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: 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: 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: 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.