait of middle-class complacency in Teorema, the story of a bourgeoise household seduced and forever changed by a mysterious stranger played by Terence…
Charly (1968)

Charly (1968)

[4] Cliff Robertson stars as Charly, a mentally disabled man who agrees to have an experimental operation that makes him more intelligent. But just as the experiment's success is announced to the scientific world, Charly learns he will soon regress…
The Living Skeleton (1968)

The Living Skeleton (1968)

[7] A young man and woman living under the care of a kindly priest get wrapped up in a series of seemingly supernatural murders. It turns out a group of modern-day pirates murdered the crew of a ship three years…
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

[8] Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda star in this fluffy, family-oriented comedy about a widower with ten children who falls in love with a widow who has eight kids of her own. But do they dare merge their families into…
If…. (1968)

If…. (1968)

[7] Malcolm McDowell stars in Lindsay Anderson's tale of schoolyard rebellion. If.... caught the zeitgeist when it was released in 1968 and took home the Palme d'Or at Cannes for its allegorical look at the class system and social upheaval.…
Planet of the Apes (1968)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

[8] It may be tempting to dismiss Planet of the Apes as high camp, but there's provocative science-fiction under those monkey masks. Charlton Heston plays an American astronaut who's on his way back to Earth when he crashlands on a…
Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

[6] There is at least a certain amount of fun to be had in watching Clint Eastwood pump lead into Nazis. Where Eagles Dare is about a group of Allied forces trying to raid a Nazi stronghold to rescue a captured…