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Director: John Berry
Stars: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Luigi Vannucchi, Dominique Darel, Rita Calderoni
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy

The story of Christian Democrat leader De Gasperi and his struggle to lead Italy in the years after the end of World War Two.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Ugo Cardea, Anne Pouchie, Claude Berthy
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy | France

This made for television film chronicles the illustrious life of French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650)

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Director: Jamie Uys
Stars: Paddy O’Byrne
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Country: South Africa

Hilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.

Director: Bob Clark
Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Joachim Hansen, Barbara Valentin
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Fassbinder’s interpretation of “A dolls house”.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Romania

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named “Viraga”), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga (in the movie: Costin Märgeanu and Nicolae Jugu). To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu (Visan Nävodeanu) conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the “Morals Division” (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case.

Director: Masud Kimiai
Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Faramarz Gharibian, Nosrat Partovi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Instead, he finds that his friend is a drug addict. He sticks around to try and help his friend kick the habit; instead, both men are caught in a shootout with the police and…

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas, Fernando Delgado
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

Director: Boris Sagal
Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, William Daniels, Cliff Potts
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system when she reported it, and the afttermath of the culprit’s apprehension.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

When a casual gambler befriends a professional one, he begins to mirror his life, sending both deeper into the sleazy gambling world where the stakes keep getting bigger.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

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

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

Director: Tony Palmer
Stars: Leonard Cohen, Donna Washburn, Ron Cornelius
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

The gravel-voiced songsmith moodily strolls through the byways of various European venues and is seen in concert performing.

Director: Sergio Renán
Stars: Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Ana María Picchio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Hassan Darabi, Pare Gol Atashjameh, Masud Zandbegleh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.

Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Martin Sheen, Mariclare Costello, Ned Beatty
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK

Composer Gustav Mahler’s life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.

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

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Yves Montand, Bob Castella, Chris Marker
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Yves Montand’s rehearsals for a special show at Olympia to support Chile’s political refugees. Interviews of this singer and actor, fragments of his films and footage from his concerts created a multifaceted portrait of an artist.

Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos
Stars: Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Vangelis Kazan, Elena Kyrana
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Greece

During the shooting of a film, a strange man enters the set holding an umbrella. He walks into the sea and disappears. The people from the film crew claim that this is a publicity stunt, but the musician for the film, who tries to investigate the incident, ponders the significance of this action, and when he tries to do the same thing, he disappears as well.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.

Director: Oldrich Lipský
Stars: Ludek Sobota, Marta Vancurová, Vera Ferbasová
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka (Ludek Sobota) leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Catherine E. Coulson, David Lynch
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: USA

In this plotless 5 minute short, Catherine Coulson plays a legless double-amputee who, throughout the film, is going over a letter she is writing.

Director: Shûji Terayama
Stars: Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

Director: Bernard Queysanne
Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Tunisia

A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan | USA

American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend’s kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA

Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray.

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

Vibrant scenes of individuals’ daily life are filmed in Place de la République.

Director: Neil Young
Stars: Buffalo Springfield, David Crosby, Graham Nash
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Don’t look for a narrative, it’s an Art Film. A series of vignettes referencing the South and a commentary on religion as opiate. See it for the live footage of Buffalo Springfield and CSNY.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Santanu Bagchi, Ajoy Banerjee
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: India

A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Romy Schneider
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France | Italy

A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas’ life. First of all, he procures him to Roberte, a professor of philosophy’s frustrated and bored wife.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | West Germany

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man’s diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.

Director: António Reis
Stars: Evangelina Gil Delgado, Jaime Fernandes
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Portugal

A documentary about a deceased psychiatric patient, Jaime Fernandes.

Director: Philippe Mora
Stars: Eva Braun, Galeazzo Ciano, Albert Einstein
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK

The Nazification of Germany from 1933 to 1945 told through a compilation of Nazi footage, newsreels, propaganda films and Eva Braun’s home movies.

Director: Peter H. Hunt
Stars: Bette Davis, Kenneth Mars
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother’s consternation.

Director: William A. Graham
Stars: Frederic Forrest, Tyne Daly, Michael McGuire
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

“Larry” is a true story about a man wrongly confined the California State Mental Hospital at Camarillo for 26 years, who is discovered to have average intelligence and released, and with the help of a kind social worker’s guidance, has to learn to cope with the real world.

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Lynn Carlin, Don Porter
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A successful public relations man’s refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society’s frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.

Director: Alison De Vere
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Animation
Country: USA

An animated short film in which a man and a woman have a conversation in a cafe.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Bearthm Brakhage, Crystal Brakhage, Jane Brakhage
Genre: Short
Country: USA

We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens and the family, while the narrator explains the heavens. We see a bee up close. The narrator suggests metaphors for heavenly bodies. Scenes fade into a black screen or dim purple; close-ups of family life may be blurry. The words about the heavens, such as “The stars are a flock of hummingbirds,” contrast with images and sounds of real children.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Jean Seberg, Nico, Tina Aumont
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France

Biographical film about Jean Seberg, loosely based on Nietzsche’s The Antichrist.

Director: Guy Debord
Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Guy Debord’s cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book “La société du spectacle” (1967).

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: Mari Töröcsik, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra’s mother to kill him.

Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer, Pierre Bramma
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France | Sweden

Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus.

Director: Lino Brocka
Stars: Lolita Rodriguez, Lilia Dizon, Eddie Garcia
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

This landmark film is considered by many to be one of the most important in Philippine cinema. The son of a wealthy man, Junior has everything he could possibly want. But the emptiness of his extravagant lifestyle and the hypocrisy of the town’s so-called leading citizens weigh heavily on him, pushing him to reach out to the village outcasts.

Director: Umberto Lenzi
Stars: Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Laura Belli
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy

A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps the daughter of a rich man, prompting a hardened detective to work outside the law to pursue him.

Director: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Art Carney
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Experimental, Short
Country: USA

A series of experimental short films from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.

Director: Marcell Jankovics
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Hungary

The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sysiphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sysiphus, the stone, and the mountainside.

Director: Michel Brault
Stars: Hélène Loiselle, Jean Lapointe, Guy Provost
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Director: John Badham
Stars: Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA

The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy’s school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany

After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman – Helmut. The cruel and torturous nature of their relationship leads Martha to believe Helmut might be trying to kill her.

Director: William A. Graham
Stars: Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers, Matthew Burrill
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A reclusive, retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths, led by an obnoxious marchesa, take up residence in his unused upper residence.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films a couple and their dog as they walk farther away into the woods.

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

This film casts a forensic observational eye over researchers working with primates. After a time watching it is possible to wonder which ones of these two sets of primates is the more strange.

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Stars: Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Ilarion Ciobanu
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Romania

It’s the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called “romanian dream.”

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gô Katô, Kensaku Morita
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Jürgen Prochnow
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany

What started as a simple blackmail quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.

Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: Poland | Soviet Union

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio (“Babyfat”), and spends the next few days ordering him about and generally behaving badly in public.

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

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

Director: Peter Foldes
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Canada

Cruel, and utterly effective, Peter Foldes’ experimentation with computer animation employs a bold speechless narrative to draw attention to the grave effects of consumerism. Who needs ethics when everything is within arm’s reach?

Director: Aleksandar Djordjevic
Stars: Dragan Nikolic, Vojislav ‘Voja’ Brajovic, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic
Genre: Action, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo’s termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.

Director: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

Director: Harold Pinter
Stars: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O’Callaghan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Canada | USA

An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.

Director: Stuart Cooper
Stars: John Hurt, John McEnery, David Warner
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near-fascist “party” that promotes male sexual dominance, and which attracts a couple of other unsavory confused characters.

Director: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA | Canada

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Lea Lander, George Eastman, Riccardo Cucciolla
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Director: Kazuo Hara
Stars: Kazuo Hara, Miyuki Takeda, Sachiko Kobayashi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

In this uncomfortably intimate film, documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara visits his ex-girlfriend Miyuki and records her new relationships.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who’s blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone’s favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he’s separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul’s friendship and in Vincent’s health.

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Switzerland

A documentary on the military dictator of Africa’s Uganda.

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada

In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.

Director: John Korty
Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

In 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A swindler’s activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy | France

Ancient Arabia. A youth is chosen by a beautiful slave girl to be her new master; she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories; love, travel and the whims of destiny.

Director: Claude Jutra
Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Marcel Cuvelier
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Canada

Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in his mental illness and cruelties, her falling in love with an American physician, Georges Nelson, and the aftermath of Antoine’s violent death.

Director: Barbara Hammer
Stars: Barbara Hammer
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental film from Barbara Hammer about lesbian couples.

Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Dean Jagger, Paul Stanley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Young Priest Mark Brian is sent as a vicar to a native American village in British Columbia. There, he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to shreds.

Director: Philippe de Broca
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France | Italy

Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and his editor Georges Charon as Colonel Karpoff.

Director: Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu
Stars: Leopoldina Balanuta, Eliza Petrachescu, Nina Doniga
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Beau Bridges, Peter Strauss
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

During the 1800s, an American officer who renounces his country during his court-martial is sentenced to sail the seas on American warships without ever setting foot on American soil again or getting news of America.

Director: Mitchell Block
Stars: Shelby Leverington, Alec Hirschfeld
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

A young filmmaking student turns his camera on a female friend as she gets ready to go out for the night. His questions strip away the young woman’s defenses, and soon she reveals her recent sexual assault. Though the film is not a documentary, it is produced in the style of “direct cinema,” creating a provocative tension between fact and fiction.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

In 1970s Italy, an industrialist and his mistress are taken hostage by three left-wing extremists who robbed a bank but the police and a media circus follow them closely on a cross-country car chase.

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.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Stars: Anne Baxter, John Forsythe, Kay Lenz
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Three teenage girls try to help their friend, who is having a nervous breakdown that conventional therapy seems to be failing to remedy.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | France

A professional assassin codenamed “Jackal” plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

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

An unobtrusive and naturalistic examination of the goings-on of a children’s court, Memphis Juvenile Court 616.

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.

Director: Arnaldo Jabor
Stars: Paulo Porto, Darlene Glória, Elza Gomes
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Rich, spoiled youngman encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can’t decide between attraction, and repulsion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Director: Gilles Carle
Stars: Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Daniel Pilon
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Stars: David Hartman, Jane Wyatt, Ralph Meeker
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Tabloid life of a physicist; his work, his love life and his quest for the meaning beyond.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Hossein Yarmohammadi, Andre Govalovish, Parviz Naderi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

The daily hard life of a kid working in a photo shop, and tries to get closer to the girl he like.

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.

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.

Director: Sergio Sollima
Stars: Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi, Paola Pitagora
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

An Italian official decides to take it upon himself to free his wife after she’s taken hostage by ruthless criminals.

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…

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 ?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Dan Curtis
Stars: Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Les Blank, Maureen Gosling
Stars: Alphonse Ardoin, Gustave Ardoin, Morris Ardoin
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA

A portrait of black Creole life in the Louisiana Delta, accompanied by the hot sounds of Zydeco music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Rollin Binzer
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A concert film taken from two Rolling Stones concerts during their 1972 North American tour.

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.

Director: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Italy | France

Baron Frankenstein creates two “zombies” – one male, one female – planning to mate them in order to create a master race.

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.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | West Germany | Monaco

The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.

Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Joe Don Baker
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A teenager must deal with his divorced father’s homosexuality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Saul Swimmer
Stars: George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | USA

The first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise humanitarian relief funds for the refugees of Bangladesh of 1971 war.

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.

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.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Director: Les Blank, Skip Gerson
Stars: Nathan Abshire, Glenn Allensan, Savy Augustine
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA

Portrait of the Cajun lifestyle in Southwest Louisiana.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Drama
Country: Japan

The Story centers around a child name Yuki, a 10-year old orphan who’s being adopted by a family.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Charles Vanel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy | France

A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Director: Francis Mankiewicz
Stars: Guy L’Ecuyer, Marcel Sabourin, Pierre Dufresne
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.

Director: Bob Dylan
Stars: Bob Dylan, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Bob Dylan and The Hawks (aka The Band) on their infamous 1966 “Judas” tour of the UK.

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.

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.’

Director: Tom Gries
Stars: Vic Morrow, Alan Alda, Clu Gulager
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young guard and a college professor convicted of manslaughter both start their first day in prison.

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.

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.

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Stars: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Risto Jarva
Stars: Eeva-Maija Haukinen, Erkki Pajala, Heikki Hämäläinen
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland

A physiotherapist’s life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

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.

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.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, Christine Fabréga
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

A husband and wife in a loveless marriage struggle to remain ignorant to their failed relationship.

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.

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

Biographical movie of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony).

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.

Director: Kihachiro Kawamoto
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Japan

Two brothers who live with their sick mother go deer hunting, but encounter a demon.

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.

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.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Rie Yokoyama, Yuki Aresa
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

The movie focuses on the actions of a revolutionary movement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short by Stan Brakhage utilizing flickering lights, colors, and film.

Director: Bert Haanstra
Stars: Bert Haanstra, Anton Koolhaas, Stephen Murray
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands

Documentary that explores the differences and similarities between human behavior and that of animals.

Director: Jane Arden
Stars: Sheila Allen, Jane Arden, Jack Bond
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Jane Arden’s surreal take on a group of females in a therapy session.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which contrasts images and lights.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Agostina Belli
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Mimí, forced to leave his family in Sicily, finds a job in a factory in Turin, where he gets involved in an extramarital affair.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Nico, Philippe Garrel, Christian Päffgen
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: France

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

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.

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.

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.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Stars: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.

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.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

This Experiment is a Scenario who Have 4 Act titled (1-4) Tableau. Poetic Justice is story about lovers who holding camera, Third Tableau is have Middle Shot and other Tableau is on various camera shot.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Kreczmar, Daniel Olbrychski
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: West Germany | Austria

A goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Paul Newman, Ava Gardner, Roy Jenson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.

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.

Director: George Roy Hill
Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A man named Billy Pilgrim tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Paul Newman
Stars: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Satyajit Ray
Genre: Documentary
Country: India

An educational and controversial look into the Kingdom of Sikkim through the eyes of the greatest film maker from the Indian Sub-Continent, Satyajit Ray.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Tim Burton
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA

An adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story “The Island of Doctor Moreau.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Hanns Zischler, Edda Köchl, Libgart Schwarz
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Released from prison a man wanders through a new reality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Director: William Friedkin
Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.

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.

Director: John Mackenzie
Stars: David Hemmings, Carolyn Seymour, Douglas Wilmer
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

A new school teacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his pupils, and he fears the same will happen to him.

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.

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…

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.

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.

Director: Walon Green, Ed Spiegel
Stars: Lawrence Pressman, Conlan Carter, Ian McShane
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

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.

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.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Barun Chanda, Paromita Chowdhury
Genre: Drama
Country: India

Chatterji is an ambitious and self-made young man who becomes the director of the company he works for.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Frantisek Filipovský
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

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.

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

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.

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.

Director: Elaine May
Stars: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and – murder her.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | UK | USA

The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.

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.

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.

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.

Director: Frans Zwartjes
Stars: Frans Zwartjes, Trix Zwartjes
Genre: Short
Country: Netherlands

The director and his wife move restlessly through a largely empty apartment.

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.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Stars: John Ford, Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A documentary on the life and films of director John Ford.

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.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Danielle Durou, Alain Belart, Michel Piccoli
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

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