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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
, 1h42Directed by Norman Jewison, Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Gordon Pinsent, Addison Powell
Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to rob $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank, along with a fifth man who drives the getaway Ford station wagon with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men ever meets Crown face-to-face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can personally after secretly following the driver of the station wagon, then personally deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as to not draw undue attention to his actions.
Bullitt (1968)
, 1h53Directed by Walter Hill, Peter Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, L'Outfit de Chicago, Road movies, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland
Ambitious politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) is about to present a surprise star witness in a Senate Subcommittee hearing on organized crime. The witness, Johnny Ross (Pat Renella), a defector from the Organization in Chicago, is put under San Francisco Police Department protective custody for the weekend, 40 hours until his Monday morning appearance.
Farewell, Friend (1968)
, 1h50Directed by Jean Vautrin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot, Brigitte Fossey, Bernard Fresson, Jean-Claude Balard
Demobilised after the war in Algeria, legionnaire Franz Propp tries to get army doctor Dino Barran to go to the Congo with him. But Barran feels he has to help the beautiful Isabelle Moreau, whose lover he accidentally killed in Algeria. She wants him to take a job in a big firm in Paris, where his assistant will be an attractive girl called Dominique Austerlitz, and over the Christmas break to secretly return some missing documents to the safe.
The Great Chase (1968)
, 1h28Directed by John Berry
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Eddie Constantine, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Serrault, Annabella Incontrera, Catherine Allégret, Clément Michu
Une bande de jeunes « blousons noirs », menée par Frankie, ouvre une boite de nuit juste au-dessus de la planque d'un gangster nommé Morelli qui prépare le vol du siècle : le vol d'une tiare d'une valeur inestimable. Le bruit que font les jeunes dérange Morelli qui essaie par tous les moyens de les chasser. Un homme, jadis roulé par Morelli, arrive et aide les jeunes à garder leur boite.
The Bastard (1968)
, 1h42Directed by Duccio Tessari
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about families, Disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Rita Hayworth, Giuliano Gemma, Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Claudine Auger, Serge Marquand
Deadfall (1968)
, 1h38Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Heist films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, David Buck, John Barry
Cat burglar Henry Clarke (Michael Caine) checks himself into a Spanish sanitarium for alcoholics under a false pretense. His true motivation is to get closer to a wealthy patient named Salinas (David Buck) and then rob his magnificent house.
OSS 117 Murder for Sale (1968)
, 1h45Directed by André Hunebelle, Jean-Pierre Desagnat
Origin France
Genres Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors John Gavin, Robert Hossein, Margaret Lee, Curd Jürgens, Piero Lulli, Luciana Paluzzi
À Rome, OSS 117 se fait passer pour le gangster William Chandler de manière à infiltrer une organisation criminelle dirigée par « le Major ». Il est envoyé au Moyen-Orient pour assassiner un délégué de l'ONU , mais il arrivera à le sauver et à mettre fin à l'organisation du Major...
The Savage Seven (1968)
, 1h34Directed by Richard Rush
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Joanna Frank, Larry Bishop, Adam Roarke, Max Julien, Penny Marshall
Kisum, the leader of a motorcycle gang is in love with waitress Marcia Little Hawk. Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk, the leader of a group of Native Americans is not happy about the two of them being together. The two groups alternate between being allies and adversaries, eventually joining forces, but a scheme by crooked businessmen force them at odds with each other.
Assignment K (1968)
, 1h37Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Stephen Boyd, Michael Redgrave, Camilla Sparv, Camilla Sparv, Leo McKern, Jeremy Kemp
A British spy has his cover blown, leading to the East German Stasi kidnapping his girlfriend to try to extract information about his double agents' activities.
Only When I Larf (1968)
, 1h44Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, Alexandra Stewart, Nicholas Pennell, Melissa Stribling, Terence Alexander
A trio of confidence tricksters (Attenborough, Hemmings and Stewart), attempt to swindle an African state into buying crates full of scrap metal instead of anti-tank guns.
Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres War, Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Themes Political films
Actors Chuck Connors, Frank Wolff, Franco Citti, Leo Anchóriz, Alberto Dell'Acqua, John Bartha
Lors de la guerre de Sécession, le commandement sudiste confie à sept mercenaires la tâche de s'emparer d'un chargement d'or de l'Union, destiné à payer des armes et caché dans une mine où est entreposé un dépôt de munitions. Avec à sa tête Clyde, le commando déjoue les lignes ennemies, réussit à pénétrer dans la poudrière et à s'emparer du précieux butin. Clyde décide alors de se l'approprier et s'enfuit. Retrouvé par ses acolytes, une lutte impitoyable pour la possession de l'or s'engage alors, à laquelle participe Lynch, un capitaine traître sudiste du contre espionnage, passé à l'ennemi.
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
, 1h45Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nigel Green, Nancy Kwan, Chuck Norris
Matt Helm is assigned by his secret agency, ICE, to bring down an evil count named Contini who is trying to collapse the world economy by stealing a billion dollars in gold.
Submarine X-1 (1968)
, 1h30Directed by William A. Graham
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors James Caan, Norman Bowler, Paul Young, Brian Grellis, George Pravda, William Dysart
The film begins with Commander Bolton and a few surviving crew members of his 50-man submarine Gauntlet swimming ashore after unsuccessfully attacking German battleship Lindendorf. After a review, Captain Bolton is cleared of any wrongdoing and placed in charge of a small group of experimental X class submarines. His mission is to quickly train crews to man the submarines and sink the Lindendorf while it is hidden away in a Norwegian fiord.
Bandolero! (1968)
, 1h46Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance, Western
Themes Films about families, Films about capital punishment
Actors James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, Don "Red" Barry, George Kennedy, Will Geer
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop (James Stewart) arrives in town with the intention of freeing his brother Dee (Dean Martin) from the gallows. Dee and his gang have been arrested for a bank robbery in which Maria Stoner's husband was killed by gang member Babe Jenkins (Clint Ritchie). After freeing his brother, Mace successfully robs the bank on his own after the gang has fled with the posse in pursuit.
Barbarella (1968)
, 1h38Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about religion, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Films about angels, Space opera
Actors Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, Claude Dauphin
In an unspecified future, Barbarella is assigned by the President of Earth to retrieve Doctor Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti region. Durand Durand is the inventor of the Positronic Ray, a weapon that Earth leaders fear will fall into the wrong hands. Barbarella crashes on the 16th planet of Tau Ceti and is soon knocked unconscious by two mysterious girls, who take Barbarella to the wreckage of a spaceship. Inside the wreckage, she is tied up and several children emerge from within the ship. They set out several dolls which have razor sharp teeth. As the dolls begin to bite her, Barbarella faints but is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman, who patrols the ice looking for errant children. While Hand takes her back to her ship, Barbarella offers to reward Mark and he suggests sex. She says that people on Earth no longer have penetrative intercourse but consume exaltation transference pills and press their palms together when their "psychocardiograms are in perfect harmony". Hand prefers the bed, and Barbarella agrees. Hand's vessel makes long loops around Barbarella's crashed vessel while the two have sex, and when it finally comes to a stop, Barbarella is blissfully humming. After Hand repairs her ship, Barbarella departs and promises to return, agreeing that doing things the old-fashioned way is occasionally best.