Between 1960 and 1970: my favorite films

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.

This Soviet movie consists of a long interview between historian Sergei Svistunov and Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin. Shulgin was one of the organizers of the reactionary White Army, the leader of the State Duma and a staunch enemy of the Bolsheviks.

A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

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

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

A simple yet devout Christian makes a vow to Saint Barbara after she saves his donkey, but everyone he meets seems determined to misunderstand his intentions. Will he be able to keep his promise in the end?

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

In a small town, a pastor and a priest dispute the population's spiritual leadership.

Luzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she'll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and is being looked after by the police.

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.

In a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared when the commandant, a former prize-fighter, discovers the prisoner has amateur boxing ability. Ordered to train, he gradually sharpens his skills.

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams...and her family.

A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.

When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.

After being kept in hypersleep during a long expedition into deep space, an astronaut crew crash-lands in the 40th century on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.

A greedy Polish mercenary helps a mine worker and a peasant girl lead a revolution against the Mexican Government, all while being pursued by an American rival.

A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

A dog inherits a fortune and become a influential capitalist snob in the human world.

Simple story about the man who comes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs.

When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.