Synopsis:
“A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl – what could go wrong? Almost everything.”
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Julien Duvivier – Chair de poule AKA Highway Pick-Up (1963)
1961-1970Film NoirFranceJulien DuvivierThriller -
Wolfgang Petersen – Einer von uns beiden AKA One or the Other (1974)
1971-1980GermanyPoliticsThrillerWolfgang PetersenSynopsis: Based on a crime novel by Horst Bosetzky (-ky) this is one of Wolfgang Petersen’s first cinema productions. The student Bernd Ziegenhals discovers that one of the professors at university has faked his doctoral thesis and blackmails him. The plot is thrilling because the professor does not stay passive, he tries to get rid of Ziegenhals. Who of them will survive at the end?Read More »
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Don Carmody – The Surrogate (1984)
Drama1981-1990Don CarmodyThrillerUSA

Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions between them. Meanwhile, the police are baffled by a string of brutal nightly killings.Read More »
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Tom Gries – Breakout (1975)
1971-1980ActionThrillerTom GriesUSAThe star-director team of Charles Bronson and Tom Gries (Breakheart Pass) combine their efforts again on Breakout. Bronson plays Nick Colton, a reckless pilot who heads to an unnamed South American country, in hopes of rescuing imprisoned Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall). Villain Harris Wagner (John Huston), who has framed Jay, has an unlimited supply of henchmen at his disposal, but they’re no match for the dauntless Colton. Jill Ireland, Bronson’s real-life wife, costars as Duvall’s missus.Read More »
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Michael Winner – The Mechanic (1972)
1971-1980ActionMichael WinnerThrillerUSA

A professional hit man is planning to retire, always a difficult move for one in such a profession. A young apprentice appears to be eager to learn all the skills of the trade – but is that all he wants?Read More »
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Herb Wallerstein – Snowbeast (1977)
1971-1980Herb WallersteinHorrorThrillerUSAIn this made for TV film, an enormous and angry bigfoot creature begins to terrorize a Colorado Ski Resort during a winter carnival, by eating several skiers. At first everyone insists it is just a bear, until ski patrolman Tony Rill (Robert Logan) sees a white shadowy beastly shape disappearing into the woods. Although Tony’s grandmother Mrs. Carrie Rill (Syliva Sidney), who owns the Ski Resort and the town sheriff, Sheriff Paraday (Clint Walker) disagree, it soon becomes clear when the creature finally attacks the town.Read More »
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Robert Butler – Mayday at 40,000 Feet! (1976)
1971-1980AdventureRobert ButlerThrillerUSA

Plot:
Blinding snow threatens to send a jetliner hurtling toward doom. But Captain Pete Douglass (David Janssen, TV’s The Fugitive) has more than a snowstorm to battle when an armed madman turns the fuselage into a shooting gallery and his fellow passengers into clay pigeons. Made in the era of Airport, The Towering Inferno and more epics of disaster, Mayday at 40,000 Feet! is piloted by three-time Emmy-winning director Robert Butler. Butler isn’t the only award recipient aboard the project: Best Actor Oscar winners** Ray Milland and Broderick Crawford are among those flying straight into peril. From Warner Brothers!Read More » -
Armando Bo – Animal (2018)
2011-2020ArgentinaArmando BoDramaThriller

Antonio Decoud is a conservative family man who is forced by destiny to face an unexpected situation that shakes him to the core, scrambling up his life and his priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and his way of understanding life and follow the most basic instinct: the animal instinct.Read More »
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Mario Bava – Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga AKA Baron Blood (1972)
1971-1980HorrorItalyMario BavaThrillerAmerican student Peter Kliest travels to Austria to find out about his great-grandfather, the infamous Baron Otto Von Kliest, who tortured and murdered over a hundred people before being cursed by a witch and himself being tortured to death. He finds an incantation which, if read after midnight, can supposedly bring the Baron back to life, and with Eve, a woman who works at the Baron’s castle, he goes to the castle and recites it. Realising what they have done, they try to recant the incantation using an alternative spell but a wind blows it into the fireplace. The Baron, who is hideously disfigured, is now loose to torture and kill again. The following day at an auction, a mysterious wheelchair-billionaire called Alfred Becker buys the whole castle and sets about restoring it…Read More »




