Blow-Up, UK-Italy, 1966, 111 min. Starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. A jaded photographer shoots a picture that may or may not contain evidence of a crime, but the plot is beside the point. What's more important, as is so often the case with Antonioni, is his characters' inner life and their attempts to lift themselves out of the moral/spiritual/psychological morasses into which they have allowed themselves to sink. And, of course, a protagonist who is a photographer is perfect for a filmmaker so renowned for his stunning landscapes.

Bonnie And Clyde, USA, 1967, 111 min. Starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman. Directed by Arthur Penn. Groundbreaking, if romanticized, dramatization of the famed outlaws' crime spree ultimately changed the nature of the Hollywood film. Much has been written about the battle to get it on the screen and Beatty deserves much credit for eventually finding a way. Panned on its initial release, it has gone on to be considered one of the staple American films of the decade.

Belle de Jour, France-Italy, 1967, 100 min. Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Housewife Deneuve loves her husband, but can't bring herself to be intimate with him. Instead she finds fulfillment spending afternoons working in a brothel. Many who haven't seen this since it was first released probably remember it as being far more explicit than it is, but that's because Buñuel so saturates the film with an aura of eroticism, and such a furtive one at that, the viewer comes away with a feeling of having seen more than they have.

The Wild Bunch, USA, 1969, 144 min. Starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. A bunch of old outlaws, sensing that their time and that of the West they knew has past, decide to make one last big score before retirement. Criticized upon its initial release for its graphic violence, some failed to see that Peckinpah was attempting to show the true results of violence in more detail than they had ever been shown before, which coupled with the poignant character studies makes for one fine film.

The Wild Child, France, 1969, 83 min. Starring Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol. Directed by Francois Truffaut. The director plays an eighteenth century doctor who takes in a boy raised in the wild. He attempts to connect with him in hopes that it will allow the boy to connect with his own humanity. The doctor – and the film, told in a semi-documentary style – hopes that the boy can teach mankind something about what it actually means to be civilized.