Tag: 1974

Director: Herbert Wise
Stars: Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Angharad Rees
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | USA

The story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.

Director: Jacques Doillon
Stars: Christophe Soto, Olivier Bousquet, Roselyne Vuillaume
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Baker’s apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul’s party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, Jô Shishido
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Director: Franco Brusati
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Paolo Turco
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

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

After the doctor’s refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them.

Director: Kei Kumai
Stars: Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy

A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.

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: 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: 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.