1966 – Stream On Demand

‘Le Deuxième Souffle’ – Lina Ventura takes his revenge on Criterion Channel

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Jean-Pierre Melville directs this French noir classic, which opens with a prison break and ends with a mission of vengeance.

‘Kill, Baby… Kill!’ – Mario Bava’s haunted village free on Kanopy

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This Gothic ghost story with haunting images, grotesque edges, and glorious style is an early classic of the distinctive Italian horror genre known as giallo.

Leaving soon: ‘Fantastic Voyage’ on HBO Max

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Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch star in this silly but marvelously entertaining 1966 science fiction thriller that sends a shrunken crew into the human body. It’s the original psychedelic inner-space adventure.

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone's 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ on Paramount+ and free on Kanopy

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Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s classic Civil War epic, arguably the definitive spaghetti western.

‘Batman’ – the big screen spoof on HBO Max

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Holy camp fest, Batman! Adam West and Dick Grayson star as the Dynamic Duo in the big screen spin-off of the 1960s comic book spoof.

Last chance: Rock Hudson has ‘Seconds’ on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

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John Frankenheimer’s paranoid thriller offers a second chance at a dream life that turns alienating and nightmarish for its hero.

‘Star Trek’ – the final frontier, the original series – on Paramount+

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A rich universe of characters and stories, and the dreams of many a visionary, began in this landmark science fiction show that launched in 1966.

Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac. Lionel Stander, and Jack MacGowran star in the 1966 film by Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski’s ‘Cul-De-Sac’ on Criterion Channel

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Donald Pleasance, Françoise Dorléac, and Lionel Stander star in this sly little character piece set in an isolated medieval castle on the barren British coast, which Polanski claimed as his personal favorite of his films.

Charlton Heston in the battle of ‘Khartoum’ on Amazon Prime

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Laurence Olivier is unfortunately cast as an Arab (complete with heavy brownface makeup) in this sweeping epic of colonial war in 1880 Sudan.

‘The Naked Prey’ on Criterion Channel

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The Naked Prey (1966), Cornel Wilde’s take on the Most Dangerous Game survival drama, may not be the first but it’s arguably the definitive, most visceral and primal example of the genre. Inspired by an account on the American frontier but shifted to 19th century colonial South Africa, the simple story begins with a bush […]