Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier, Jean Babilée
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Bernadette Lafont, Kika Markham
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
On an island beach a woman vows to avenge her brother’s death at the hands of a pirate leader. With help, the woman spies on the pirates and then gets a job as bodyguard to the pirate leader.
Director: Lino Brocka
Stars: Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Rez Cortez
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
The life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother’s young boyfriend moves in with them.
Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
On his deathbed, Carmine Vespucci’s mobster father tells him to “get Proclo” – Carmine’s brother-in-law Gaetano. With “the hit” on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can’t find him. He arrives at The Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued amorously by “chubby chaser” Claude and by entertainer Googie Gomez, who believes him to be a Broadway producer. His guides and protectors through The Ritz are gatekeeper Abe, habitue Chris, and bellhop/go-go boys Tiger and Duff. Squeaky-voiced detective Michael Brick and his employer Carmine do locate Gaetano at the Ritz, as does his wife Vivian, but family secrets come out.
Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy
In Nazi-occupied Paris, the immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr Klein clear his name?
Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansings.
Director: Zoltán Fábri
Stars: Lajos Öze, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner,when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
Director: Don Siegel
Stars: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
Director: Tom Gries
Stars: George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
The investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson.
Director: Jorge Fons
Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Jaime Fernández, José Alonso
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
A watchman is murdered in a building site. The movie narrates the several versions of implicates. Based in the Vicente Leñero’s novel.
Director: Jacques Drouin
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Canada
An artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait | Morocco | UK | Saudi Arabia | Egypt
This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is to be built, his wife used to be a Party activist there, and he has unpleasant memories of it. But he sets to the task in the belief that he will build a place where people will live and work well. His intentions and convictions, however, conflict with those of the townspeople who are primarily concerned with their short-term needs. Disillusioned, Bednarz gives up his post.
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait | Morocco | UK | Saudi Arabia | Egypt
This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Peter Beard, Ed Emshwiller, Ken Jacobs
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Artist-writer-poet-filmmaker Jonas Mekas documents his early years building a life and discovering an arts community in New York.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his mistresses and relying on the life savings of a woman from the country who is fanatically devoted to him. He also has to contend with his long-suffering wife, his fly-obsessed crazy brother, his other mistress and a police murder investigation.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: John Hargreaves, Pat Bishop, Graham Kennedy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Don is a schoolteacher living with his wife Kath and baby son in suburban Melbourne. On the night of the 1969 federal election he invites a small group of friends to celebrate a predicted Australian Labor Party (ALP) election victory, much to the dismay of his wife. To the party come Mal, Don’s university mentor, and his bitter wife Jenny, sex-obsessed Cooley and his latest girlfriend, nineteen-year-old Susan, Evan, a dentist, and his beautiful artist wife Kerry. Somehow, two Liberal supporters, Simon and Jody also come. As the party wears on it becomes clear that the Labor party, which is supported by Don and most of the guests, is not winning. As a result, alcohol consumption increases, and the sniping between Don and his male friends about their failed aspirations gets uglier, as does their behavior toward the women.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Lucien Bossy, Leance Debrossian, Marcelle Debrossian
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | West Germany
Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Peter Falk, Jill Clayburgh, John Lehne
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn’t know that, and she doesn’t know that he is terminally ill. They start spending time together and fall in love, both struggling with their fate. This is the beginning of a beautiful and sad love story!
Director: Les Blank
Stars: Ramiro Cavazos, Los Alegres De Teran, Los Pinguinos del Norte
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
“Chulas Fronteras” is a documentary about the music of the Mexican community on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, particularly of migrant farmers. It includes material about the roots of the music, but devotes principal attention to the music as a form of social protest against oppression and racism.
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Rome, 1880. Gregorio has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo, Mario and daughter Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But newly married Irene, Pippo’s wife, a beautiful, calculating and ambitious young woman, wants to take over the inheritance. Acting on intelligence, weighing every step and its consequences, she manages to convince the brothers that they must prevent at all costs that his father falls in love again to avoid the risk of losing their inheritance.
Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Soviet Union
A vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Elena Solovey, Rodion Nahapetov, Aleksandr Kalyagin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She’s in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film’s cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he’s a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centered life.
Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
When a police inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of police misconduct and a possible revenge motive.
Director: Hal Ashby
Stars: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.
Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Italy | France
A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Matthias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta, Rüdiger Kirschstein
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | West Germany
A countess’ unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
Director: Bruno Bozzetto
Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Maurizio Micheli, Marialuisa Giovannini
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he’s come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named “Prisney” (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he’s kept locked in a dungeon. Several different classical pieces are animated, while the animator plots his escape.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Hashem Arkan, Mohammad Fassih, Reza Hashemi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister’s wedding. The tailor’s apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Koji Ishizaka, Yôko Shimada, Teruhiko Aoi
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
After the death of the Father , His family are gathered to share Inheritances , but suddenly a woman with a mysterious masked man arrive there , claiming to be the other wife of the man.
Director: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Fred Schepisi’s film, ‘The Devil’s Playground’ is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany | France
Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family’s county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of “Chinese roulette”.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Ernest Maftei, Gheorghe Dinica
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
Director: Marcel Ophüls
Stars: Yehudi Menuhin, Noël Favrelières, Anthony Herbert
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK | West Germany | USA | France
Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.
Director: Glenn Jordan
Stars: Jack Klugman, Elizabeth Ashley, James Franciscus
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Daniel Corban’s wife Elizabeth disappeared after they had a fight. Then she shows up, yet he insists that the woman isn’t actually his wife.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: French | English
During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Stars: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Michel Marot, Anne-Marie Miéville
Genre: Drama
Country: France
A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film.
Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Faye Dunaway, Bette Davis, James Sloyan
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she was off carrying on an affair with a married man. This movie dramatizes the court hearing held to determine exactly what happened.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, Alexander Allerson
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a house. Instead of offering their flat to him and his bride, they give the flat up, so he goes to Munich to work in construction, bringing his wife who is soon pregnant. They buy things on credit; he works overtime. He shows up with flowers and expensive gifts. When construction slows and he works less overtime, he cannot adjust his spending habits: he needs to be loved. Pressures mount. When he snaps, and violence ensues, who will be his victim?
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.
Director: Joy N. Houck Jr.
Stars: Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.
Director: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA
An experimental short film from the Gates of Death series made by Hollis Frampton.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Steve Liptay, Scott McKain
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: West Germany
Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: France
Godard, Miéville and Gorin (aka the “Dziga Vertov Group”) examine the parallel lives of two families – one French, one Palestinian – using an exploratory combination of film and video.
Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Miou-Miou
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France
The European equivalent of “The Return of the Secaucus 7,” this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the “revolutionary” sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.
Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.
Director: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot
Stars: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | USA
A documentary of a Led Zeppelin tour mixed with live concert footage, a unique fantasy, and interviews with those involved with the band.
Director: Nicolas Gessner
Stars: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA | Canada | France
13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany | France
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous “Ruby Glass.”
Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Ana Torrent, Conchita Pérez, Mayte Sanchez
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
In the twilight of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Will they summon up the courage to grow up?
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | France | West Germany
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.