Tag: Priority 3

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

A meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Soviet Union

The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Sean Connery, Ryan O’Neal, Michael Caine
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA

Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Stars: Christo, Jeanne-Claude
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California. The artists’ struggle with local ranchers, environmentalists and state bureaucrats ends when the fence is unfurled, reuniting the community in a celebration of beauty.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna’s step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law of one of the widow’s admirers: a few years before, they had been idealistic lovers and now she can’t believe he has settled for a dim wife and a job as a teacher. Amidst parlor games and idle talk of women’s rights and peasants’ capabilities, Sofia and Misha rekindle their love. Will they flaunt convention, abandon families, and run away to pursue lost dreams? Rescue comes from an unexpected place.

Director: Anthony Page
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A disturbed, institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: William Friedkin
Stars: William Friedkin, Fritz Lang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Italy

Interview with the director of “M” & “Metropolis”.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Emile de Antonio
Stars: Philip Leider, Leo Castelli, Willem de Kooning
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970, showing many of the artists before they became famous.

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: 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: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Joe Don Baker
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A teenager must deal with his divorced father’s homosexuality.

Director: Bob Fosse
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Maria Brunner, Wolfgang Bächler, Ute Ellin
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.

Director: Arnold Perl
Stars: James Earl Jones, Ossie Davis, John Ali
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Director: Adrian Maben
Stars: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: Belgium | West Germany | France

Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Mademoiselle nobbs (Seamus, but with Rick’s dog on vocals). “Careful” and “Set the controls” are shot at night with minimal lighting, setting a beautiful mood. And the live Saucerful just has to be seen, with Waters jumping around in the sunlight banging the huge gong.

Director: Ian Emes
Stars: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd
Genre: Animation, Short, Music
Country: UK

During live performances, Pink Floyd back-projected a specially-commissioned, animated film by Ian Emes.

Director: Saul Swimmer
Stars: George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | USA

The first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise humanitarian relief funds for the refugees of Bangladesh of 1971 war.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Cesar is in love with Rosalie. But Rosalie isn’t making it easy for him, especially when her old flame enters the picture.

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.

Director: Bill Douglas
Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas’ influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-’40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape – he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars – and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Director: John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Stars: Fred Astaire, John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John’s historic ‘Imagine’ album and Yoko’s ‘Fly.’

Director: Charles B. Pierce
Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A documentary-style drama about the “Fouke Monster”, a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Pierre Arditi, Rita Forzano, Giuseppe Addobbati
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy | France

Blaise Pascal struggles to understand the natural world around him, in addition to an inner quest for religious faith.

Director: Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith
Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Sarah Kernochan
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the “church tent” Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and “the religion business”, prior to the start of “televangelism”.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, Christine Fabréga
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

A husband and wife in a loveless marriage struggle to remain ignorant to their failed relationship.

Director: Kenneth Anger
Stars: Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Donald Cammell
Genre: Short, Fantasy
Country: USA | UK | West Germany

Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer – in order to usher in a new occult age.

Director: Kihachiro Kawamoto
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Japan

Two brothers who live with their sick mother go deer hunting, but encounter a demon.

Director: Joseph Anthony
Stars: Robert Duvall, Olga Bellin, Sudie Bond
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

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

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

Director: Bert Haanstra
Stars: Bert Haanstra, Anton Koolhaas, Stephen Murray
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands

Documentary that explores the differences and similarities between human behavior and that of animals.

Director: Jane Arden
Stars: Sheila Allen, Jane Arden, Jack Bond
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Jane Arden’s surreal take on a group of females in a therapy session.

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms
Genre: Horror
Country: UK

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

Director: Fred Barzyk
Stars: ‘Cousin Brucie’ Morrow, Dortha Duckworth, William Hickey
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate- and more risky- second heist.

Director: Ringo Starr
Stars: Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr, Mickey Finn
Genre: Music
Country: UK

Documentary about T. Rex includes concert footage and staged sequences. Sir Ringo Starr’s directorial work is mindful of touches used on Magical Mystery Tour.

Director: Marguerite Duras
Stars: Lucia Bosè, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu
Genre: Drama
Country: France

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Stars: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

Director: Paul Newman
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for her life in the classified ads while all about her is the rubble of an unkempt house. All she needs is the right opportunity, she says puffing on a cigarette. Poorly equipped to survive the vagaries of modern life, she has nonetheless always managed to muddle through.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: West Germany | Austria

A goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.

Director: Howard Alk
Stars: Skip Andrew, Edward Carmody, James Davis
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuko Kaku, Atsuo Nakamura
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Tim Burton
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA

An adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story “The Island of Doctor Moreau.”

Director: Kira Muratova
Stars: Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Tatyana Mychko
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Sweden | USA

About the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Lewis Carroll’s poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Celia, Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.

Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Václav Borovicka
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia

A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision…

Director: Walon Green, Ed Spiegel
Stars: Lawrence Pressman, Conlan Carter, Ian McShane
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

“Punishment Park” is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews’s news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels’ progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released.

Director: Elaine May
Stars: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and – murder her.

Director: Ted Post
Stars: Bing Crosby, Frank Converse, Blythe Danner
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town’s kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admired since childhood. However, he soon finds out that the old doctor isn’t quite what he seems to be, and the young doctor finds his life in danger.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Stars: John Ford, Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A documentary on the life and films of director John Ford.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Danielle Durou, Alain Belart, Michel Piccoli
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | Spain

A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation.

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won’t have to marry a man she doesn’t love.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Judit Halász, András Bálint, Edit Kelemen
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Jancsi reminiscences about Kata his childhood friend in WWII Budapest, They are separated as a result of 1956 revolution. Reunited as adults, they struggle with whether they will stay in each others lives.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Gérard Lartigau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland | France | Italy

A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.

Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.

Director: David Greene
Stars: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Clare Sutcliffe
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK

A 14-year-old girl coming to terms with her sexuality, discovers that her adored older brother may be guilty of a series of bizarre sex crimes.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. We are shown the mental tortures during the investigation and how a faithful top-ranking civil servant is made to confess to treason. Based on the true story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London.

Director: David Lean
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

Director: Otakar Vávra
Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia

A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Yûko Ejima, Makiko Harada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A man comes to Tokyo searching for his son’s killer. He ventures into the deep underground of the city where he finds out that the untraceable killer is a mysterious revolutionary gang leader called Shinjuku Mad.

Director: Akio Jissôji
Stars: Michiko Tsukasa, Ryô Tamura, Eiji Okada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.

Director: Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman
Stars: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An obese, embittered nurse doesn’t mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.

Director: Tom Toelle
Stars: Jörg Pleva, Suzanne Roquette, Dieter Thomas Heck
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany

A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of twenty camera teams filming the hunt. The showmaster appeals to the TV-viewers to help either the candidate or the hunters, whomever they want.

Director: Roy Andersson
Stars: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden

Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.

Director: Gilbert Cates
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kazumi Tsutsui
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

An engineer’s wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Chieko Akaza, Etsuko Akaza, Tami Akaza
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

A documentary film showcasing life in postwar Japan as seen through the eyes of a bar hostess.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kazuo Goto, Sukio Fukuoka, Kenichi Fukuda
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student’s camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Peggy Lynch
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA

A woman’s dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Director: Norman Cohen
Stars: James Mason
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

A 45-minute trippy documentary of late 1960’s London and is a fascinating time capsule of the remnants of a bygone age before Londons’s extensive redevelopment in the late 1960’s.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

Director: Miguel Littin
Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Marcelo Romo
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile

The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son’s death.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Viva, James Rado, Gerome Ragni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | USA

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Japan

Two series of images, chaotically showcasing Japan in the ’60s, showing images of student riots, ads and pop culture.

Director: Pierre Étaix
Stars: Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

After fifteen years of average married life and stifling in-laws, a businessman undergoes a midlife crisis and pursues his attractive young secretary.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Mimi Kozakura, Michio Akiyama, Yôko Yamamoto
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

Director: Charles Jarrott
Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.

Director: Haskell Wexler
Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Drama
Country: France | West Germany

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris’s student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile’s subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters’ musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix – and how filmmaking is a path.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s’ students researching Osugi’s theories.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.

Director: Rogério Sganzerla
Stars: Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.

Director: Allan King
Stars: Billy Edwards, Antoinette Edwards, Bogart Edwards
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

An “actuality drama” about a real-life marriage in crisis, in which the couple attempts to identify and resolve the conflicts and resentments that have driven them to the brink of separation.

Director: Péter Bacsó
Stars: Ferenc Kállai, Lajos Öze, Béla Both
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hungary

Banned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary, Péter Bacsó’s ‘The Witness’ has since then achieved unparalleled cult status in its native land. Known as the best satire about communism, ‘The Witness’ has become a cult classic, which was also well received by critics and general audiences alike when it was finally released outside of Hungary.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Yôko Mutô, Rokkô Toura
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother – a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India

Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi
Genre: Horror
Country: UK

Devil worshipers plan to convert two new victims.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Jirí Hálek, Ludek Kopriva, Míla Myslíková
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

Josef shows his friend Frank his garden and his rabbits. Frank is most interested in the unsettling fact that Josef’s garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.

Director: Susumu Hani
Stars: Haruo Asanu, Kazuko Fukuda, Kuniko Ishii
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK | USA

1183 A.D.: King Henry II’s three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won’t commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kei Satô, Do-yun Yu, Fumio Watanabe
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Italy

When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.

Director: Tokuzô Tanaka
Stars: Shiho Fujimura, Akira Ishihama, Machiko Hasegawa
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Japan

The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm.

Director: Paul Newman
Stars: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Ivan Kraus, Juraj Herz
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

Director: Richard Rush
Stars: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A deaf runaway arrives in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury hippie district looking for her missing brother.

Director: Brian G. Hutton
Stars: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK

Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that’s not all that’s really going on.

Director: Michael Reeves
Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror
Country: UK | USA

A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle.

Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, “The Informer.”

Director: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
Stars: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | Italy

Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen.

Director: Jack Kaufman
Stars: Richard Basehart, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Erich Kempka
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” exposes the darkest chapter in history, from Adolf Hitler’s rise to power as a Nazi demagogue to his ultimate fatal mistakes. Researchers spent decades uncovering shocking footage of war, carnage and genocide and examined government documents and interviews with Hitler’s closest associates to discover how one man led his nation and the world into hell.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Jean Renoir, Henri Langlois, Éric Rohmer
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France | USA

A short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Director: Jack Clayton
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere, Pamela Franklin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears…

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Juro Kara, Keiko Koyanagi, Miki Hayashi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A young man breaks into a nurse’s rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

In Nazi-occupied France, a Jewish child is sent away from his family and conceals his religious affiliation from the anti-Semitic elderly man that takes care of him.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia

An eight-part portrait of animal species in the different biological classes, accompanied by a different style of music. Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.

Director: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Don Murray, Inger Stevens, Barry Nelson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn’t want to give them up so easily.

Director: Peter Brook
Stars: Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK

In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat’s last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.

Director: Larry Peerce
Stars: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic
Stars: Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Dusica Zegarac, Severin Bijelic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

A lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister’s treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkô Toura, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Brigid Berlin, Julian Burrough, Taylor Mead
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of the “nude” patrons leave the establishment, their places taken by new customers, also nearly in the buff.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Italy | Yugoslavia

In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he’s drafted into the S.S.

Director: Allan King
Stars: Martin Fischer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Chronicles 7-weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and their therapist’s experimental method of treatment at the Toronto-area Warrendale facility.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsukô Kusabue
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Black gay prostitute Jason Holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character, revealing nuanced truths about life and art.

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Mario David
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Neurotic businessman must find the right man for his pregnant daughter. In fact, it is little bit complicated.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone
Genre: Western
Country: USA

John Russell, disdained by his “respectable” fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Jean Varda, Tom Luddy, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA | France

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: Edith Evans, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Elderly Mrs. Ross lives alone in her meager flat, scraping by on government assistance even as she claims to have great wealth. After finding stolen money she is victimized, making it necessary to find her support in her declining years.

Director: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK | France

In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.

Director: Robert Mulligan
Stars: Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

Director: King Hu
Stars: Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan | Hong Kong

When the children of an executed General are pursued in 1457 China, some heroic martial arts swordsmen intervene.

Director: Kostas Manoussakis
Stars: Elli Fotiou, Anestis Vlahos, Spyros Fokas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at the expense of his devoted second wife. Meanwhile, his son the pervert becomes fascinated with the family’s maid, a deaf-mute. The son’s stepsister returns from college in hopes that she can marry the young engineer she fancies. Unfortunately her father hates the boy. Real trouble ensues when the perverted son sees his stepsister and the engineer make love.

Director: Peter Whitehead
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

Two days in the life of the Rolling Stones during their tour of Ireland in 1965.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen
Genre: Drama
Country: India

En route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams and past experiences.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France

At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates, Basini, who has been caught stealing money from one of the two. The two decide that rather than turn Basini in to the school authorities, they will punish him themselves and proceed to torture, degrade, and humiliate the boy, with ever-increasing sadistic delight.

Director: Petr Schulhoff
Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirí Pleskot
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives are not so clear. Two criminologists from Prague – Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) – patiently collect all available leads and question the villagers.

Director: Jonathan Miller
Stars: Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK

A girl named Alice (Anne-Marie Mallik) falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Director: Robert Precht
Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | USA

Documentary film of The Beatles classic August 15, 1965 New York concert.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Kei Satô
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they’re deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France

In the near future, leftist writer Paula goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. Is she there to investigate? On the surface, faces are beautiful, colors bright, clothes trendy. Beneath, little is clear: some talk to Paula as if she’s Alice in Wonderland, corpses pile up, and ideological struggles insert themselves. A murder victim’s nephew and a political party’s hired hands hover around Paula. Is obscuring things her goal or is it life that’s obscure?

Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Avril Angers
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.

Director: Otar Iosseliani
Stars: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Gogi Kharabadze, Marina Kartsivadze
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain | USA

Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent murder in a small town along the way. What begins as a vacation ends as a meditation on tragedy and infidelity.

Director: Alex Segal
Stars: Stanley Adams, Edward Andrews, Lee J. Cobb
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An abridged award-winning television adaptation of a famous play about an aging travelling salesman who’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His job is gone, and his family hates him for never being there. He tries mending things with them.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

An unrepentant ladies’ man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tamotsu Hayakawa
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.

Director: Pierre Étaix
Stars: Pierre Étaix, Denise Péronne, Simone Fonder
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

The director’s cut (restored version) opens and closes with theatrical curtains in homage to Georges Méliés films, and is divided into four parts, separated by title cards.

Director: Mikio Naruse
Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Mitsukô Kusabue
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend’s flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn’t feel well. What’s come over him?

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.

Director: Philippe de Broca
Stars: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Marc Dudicourt
Genre: Drama, Comedy, War
Country: France | Italy

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Director: Antony Balch
Stars: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin
Genre: Short
Country: UK

The savage deconstruction of the relationship between image and reality.

Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Gérard Zimmermann, Henri Martinez
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who’s addicted to morphine.

Director: René Laloux
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: France

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: John Cale, Gerard Malanga, Sterling Morrison
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

“A Symphony of Sound” – depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground and Nico at the Factory, 231 East 47th St., (loft on 4th floor), New York City. It is essentially a one long loose improvisation including some private conversations and a brief visit from the NYPD.

Director: Leon Hirszman
Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Gracindo, Ivan Cândido
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Woman who is obsessed with death wants a first-class burial for herself, and even buys a luxury coffin beforehand.

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Stars: Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Stars: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.

Director: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider
Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one ‘shhh!’) in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley’s principle ‘esse est percipi’ (to be is to be perceived), Keaton’s very existence conspires against his efforts.

Director: Robert Hossein
Stars: Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Roger Dutoit
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | Spain

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.

Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Hiroko Fujino, Kazuko Kanô, Aya Mine
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Japan, 1960. In a housing complex, a young introverted student observes his neighbors through a telescope. The voyeurism of a young man isolated and gloomy, will cause an explosion of madness.

Director: Jim Henson
Stars: Jim Henson, Enid Cafritz, Dennis Paget
Genre: Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA

A surreal stream of consciousness montage about time and related bizarreness.

Director: Guy Green
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Italy | France

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Director: Jirí Trnka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia

A delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand’s obstinate demands stop?

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Stars: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he’s an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Director: Mikhail Romm
Stars: Mikhail Romm, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: Soviet Union

A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society..

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India

A chance meeting rekindles old memories between a screenwriter and his ex-girlfriend, who is by now married to a well-to-do man.

Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Diego Puente, Tino Pascali, Cacho Espíndola
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

An indictment of a fascist regime running roughshod over its most vulnerable citizens, its children.

Director: Otto Preminger
Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Director: Arunas Zebriunas
Stars: Lina Braknyte, Valeriy Zubarev, Bronius Babkauskas
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

Movie about a friendship of two children – a girl and a boy during the last day of summer holiday

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Miki Irie, Teruko Hasegawa, Yoko Matsushita
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Japan

Follows Ako, a 16 year old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.

Director: Saul J. Turell
Stars: Carl King, Agnes Ayres, Theda Bara
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses’ portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present.

Director: Andy Warhol
Stars: Edie Sedgwick
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA

During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral, but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that relationship, especially after young driver gets involved.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

British Agent Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Director: Cy Endfield
Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke’s Drift.

Director: Walter Hugo Khouri
Stars: Norma Bengell, Odete Lara, Mário Benvenutti
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, uncovering their anguish and deeper feelings, and the emptiness of their lives.

Director: Arthur Lipsett
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Arthur Lipsett

Snippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot, Achille Majeroni
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her.It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The rich man Domenico and Filumena, a penniless prostitute, share great part of their lives in the immediate post WWII Italy.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.

Director: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: France | Italy | USA

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

Director: Michael Roemer
Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Director: Paul Henreid
Stars: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex: he asks children where babies come from, young and old women if they are men’s equals, men and women if a woman’s virginity matters, how they view homosexuals, how sex and honor connect, if divorce should be legal, and if they support closing the brothels (the Merlina Act).

Director: Osamu Tezuka
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Japan