1970s

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“My intention was none other than to instill in people a loathing for the fabricated and nonsensical stories of entertainment films, which are already wavering due to my genuine heroes and will undoubtedly soon collapse completely. Thus, Mirador gives cinematic form and effectiveness to our demand: the demand for the suppression of feature films that corrupt the people’s imagination. This film opposes the absurdity and extravagance of the same recurring fantastic adventures and deeds of gangsters, cowboys, handsome men, monsters, etc.; the formulaic and inorganic nature of the plot and intrigue, the black-and-white portrayal of the characters, and indeed, the psychological shortcomings – in short, the distortion of the realities of life and the laws of art. The realistic and critical spirit of the film Mirador fights against the devastating effect of such extravagances on the imagination of immature people.” — Werner Nekes.Read More »

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They do say that Paris is the city of love and that’s certainly true for American TV reporter Bryan Deal: he’s barely out of the airport when he’s picked up by a pair of beautiful bisexual air-hostesses and whisked back for a spot of le nookie. But can his conservative Anglo-Saxon upbringing allow him to embrace these new freedoms?

More ambitious than most seventies soft-core, The French Love captures the mood of fashionable French youth of the time, with sexual liberation linked to political transformation.Read More »

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Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! The late legendary actor, Yusaku Matsuda, stars in this explosive motion picture about the hedonistic lifestyles of four roughnecks directed by Yukihiro Sawada. Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.Read More »

The impossible love between a minor young man and a nun. In 1944, in Marseille, Denis, a 14-year-old boy, finishes his 3rd year at a Jesuit college. During a visit to a patient in a hospital, he notices Sister Clotilde, a young nun who is not insensitive to her charm. Their friendship grows until the mother superior understands that it is evolving towards a feeling of love. Despite the advice of their respective entourage and imposed separation, they give in to their passion and eventually run away to spend the summer in Haute-Loire, in a property of the family of Sister Clotilde. When the Liberation arrives, the taboos and society catch up with them.Read More »

Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking, pivoting, and walking through the landscape. Though they are never seen in the film, the voices of the local people, the ‘Pineys,’ are heard relating their feelings about the land, their attitudes about city life, their myths of the area, etc. their voices and the music of ‘Bill Patton’s Pine Barrens Trio’ add a psychological dimension to the landscape.Read More »

Three sisters unite with a cousin to avenge their father who was killed by a group of noblemen with ties to a criminal gang.Read More »

A young filmmaker travels to Chiapas to film natives of Lacandona Jungle. In spite of being financed by the censorious Mexican Government, he expects that some of the truth about the living conditions of poor native people come to surface.Read More »

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Unhappy housewife Valerie decides to explore her sexuality by becoming a high class prostitute specialized in sexual role play. This makes her question her unhappy marriage to a meek lawyer.Read More »

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An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.Read More »