Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Arvid Andersson, Sven Bernander, Carl Ekman
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden
Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary investigates the sometimes deleterious effects of the modern world on traditional farming and fishing communities. The young, especially, voice doubts about remaining in such a remote, quiet place.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Tamaki Katori, Mizako Kaga, Etsuko Wakayama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
During violent manifestations in late 1960s in Japan, a group of students who called themselves the Rose Colored Regiment hide in the house of a mysterious young man, and have sex with the same girl while waiting for new instructions.
Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Nino Formicola, Milly, Roger Trapp
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | West Germany
Four short films made for television.
Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | Spain
A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
An experimental film from Stan Brakhage combining light, spots, blots, and color imagery.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Filmed in the UK in 1969, this documentary by Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group represents an analysis of production and the status of women in capitalist society and a speculation about class consciousness and the need for political organization. A group of men formed by trade unionists and employers debate on what measures would benefit their respective classes. At the same time, a group of young hippies tested several Beatles songs.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Reza Hashemi, Mehdi Shahravanfar
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: Iran
A child carrying a bread is going home but in the alley on his way to home, there is a frightening dog and he doesn’t seem to pass it alone.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet
Genre: Thriller
Country: France | Italy | Belgium
Helene Regnier’s husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son’s condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody.
Director: Jacques Deray
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy
During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.
Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Danièle Delorme, Charles Gérard
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
Story about an incurable thief, his success and his failures.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation.
Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won’t have to marry a man she doesn’t love.
Director: István Szabó
Stars: Judit Halász, András Bálint, Edit Kelemen
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Jancsi reminiscences about Kata his childhood friend in WWII Budapest, They are separated as a result of 1956 revolution. Reunited as adults, they struggle with whether they will stay in each others lives.
Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Gérard Lartigau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland | France | Italy
A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.
Director: David Lynch
Stars: Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA
A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. We are shown the mental tortures during the investigation and how a faithful top-ranking civil servant is made to confess to treason. Based on the true story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London.
Director: David Lean
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Director: Otakar Vávra
Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Yûko Ejima, Makiko Harada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A man comes to Tokyo searching for his son’s killer. He ventures into the deep underground of the city where he finds out that the untraceable killer is a mysterious revolutionary gang leader called Shinjuku Mad.
Director: Franklin Gollings
Stars: Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London.
Director: Akio Jissôji
Stars: Michiko Tsukasa, Ryô Tamura, Eiji Okada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | USA | West Germany
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Stars: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Eugene Friedman, Stanley Friedman, Robert Schwartz
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of health care.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal
Genre: Drama
Country: India
A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.
Director: Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman
Stars: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
An obese, embittered nurse doesn’t mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: Rosemarie Castoro, Ginger Michels, Marcia Steinbrecher
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A rhythmically edited alphabet composed of street and shop signs shot in New York City and other elements is gradually replaced by repeated seemingly abstract shots in this influential structuralist film.
Director: Tom Toelle
Stars: Jörg Pleva, Suzanne Roquette, Dieter Thomas Heck
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of twenty camera teams filming the hunt. The showmaster appeals to the TV-viewers to help either the candidate or the hunters, whomever they want.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood accomplice Franz Walsch, and pays a short visit to his mother and doting brother. When Ricky asks the hotel clerk for a girl, one of the cops sends his girlfriend Rosa. However, she falls for the killer.
Director: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Geri Miller
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
During the course of a day, a heroin addict overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool welfare by having his girlfriend fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.
Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
Stars: Vera Chytilová, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany | France
Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, ‘Pravda’ is a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual heterogeneous collage of images taken from real life, the film is structured in a sort of letter that a man writes to a woman called Rosa from Bulgaria and later from Czechoslovakia.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee
Genre: Drama
Country: India
A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
Director: Gilbert Cates
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Wilfried Klaus, Michael Woods
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany
Film about the doctors that fly all over central Africa to bring medical help to the people living in the bush.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Emilia Krakowska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930’s music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother’s problems and also becomes the lover of a simpleminded farm girl. The brother’s dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man who is to marry the farm girl.
Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | Yugoslavia
On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the Italian troops.
Director: John Waters
Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her, and descends into a life of murder and mayhem.
Director: Enzo Barboni
Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kazumi Tsutsui
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
An engineer’s wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Verna Bloom, Jay Cocks, Harvey Keitel
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
In the late Spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. A group of New York University film students documented the demonstrations as they happened in both cities. Later, in New York, the massive amount of black and white and color 16mm footage was edited into this important record of the day by day events.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Stars: Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he’s a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character.
Director: René Clément
Stars: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marlène Jobert
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Chieko Akaza, Etsuko Akaza, Tami Akaza
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan
A documentary film showcasing life in postwar Japan as seen through the eyes of a bar hostess.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Stars: Michael König, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the “Black Monk” in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The “Black Monk” suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kazuo Goto, Sukio Fukuoka, Kenichi Fukuda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A metaphysical mystery involving a university student’s camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
Director: Les Blank, Skip Gerson
Stars: Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Bizor, Mance Lipscomb
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA
A portrait of the great Texas bluesman, ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.
Director: Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA
Follows Martin Luther King’s life and decades long civil rights activism.
Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany
A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.
Director: Leonard J. Horn
Stars: Linda Gillen, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Norway | USA
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution
Director: Casper Wrede
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Norway | USA
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp.
Director: Kevin Billington
Stars: Ann Beach, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Peter Cook
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy | West Germany
An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder. He learns later that it’s connected to an ongoing murder spree in the city, and decides to do his own investigation, despite being personally targeted by the killer.
Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan | USA
In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy | France | Soviet Union | USA
An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.
Director: Jaromil Jires
Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Inspired by fairytales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood, is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.
Director: Michael Fengler, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He’s a dutiful husband; his wife’s a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He’s a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab’s wife’s expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK | USA
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Director: Jack Chambers
Stars: n/a
Genre: Mystery
Country: Canada
A surreal sequence of images of nature and London, Ontario, life and death.
Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Riccardo Billi, Federico Fellini, Gigi Reder
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: Italy | France | West Germany
A ragout of real memories and mockumentary, as Fellini explores a childhood obsession: circus clowns.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.