11. trou, Le
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Becker
Actors: Marc Michel, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Michel Constantin, André Bervil
Plot: A group of four prisoners have been planning an elaborate escape when a young detainee is transferred in while another cell block is repaired. The men must decide whether this fresh face can be trusted with their carefully-constructed plan.
12. Zulu
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cy Endfield
Actors: Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green
Plot: Zulu is the story of Rorkes Drift which was a small British mission post which was held by less than 150 soldiers against overwhelming numbers of Zulus in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
13. Becket
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Glenville
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Paolo Stoppa, Pamela Brown, Siân Phillips
Plot: Based on the historical clash between Henry II and Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, this story shows how badly nepotism can actually go when one can't fire an appointee. Henry needs to appoint a replacement to the recently deceased Archbishop and, in an effort to bring the Church and his monarchy into closer alignment (with his direction, of course), Henry appoints his old friend to the post. Things go wrong when Becket pursues the will of God instead of his King's.
14. Fail-Safe
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, Ed Binns
Plot: When a series of errors send a squadron of Vindicator bombers on a course to nuke Russia. The president contacts Russia and works with the Pentagon and the Strategic Air Command in Omaha in order to stop WWIII.
15. Contempt ( mépris, Le )
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang
Plot: A man attempts to write a script for Ulysses in order to make it more commercial. But in order to get the best deal, he throws his wife into the mix resulting in disaster for all involved.
16. Seven Days in May
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam
Plot: An unpopular president has passed a nuclear disarmament treaty through the
Senate, but finds popular opinion swiftly turning on him. A friendly
Marine Colonel informs him that current Joint Chiefs head General Scott
(and certain future presidential candidate) plans to kill the treaty,
fearing a Soviet sneak attack. Thus the intrigue begins, and the president
must figure out who he can trust and who he must fear.
17. A Shot in the Dark
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, Graham Stark
Plot: A sexy parlor maid is accused of killing her lothario lover. Enter the
bumbling Inspector Clouseau, who's intent on proving the young beauty's
innocence even though the evidence indicates otherwise.
18. Band of Outsiders ( Bande à part )
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Anna Karina, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn, Chantal Darget, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur
Plot: A trio of young miscreants (two male, one female) plan to rob the girl's caretaker while the boys vie for her affection. Will their plan be successful?
19. Diary of a Chambermaid ( Journal d'une femme de chambre, Le )
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Daniel Ivernel, Françoise Lugagne, Muni, Michel Piccoli
Plot: A chambermaid in a house full of somewhat cold eccentrics decides to quit after the patriarch dies. But the murder of a little girl changes her mind. Believing the chief farmhand to be guilty of the crime, the chambermaid stays on to prove his guilt.
20. Marnie
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tippi Hedren, Martin Gabel, Sean Connery, Louise Latham, Diane Baker, Alan Napier
Plot: A troubled young kleptomaniac is blackmailed into marrying one of the men from whom she stole. Will he be able to unlock the secret to her neuroses before it's too late?
