Paris Blues (1961)

Starring:

• Sidney Poitier
• Diahann Carroll
• Paul Newman
• Joanne Woodward
• Louis Armstrong
• Barbara Laage
• Serge Reggiani

Storyline
Despite being far from home, American jazz musicians Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are content living and working in Paris. Ram knows it's the best place for him to develop his musical reputation, and Eddie is far away from the racism that once greeted him on a regular basis. But after meeting and falling in love with American tourists Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie (Diahann Carroll), the pair must decide whether their artistic integrity is worth abandoning.

The Connection (1961)

Starring:

• Warren Finnerty
• Jim Anderson
• Garry Goodrow 
• Carl Lee
• Freddie Redd 
• Jackie McLean
• Jerome Raphael

Storyline
Eight drug addicts are waiting for their connection in a New York apartment belonging to Leach. Jim Dunn, a budding filmmaker, has agreed to pay for the fix if the addicts will allow him to film the connection scene. After the men get their shots, they talk Dunn into trying heroin in order to understand the subject "first hand." He becomes ill and while sleeping, Leach takes an overdose that puts him into a coma. Dunn recovers, with the aid of the connection, and writes off the film as a failure.