1971-1980

  • Doris Wishman – Love Toy (1971)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980CultExploitationUSA

    Synopsis:
    A degenerate gambler, unable to come up with the cash necessary for a high stakes gin rummy game, bets his nubile daughter. And loses. His daughter immediately becomes the delectable property of a hot-to-trot sex fiend and the film promptly becomes a catalog of perversion, wallowing in domination, humiliation, fetishism, voyeurism, masturbation, lesbianism, spanking, bondage, blowjobs, incest, and more.Read More »

  • Benoît Jacquot – L’assassin musicien AKA The Musician Killer (1975)

    Benoît Jacquot1971-1980ArthouseDramaFrance

    After the conductor of the orchestra he has been playing in commits suicide, a young clarinettist is left with a quite valuable violin.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – Keyholes Are for Peeping (1972)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980CultExploitationUSA

    Synopsis:
    Keyholes Are For Peeping is a film featuring the forgotten comedian Sammy Petrillo. He plays a Momma’s boy who just received a certificate from some fly-by-night school that has made him a certified marriage counselor. So, he helps people in his building with their marriages. He also has a girlfriend who wants to marry and his mother (also played by Petrillo, looking Jamie Farr-ish) wants to re-marry.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – Let Me Die a Woman (1977)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980DocumentaryExploitationUSA

    A documentary on the work of sex-change specialist Dr.Leo Wollman, including interviews with Dr.Wollman and a few of his patients, with an illustrated lecture on the various aspects of transsexuality plus actual footage of a sex-change operation, which is what gives the film its notoriety.Read More »

  • Mario O’Hara – Tatlong taong walang Diyos AKA Three Godless Years (1976)

    1971-1980DramaMario O'HaraPhilippines

    Set during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines between 1942 and 1944. Rosario (Nora Aunor), a young schoolteacher, is engaged to be married to Crispin (Bembol Roco). Crispin leaves Rosario to fight the Japanese as a guerilla, and in his absence a Japanese-Filipino officer named Masugi (Christopher de Leon) rapes her. Masugi later returns to Rosario apologizing for his act, bearing gifts of canned food and rice which Rosario at first refuses. Matters are complicated when Rosario’s father Mang Andoy (Mario Escudero) is arrested by the Japanese and Rosario reveals to Masugi that she is pregnant. Rosario must make a choice: accept Masugi’s proposal to make her his wife (saving her father and ensuring a safe and stable life for her child), or reject him and with him the baby they have conceived together.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – Double Agent 73 (1974)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980CultExploitationUSA

    Synopsis:
    Underworld drug king Toplar is flooding the market with low-grade heroin. Agent 99 gets a bit too close to the truth, but manages to gasp out a clue as to the identity of Toplar: he has a scar. Jane (Agent 73) is called in to find Toplar, and gets a camera implanted in her breast in order to photograph the bad guys she dispatches so headquarters will be able to identify Toplar when she finds him. Meanwhile she begins falling in love with fellow agent Jim.Read More »

  • Reinhard Hauff – Endstation Freiheit AKA Slow Attack (1980)

    Reinhard Hauff1971-1980DramaGermany

    Quote:
    Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal–who has never seen him–and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik seeks contact with the literary culture, although he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – Deadly Weapons (1974)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980CultExploitationUSA
    Deadly Weapons (1974)
    Deadly Weapons (1974)

    Synopsis:
    After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he’s a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. She goes after them using the only two weapons she has.Read More »

  • Gyula Maár – Teketória AKA Entanglement (1977)

    Gyula Maár1971-1980DramaHungary

    Teréz (Mari Törőcsik) has hit 40 and after her divorce she feels life to be empty and void of purpose. Although those around her do everything they can to help through these difficult times, she slips further into lethargy. This film by Gyula Maár is outstanding for accurately registering the tiniest of spiritual flickers, building on the acting sensibilities of Törőcsik and the incandescent intensity of Lajos Koltai’s camerawork.Read More »

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