(Vincente Minnelli & Gottfried Reinhardt, US 1953, 122 min., 35mm)

As several passengers gather for an ocean voyage, three separate love stories are told in flashback. A choreographer (James Mason) recalls his passionate affair with a ballerina (The Red Shoes’ Moira Shearer); a governess (Leslie Caron) reflects on an evening spent with a mysterious stranger (Farley Granger); and a trapeze artist (Kirk Douglas) remembers his troubled relationship with his aerial partner (Pier Angeli).

(William Wyler, US 1966, 127 min., 35mm)

An art forger’s daughter (Audrey Hepburn) teams up with a suave burglar (Peter O’Toole) to retrieve a fake Cellini statue from a heavily secured museum. This entertaining caper is helped along by the enormously charming cast, which includes Charles Boyer, Eli Wallach, and Hugh Griffith.

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(Stanley Donen, US 1963, 114 min., 35mm)

One of this comedy-thriller’s charades is its deliberate mimicry of Hitchcock’s stock-in-trade: high chases, low-life villains, witty dialogue, and an enigmatic plot. The dreamy romantic duo of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star together for the first and last time, and the great supporting cast includes Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy. Henry Mancini supplies the lush score and title tune.

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(IL MERCENARIO/REVENGE OF A GUNFIGHTER/A PROFESSIONAL GUN, Sergio Corbucci, Italy/Spain 1968, 110 min., 35mm)

In 1915 Mexico, a group of revolutionaries hire a Polish gun-for-hire (spaghetti Western superstar Franco Nero), but are thwarted by a well-dressed and brutal government agent (Jack Palance). Director Corbucci, a celebrated master of the Italian Western (The Great Silence, Django), worked six times with composer Ennio Morricone. The score for The Mercenary was put to use again in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.

(L’UCCELLO DALLE PIUME DI CRISTALLO, Dario Argento, Italy/West Germany 1969, 98 min., 35mm)

Argento’s feature film debut is a heart-stopping sex thriller that earned him comparisons with Hitchcock. This variation on the Jack the Ripper story, about a psychopath who stalks young women through the streets of Rome, is given a boost by the nerve-jangling, dissonant music of Ennio Morricone.

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(IL GATTO A NOVE CODE, Italy/France/West Germany 1971, 112 min., 35mm)

A blind man (Karl Malden) and a newspaper reporter (James Franciscus) team up to solve a series of bizarre murders somehow tied to experiments at a pharmaceutical company. Two films for one regular admission price.