Films my late father saw in movie theaters as a young man
(1961-1965)
According to my dad's notes, he bought his first own television set sometime in autumn 1965, and after that - I assume - he didn't go the movies so often anymore
According to my dad's notes, he bought his first own television set sometime in autumn 1965, and after that - I assume - he didn't go the movies so often anymore
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- DirectorVille SalminenStarsEemeliTarja NurmiJaana Saarinen
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsJohn SaxonSandra DeeTeresa WrightHigh-school life and the prejudices and moral values of small-town USA during the 1950s.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsVittorio De SicaIsabelle CoreyAntonio CifarielloIntersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
- DirectorElsa ColfachStarsBengt BlomgrenRosalie BörjessonPhilip HaglundSusanne is a girl living with her parents. They don't really care much about her. Agitated by the parents continual complaining about her, Susanne takes off. She is attracted to a young man, Olle, who is hanging out with his greaser mates at a café. Olle invites her on a date.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsLiisa TuomiJussi JurkkaEdvin Laine
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsJohn GavinLiselotte PulverJock MahoneyOn the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
- DirectorRaymond RouleauStarsSimone SignoretYves MontandJean DebucourtSalem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. It will be the beginning of a series of witchcraft trials and a dark moment in American history.
- DirectorRichard RushStarsJennifer WestRichard EvansWarren ParkerUnmarried teenage lovers turn to desperate measures after their clandestine tryst results in an unplanned pregnancy.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsDoris DayRex HarrisonJohn GavinIn London, a recently-wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsTadeusz LomnickiUrszula ModrzynskaTadeusz JanczarStory of youth during the German occupation of Poland in World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsTauno PaloGunvor SandkvistHelen EldeDoctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsJeanne MoreauGérard PhilipeAnnette StroybergJuliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
- DirectorVeikko ItkonenStarsEsa PakarinenEemeliSpede Pasanen
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsZbigniew CybulskiEwa KrzyzewskaWaclaw ZastrzezynskiAs World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
- DirectorErich KoblerStarsAlbrecht SchoenhalsEdith KlingerTil Kiwe
- DirectorAarne TarkasStarsElina PohjanpääLeif WagerGerda Ryselin
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelPierre-LouisEllen SchwiersIn 1942, a French prisoner of war in Germany decides to escape to France using a cow held by a lunge as a decoy. He crosses all Germany in this way.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsPaul MeurisseCharles BlavetteAndré BrunotEtienne Alexis, a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment, hosts an aseptic picnic for his engagement to a German cousin. A windstorm brings him together with Nénette, a farm lass who is unimpressed with men.
- DirectorAxel von AmbesserStarsHeinz RühmannErnst StankovskiFranz MuxenederDuring World War I, Schweik (played by Heinz Rühmann) is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army as soldier, where he is assigned to be an assistent to Lt. Lukas.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana SamoylovaVasiliy LivanovFour geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsRomy SchneiderCurd JürgensPierre BlancharCzar Alexander II meets a schoolgirl called Katia. Realizing that he loves her, he attempts to push her away but to no avail. She becomes his mistress. With Katia's help, Alexander is working on a liberal constitution.
- DirectorGuy LefrancStarsDany RobinDaniel GélinJacques Jouanneau