1966 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1966, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Fahrenheit 451
Directed by: Ramin Bahrani
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella
Country: United States of America
Sugar Colt
Directed by: Franco Giraldi
Starring: Gina Rovere, Erno Crisa, Valentino Macchi, Nazzareno Zamperla, George Rigaud, Rossella Bergamonti, Jack Betts, Victor Israel, Miranda Soledad, Julian Rafferty, Alfred Thomas
Country: Italy
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Country: United States of America
Outline: A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
A Man for All Seasons
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern
Country: United States of America
Outline: The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Shane
Directed by: George Stevens
Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde
Country: United States of America
Outline: A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.
The Sand Pebbles
Directed by: Robert Wise
Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Country: United States of America
Outline: In 1926, an US naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
The Professionals
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode
Country: United States of America
Outline: An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Grand Prix
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Starring: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshirô Mifune
Country: United States of America
Outline: American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, ...
Alfie
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster
Country: United States of America
Outline: An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Georgy Girl
Directed by: Silvio Narizzano
Starring: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling
Outline: A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
Hawaii
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Starring: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman
Country: United States of America
Outline: An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Directed by: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Country: United States of America
Outline: A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Watch Out for the Automobile
Directed by: Eldar Ryazanov
Starring: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Efremov, Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, Anatoliy Papanov
Outline: The hero of the film is an insurance agent who is also a car thief. He steals cars only from various crooks and never from the good people. Then he sells those stolen cars and gives all the...
Andrei Rublev
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Country: United States of America
Outline: The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer.
Persona
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Country: United States of America
Outline: A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personas are melding together.
War and Peace
Directed by: Sergey Bondarchuk
Starring: Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Boris Zakhava
Country: United States of America
Outline: A Russian Prince experiences battle against Napoleon and a troubled relationship with his father and wife. Finds acceptance of her death and eventually his chance of true love. A spoiled, ...
Au Hasard Balthazar
Directed by: Robert Bresson
Starring: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Country: United States of America
Outline: The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Hunger
Directed by: Henning Carlsen
Starring: Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel, Knud Rex
Outline: In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of ...
Teesri Manzil
Directed by: Vijay Anand
Starring: Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Raj Mehra, Prem Chopra
Outline: A woman blames a nightclub drummer for the suspicious death of her sister, and seeks revenge. However, the pair work together to solve the mystery and become romantically involved, after he introduces himself under another name.
Seconds
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Rock Hudson, Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Frances Reid
Country: United States of America
Outline: An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity - one that comes with its own price.
A Man and a Woman
Directed by: Claude Lelouch
Starring: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange
Country: United States of America
Outline: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their children's boarding school. Slowly the widower and widow reveal themselves to each other, with each revelation hidden by a ...
How to Steal a Million
Directed by: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith
Country: United States of America
Outline: Romantic comedy about a woman who must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries, and the man who helps her.
Father
Directed by: István Szabó
Starring: András Bálint, Miklós Gábor, Dániel Erdély, Kati Sólyom
Outline: A boy in Budapest lost his father in 1945, when he was the age of six. He does not remember much of the father but fantasize that he performed various heroic feats.
The Trouble with Angels
Directed by: Ida Lupino
Starring: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Camilla Sparv
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.
King of Hearts
Directed by: Philippe de Broca
Starring: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy
Outline: During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has planted. However, Charles is ...
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