Tag: 1971

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: Frank Albetta, Barbara DiBenedetto
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A man and woman in conversation, arguing till roistering and we see gestures and words that are repeated with rough technique.

Director: Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl
Stars: Norman Baker, Roscoe Lee Browne, Abdullah Dilbrine
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | Norway

Documentary of the Ra expedition organized by Thor Heyerdahl, which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat in 1969 and 1970.

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

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.

Director: Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb
Stars: Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary focusing on great white sharks.

Director: Shûji Terayama
Stars: Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Yukiko Kobayashi
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio’s “Decameron”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Michael Snow
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

One of the best and most influential in avant-garde cinema, an experiment from Michael Snow for 24 hours, using the robotic arm Michael Snow program all robotic movements so as not to be able to move the same twice, so there are differences in every motion camera.

Director: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman
Stars: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.