1971-1980

Synopsis
Executive Rick Engels picks up beautiful young hitchhikers Carol and Judy and takes them back to his swanky mansion for illicit carnal purposes. However, the two lovely lasses prove to be a lot more than he can easily handle.Read More »

Ana, who works on the Committee for the release of some suspected terrorists sentenced to death, suffers a faint. Her uncle Norman, a former doctor who was withdrawn from the drug smuggling license, offers her a remedy that could cure her brain disease, but warns Ana that it can also have consequences: it produces such a dis-inhibition that the patient lies beyond good and evil, ethics and convictions.Read More »

Young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months and bunks with other convicts, specifically quiet cocky bully Rocky. Eventually Rocky offers protection to Smitty for a price and Smitty becomes a most reluctant sexual slave.Read More »

Philippe is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed. They have no children. As he is preparing to go on a vacation to the seaside, he strikes up an acquaintance with Paul, a young working-class boy, and decides to bring him along. This is Paul’s first glimpse of how the other half lives, with their first-class hotels and so on. When he meets some aristocratic young people at the resort, he tries to put over the fiction that he is of their class, with poor success.

The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.Read More »

Quote:
Marcel Martin, International Critics Week (Cannes 1974):
This is the most perfectly Brechtian film to come along in some time. This qualification, unfortunately too often used up, is here in evidence in the treatment of the image and the sound (use of intertitles and of off- screen voice) as well as in the conception of the entire work. The Death of the Flea Circus Director is a kind of political fable.Read More »

A man who lost an arm and his family to a tribe of cannibals returns ten years later to bring back his teenager daughter, only to find that she grew up into a beautiful blonde woman who became the cannibals’ queen.Read More »

A woman is persecuted by Jesus freaks after they’ve crucified her preacher husband.Read More »

A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.Read More »

Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth birthday because his father has told him the story of Icarus, and promised to take him on a sightseeing flight. When Matthias’ father doesn’t come home, he is devastated. He runs throughout the city, talks to his friend about the relationships of adults, looks for his father at his desk, and gets himself into conflict with the police. As he sits alone on the roof of a house, he comes to the conclusion that Icarus didn’t plummet to the earth because he didn’t listen to his father, but rather because his father had forgotten him.Read More »