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The Fraeon Archive · The 1960s
19631965

1964

The old studio system crumbled while the French New Wave, spaghetti westerns and a new frankness rebuilt cinema from the edges.

The films everyone saw

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Mary Poppins

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

3.8

Mary Poppins

1964

Sex and the Single Girl

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

3.3

Sex and the Single Girl

1964

A Fistful of Dollars

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

3.9

A Fistful of Dollars

1964

Goldfinger

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.

3.7

Goldfinger

1964

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

4.1

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

My Fair Lady

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

3.7

My Fair Lady

1964

Woman in the Dunes

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

4.1

Woman in the Dunes

1964

Fantomas

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

3.4

Fantomas

1964

Zorba the Greek

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

3.7

Zorba the Greek

1964

A Hard Day's Night

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

3.7

A Hard Day's Night

1964

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.

3.5

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

1964

The Fall of the Roman Empire

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.

3.3

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964

Marnie

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

3.6

Marnie

1964

Blood and Black Lace

Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.

3.7

Blood and Black Lace

1964

A Shot in the Dark

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.

3.6

A Shot in the Dark

1964

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

3.7

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1964

Fail Safe

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

3.9

Fail Safe

1964

Zulu

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

3.7

Zulu

1964

What the critics kept

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Marriage Italian Style

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

3.9

Marriage Italian Style

1964

Onibaba

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

3.8

Onibaba

1964

The Train

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

3.8

The Train

1964

Band of Outsiders

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.

3.8

Band of Outsiders

1964

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudolph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...

3.7

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

1964

That Man from Rio

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

3.7

That Man from Rio

1964

Red Desert

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

3.7

Red Desert

1964

Hidden gems of 1964loved by the few who found them

Yearning

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

4.1

Yearning

1964

El padrecito

Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.

4.0

El padrecito

1964

I Am Cuba

A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.

3.9

I Am Cuba

1964

This Special Friendship

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

3.9

This Special Friendship

1964

Seduced and Abandoned

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.

3.8

Seduced and Abandoned

1964

Welcome, or No Trespassing

Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.

3.8

Welcome, or No Trespassing

1964

Charulata

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.

3.7

Charulata

1964

Three Outlaw Samurai

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.

3.7

Three Outlaw Samurai

1964

Pale Flower

A recently released gangster has to cope with the recent shifts of power between gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

3.7

Pale Flower

1964

Seven Days in May

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

3.7

Seven Days in May

1964

On the small screen

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Top of the Pops

The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.

3.3

Top of the Pops

1964

Match of the Day

BBC's football highlights and analysis. "The longest-running football television programme in the world" as recognised by Guinness World Records in 2015.

3.8

Match of the Day

1964

Bewitched

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.

3.9

Bewitched

1964

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.

3.9

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964

The Addams Family

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.

4.0

The Addams Family

1964

The Munsters

A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.

4.0

The Munsters

1964

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

3.6

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

Gilligan's Island

The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.

3.7

Gilligan's Island

1964

Flipper

Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve in southern Florida, and his two young sons, Sandy and Bud. The show has been dubbed an "aquatic Lassie", and a considerable amount of juvenile merchandise inspired by the show was produced during its first-run.

3.1

Flipper

1964

The Magilla Gorilla Show

Magilla Gorilla is a fictional gorilla and the star of The Magilla Gorilla Show by Hanna-Barbera that aired from 1964 to 1967.

3.1

The Magilla Gorilla Show

1964

Jonny Quest

The adventures of the 10-year-old son of a government scientist.

4.0

Jonny Quest

1964

The year in anime

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Mermaid

In a fictional place where using the imagination is banned, a boy saves a fish, which surprises everyone by turning into a mermaid. The boy is arrested for imagining this "nonsense", and is robbed of his imagination as punishment. (Source: Anime News Network)

Fantasy

2.9

Mermaid

1964 · 1 eps

Memory

This is a short, privately produced animated film. While elucidating the mystery and fuzziness as well as merits and demerits of memory in idealizing reality, the story develops into a tale of destruction of human beings, turning the existence of the earth into a memory of the universe. The production, only 5 minutes long, greatly helps expand the viewer's imagination, embodying the enchantment of animation. (Source: AniDB)

Mystery

2.7

Memory

1964 · 1 eps

Astro Boy: The Brave in Space

From the TV series of "Astro Boy," three episodes were selected for theater re-edition, "Robot Rocket" (46th episode), "Earth Defense Troops" (56th episode) and "The Last Day of Earth" (71st episode). Of these three, "Earth Defense Troops" was the only one originally derived from Tezuka Osamu's story "Number 7." Its settings were diverted to the "Astro Boy" series. In this film, the whole scene of "Earth Defense Troops" and a part of "The Last Day of Earth" were reproduced in color for this theater version. (Source: Official site)

Action · Adventure

3.0

Astro Boy: The Brave in Space

1964 · 1 eps

Big X

Invited to Nazi Germany during World War II, Dr. Asagumo is asked by Hitler to collaborate with him on the research of the new weapon "Big X". Concerned about the possible effects of the completion of Big X, Dr. Asagumo intentionally delays the progress of the research, conspiring with his co-researcher, the devious Dr. Engel. Immediately before Germany is defeated by the Allies, Dr. Asagumo implants a card inscribed with the secret of Big X in his son, Shigeru, and is then shot to death by the German army. Twenty years later, the card is discovered in the body of Shigeru, who is then living in Tokyo. Soon, an organization claiming alliance with the Nazis appears, steals the card, and completes the Big X project. Dr. Engel's grandson has joined the Nazi Alliance. The completed Big X is then revealed to be a drug that can expand the human body without limitation. Recovering Big X from the enemy, Shigeru's son Akira fearlessly challenges the Nazi Alliance and Hans Engel, who are plotting to conquer the world. Note: Most of the series is lost media. Only episodes 1, 11, 12 & 40-59 are known to still exist.

Action · Sci-Fi

2.6

Big X

1964 · 59 eps

Shounen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru

It's a pretty basic story about a boy practicing the arts of ninjutsu, fighting evil and trying to find his mother. Young Fujimaru got snatched away from his mother by an eagle and was rescued by a ninja named Sasuke who raised him and taught him ninja techniques. Later Fujimaru embarks on a quest to find his mother, encounters his arch enemy and learns about a secret book that contains secret ninja arts. The series is pretty old, but portraits loads of classic ninja techniques, like elemental manipulation (fire & wind), creating illusionary clones and breathing through a reed.

Action · Adventure

2.8

Shounen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru

1964 · 65 eps

0-sen Hayato

The adventures of a zero fighter pilot during World War II. (Source: AniDB)

2.4

0-sen Hayato

1964 · 38 eps

Shisukon Ouji

Based on a manga by Fujiko (A) Fujio and Fujiko (F) Fujio.

Adventure

2.2

Shisukon Ouji

1963 · 14 eps

Shounen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Nazo no Arabiya Ningyou

Kidnapped and rescued by a Ninja, Fujimaru has mastered martial arts over the years. Now he sets off on a journey to find his mother and also locate an old tome containing secret martial arts techniques. (Source: AniDB)

Action · Adventure

2.1

Shounen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Nazo no Arabiya Ningyou

1964 · 1 eps

On the page

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Gullivar of Mars

Fiction · Military art and science, history

Gullivar of Mars

Edwin Lester Linden Arnold

1964

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Childrens Media Tie-In Books · Children's Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

1964

A Caribbean Mystery

Agatha Christie · Miss Marple

A Caribbean Mystery

Agatha Christie

1964

You Only Live Twice

Fiction, espionage · Fiction, thrillers, general

You Only Live Twice

Ian Fleming

1964

Almuric

Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure · Scientists, fiction

Almuric

Robert E. Howard

1964

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the magical car

Automobiles · Children's stories

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the magical car

Ian Fleming

1964

Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats

Drama · Assassination

Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats

Peter Weiss

1964

One, Two, Three and Away

Readers · Readers and speakers

One, Two, Three and Away

Sheila K. McCullagh

1964

Astérix Gladiateur

series:Astérix · Comic books, strips

Astérix Gladiateur

René Goscinny

1964

The Stone Angel

Women · Fiction

The Stone Angel

Margaret Laurence

1964

Games People Play

Game theory · Interpersonal relations

Games People Play

Eric Berne

1964

Through the Rainbow

Readers

Through the Rainbow

E.S Bradburne

1964

The Book Of Three

Fantasy · Juvenile fiction

The Book Of Three

Lloyd Alexander

1964

Flat Stanley

Humorous stories · Art thieves

Flat Stanley

Jeff Brown

1964

Great Britain · Great Britain. Foreign Office

Lists and indexes. Supplementary series

Public Record Office

1964

Christo

Art · Artists' preparatory studies

Christo

Christo

1964

Children of Crisis

Poor · Children with social disabilities

Children of Crisis

Robert Coles

1964

Bookman's Price Index

Prices · Rare books

Bookman's Price Index

Daniel F. McGrath

1964

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