Delicate Balance, A (Richardson)

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Canada | USA

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter’s godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.

Baxter! (Jeffries)

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Stars: Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

A young American boy unable to overcome a speech defect is disturbed by the constant bickering of his parents, and when they get divorced, he slides into an emotional breakdown.

Steambath (Brinckerhoff)

Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Stars: Stephen Elliott, Bill Bixby, Herb Edelman
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

TV adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman’s off-Broadway play. Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes clear that the steambath is a sort of Afterlife, where indifferent souls come to tell their stories to God who happens to be the attendant picking up the towels.

Outfit, The (Flynn)

Director: John Flynn
Stars: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Pueblo (Page)

Director: Anthony Page
Stars: Hal Holbrook, Ronny Cox, Andrew Duggan
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A Cold War incident, told in flashbacks, regarding the capture of the American spy ship, U.S.S. Pueblo and its crew by North Korean naval units off the North Korean coast on January 23, 1968.

Manson (Hendrickson, Merrick)

Director: Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick
Stars: Mary Brunner, Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Davis
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Documentary on Charles Manson and his family. Has a number of insightful interviews with many family members most notably Squeaky and Sandy (Blue and Red). There is also a history of Manson from his birth to the family formation to the Tate/La Bianca murders. Plenty of footage of the family playing at Spahn Ranch.

Sunshine (Sargent)

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Cristina Raines, Cliff De Young, Meg Foster
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her daughter discover she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left.

My Name Is Nobody (Valerii)

Director: Tonino Valerii
Stars: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A young, easygoing gunman worships and competes with an old gunfighter who only wants to retire.

Private Collection, A (Borowczyk)

Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Stars: André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk’s own collection of vintage erotica. Originally intended as part of his ‘Contes immoraux’, it was released first as a separate short, and is therefore marks the turning-point between Borowczyk’s career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.

Outrage (Heffron)

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Robert Culp, Marlyn Mason, Beah Richards
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.

Wattstax (Stuart)

Director: Mel Stuart
Stars: The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, Kim Weston
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Music
Country: USA

Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more.

Jimi Hendrix (Boyd, Head, Weis)

Director: Joe Boyd, John Head, Gary Weis
Stars: Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, Stella Benabon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix’s untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but some of the information in it needs revising in the light of new information uncovered over the years. The film contains concert footage spanning the Marquee in 1967 to his last UK performance at the third Isle of Wight festival in 1970; along the way we see classic performances at Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969), Fillmore East (1969/70), and Berkeley (1970).

Giordano Bruno (Montaldo)

Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Hans Christian Blech, Mathieu Carrière
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for heresy.

La Grande Bouffe (Ferreri)

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.

Blossoms in Autumn (Klopcic)

Director: Matjaz Klopcic
Stars: Milena Zupancic, Polde Bibic, Bert Sotlar
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

Doctor Janez, a somewhat elderly lawyer, tired of urban life, pays a few week’s visit to his relative Presecnik, a well-off farmer living in highland village. Farm life holds a great attraction for him, particularly because a deep and secret love develops between himself and Presecnik’s daughter Meta. After a few serene and cheerful days spent on the farm, filled with pleasant labor and walks together with Meta in the unspoilt surroundings, he has to return to Ljubljana to resume his office work.

Fury (Calenda)

Director: Antonio Calenda
Stars: Oliver Reed, John McEnery, Carole André
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | UK

Based on Lermontov’s novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.

Payday (Duke)

Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Elayne Heilveil
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

Maury Dann (Rip Torn, in one of his most memorable performances) is a not-so-nice country-Western singer. He ruthlessly manipulates everyone around him to suit his selfish needs…he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for the death of a fan whom he stabbed.

Hourglass Sanatorium, The (Has)

Director: Wojciech Has
Stars: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn’t seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.

Emperor of the North (Aldrich)

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.

Photography (Zolnay)

Director: Pál Zolnay
Stars: István Iglódi, Ferenc Sebö, Márk Zala
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A photographer and a retoucher are wandering in small villages. They go from house to house offering their services. They try to record the truth, the true faces of these people.

Homecoming, The (Hall)

Director: Peter Hall
Stars: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Paul Rogers
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife.

Scream, Pretty Peggy (Hessler)

Director: Gordon Hessler
Stars: Ted Bessell, Bette Davis, Sian Barbara Allen
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

Love & Anarchy (Wertmüller)

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.

Last of Sheila, The (Ross)

Director: Herbert Ross
Stars: Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, James Mason
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Petrified Forest, The (Shinoda)

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Medical student Himoto Haruo makes no compromises in resolving issues with his mother, his authoritarian department boss, and his girlfriend’s abusive employer.

Wesele (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Marek Walczewski, Izabella Olszewska, Ewa Zietek
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland’s 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.

Let the Good Times Roll (Abel, Levin)

Director: Robert Abel, Sidney Levin
Stars: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

This lively documentary celebrates 1950s rock ‘n’ roll, both through archival clips of the era and concert footage filmed during the ’70s. Although the musicians have aged, the performances are remarkably vibrant, with many acts in fine form. Among the many artists featured are Bill Haley and the Comets, Fats Domino, the Shirelles, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. In one of the film’s highlights, Diddley and Berry take the stage together to the applause of a rapt audience.

Pain in the Ass, A (Molinaro)

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (Yates)

Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.

L’ordre (Pollet)

Director: Malo Aguettant, Maurice Born, Jean-Daniel Pollet,
Stars: Raimondakis, Philippe Sollers
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of his life to the camera after having been excluded from his community to spend years of his life on the island with his fellow sufferers. Themes addressed include love, community, companionship and death and the importance of these values to all people whatever their state of health.

Anna and the Wolves (Saura)

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José María Prada
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

The young but travelled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family: the matriarch is a sick old woman obsessed by death and having constant nervous breakdowns; her son José was raised dressing in girl’s clothes until his First Communion and is obsessed by military clothes and paraphernalia; Juan, the father of the three girls, a pervert since his childhood, writes pornographic letters to Ana; his wife, Luchy, has suicidal tendencies; and the mystic and religious eremite Fernando, who was inflicted to flagellation in his childhood, lives as a recluse in a cave. The presence of Ana disturbs the three brothers with tragic consequences.

Happy New Year (Lelouch)

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes but by someone special he met there.

Red Wedding (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne’s husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre’s wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne’s husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre’s wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will “benefit the town”, and wants Pierre’s political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife’s affair…

Il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu (Cayatte)

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Annie Girardot, Mireille Darc, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?

Earth Is a Sinful Song, The (Mollberg)

Director: Rauni Mollberg
Stars: Maritta Viitamäki, Pauli Jauhojärvi, Aimo Saukko
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta’s ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows.

Themroc (Faraldo)

Director: Claude Faraldo
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Marilù Tolo
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.

Last Train, The (Granier-Deferre)

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Italy

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

Frankenstein: The True Story (Smight)

Director: Jack Smight
Stars: James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

Sticenik (Kadijevic)

Director: Djordje Kadijevic
Stars: Milan ‘Caci’ Mihailovic, Branko Plesa, Dusan Janicijevic
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia

A terrified young man is running away from the mysterious man in a black coat and a bowler hat. He finds the asylum in the nearby mental hospital, where the doctor takes care of him. However, one cannot escape from his fate.

Réjeanne Padovani (Arcand)

Director: Denys Arcand
Stars: Jean Lajeunesse, Luce Guilbeault, J. Léo Gagnon
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor’s inauguration party for his new superhighway.

Jail Bait (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Eva Mattes, Ruth Drexel, Harry Baer
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Jailbait (Wildwechsel, 1973), also known as Wild Game Crossing, is a bleak story of teenage angst, set in industrial northern Germany during the 1950s.

Woman of the Year (Metzger)

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Siegfried Rauch, Christiane Krüger, Ivan Desny
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany | Yugoslavia | USA

Woman rises from being an out-of-work actress to the wife of a powerful South American dictator.

Glass Menagerie, The (Harvey)

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a “gentleman caller” appears, things move to crisis point.

Soylent Green (Fleischer)

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have been exhausted and the nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, a company that makes a food consisting of plankton from the oceans. In New York City, when Soylent’s member of the board William R. Simonson is murdered apparently by a burglar at the Chelsea Towers West where he lives, efficient Detective Thorn is assigned to investigate the case with his partner Solomon “Sol” Roth. Thorn comes to the fancy apartment and meets Simonson’s bodyguard Tab Fielding and the “furniture” (woman that is rented together with the flat) Shirl and the detective concludes that the executive was not victim of burglary but executed. Further, he finds that the Governor Santini and other powerful men want to disrupt and end Thorn’s investigation. But Thorn continues his work and discovers a bizarre and disturbing secret of the ingredient used to manufacture Soylent Green.

Hot Pepper (Blank)

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Clifton Chenier, Cleveland Chenier, Robert St. Julien
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about noted Zydeco artist Clifton Chenier. Based out of New Orleans, Chenier was the self-crowned “King” of Zydeco (a New Orleans musical hybrid containing elements of blues, folk and Tex-Mex music). Included are interviews with Chenier himself as well as relatives and friends, and scenic shots of the New Orleans area Chenier calls home, all of which is edited together by Les Blank.

Come on Children (King)

Director: Allan King
Stars: Alan Dunikowsky, Ken Gibbs, John Hamilton
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Ten teenagers journey down a path to self-discovery as they adjust to life on a farm in this examination of the stress and alienation of adolescence.

Hôtel Monterey (Akerman)

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | USA

Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story.

Dying Room Only (Leacock)

Director: Philip Leacock
Stars: Cloris Leachman, Ross Martin, Ned Beatty
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA

A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men’s room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.

Burned Barns, The (Chapot)

Director: Jean Chapot
Stars: Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.

Scarlet Letter, The (Wenders)

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Senta Berger, Lou Castel, Yelena Samarina
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany | Spain

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover.

Invitation, The (Goretta)

Director: Claude Goretta
Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean Champion, Corinne Coderey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden.

Iceman Cometh, The (Frankenheimer)

Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.

Les dernières fiançailles (Lefebvre)

Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Stars: Marthe Nadeau, J. Léo Gagnon, Marcel Sabourin
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn’t have long to live. But after more than 70 years in the same house, he doesn’t want to die anywhere else. His wife, Rose, has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.

Painters Painting (de Antonio)

Director: Emile de Antonio
Stars: Philip Leider, Leo Castelli, Willem de Kooning
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970, showing many of the artists before they became famous.

Year 01, The (Resnais, Doillon, Rouch)

Director: Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch
Stars: Véronique Alain, Romain Bouteille, François Béranger
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with “We stop everything” and the second “After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say “This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics”. The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.

Distant Thunder (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Bobita, Sandhya Roy
Genre: Drama
Country: India

As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation, while his generous wife, Ananga, conversely tries to help and support the community.

Two Men in Town (Giovanni)

Director: José Giovanni
Stars: Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Blue Knight, The (Butler)

Director: Robert Butler
Stars: William Holden, Lee Remick, Joe Santos
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after twenty years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.

Offence, The (Lumet)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | USA

A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Kluge)

Director: Alexander Kluge
Stars: Alexandra Kluge, Franz Bronski, Bion Steinborn
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Roswitha is working to carry out illegal abortions, to support her husband and two children. The police discovers her and the husband is arrested. Roswitha gets involved in social work and politics.

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Pakula)

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

American Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms), in his late teens, is feeling lost within his family of overachievers. Thirty-something Englishwoman Lila Fisher (Dame Maggie Smith) is emotionally repressed. The two meet on their respective vacations in Spain, when, on the spur of the moment, Walter decides to ditch his overly regimented cycling tour group and join the bus tour group of which Lila is a part.

High Plains Drifter (Eastwood)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA

A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Cabaret (Fosse)

Director: Bob Fosse
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Free Woman, A (Schlöndorff)

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Maria Brunner, Wolfgang Bächler, Ute Ellin
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.

Indian Summer (Zurlini)

Director: Valerio Zurlini
Stars: Alain Delon, Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Petrovna
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets nineteen year old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo’s girlfriend, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.

Malcolm X (Perl)

Director: Arnold Perl
Stars: James Earl Jones, Ossie Davis, John Ali
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (Maben)

Director: Adrian Maben
Stars: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Belgium | West Germany | France

Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Mademoiselle nobbs (Seamus, but with Rick’s dog on vocals). “Careful” and “Set the controls” are shot at night with minimal lighting, setting a beautiful mood. And the live Saucerful just has to be seen, with Waters jumping around in the sunlight banging the huge gong.

Siddhartha (Rooks)

Director: Conrad Rooks
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Simi Garewal, Romesh Sharma
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India | USA

The story of a young Indian who embarks upon a journey to find the meaning of existence. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.

Sounder (Ritt)

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Pink Floyd: Time (Emes)

Director: Ian Emes
Stars: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd
Genre: Animation, Short, Music
Country: UK

During live performances, Pink Floyd back-projected a specially-commissioned, animated film by Ian Emes.

Visitors, The (Kazan)

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez.

Caliber 9 (Di Leo)

Director: Fernando Di Leo
Stars: Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy

A former gangster is forced to resume his old lifestyle when his violent, jealous ex-colleagues and the police believe that he knows the location of a stolen cache of $300,000.

Chung Kuo – Cina (Antonioni)

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Giuseppe Rinaldi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older sections of the city, and a clinic where a Cesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture. The middle part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai, and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats.

César and Rosalie (Sautet)

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Cesar is in love with Rosalie. But Rosalie isn’t making it easy for him, especially when her old flame enters the picture.

Harder They Come, The (Henzell)

Director: Perry Henzell
Stars: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica

Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Bad Company (Benton)

Director: Robert Benton
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west

Jeremiah Johnson (Pollack)

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.

My Childhood (Douglas)

Director: Bill Douglas
Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas’ influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-’40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape – he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars – and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Imagine (Lennon, Ono)

Director: John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Stars: Fred Astaire, John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John’s historic ‘Imagine’ album and Yoko’s ‘Fly.’

State of Siege (Costa-Gavras)

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Legend of Boggy Creek, The (Pierce)

Director: Charles B. Pierce
Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A documentary-style drama about the “Fouke Monster”, a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Garden of Luxor (Jarman)

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Karl Bowen, Christopher Hobbs
Genre: Short
Country: UK

A silent avant-garde experience created by Derek Jarman, filled with superimposed images forming a whole picture. His palette consists mostly of reddish random images of Egypt and the pyramids; a strange garden destroyed from time to time by a man with a whip; a young peaceful man relaxing on the floor; other smoking and eating insects. This is Jarman’s view of the Garden of Luxor and its mysteries.

Bremen Freedom (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends.

Blaise Pascal (Rossellini)

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Pierre Arditi, Rita Forzano, Giuseppe Addobbati
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy | France

Blaise Pascal struggles to understand the natural world around him, in addition to an inner quest for religious faith.

Marjoe (Kernochan, Smith)

Director: Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith
Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Sarah Kernochan
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the “church tent” Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and “the religion business”, prior to the start of “televangelism”.

Mattei Affair, The (Rosi)

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many journalists explored other plausible reasons for the untimely landing of the small aircraft.

Heat (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Spoof of the casual sexual adventures of a one-time child actor in Hollywood. It also involves a bratty on-again, off-again lesbian character.

Child’s Play (Lumet)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

At an exclusive boys’ school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Fritz the Cat (Bakshi)

Director: Ralph Bakshi
Stars: Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.

Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Pierre Baillot, Gilette Barbier, Jean-Pierre Bastid
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A shorter version of Out 1 (1971), however some of the omitted scenes of the long version are included.

Dawns Here Are Quiet, The (Rostotskiy)

Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy
Stars: Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Lucifer Rising (Anger)

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Donald Cammell
Genre: Short, Fantasy
Country: USA | UK | West Germany

Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer – in order to usher in a new occult age.

Super Fly (Parks)

Director: Gordon Parks Jr.
Stars: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

Goodbye CP (Hara)

Director: Kazuo Hara
Stars: Hiroshi Yokota, Kôichi Yokozuka
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

An intimate documentary about a group of people with cerebral palsy in Japan that confronts our preconceptions and prejudices about who they are, what they feel, and how they view their lives.

Pictures of the Old World (Hanák)

Director: Dusan Hanák
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Czechoslovakia

The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience.

Tomorrow (Anthony)

Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Robert Duvall, Olga Bellin, Sudie Bond
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

And Hope to Die (Clément)

Director: René Clément
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy | Canada

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don’t go quite as planned.

New Land, The (Troell)

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Sweden

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

Don’t Torture a Duckling (Fulci)

Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Triple Echo, The (Apted)

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

Deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection; liking the female role he goes to a dance with another soldier and is exposed.

Tout Va Bien (Gorin, Godard)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Ulzana’s Raid (Aldrich)

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

Butterflies Are Free (Katselas)

Director: Milton Katselas
Stars: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Asylum (Robinson)

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Horror
Country: UK

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

Between Time and Timbuktu (Barzyk)

Director: Fred Barzyk
Stars: ‘Cousin Brucie’ Morrow, Dortha Duckworth, William Hickey
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.

Man, The (Sargeant)

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An African-American senator becomes the designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the President of the United States. Now the first black President, he attempts to end the bigotry and divide standing in his way.

Un Flic (Melville)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate- and more risky- second heist.

1776 (Hunt)

Director: Peter H. Hunt
Stars: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Country: USA

A musical retelling of the American Revolution’s political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Goat Horn, The (Andonov)

Director: Metodi Andonov
Stars: Katya Paskaleva, Anton Gorchev, Milen Penev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria

The film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their little girl, Maria. Karaivan decides to take the law into his own hands and becomes enslaved by his violent wish for revenge.

Born to Boogie (Starr)

Director: Ringo Starr
Stars: Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr, Mickey Finn
Genre: Music
Country: UK

Documentary about T. Rex includes concert footage and staged sequences. Sir Ringo Starr’s directorial work is mindful of touches used on Magical Mystery Tour.

Nathalie Granger (Duras)

Director: Marguerite Duras
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu
Genre: Drama
Country: France

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.

Alfredo, Alfredo (Germi)

Director: Pietro Germi
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | France

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

Devil, The (Zulawski)

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Poland

During the Prussian army’s invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman, Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of his fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub sees the overall chaos and moral corruption including his father’s death and his fiancee’s betrayal. Being apparently demented by what he has seen, he commits a number of seemingly motiveless and gory killings.

Three Cheers for the Whale (Marker, Ruspoli)

Director: Chris Marker, Mario Ruspoli
Stars: Casamayor, Valérie Mayoux, Lalan
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

THREE CHEERS FOR THE WHALE chronicles the history of mankind’s relationship with the largest and most majestic of marine mammals, and graphically exposes their slaughter by the fishing industry.

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (Nicolaescu)

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Cristian Sofron, Ion Besoiu
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Romania

In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (Godard, Vertov, Gorin)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Marlon Brando, Moshe Dayan, James Dean
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Letter to Jane (1972) is a postscript film to Tout va bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam.

Slap the Monster on Page One (Bellocchio)

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK | West Germany

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas)

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | West Germany

A film diary divided into three episodes. In the first part Jonas Mekas tells about his time as emigrant in New York in 1950s, after leaving the home country of Lithuania. The second part depicts his first trip back there, while the last is filmed during a stay in Vienna shortly afterwards.

Valley (Obscured by Clouds), The (Schroeder)

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder explores themes of sexual freedom, mind alteration, and pursuit of paradise against the backdrop of an early 70’s encounter with the Mapuga rain forest tribe in upland New Guinea.

Merchant of Four Seasons, The (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The (Newman)

Director: Paul Newman
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for her life in the classified ads while all about her is the rubble of an unkempt house. All she needs is the right opportunity, she says puffing on a cigarette. Poorly equipped to survive the vagaries of modern life, she has nonetheless always managed to muddle through.

Avanti! (Wilder)

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy | USA

A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father’s body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

Heartbreak Kid, The (May)

Director: Elaine May
Stars: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman.

Canterbury Tales, The (Pasolini)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

Pasolini’s artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer’s most erotic tales.

Roma (Fellini)

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy’s capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini’s life.

Vladimir et Rosa (Vertov, Godard, Gorin)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Yves Afonso, Juliet Berto, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Drama
Country: France | West Germany

In Godard and Gorin’s free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler (who doodles notes on Playboy centerfolds), the Chicago Eight become microcosms of French revolutionary society, and Godard and Gorin play Lenin and Karl Rosa, respectively, discussing politics and how to show them through the cinema.

Murder of Fred Hampton, The (Alk)

Director: Howard Alk
Stars: Skip Andrew, Edward Carmody, James Davis
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.

Women in Revolt (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

This film is a satire of the women’s liberation movement, staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphomaniac who has come to loathe men, despite her attraction to them. Together, they join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn’t make them any happier.

Walls of Sana’a, The (Pasolini)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Italy

Documentary footage of the city of Sana’a in Yemen, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, with a voice-over calling for UNESCO to protect the city’s architectural heritage before it is destroyed by development.

Ceremony, The (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuko Kaku, Atsuo Nakamura
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.

Interviews with My Lai Veterans (Strick)

Director: Joseph Strick
Stars: Richard Hammer
Genre: Documentary, Short, War
Country: USA

Interviews with five former American soldiers who were present at the March 16, 1968 attack on the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War; they discuss the orders that were issued leading up to the attack, their expectations of what they would find there, and the subsequent massacre of the inhabitants and destruction of the village, as well as possible motivations for the killings and rapes which took place.

Long Farewell, The (Muratova)

Director: Kira Muratova
Stars: Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Tatyana Mychko
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.

Joe Hill (Widerberg)

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | USA

About the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.

Lulu the Tool (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. Although the physical handicap is not serious, the accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.

Sunday Bloody Sunday (Schlesinger)

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.

Jabberwocky (Svankmajer)

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Lewis Carroll’s poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.

Le chat (Granier-Deferre)

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence’s anger.

Boy Friend, The (Russell)

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK | USA

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.

Macbeth (Polanski)

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

Salamander, The (Tanner)

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they’re writing a teleplay about a minor but curious event in which either her uncle was wounded while cleaning his rifle or she shot him. Pierre is a free-lance journalist hired to write the script; he’s short of time so he asks a Bohemian novelist friend, Paul, to help. Pierre wants facts and tracks down Rosemonde for interviews that lead to other explorations; Paul only wants to imagine her and needs little more than her name to do so.

Officers (Rogovoy)

Director: Vladimir Rogovoy
Stars: Georgiy Yumatov, Alina Pokrovskaya, Vasiliy Lanovoy
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union

Epic Soviet era masterpiece depicting the unshakable bonds of love, friendship & duty amid the horror of war. Two friends-both officers-are in love with the same woman. Through the Russian civil war to WWII, they fight and love and die.

Just Before Nightfall (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Celia, Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.

Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, A (Fulci)

Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Jean Sorel, Stanley Baker
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy | France | Spain

The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.

Basic Training (Wiseman)

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Frederick Wiseman observes basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky in the Vietnam era. Recruits are seen receiving instructions on everything from brushing their teeth to killing enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

Minamata (Tsuchimoto)

Director: Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

A documentary about the plight of the victims of Minamata disease, which was caused by the ingestion of fish containing abnormal amounts of mercury released into the sea by a fertilizer factory owned by the Chisso company.

Long Ago, Tomorrow (Forbes)

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed mysteriously after his Brothers wedding. Rejected by his family, he is placed in a nursing home. Angry and depressed, he finds hope with a nurse. Can Bruce find a life outside the home?

Taking Off (Forman)

Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.

Raphaël ou le débauché (Deville)

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Maurice Ronet, Françoise Fabian, Jean Vilar
Genre: Drama
Country: France

1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for it by chasing women and drinking. He first tries to seduce her, but is impressed by her and gives up. But Aurore felt in love with him, and tries not to look as inacessible. A romantic drama, with dispair, cynism, disgust for life and love.

Melody (Hussein)

Director: Waris Hussein
Stars: Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Jack Wild
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. The story is told from the children’s point of view.

Tichý týden v dome (Svankmajer)

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Václav Borovicka
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia

A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision…

Appointment in Bray (Delvaux)

Director: André Delvaux
Stars: Anna Karina, Mathieu Carrière, Roger Van Hool
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: France | Belgium | West Germany

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family’s empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful but mute woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques’ girlfriend Odile.

Gentlemen of Fortune (Sery)

Director: Aleksandr Sery
Stars: Evgeniy Leonov, Georgiy Vitsin, Radner Muratov
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

It so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain’s accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children – they also need love and care.

Fabryka (Kieslowski)

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Poland

Krzysztof Kieslowski follows the bureaucratic and troubled daily routine of a Polish factory under the reigning Communism regime of the period. The documentary follows procedures, meetings with management and employees trying to find ways to improve their goals, observing everything that goes through the difficult working relations they faced at the time.

Emitaï (Sembene)

Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Andongo Diabon, Robert Fontaine, Michel Renaudeau
Genre: Drama
Country: Senegal | France

As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.

Red Sky at Morning (Goldstone)

Director: James Goldstone
Stars: Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight World War II. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in the area, must deal with making friends, the strange new land, and first love. Meanwhile, his mother becomes increasingly withdrawn. When they learn that his father has been killed, the son must fight with his mother’s lover to become the real head of the household.

Punishment Park (Watkins)

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

“Punishment Park” is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews’s news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels’ progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released.

Nicholas and Alexandra (Schaffner)

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

1 P.M. (Godard, Leacock, Pennebaker)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: Marty Balin, Amiri Baraka, Carol Bellamy
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Impressions of resistance and revolution in America, as shot on both coasts by visiting director Godard in the pivotal year of 1968, but not completed and not shown, after being taken over by local director Pennebaker, until three years later.

Whity (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: West Germany

Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and the disabled Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others

Sacco & Vanzetti (Montaldo)

Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

Bleak Moments (Leigh)

Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

Demons (Matsumoto)

Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Stars: Katsuo Nakamura, Juro Kara, Yasuko Sanjo
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

Last Valley, The (Clavell)

Director: James Clavell
Stars: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK | USA

During the Thirty Years’ War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.

Anand (Mukherjee)

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Sumita Sanyal
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India

The story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the fullest before the inevitable occurs, as told by his best friend.

Confessions Among Actresses (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Ruriko Asaoka, Ineko Arima
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town’s kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admired since childhood. However, he soon finds out that the old doctor isn’t quite what he seems to be, and the young doctor finds his life in danger.

Dr. Cook’s Garden (Post)

Director: Ted Post
Stars: Bing Crosby, Frank Converse, Blythe Danner
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town’s kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admired since childhood. However, he soon finds out that the old doctor isn’t quite what he seems to be, and the young doctor finds his life in danger.

Marta (Nieves Conde)

Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde
Stars: Marisa Mell, Stephen Boyd, Jesús Puente
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain | Italy

A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.

Touch, The (Bergman)

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Sweden

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.

Vampyros Lesbos (Franco)

Director: Jesús Franco
Stars: Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany | Spain

An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.

Rio das Mortes (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Michael König, Günther Kaufmann
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel’s girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

Silence (Shinoda)

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: David Lampson, Don Kenny, Tetsurô Tanba
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor.

Little Murders (Arkin)

Director: Alan Arkin
Stars: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Salut les Cubains (Varda)

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Sara Gómez, Nelson Rodríguez
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short
Country: France | Cuba

A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.

Du côté d’Orouët (Rozier)

Director: Jacques Rozier
Stars: Caroline Cartier, Danièle Croisy, Françoise Guégan
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.

Socrates (Rossellini)

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Jean Sylvère, Anne Caprile, Giuseppe Mannajuolo
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy | Spain | France

A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.

Evdokia (Damianos)

Director: Alexis Damianos
Stars: Maria Vassiliou, Giorgos Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece | UK

Athens, 1971. In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life, and the suffocating pressure of fragile societal relations. Will they survive one another?

Music Lovers, The (Russell)

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.

Emigrants, The (Troell)

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden

Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.

Trafic (Tati)

Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy

Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual comical, disastrous style.

Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes)

Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Minnie breaks up with her married boyfriend and becomes disillusioned. However, she begins to learn that there is hope for love and romance in a desperate world when she meets a crazy car-parker named Seymour.

Fata Morgana (Herzog)

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, James William Gledhill
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany

Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.

Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog)

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Fini Straubinger, M. Baaske, Elsa Fehrer
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

Handicapped Future (Herzog)

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Rolf Illig, Werner Herzog, Adolf Ratzka
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60’s / early 70’s.

Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson)

Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

The ‘dreamer’ is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she’s contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other again the next night. Gradually, he discovers that her lover promised to meet her on the bridge that night, and he failed to turn up.

Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Marquard Bohm
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany | Italy

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and so they still wait and try to make the best out of the situation.

There Was a Crooked Man… (Mankiewicz)

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

Fårö Document (Bergman)

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Arvid Andersson, Sven Bernander, Carl Ekman
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary investigates the sometimes deleterious effects of the modern world on traditional farming and fishing communities. The young, especially, voice doubts about remaining in such a remote, quiet place.

 

Sex Jack (Wakamatsu)

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Tamaki Katori, Mizako Kaga, Etsuko Wakayama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

During violent manifestations in late 1960s in Japan, a group of students who called themselves the Rose Colored Regiment hide in the house of a mysterious young man, and have sex with the same girl while waiting for new instructions.

 

See You at Mao (Godard, Roger)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Filmed in the UK in 1969, this documentary by Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group represents an analysis of production and the status of women in capitalist society and a speculation about class consciousness and the need for political organization. A group of men formed by trade unionists and employers debate on what measures would benefit their respective classes. At the same time, a group of young hippies tested several Beatles songs.

 

Spider’s Stratagem, The (Bertolucci)

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.

 

Breach, The (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet
Genre: Thriller
Country: France | Italy | Belgium

Helene Regnier’s husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son’s condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody.

 

Borsalino (Deray)

Director: Jacques Deray
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

 

Crook, The (Lelouch)

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Danièle Delorme, Charles Gérard
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.

 

Landscape After Battle (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation.

 

Donkey Skin (Demy)

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won’t have to marry a man she doesn’t love.

 

Lovefilm (Szabó)

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Judit Halász, András Bálint, Edit Kelemen
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Jancsi reminiscences about Kata his childhood friend in WWII Budapest, They are separated as a result of 1956 revolution. Reunited as adults, they struggle with whether they will stay in each others lives.

 

Things of Life, The (Sautet)

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Gérard Lartigau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland | France | Italy

A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.

 

I Walk the Line (Frankenheimer)

Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Henry Tawes is the sheriff in a small town in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fiber, he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma McCain, a beautiful young girl who turns his world upside down. Unable to ignore his feelings, he starts an affair with her. But in a small town nothing is secret for long.

 

My Sweet Charlie (Johnson)

Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.

 

Confession, The (Costa-Gavras)

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. We are shown the mental tortures during the investigation and how a faithful top-ranking civil servant is made to confess to treason. Based on the true story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London.

 

Ryan’s Daughter (Lean)

Director: David Lean
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

 

Witchhammer (Vávra)

Director: Otakar Vávra
Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia

A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).

 

Reconstruction (Angelopoulos)

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness.

 

Shinjuku Mad (Wakamatsu)

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Yûko Ejima, Makiko Harada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A man comes to Tokyo searching for his son’s killer. He ventures into the deep underground of the city where he finds out that the untraceable killer is a mysterious revolutionary gang leader called Shinjuku Mad.

 

This Transient Life (Jissôji)

Director: Akio Jissôji
Stars: Michiko Tsukasa, Ryô Tamura, Eiji Okada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

 

Lickerish Quartet, The (Metzger)

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | USA | West Germany

A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise.

 

Hospital (Wiseman)

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Eugene Friedman, Stanley Friedman, Robert Schwartz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of health care.

 

Gods of the Plague (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

 

Days and Nights in the Forest (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.

 

Honeymoon Killers, The (Kastle, Volkman)

Director: Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman
Stars: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An obese, embittered nurse doesn’t mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.

 

Zorns Lemma (Frampton)

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: Rosemarie Castoro, Ginger Michels, Marcia Steinbrecher
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A rhythmically edited alphabet composed of street and shop signs shot in New York City and other elements is gradually replaced by repeated seemingly abstract shots in this influential structuralist film.

 

Das Millionenspiel (Toelle)

Director: Tom Toelle
Stars: Jörg Pleva, Suzanne Roquette, Dieter Thomas Heck
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany

A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of twenty camera teams filming the hunt. The showmaster appeals to the TV-viewers to help either the candidate or the hunters, whomever they want.

 

American Soldier, The (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood accomplice Franz Walsch, and pays a short visit to his mother and doting brother. When Ricky asks the hotel clerk for a girl, one of the cops sends his girlfriend Rosa. However, she falls for the killer.

 

Trash (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Geri Miller
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

During the course of a day, a heroin addict overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool welfare by having his girlfriend fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.

 

Swedish Love Story, A (Andersson)

Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.

 

Pravda (Godard, Vertov, Burron, Roger)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
Stars: Vera Chytilová, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany | France

Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, ‘Pravda’ is a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual heterogeneous collage of images taken from real life, the film is structured in a sort of letter that a man writes to a woman called Rosa from Bulgaria and later from Czechoslovakia.

 

Adversary, The (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.

 

I Never Sang for My Father (Cates)

Director: Gilbert Cates
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

 

Colossus: The Forbin Project (Sargent)

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

 

Birch Wood, The (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Emilia Krakowska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930’s music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother’s problems and also becomes the lover of a simpleminded farm girl. The brother’s dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man who is to marry the farm girl.

 

Many Wars Ago (Rosi)

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | Yugoslavia

On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the Italian troops.

 

Multiple Maniacs (Waters)

Director: John Waters
Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA

Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her, and descends into a life of murder and mayhem.

 

They Call Me Trinity (Barboni)

Director: Enzo Barboni
Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy

A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.

 

Heroic Purgatory (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kazumi Tsutsui
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

An engineer’s wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.

 

Land, The (Chahine)

Director: Youssef Chahine
Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt

A small peasant village’s struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner, The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

 

Street Scenes (Scorsese)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Verna Bloom, Jay Cocks, Harvey Keitel
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the late Spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. A group of New York University film students documented the demonstrations as they happened in both cities. Later, in New York, the massive amount of black and white and color 16mm footage was edited into this important record of the day by day events.

 

Hoffman (Rakoff)

Director: Alvin Rakoff
Stars: Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he’s a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character.

 

Niklashausen Journey, The (Fassbinder, Fengler)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Stars: Michael König, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the “Black Monk” in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The “Black Monk” suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

 

Man Who Put His Will on Film, The (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kazuo Goto, Sukio Fukuoka, Kenichi Fukuda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student’s camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.

 

Le Vent d’Est (Godard, Vertov, Gorin, Martin)

Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.

 

Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, The (Horn)

Director: Leonard J. Horn
Stars: Linda Gillen, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Norway | USA

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution

 

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Wrede)

Director: Casper Wrede
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Norway | USA

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp.

 

Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The (Billington)

Director: Kevin Billington
Stars: Ann Beach, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Peter Cook
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

 

Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The (Argento)

Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy | West Germany

An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder. He learns later that it’s connected to an ongoing murder spree in the city, and decides to do his own investigation, despite being personally targeted by the killer.

 

Tora! Tora! Tora! (Fleischer, Fukasaku, Masuda)

Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan | USA

In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

 

Sunflower (De Sica)

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France | Soviet Union | USA

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.

 

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jires)

Director: Jaromil Jires
Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Inspired by fairytales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood, is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.

 

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Fengler, Fassbinder)

Director: Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He’s a dutiful husband; his wife’s a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He’s a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab’s wife’s expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?

 

Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (Wilder)

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK | USA

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.

 

Clowns, The (Fellini)

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Riccardo Billi, Federico Fellini, Gigi Reder
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A ragout of real memories and mockumentary, as Fellini explores a childhood obsession: circus clowns.

 

Le Boucher (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

 

Alphabet, The (Lynch)

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Peggy Lynch
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA

A woman’s dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

 

Blue Movie (Warhol)

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Viva, Louis Waldon
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Viva (playing herself) and Louis Waldon (playing himself) spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.

 

Joke, The (Jires)

Director: Jaromil Jires
Stars: Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

In the 1950’s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

 

Ambush, The (Pavlovic)

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Severin Bijelic
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia’s communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what’s right and what’s wrong.

 

Boy (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.

 

Several Friends (Burnett)

Director: Charles Burnett
Stars: Andy Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Charles Bracy
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An improvised late ’60’s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Director, Charles Burnett; done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A day-in-the-life South Central L.A. tale about a rag-tag group of unemployed black male pals.

 

Calcutta (Malle)

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Louis Malle
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960’s: rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate. Given only the images, the viewer can read any meaning she or he wants into the film.

 

Mondo Trasho (Waters)

Director: John Waters
Stars: Mary Vivian Pearce, Divine, David Lochary
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).

 

Learning Tree, The (Parks)

Director: Gordon Parks
Stars: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.

 

Sun’s Gonna Shine, The (Blank)

Director: Les Blank, Skip Gerson
Stars: Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Bizor, Wendell Anderson
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins’ reminiscences of his youth “one of the three most important films on the South.”

 

Jackal of Nahueltoro (Littin)

Director: Miguel Littin
Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Marcelo Romo
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile

The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.

 

This Man Must Die (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son’s death.

 

Medea (Pasolini)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with the powerful sorceress, Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it’s only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?

 

Stones in the Park, The (Woodhead)

Director: Leslie Woodhead
Stars: The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

Extensive footage of the Rolling Stones performing on July 5th 1969 in Hyde Park in front of an audience of appropriately 500,000 people just two days after the untimely death of former lead gutiarist and band founder Brian Jones.

 

Structure of Crystal, The (Zanussi)

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Barbara Wrzesinska, Jan Myslowicz, Andrzej Zarnecki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Jan and Marek used to study physics together but after graduation their paths were different. Jan got married and moved to the countryside. Marek stayed in Warsaw and now wants to persuade Jan to follow his path.

 

John and Mary (Yates)

Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.

 

Dream of Kings, A (Mann)

Director: Daniel Mann
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Inger Stevens
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy’s life. However, money is a problem.

 

Katzelmacher (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a “Communist” and “Greek dog”. After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.

 

Topaz (Hitchcock)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.

 

Beauty, The (Zebriunas)

Director: Arunas Zebriunas
Stars: Inga Mickyte, Lilija Zadeikyte, Arvidas Samukas
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union

The cruelty of children is offered in all its unadorned ugliness in “Grazuole”. The title character is a 9-year-old girl, shunned by her classmates because of her alleged homeliness.

 

Le Grand Amour (Étaix)

Director: Pierre Étaix
Stars: Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

After fifteen years of average married life and stifling in-laws, a businessman undergoes a midlife crisis and pursues his attractive young secretary.

 

Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (Wakamatsu)

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Mimi Kozakura, Michio Akiyama, Yôko Yamamoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.

 

Sicilian Clan, The (Verneuil)

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

 

Virgin’s Bed, The (Garrel)

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Zouzou, Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.

 

Anne of the Thousand Days (Jarrott)

Director: Charles Jarrott
Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

 

Dependent, The (Favio)

Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Walter Vidarte, Graciela Borges, Nora Cullen
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

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.

 

Conspirators, The (Magni)

Director: Luigi Magni
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.

 

Love Is Colder Than Death (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany

Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join. Things are turned on their head when Franz and Bruno become friends, to the point that they even share Franz’s girlfriend Joanna. But Joanna soon becomes bored of Bruno.

 

Putney Swope (Downey)

Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Stars: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don’t get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board’s token black man, Putney Swope.

 

Swimming Pool, The (Deray)

Director: Jacques Deray
Stars: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.

 

Precautions Against Fanatics (Herzog)

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Petar Radenkovic, Mario Adorf, Hans Tiedemann
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: West Germany

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily.

 

Wszystko na sprzedaz (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Andrzej Lapicki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

The disappearance of the leading actor from the film’s set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor’s wife and mistress.

 

Camille 2000 (Radley Metzger)

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Nino Castelnuovo, Eleonora Rossi Drago
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Sensuous Marguerite is addicted to sex and money. She is kept by a wealthy man, has a string of young lovers and hosts wild orgies in her luxurious villa.

 

Last Summer (Perry)

Director: Frank Perry
Stars: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

 

Porcile (Pasolini)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.

 

Italian Job, The (Collinson)

Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK | USA

Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.

 

Polowanie na muchy (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Zygmunt Malanowicz, Malgorzata Braunek, Ewa Skarzanka
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland

Wlodek is a shy man who’s afraid of his mother as well as his wife. However, upon meeting Irena, his life takes a new turn.

 

Run a Crooked Mile (Levitt)

Director: Gene Levitt
Stars: Louis Jourdan, Mary Tyler Moore, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there’s no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. He finds a key on the floor and goes to his boss to get help when he’s struck from behind. He wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he’s had amnesia for two years, is now married, and living in Switzerland.

 

Adalen 31 (Widerberg)

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Sweden

Based on an incident in which five strikers were shot and killed, the film is lyrical and a visually beautiful film, definitely rising above TV movie-level.

 

Medium Cool (Wexler)

Director: Haskell Wexler
Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Seven in Darkness (Caffey)

Director: Michael Caffey
Stars: Milton Berle, Sean Garrison, Dina Merrill
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Based on the Leonard Bishop’s novel Against Heaven’s Hand. Seven blind people are on a plane on their way to a convention for the blind in Seattle. Due to bad weather, the plane crashes and only the seven blind people survive.

Le Gai Savoir (Godard)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Drama
Country: France | West Germany

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris’s student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile’s subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters’ musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix – and how filmmaking is a path.

Eros + Massacre (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s’ students researching Osugi’s theories.

Cactus Flower (Saks)

Director: Gene Saks
Stars: Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.

Woman of Everyone, The (Sganzerla)

Director: Rogério Sganzerla
Stars: Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.

Married Couple, A (King)

Director: Allan King
Stars: Billy Edwards, Antoinette Edwards, Bogart Edwards
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

An “actuality drama” about a real-life marriage in crisis, in which the couple attempts to identify and resolve the conflicts and resentments that have driven them to the brink of separation.

Witness, The (Bacsó)

Director: Péter Bacsó
Stars: Ferenc Kállai, Lajos Öze, Béla Both
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hungary

Banned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary, Péter Bacsó’s ‘The Witness’ has since then achieved unparalleled cult status in its native land. Known as the best satire about communism, ‘The Witness’ has become a cult classic, which was also well received by critics and general audiences alike when it was finally released outside of Hungary.

Oh! What a Lovely War (Attenborough)

Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Wendy Allnutt, Colin Farrell, Malcolm McFee
Genre: Comedy, Musical, War
Country: UK

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

Running in Madness, Dying in Love (Wakamatsu)

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Yôko Mutô, Rokkô Toura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother – a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.

Adventures of Goopy and Bagha, The (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India

Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.

Women in Love (Russell)

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

Gentle Woman, A (Bresson)

Director: Robert Bresson
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.

Farewell to the Summer Light (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Tadashi Yokouchi, Paul Beauvais
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.

High School (Wiseman)

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.

Saute ma ville (Akerman)

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Chantal Akerman
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Belgium

A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment.

Profound Desires of the Gods (Imamura)

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.

Garden, The (Svankmajer)

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Jirí Hálek, Ludek Kopriva, Míla Myslíková
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

Josef shows his friend Frank his garden and his rabbits. Frank is most interested in the unsettling fact that Josef’s garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.

Lion in Winter, The (Harvey)

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

1183 A.D.: King Henry II’s three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won’t commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Eat Your Makeup (Waters)

Director: John Waters
Stars: Lizzy Temple Black, Berenica Cipcus, Divine
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

John Waters’ first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to ‘model themselves to death’ in front of her boyfriend and their crazed friends. It was never shown commercially.

Le révélateur (Garrel)

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Bernadette Lafont, Stanislas Robiolle
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur” describes the prodedure to develop or “reveal” film negatives.

Very Happy Alexander (Robert)

Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

Quiet Place in the Country, A (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy | France

An accomplished painter rents a dilapidated villa in the country, and soon finds himself absorbed in the property’s history, particularly the murder of a sex-obsessed countess who died there decades prior.

Hang ‘Em High (Post)

Director: Ted Post
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA

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

Un soir, un train (Delvaux)

Director: André Delvaux
Stars: Yves Montand, Anouk Aimée, Adriana Bogdan
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France | Belgium

Mathias is a Belgian linguist, living with French theatre producer Anne. After a quarrel about moral questions, they take a train to attend a congress. While Mathias sleeps, Anne disappears. The train stops in the middle of the country and Mathias gets off the train with an older man, Hernhutter, and a young one, Val. The train moves off without them being able to catch it up. They will find a village, but cannot get any help because they do not understand a word of what the inhabitants say.

Hell in the Pacific (Boorman)

Director: John Boorman
Stars: Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
Genre: Adventure, War
Country: USA

During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they?

Birthday Party, The (Friedkin)

Director: William Friedkin
Stars: Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.

Prescription: Murder (Irving)

Director: Richard Irving
Stars: Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant (Columbo).

Death By Hanging (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kei Satô, Do-yun Yu, Fumio Watanabe
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Greetings (De Palma)

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Jonathan Warden, Robert De Niro, Gerrit Graham
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur filmmaking.

Snow Woman, The (Tanaka)

Director: Tokuzô Tanaka
Stars: Shiho Fujimura, Akira Ishihama, Machiko Hasegawa
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Japan

The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm.

Anniversary, The (Baker)

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Three sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.

Rachel, Rachel (Newman)

Director: Paul Newman
Stars: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Byt (Svankmajer)

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Ivan Kraus, Juraj Herz
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

Psych-Out (Rush)

Director: Richard Rush
Stars: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A deaf runaway arrives in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury hippie district looking for her missing brother.

Where Eagles Dare (Hutton)

Director: Brian G. Hutton
Stars: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK

Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that’s not all that’s really going on.

Queen, The (Simon)

Director: Frank Simon
Stars: Jim Dine, Jack Doroshow, Bruce Jay Friedman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The behind the scenes of a national drag queen contest in New York City, including the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition.

Petulia (Lester)

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.

Witchfinder General (Reeves)

Director: Michael Reeves
Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror
Country: UK | USA

A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle.

Thomas Crown Affair, The (Jewison)

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

Gates to Paradise (Wajda)

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Lionel Stander, Ferdy Mayne, Pauline Challoner
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Yugoslavia

In 1212, children from all over Europe lead a crusade to free Jerusalem from Turkish authorities. Nicholas and Stephen use all their might to defeat the enemy.

Sweet November (Miller)

Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Stars: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A woman lures emotionally crippled men into affairs, then helps them repair their lives.

Flesh (Morrissey)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti D’Arbanville
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A man desperate for money and no income, turns prostitute and interplays with a variety of clients and hustlers.

Firecreek (McEveety)

Director: Vincent McEveety
Stars: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A peace-loving, part-time Sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

Bullitt (Yates)

Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Silence and Cry (Jancsó)

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: Mari Töröcsik, József Madaras, Zoltán Latinovits
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution.

Uptight (Dassin)

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, “The Informer.”

One + One (Godard)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Sean Lynch, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

While The Rolling Stones rehearse “Sympathy for the Devil” in the studio, Godard reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.

Les Biches (Chabrol)

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stéphane Audran
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.

Great Silence, The (Corbucci)

Director: Sergio Corbucci
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
Genre: Western
Country: Italy | France

A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.

Girls, The (Zetterling)

Director: Mai Zetterling
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. As they re-assess and deal with the problems in their respective private lives, they recognize the parallels with the play and begin to realize that it is serious – even tragic – after all.

La Prisonnière (Clouzot)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character.

Up the Junction (Collinson)

Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Addresses some of the major 60s social issues – a bored rich London-girl from Chelsea decides to go “slumming” in depressed Battersea, getting a flat and starts factory-work and makes friends… of which one has to get an illegal abortion.

La sixième face du pentagone (Marker, Reichenbach)

Director: Chris Marker, François Reichenbach
Stars: William Sloane Coffin, N. Paul Stookey, Mary Travers
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together a wide cross-section of liberals, radicals, hippies, and Yippies. Che Guevara had been killed in Bolivia only two weeks previously, and, for many, it was the transition from simply marching against the war, to taking direct action to try to stop the ‘American war machine.’ Norman Mailer wrote about the events in Armies of the Night. French filmmaker Chris Marker, leading a team of filmmakers, was also there, and made THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON.

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The (Kaufman)

Director: Jack Kaufman
Stars: Richard Basehart, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Erich Kempka
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” exposes the darkest chapter in history, from Adolf Hitler’s rise to power as a Nazi demagogue to his ultimate fatal mistakes. Researchers spent decades uncovering shocking footage of war, carnage and genocide and examined government documents and interviews with Hitler’s closest associates to discover how one man led his nation and the world into hell.

Louis Lumière (Rohmer)

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jean Renoir, Henri Langlois, Éric Rohmer
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.

Innocence Unprotected (Makavejev)

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic, Vera Jovanovic
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

Documentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.

Kuroneko (Shindô)

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Fando and Lis (Jodorowsky)

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Tamara Garina, Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico

Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky’s memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.

Isadora (Reisz)

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK | France

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people’s ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Last Words (Herzog)

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Lefteris Daskalakis, Antonis Papadakis
Genre: Short
Country: West Germany

The story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don’t have much to say except to repeat their tellings over and over again. But the person who has the final word on the matter, the lonely character himself, may not explain anything about his personal reasons for not abandoning the place.

Carmen, Baby (Metzger)

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Uta Levka, Claus Ringer, Carl Möhner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany | Yugoslavia | USA

A sexy temptress no man can resist and a local police officer who falls hard for her become embroiled in a complicated intrigue of passion and jealousy in Radley Metzger’s boldly original erotic update of the opera Carmen.

El Dorado (Hawks)

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Our Mother’s House (Clayton)

Director: Jack Clayton
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere, Pamela Franklin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears…

Stranger, The (Visconti)

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | Algeria

In an atmosphere of political tension when the French still control Algiers, an Algerian is killed on the beach and a French man who has lived in Algiers all his life is arrested for the murder. A trial takes place. One of the witnesses was at the funeral of Arthur Meursault’s mother. It bothers other mourners and Mersault himself that he showed no emotion when his mother died. His eventful day at the beach takes place a short time after the funeral when he is examining what his life has been and what path should he take in the future.

Affair, The (Yoshida)

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother’s lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.

Shock Troops (Costa-Gavras)

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?

How I Won the War (Lester)

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK

An inept British World War II commander leads his troops through a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

Last Adventure, The (Enrico)

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot’s license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.

Two of Us, The (Berri)

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

In Nazi-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.

Historia Naturae, Suita (Svankmajer)

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia

An eight-part portrait of animal species in the different biological classes, accompanied by a different style of music. Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.

Time for Burning, A (Connell, Jersey)

Director: Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey
Stars: Ernie Chambers, Ray Cristensen, Bill Youngdahl
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In the mid-1960s, 1200 White people attend Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. Nearby, Negro Lutherans worship at Hope Lutheran Church. Reverend Bill Youngdahl, Augustana’s pastor, proposes that ten couples visit ten Negro families from Hope. It’s a controversial idea; within weeks, Youngdahl resigns. The camera observes: Augustana parishioners discuss the idea, the social ministry committee meets with Hope leaders, and Hope youth talk about race and religion.

Borgia Stick, The (Rich)

Director: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Don Murray, Inger Stevens, Barry Nelson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn’t want to give them up so easily.

Privilege (Watkins)

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK

Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity for projects like increasing the consumption of apples after a bumper crop as an aid to farmers. The handlers decide that Steven should support God and Country next. This leads to, among other things, a rock version of “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and the inclusion of a Nazi salute to make it clear (to the viewer) how far the British population will be taken for love of God and Country under Steven’s guidance.

Marat/Sade (Brook)

Director: Peter Brook
Stars: Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK

In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat’s last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.

President’s Analyst, The (Flicker)

Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Stars: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

When the overworked and stressed-out White House presidential shrink runs away, the CEA and the FBR scramble to retrieve him before he could be abducted by various competing foreign intelligence services.

Incident, The (Peerce)

Director: Larry Peerce
Stars: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.

Dirty Dozen, The (Aldrich)

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK | USA

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Rats Woke Up, The (Pavlovic)

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Dusica Zegarac, Severin Bijelic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

A lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister’s treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.

Japan’s Longest Day (Okamoto)

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkô Toura, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan.

Nude Restaurant, The (Warhol)

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Brigid Berlin, Julian Burrough, Taylor Mead
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of the “nude” patrons leave the establishment, their places taken by new customers, also nearly in the buff.

Sing a Song of Sex (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Ichirô Araki, Kazuko Tajima, Jûzô Itami
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with thier inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs.

25th Hour, The (Verneuil)

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Italy | Yugoslavia

In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he’s drafted into the S.S.

Jungle Book, The (Reitherman)

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman, James Algar, Jack Kinney
Stars: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

Warrendale (King)

Director: Allan King
Stars: Martin Fischer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Chronicles 7-weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and their therapist’s experimental method of treatment at the Toronto-area Warrendale facility.

Crush, The (Olmi)

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Giovanna Claudia Mongino, Luciano Piergiovanni
Genre: Romance
Country: Italy

Fun, sweet featurette (49 minutes) about a 15 year old (“let’s say 16”) boy who likes to take an industrial approach to courting.

Two in the Shadow (Naruse)

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsukô Kusabue
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.

Red and the White, The (Jancsó)

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary | Soviet Union

During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army – aided by Hungarian Communists – and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.

Risky Business (Cayatte)

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, René Dary
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Jean Doucet is a popular schoolmaster teaching in a small town in Normandy. At least he was… Until the day one of his pupils, Catherine Roussel, a garage owner’s daughter, accuses him of trying to rape her. But although Doucet (happily married to schoolmistress Suzanne) has always had a conduct above reproach, the Roussels decide to file a complaint against him.

Portrait of Jason (Clarke)

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Black gay prostitute Jason Holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character, revealing nuanced truths about life and art.

We Still Kill the Old Way (Petri)

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don’t want him to learn it.

Herostratus (Levy)

Director: Don Levy
Stars: Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

When Max (Michael Gothard), a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.

Quatermass and the Pit (Baker)

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK | Japan

A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.

Festival (Lerner)

Director: Murray Lerner
Stars: Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who’s acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin’ Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform

Anna (Koralnik)

Director: Pierre Koralnik
Stars: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Marianne Faithfull
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: France

Released in 1967, this was the first colour film made for French TV. The story is about a man obsessively looking for a woman he saw in a photograph.

Thief of Paris, The (Malle)

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance’s family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.

Oscar (Molinaro)

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Mario David
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Neurotic businessman must find the right man for his pregnant daughter. In fact, it is little bit complicated.

Hombre (Ritt)

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone
Genre: Western
Country: USA

John Russell, disdained by his “respectable” fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Uncle Yanco (Varda)

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Jean Varda, Tom Luddy, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA | France

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.

Wife of Seishu Hanaoka, The (Masumura)

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, “Tsusensan”, some forty years before the better-known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton.

Whisperers, The (Forbes)

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Edith Evans, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Elderly Mrs. Ross lives alone in her meager flat, scraping by on government assistance even as she claims to have great wealth. After finding stolen money she is victimized, making it necessary to find her support in her declining years.

Mad Monster Party (Bass)

Director: Jules Bass
Stars: Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

On the Isle of Evil, the head of the “World Organization of Monsters” reveals his imminent retirement and that he has refined a formula for total destruction, only to be upset when the monsters try to steal the formula and kill his nephew.

Night of the Generals, The (Litvak)

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | France

In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.

Zoo, The (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Uttam Kumar, Kalipada Chakraborty, Nripati Chatterjee
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India

Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.

Jokers, The (Winner)

Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Michael Tremayne (Michael Crawford) and David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.

Trip, The (Corman)

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

Pink Floyd London ’66-’67 (Whitehead)

Director: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: UK

Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60’s Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary ’14 hour Technicolor Dream’ extravaganza in April ’67 at Alexandra Palace. The footage includes performance art by Yoko Ono and a Sgt. Pepper era John Lennon taking in the festivities (John and Yoko had not met then).

Man Vanishes, A (Imamura)

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Yoshie Hayakawa, Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima’s fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.

Peppermint Frappé (Saura)

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Mayo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain

Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena.

Dragon Inn (Hu)

Director: King Hu
Stars: Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan | Hong Kong

When the children of an executed General are pursued in 1457 China, some heroic martial arts swordsmen intervene.

Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight!

Director: Paul Bogart
Stars: Hal Holbrook
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: USA

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, ‘Hal Holbrook’ portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain’s own words for a commentary on slavery, religion and politics, mixing the satire with comic yarns about life on the Mississippi and a very effective ghost story..

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Ôshima)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kei Satô, Keiko Sakurai, Rokkô Toura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.

Far from Vietnam (Godard, Ivens, Klein, LeLouch, Varda, Marker, Resnais)

Director: Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Stars: Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: France

In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam war.

Oedipus Rex (Pasolini)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Morocco

Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy–he’ll murder his father and marry his mother.

La Chinoise (Godard)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Firemen’s Ball, The (Forman)

Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia | Italy

A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.

Accident (Losey)

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.

Dutchman (Harvey)

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr., Frank Lieberman
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual.

Fear, The (Manoussakis)

Director: Kostas Manoussakis
Stars: Elli Fotiou, Anestis Vlahos, Spyros Fokas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at the expense of his devoted second wife. Meanwhile, his son the pervert becomes fascinated with the family’s maid, a deaf-mute. The son’s stepsister returns from college in hopes that she can marry the young engineer she fancies. Unfortunately her father hates the boy. Real trouble ensues when the perverted son sees his stepsister and the engineer make love.

Gambit (Neame)

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer’s help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.

Alley Cats, The (Metzger)

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Anne Arthur, Karin Field, Sabrina Koch
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A couple about to be married are both having affairs, with women. This campy sex-romp takes place in some European city where everyone appears to be sex crazed and speaks with a different accent.

Nevada Smith (Hathaway)

Director: Henry Hathaway
Stars: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith
Genre: Western
Country: USA

A half American Indian and half white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents’ murderers.

Moment of Terror (Naruse)

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Yôko Tsukasa, Eitarô Ozawa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A child is killed in a hit and run. The mother plots her revenge by posing as a maid in the house of the murderer.

Morgan! (Reisz)

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

After his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.

Grand Prix (Frankenheimer)

Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard.

Un uomo a metà (De Seta)

Director: Vittorio De Seta
Stars: Jacques Perrin, Lea Padovani, Ilaria Occhini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Michele, a young intellectual, enters an existential crisis when, without realizing it, his conception of life comes into conflict with collective morality. The result is a serious neurosis that detaches him from life, from work, from the neighbor.

Little Chaos, The (Fassbinder)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Christoph Roser, Marite Greiselis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genre: Short, Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.

Nayak: The Hero (S. Ray)

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen
Genre: Drama
Country: India

En route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams and past experiences.

Young Törless (Schlöndorff)

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France

At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates, Basini, who has been caught stealing money from one of the two. The two decide that rather than turn Basini in to the school authorities, they will punish him themselves and proceed to torture, degrade, and humiliate the boy, with ever-increasing sadistic delight.

Brigitte et Brigitte (Moullet)

Director: Luc Moullet
Stars: Colette Descombes, Françoise Vatel, Claude Melki
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A twenty minute documentary about the two smallest French villages. Then, Paris, 1960s. Two girls named Brigitte from the two villages share an apartment and study at the Sorbonne.

Irezumi (Masumura)

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.

Sand Pebbles, The (Wise)

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.

Good Times, Wonderful Times (Rogosin)

Director: Lionel Rogosin
Stars: Molly Parkin
Genre: Documentary, Drama, War
Country: USA

GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was Lionel Rogosin’s plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party’s mundane chatter. GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was released in 1964, at the height of the Vietnam War, and became one of the great anti-war films of the era.

Murderer Hides His Face, The (Schulhoff)

Director: Petr Schulhoff
Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirí Pleskot
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives are not so clear. Two criminologists from Prague – Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) – patiently collect all available leads and question the villagers.

Barrier (Skolimowski)

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: Joanna Szczerbic, Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland

A rebellious student wants to get total independence and overcome all the barriers in his life: of money, age, status, cults and conventions. However, he meets a girl with completely different ideals.

Rosalie (Borowczyk)

Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Stars: Ligia Branice
Genre: Short, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A haunting, minimalist short that mostly consists of a monologue to camera by the young Rosalie, on trial for the murder of her new-born infant.

Chappaqua (Rooks)

Director: Conrad Rooks
Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Conrad Rooks, William S. Burroughs
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | France

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.

Kill, Baby… Kill! (Bava)

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy

A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.

Blue Max, The (Guillerman)

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Professionals, The (Brooks)

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Captive’s Island (Shinoda)

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Ikuko Asô, Toshimi Hiramatsu, Jôji Hosoda
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.

Rondo (Berkovic)

Director: Zvonimir Berkovic
Stars: Stevo Zigon, Milena Dravic, Relja Basic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia’s wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vorlícek)

Director: Václav Vorlícek
Stars: Dana Medrická, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia

“What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?” a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, productive workers). There’s a problem: after an injection of her elixir, dream elements become real.

Patriotism (Mishima)

Director: Masaki Dômoto, Yukio Mishima
Stars: Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: Japan

A Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri.

For Love and Gold (Monicelli)

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History
Country: Italy | France | Spain

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.

Madame X (Rich)

Director: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When her lover is killed, the wife of a wealthy man is convinced to fake her own death, which leads her into greater depths of depravity until fate reunites her with her long-lost son, who is unaware of her real identity.

Trouble with Angels, The (Lupino)

Director: Ida Lupino
Stars: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) and her staff of bewildered Sisters.

Fantastic Voyage (Fleischer)

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Nine Letters to Bertha (Patino)

Director: Basilio Martín Patino
Stars: Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Mary Carrillo, Elsa Baeza
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Lorenzo is a young man who has just returned to Salamanca (Spain) from England, where he fell in love with Berta, a girl daughter of exiled parents who have never seen Spain. Lorenzo tries through some beautiful letters that she understands how is the world where her parents once lived.

Transfer (Cronenberg)

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Rafe Macpherson, Mort Ritts
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: Canada

A psychiatrist, referred to only as Doctor, is living alone in a snowy field surrounded by pine woods. When a former patient named Ralph appears, the Doctor is distraught. Ralph has been following him obsessively.

Made in U.S.A (Godard)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France

In the near future, leftist writer Paula goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. Is she there to investigate? On the surface, faces are beautiful, colors bright, clothes trendy. Beneath, little is clear: some talk to Paula as if she’s Alice in Wonderland, corpses pile up, and ideological struggles insert themselves. A murder victim’s nephew and a political party’s hired hands hover around Paula. Is obscuring things her goal or is it life that’s obscure?

Trap, The (Hayers)

Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Canada

A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.

Wrong Box, The (Forbes)

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Thirst for Love (Kurahara)

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Stars: Nobuo Nakamura, Ruriko Asaoka, Akira Yamanouchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Etsuko, after her husbands death, moves in with her in-laws. With ambivalence, she finds herself sexually involved with her father-in-law. She then finds herself desiring young gardener Saburo, who has a relationship with the maid Miyo.

Fighting Elegy (Suzuki)

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Hideki Takahashi, Junko Asano, Yûsuke Kawazu
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

During the 1930s, a teenager yearns for a Catholic girl, whose only desire is to reform his sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, the young man channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.

Here Is Your Life (Troell)

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Eddie Axberg, Gudrun Brost, Ulla Akselson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.

Creatures, The (Varda)

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva Dahlbeck
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Sweden

A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.

Family Way, The (Boulting)

Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Avril Angers
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.

Man and a Woman, A (Lelouch)

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.

Meet Marlon Brando (Maysles)

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Stars: Marlon Brando, Rex Morgan, Mary Frann
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote the film, they find Brando unwilling to talk about it, instead he is more interested in larking about and turning on the charm when being interviewed by a former winner of the Miss USA competition.

Breakaway (Conner)

Director: Bruce Conner
Stars: Toni Basil
Genre: Short, Music
Country: USA

Bruce Conner’s 1966 dazzling dance short, “Breakaway”, a film poem marrying the rhythm of the editing, movement of the body and the camera to a beautiful effect.

Falling Leaves (Ioselliani)

Director: Otar Iosseliani
Stars: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Gogi Kharabadze, Marina Kartsivadze
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.

10:30 P.M. Summer (Dassin)

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | USA

Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent murder in a small town along the way. What begins as a vacation ends as a meditation on tragedy and infidelity.

Death of a Salesman (Segal)

Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Stanley Adams, Edward Andrews, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An abridged award-winning television adaptation of a famous play about an aging travelling salesman who’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His job is gone, and his family hates him for never being there. He tries mending things with them.

Le Deuxième Souffle (Melville)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

Alfie (Gilbert)

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

An unrepentant ladies’ man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.