1960s

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.Read More »

IMDB:
“O salto” means the leap, more precisely the big leap Potuguese illegal emigrants have to make when they decide to leave their native land. They do it because they cannot put up with poverty any longer or because they want to escape the dictatorship that is rife at home or else to avoid military service and its corollary, colonialist wars in Africa. “O salto” documents the difficult journey of one of these candidates for emigration, Antonio, a serious carpenter, complete from his living place to the Spanish border and its unwelcoming “Guardia Civil” to his walk through the Pyrenees to his his final journey to Paris, by truck, by taxi and by train. It also relates the difficult living and working conditions Antonio experiences once in Paris, softened by the solidarity of his Portuguese brothers.Read More »

This early Radley Metzger film follows a day in the lives of two “working girls”, one in Paris and one in Germany, and their odd assortment of clients and adventures. Directed with panache and taste, it shows Metzger’s emerging talent well before he hit his stride and developed a remarkable personal style with “Carmen, Baby” and “Camille 2000”. The episodic structure and omniscient narrator betray the film’s “Nudie Cutie” influences, while the visual flair, high-class settings, jazz score and eliptic dialogue reveal an affinity with the erotic Euro-stylings of Pecas et al.Read More »

When two women – both named Maria – accidentally invent the striptease circa 1910 they become such a hit that enthusiastic audiences strip along with them! But when one of the Marias falls for a handsome revolutionary she finds that she has unwittingly embroiled the two of them in an armed peasant revolt!Read More »

Derek Winnert:
The perfect crime goes astray- like it always does in the movies – in director Cliff Owen’s 1961 realist British noir thriller starring Stanley Baker as Turpin, a dismissed army captain who plots revenge on the army by planning a heist of their payroll cash.

A young Tom Bell and Helmut Schmid co-star as Fenner and Swavek, Baker’s recruits to his scam. Rodney Bewes (27 November 1937 – 21 November 2017) plays Private Maynard in his feature-film debut and it is also the feature-film debut of Glynn Edwards (as breakdown truck crewman).Read More »

“Meet Fat Mamma, a 400-pound madame in a mini-dress, who opens a brothel, employing four fantastic hookers.”

Feature film debut of Lillian Parker, popular nude model and star of many 8mm peepshow reels, though she is officially uncredited. Though there is a female narrator, there is no
recorded dialogue by anyone onscreen.Read More »

In the summer of 1941, a group of idealistic Tbilisi students graduate. Their hopes for the future are scuppered by impending war. Robbed of their dreams, they are sent to the front line. Their struggle is chronicled with astonishing cinematographic beauty, following them from Georgia to the Berlin Reichstag.Read More »

Synopsis:
Thirty-four year old engineer Jean-Louis has just started a new job in Clermont. He leads a relatively solitary life not knowing anyone in town besides his work colleagues, he who has made a conscious decision that they should not become his de facto friends just because they work together. His choice not to socialize in town is due also in part to his situation and needing to make the long daily commute to/from Ceyrat where he currently lives. He has had his fair share of women over the course of his adult life, he now choosing to adhere more closely to his Catholic beliefs in approaching romantic and sexual relationships with women solely in the goal of love and marriage. Although not knowing her or having talked to her, he believes the pretty blonde he sees at church at Sunday morning services is the woman destined to be his wife.Read More »

Léonard Monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange. His eccentric wife Cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in South America. Convinced that the concession is a fake, Monestier decides to sell it on to a friend of the family, the naive millionaire Antoine Brévin. Antoine wants to marry his daughter, Patricia. However, Patricia has a different opinion on the matter. She manages to persuade the car delivery guy, Simon Guilbaud, to pretend to be her husband. Unaware of this development, Monestier invites Antoine to his house in order to get him to agree to buy the oil concession. After the invitation to Antoine, the butler Charles informs Monestier of the rushed marriage of Patricia. To prove that the concession is genuine, Monestier hires his son-in-law Simon to pretend to be his son, Paul, who is currently in South America. At this point, the real Paul turns up, with a Latin showgirl, Palma. Monestier has to resort to ever more desperate schemes to get Antoine to sign his cheque.Read More »