Films I Must See - 1966

Cool private investigator Lew Harper is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

Sent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.

A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.

In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

International intrigue in London, involving an American university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.

The citizens of a small Texas town become worried and panicked when a local bad boy escapes prison and heads for his hometown.

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.

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.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.

A veteran Republican fighter's ardent dedication to overthrow of Franco's regime is challenged. He realizes that the center of political struggle has shifted away from him, and is forced to make choices about his life and political ideals.

During WW2, convicted bank robber Eddie Chapman becomes a triple agent working for both the British and the Germans.

In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

A director, producer and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp, where they brainstorm ideas for a film about a greenhorn drug smuggler and a kinky prostitute.

The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Painter Peter Hartman is arrested at the scene of a murder. He soon turns out to have ties to the victim's young widow. As Inspector Stroomer begins to unravel the mystery, two very different sides of the story are presented to him. Now it is up to Stroomer to find enough photographic evidence to make out which version is the truth.

A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.

During the Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter's hungry men force Kelly to change his customers.

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.