Director: George Cukor
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
An aging actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover, and is still in love with her, although she doesn’t know it. She realizes that the only way to win this case and protect her assets is to destroy her reputation.
Director: Serge Leroy
Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Michael Lonsdale
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
A young tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | West Germany
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of ‘Richard III’ and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.
Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage – a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford – but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Mossad agents kidnap an American Jewish man, accuse him of being a fugitive Nazi war criminal and take him to Jerusalem to face trial for genocide.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Pradip Mukherjee, Rafique Ahmed, S. Bagchi
Genre: Drama
Country: India
A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.
Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, François Maistre
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | West Germany
Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore prime suspect. Where is Louis’ body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?
Director: Dick Richards
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub.
Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Juan José Camero, Marina Magali, Alfredo Alcón
Genre: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is relieved when this doesn’t happen. The boy grows up and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Griselda. When he’s 20 years old, he is visited by the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he will turn his back on his love for Griselda, and if he fails to do this, he will become a wolf.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Brooke Adams, Donna Mills, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
In Los Angeles in 1947, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was dumped in a lot after being bisected with surgical precision. The detective interviews people who knew Short, who was called “The Black Dahlia” because of the black outfits she wore.
Director: Stuart Cooper
Stars: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.
Director: Donald Wrye
Stars: Arthur Hill, Jane Alexander, Robby Benson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
Director: Harry Winer
Stars: Ivan Marx, Peggy Marx, Yukon Frida
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A documentary about the legendary creature, Bigfoot, with emphasis on him being the missing link.
Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France | West Germany
During World War II, a peaceful French surgeon is forced to ruthlessly exterminate the Nazis because of their atrocities.
Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA
In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.
Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Lee Remick, Richard Crenna, Don Murray
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.
Director: Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt
Stars: James Whitmore
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every free moment together organizing complex and terrible jokes to all the people they meet, or just wandering around Tuscany. One of these crazy trips ends up in the hospital run by military-like Professor Sassaroli. Melandri falls in love with his wife, and steals her from the husband, much to the delight of Sassaroli himself. The relationship won’t last but the Professor becomes the fifth member of the team of friends, and jokes get even more complicated and powerful.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK
A short comedy animation about human endeavors in flight.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law Lore are openly hostile to her. She resorts to valium and drink, and looks for sympathy, but to no avail.
Director: Robert Young
Stars: Connie Booth, John Cleese, Graham Crowden
Genre: Short, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Director: Michael Schultz
Stars: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
In 1964 on Chicago’s Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Juliusz Machulski, Irena Lorentowicz, Wlodzimierz Borunski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist, named Siedlecki, who does not like the final result and takes his problems on Sowa and Romek who defends him.
Director: Lino Brocka
Stars: Hilda Koronel, Bembol Roco, Lou Salvador Jr.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Philippines
Júlio Madiaga, a ‘provinciano’, arrives in Manila to search for Ligaya, his loved one.
Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: France | Italy
Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.
Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and it’s effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Caroline Baudry, Catherine, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France
What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda’s camera.
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela | France | Cuba
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Director: Jacques Deray
Stars: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy
This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective Borniche by repeatedly killing his informants. When he’s finally caught with help from the little criminal Paul, Buisson will have committed more than 100 robberies and killed 30 people.
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | West Germany
To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family’s unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.
Director: John Douglas, Robert Kramer
Stars: Mary Chapelle, Sharon Krebs, Jim Nolfi
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
“A many-faceted portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It cuts back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters, and across a vast landscape, to explore the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left who faced both personal and hhistorical transitions in the period following the Vietnam War.”
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Raised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel.
Director: Sam O’Steen
Stars: Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, Michael Brandon
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A lonely widow and a postman find romance late in life at the local dance hall.
Director: Jack Gold
Stars: John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.
Director: Michael Ritchie
Stars: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
It’s time again for California’s “Young American Miss” beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob’s son is up to some mischief. Could this year’s pageant be in jeopardy?
Director: Jean Cocteau
Stars: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Francine Weisweiller
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France
Short about Mrs. Weisweiller’s Villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferat, on Côte d’Azur, which was decorated by Jean Cocteau.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
Director: Yves Boisset
Stars: Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, Jean Bouise
Genre: Drama
Country: France
As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou’s campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest… A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman’s racism.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money together to build a factory. The movie follows their ruthless pursuit of fortune.
Director: James F. Collier
Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O’Connell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland
A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Maja Komorowska, Piotr Fronczewski, Marek Piwowski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won’t be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It’s only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start.
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Marthe Keller
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies’man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager’s wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor’s wife.
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: James Whitmore, Sam Elliott, Ned Romero
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
In a period when many thought that “the only good Indian is a dead Indian,” Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce won the admiration of the American public.
Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Experimental
Country: USA
An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films the female form during various activities.
Director: Bob Godfrey
Stars: Richard Briers, Harry Fowler, Barbara Moore
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short
Country: UK
An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century – including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the world’s largest steamship). Various styles of animation are used to depict events in his colorful life.
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Stars: Leonard Buschel, Elsie Downey, Michael Sullivan
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
An experimental, ludicrous, plotless, absurd, surreal comedy. It is seemingly intentionally impossible to understand. It leaps from scene to scene, world to world, with recurring names and actors being the only things that hold it together. Very much like sketch comedy, except without much of a point. The movie literally goes from “Moment To Moment”, with no actual narrative in mind rather than to just film a bunch of miscellaneous scenes and ideas and cut them together. Make of it what you will.
Director: Thom Andersen, Fay Andersen, Morgan Fisher
Stars: Dean Stockwell, Eadweard Muybridge
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
A documentary film about the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Takako Irie, Daisuke Itô, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Japan
A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi.
Director: José Quintero, Gordon Rigsby
Stars: Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Ed Flanders
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In Connecticut in September 1923, the lives of three people collide: Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil Hogan, and James Tyrone, Jr., Hogan’s landlord and drinking companion, a cynical alcoholic haunted by the death of his mother.
Director: William Friedkin
Stars: William Friedkin, Fritz Lang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Italy
Interview with the director of “M” & “Metropolis”.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young, Michael Constantine
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles’s radio play “The War of the Worlds” accidentally provokes mass panic.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Ned Beatty, John Beck, Billy Green Bush
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Shima Iwashita, Hiroko Isayama
Genre: Fantasy, History, Horror
Country: Japan
A mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating soviet troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
Stars: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
A young woman’s life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | West Germany
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Director: Dario Argento
Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ulrik Cold, Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Sweden
A production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” is presented, this film which blurs the lines of it as a stage production – not only with aspects of the theater stage shown, but also the occasional shot of the audience members watching it, and the performers going through their backstage routines during intermission – and a movie as the set moves out from the confines of the stage.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Senegal
A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey, Alexandre Rignault
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: France
An analysis of the power relations in an ordinary family.
Director: Ramesh Sippy
Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: India
After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.