1970s

  • Robert Day – The Reluctant Heroes (1971)

    1971-1980DramaRobert DayUSAWar

    During the Korean War, a newly commissioned lieutenant find that they are trapped when the enemy surrounds their position. He uses ancient tactics he remembers from his history books to try…Read More »

  • Gary Graver – How to Undress in Front of Your Man (1970)

    1961-1970EroticaGary GraverShort FilmUSA

    Synopsis: After an evening out, a skinny hippie chick attempts to get her man in the mood for love. But he’s just too tired. She proceeds to use all her sexiest moves (even showing him her “tunnel of love” and making her “fun zone” more attractive with good hygiene), hoping to awaken the beast. When all else fails, she resorts to stroking his giant cock. This finally gets his attention!Read More »

  • Miklós Jancsó – La Tecnica e il rito (1972)

    1971-1980Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtDramaItalyMiklós Jancsó

    The narrative purports to deal with the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun (an appropriately brooding if unsympathetic figure throughout)…and, yet, none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites! …..
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  • Carlos Saura – Cría cuervos AKA Raise Ravens (1976) (HD)

    Drama1971-1980Carlos SauraSpain

    In the twilight of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, an 8-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt and try their best to acclimatize to a new reality. Can they summon up the courage to grow up?Read More »

  • Gerard Damiano – Water Power AKA The Enema Bandit (1976)

    1971-1980EroticaExploitationGerard DamianoUSA

    A mentally troubled man becomes a serial rapist and torturer due to the strong shock he suffers after witnessing the performance of an enema in a brothel, plus the bitter discovery that a female neighbor who interests him has a lover.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show (1971)

    1971-1980DramaPeter BogdanovichUSA

    Quote:
    The Last Picture Show is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—the enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and the desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybil Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman’s lonely housewife and Ben Johnson’s grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.Read More »

  • John Frankenheimer – Black Sunday (1977)

    USA1971-1980ActionJohn FrankenheimerThriller

    Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.Read More »

  • John Frankenheimer – The Horsemen (1971)

    1971-1980ActionAdventureJohn FrankenheimerUSA

    Plot
    Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the stable master and retired buzkashi player for a feudal lord, is a master horseman who lives by a primitive code of honor. Uraz’s family honor is damaged when he breaks his leg playing the game, which is the Afghani equivalent of polo. His father, who lost a lot of money betting on his son, will barely speak to him. To regain the family honor (and wealth) he must somehow re-learn how to ride – after his injuries cost him his leg below the knee. In the face of great obstacles, and despite the derision and treachery of others, he gains the chance to play in the games given by the king of Afghanistan.Read More »

  • Jean-Pierre Berckmans – Isabelle devant le désir (1975)

    1971-1980DramaFranceJean-Pierre BerckmansRomance

    Quote:
    In the early 1950s, in a seaside town, Isabelle, a girl in her late teens,is about to spend an apparently eventless summer between her mother, her friends and a small job for a photographer whose business is lagging. But Isabelle is not the mentally balanced young lady she seems to be. In fact she is doubly traumatized, firstly by the rape she suffered eight years before from a Nazi officer and secondly by the suicide of her father shortly after. What she wants deep inside herself is to find a man, young or less young, who will bring her tenderness and happiness. Will Luc, a young German, or Monsieur Vaudois, her married boss, give her what she lacks?Read More »

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