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 candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. His wealthy household (his family owns chemical corporations that will profit from his ideas) is stiff, intellectual, and sterile. To celebrate his engagement to a German cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself. A shepherd's flute conjures a windstorm that throws Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who wants to have a baby but 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
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceAlbert AustinThree Charlie Chaplin short films edited together with new connective tissue.
- DirectorMarcel HanounStarsEmmanuelle RivaFélix MartenJosé VarelaFrançoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her.
- DirectorAleksandr IvanovStarsPyotr ChernovEvgeniy MatveevFyodor ShmakovHistorical drama, based on the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov. It depicts the events in Cossack region on Dov river in early 1930s.
- DirectorAarne TarkasStarsTommi RinneTarja NurmiLiana Kaarina
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsKosti KlemeläHeikki SavolainenReino TolvanenThe tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
- DirectorT.J. SärkkäStarsHelge HeralaAnsa IkonenLiana KaarinaThe company manager has squandered the company's money for millions and staged the branch manager to blame. The office manager is not doing well at home either, as his wife is cheating on him with a flutist.
- DirectorRitva ArveloStarsAino MantsasHelge HeralaMarja KorhonenBased on Maria Jotuni's play, a sharp comedy about greed and speculation. The inhabitants of a small Finnish town try to survive despite the difficulties during the First World War. There is a shortage of everything and speculation flourishes. Everything collapses when peace is unexpectedly made. Maria Jotunin näytelmään perustuva kirpeä komedia ahneudesta ja keinottelusta. Suomalaisen pikkukaupungin asukkaat yrittävät selviytyä vaikeuksista huolimatta ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikana. Kaikesta on pulaa ja keinottelu kukoistaa. Kaikki romahtaa, kun rauha yllättäen solmitaan.
- DirectorHenri DecoinStarsDanièle GaubertJacques RiberollesNadia GrayArlette has too provincial parents to whom she announces her plan about own independence. After her departure, Marc, her absent fiance seek for her in vain in Paris until he discovers her picture on the magazine cover.
- DirectorT.J. SärkkäStarsLiana KaarinaEsko SalminenToivo MäkeläYoung Elsie runs away from home. She get a lift by an older man who takes her out to his country villa. They begin a sexual relationship while the young Reino also shows interest in Elsie.
- DirectorÅke LindmanStarsMauno KuusistoHelena LehteläMatti HyvönenFictionalised biopic of Finnish tenor Mauno Kuusisto, taking its title from his most popular song which remains the all-time best-selling single record in Finland. An orphaned boy, singing in the forests while herding cattle, gets a chance to take singing lessons and grows up to be one of the most popular performers of sentimental songs appealing to the Finnish public. The woman of his dreams is played by violinist Helena Lehtelä, made famous by her weekly TV appearances.
- DirectorRobert YoungsonStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleCharles ChaplinCharley ChaseAn appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. It starts with a 1905 look at French comedy, goes through the 1910s with Sennett, Chaplin, and Fairbanks, and into the 1920s with Max Roach, Snub Pollard, Harry Langdon, Al St. John, Charlie Chase, and the teaming of Laurel and Hardy. Thrillers feature Houdini and serials, with special attention to Pearl White, Ruth Roland, and Monty Banks. The film often lets the silent pictures speak for themselves, running entire one-reelers or significant chunks of an old movie.
- DirectorAarne TarkasStarsLeo JokelaTommi RinneLeni KatajakoskiTwo guys working at a gas station invest their modest lottery prize in a scheme to increase their wealth by marrying some real money. Posing as Texas oil millionaires with Finnish descent, they manage to convince many young ladies and their wealthy parents, but also get to taste their own medicine when it turns out they may not be the only impostors around.
- DirectorReginald DenhamCarlo LastricatiStarsGina LollobrigidaVittorio De SicaDale RobertsonA beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsViktor AvdyushkoAleksandr DemyanenkoStanislav KhitrovOn the last day of World War II in Europe (May 8th, 1945) three Soviet soldiers are assigned the thankless task of taking a frightened pregnant German woman, whom they are unable to communicate with, to a hospital.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneMatti RaninLeo JokelaA rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and Palmu and his assistants Kokki and Virta start an investigation into who has broken into the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap when Mrs. Skrof was sleeping.
- DirectorArmand LohikoskiStarsTuija HalonenTarmo ManniMatti Aulos
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsKarl-Arne HolmstenPer OscarssonFolke SundquistIn a small town two people are about to get married. After being to a flower shop, to look at the bridal bouquet, the woman disappears. The wedding is canceled. A police detective takes charge of the search.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsRock HudsonDoris DayTony RandallA series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsTuija HalonenTabe SlioorTauno MajuriAutobiographical vanity showcase commissioned by Tabe Slioor, a self-made socialite and notorious symbol of loosening morals in early 1960s Finland. The film exploits the scandal she caused as the secret mistress of the mayor of Helsinki. Left unfinished because of her quarrels with the production company, the story relies heavily on her shamelessly narcissistic narration.
- DirectorÅke LindmanStarsVarma LahtinenStig TörnroosAnni Linnus
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsClaudia CardinaleJacques PerrinLuciana AngiolilloA girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsBurt LancasterJean SimmonsArthur KennedyA fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsEmmanuelle RivaEiji OkadaStella DassasA French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMarilyn MonroeYves MontandTony RandallWhen billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
- DirectorAarne TarkasStarsRisto MäkeläRauha RentolaRose-Marie PrechtA government official decides to steal a $25-million markka payroll (=$78,000 USD) and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.
- DirectorPrakash AroraStarsKumari NaazRatan KumarDavid AbrahamPreteen brother and sister, abandoned by their father, to be taken care of, by an abusive prostitute aunt, survive life in an Indian squatters' camp, aided by a friendly cripple, by learning to shine shoes instead of begging.
- DirectorStanley KubrickAnthony MannStarsKirk DouglasLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
- DirectorÅke LindmanStarsMauno KuusistoSiiri AngerkoskiMatti OravistoA story about a farm trader who falls in love with a rich girl with many admirers.
- DirectorEino RuutsaloStarsRaili MetsäYrjö TähteläUnto SalminenAfter spending an enjoyable summer with a guy in the archipelago, a girl comes to Helsinki and goes through a meandering search trying to find him again.
- DirectorVeikko ItkonenStarsToivo LehkonenPirkko PeltonenVille-Veikko SalminenThe thriller Vaarallista vapautta (Dangerous Freedom) (1962), is based on Tuuli Reijonen's novel. Nurse Sinikka (Pirkko Peltonen) wants to help a prisoner (Toivo Lehkonen) who defected across the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiance (Ville-Veikko Salminen) plan an escape trip for him from Finland with the help of her mother (Irma Seikkula). Sinika's brother's (Antti Litja) girlfriend Ruth (Maija Karhi) happens to witness the escape, which puts her accomplices in danger.
- DirectorVeronica Leo-HongellStarsEdna BurretEmma Väänänen
- DirectorIon Popescu-GopoStarsIurie DarieLiliana TomescuHaralambie BorosA dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsPentti TarkiainenVesa-Matti LoiriUti SaurioA group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
- DirectorEwa PetelskaCzeslaw PetelskiStarsWieslaw GolasZofia SlaboszowskaLeon NiemczykSet in the aftermath of World War II, the film recounts the adventures of a Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground, and Ukrainian nationalists.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy ZharikovDuring WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- DirectorDinos DimopoulosStarsAliki VougiouklakiDimitris PapamichaelPantelis ZervosA tenacious daughter and an expert boatman are more than eager to prolong their parents' irreconcilable feud. However, an untimely demise will only make things worse. Can a humble priest help them bury the hatchet and, maybe, find love?
- DirectorYuliya SolntsevaStarsBoris AndreyevSergei LukyanovVasiliy MerkurevIn early Summer 1941, German troops penetrate into Russia, wreaking human and material destruction. Ivan Orlyukov, a young Russian, takes up arms and rises up against the invader. He is not alone : a whole people struggles with him and manages, through their own self-sacrifice, to expel the Nazis from the motherland. Altogether, they fight fiercely till the full annihilation of the enemy.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsMatti OravistoKauko LaurikainenPaul BudskoLieutenant Takala joins a group of war veterans who gather in a restaurant to reminisce their unit's operations on the Finnish-Soviet front. A flashback takes us back to summer 1944 where the unit, led by Takala, performs dangerous guerrilla operations behind enemy lines. A subplot alleges sexual liaisons between soldiers and female volunteers, which caused controversy when the film and the novel it's based on were released in the early 1960s.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartJohn DallFarley GrangerTwo men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.
- DirectorÅke LindmanStarsTarja NurmiEsko SalminenVille-Veikko SalminenTwo bored teenagers from the country side move to Helsinki and end up in the claws of a tough street gang.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsLeon NiemczykJolanta UmeckaZygmunt MalanowiczA couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsImre SinkovitsDezsö GarasLászló MárkusOn Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.
- DirectorMaria SlavinskayaWar documentary directed by Maria Slavinskaya.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJean SimmonsVictor MatureGene TierneyIn ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh's court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets.
- DirectorYves RobertStarsJacques DufilhoYvette EtiévantMichel GalabruThe school boys of two villages in France are fighting. Their trophy are the buttons they will snatch from the enemy. This fight will bring those kids to everlasting friendship...eventually.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsFélix BalderasSara GarcíaMartín HernándezHaving revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west in hopes of testing the capabilities of the American film industry.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoJean PetersAnthony QuinnThe story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsMilos KopeckýRudolf JelínekJana BrejchováThe outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
- DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsMargarita VolodinaBoris AndreyevVyacheslav TikhonovAs the communist revolt progresses in Russia, a female commissar is dispatched to some anarchist sailors to get them on board the party bandwagon.
- DirectorErkko KivikoskiStarsMartti KoskiTuula ElomaaCarita GrenA summer romance remembered.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsDirch PasserOve SprogøeHans W. PetersenThe small windswept Danish island Trangö is home of the famous Trangö-eggs. Besides being bigger and whiter than all the others, these eggs light a fire under every woman's skirts.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsBrigitte BardotJack PalanceMichel PiccoliA French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinClaire BloomNigel BruceA fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsTerry-ThomasGeorge ColeJoyce GrenfellThe girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond-thief disguised as a woman to elude the police.
- DirectorAarne TarkasStarsLasse PöystiLeo JokelaJussi JurkkaYoung record store clerk and aspiring writer Esko has just finished his first novel and wants to marry a colonel's daughter. To get the father's permission, Esko has to join the military. There, Esko has problems with his vivid imagination, so he fantasizes about himself and his superiors and comrade experiencing adventures in the French Foreign Legion or in a navy submarine.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaFederico FelliniMario MonicelliStarsAnita EkbergSophia LorenRomy SchneiderInspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
- DirectorCharles VidorJohn HustonStarsRock HudsonJennifer JonesVittorio De SicaAn English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsAudrey HepburnHenry FondaMel FerrerNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyMikhail NazvanovElza RadzinaAfter the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.
- DirectorMaunu KurkvaaraStarsAnneli SauliYrjö TähteläRitva VepsäA journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko.
- DirectorÅke LindmanPalmer ThompsonStarsRichard LongÅke LindmanPirkko MannolaArrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsEeva-Kaarina VolanenJussi JurkkaEdvin LaineTheatrical adaptation: An intolerant, hard drinking father thwarts his daughter's love for a student and condemns her to a mean factory life and eventual violence.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsLauren BacallTony CurtisNatalie WoodA womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
- DirectorVladimir BasovStarsVitaliy KonyaevGeorgiy MartynyukLarisa Luzhina1945 year. Together with other servicemen demobilized after the end of the Great Patriotic War, 22-year-old captain Sergey Vokhmintsev, the commander of an artillery battery, is returning from Germany. A young front-line soldier looks with hope to the future of a peaceful life, which began for him by his acquaintance with a girl geologist Nina.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid ThulinGunnel LindblomBirger MalmstenTwo estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean-Claude BrialyFrançoise DorléacAntoine is about to get married to Gisèle. His friend Julien, a confirmed bachelor, tries desperately to talk him out of it, citing his own painful experiences.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsDirk BogardeSarah MilesWendy CraigUpper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.