1970s

  • Ralph Senensky – Death Cruise (1974)

    1971-1980MysteryRalph SenenskyUSA

    Synopsis:
    Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.Read More »

  • Roberta Findlay – The Altar of Lust (1971)

    1971-1980EroticaExploitationRoberta FindlayUSA

    A sexually confused young woman in a session with her psychiatrist relates her tale of coming to New York City from Sweden after being raped by her stepfather, falling in love with a young man named Don and then realizing that she is finding herself attracted more and more to women.Read More »

  • Eduard Galic – Nikola Tesla (1977)

    1971-1980Eduard GalicYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    TV series produced by RTV Zagreb (Croatian TV) with participation of Jadran Film Zagreb, a comprehensive biography of Tesla, shot in numerous international locations, in his native ex-Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Graz, Wienna), France (Paris), USA… with some archival footage and patent papers.
    10 episodes – approx. 60 minutes each.Read More »

  • Nina Shivdasani – Chhatrabhang AKA The Divine Plan (1976)

    1971-1980DocumentaryExperimentalIndiaNina Shivdasani

    Quote:
    In 1975 Nina Shivdasani Rovshen (aka Nina Sugati SR), made Chhatrabhang – the first Indian film to win the International Fipresci critics award. This 80 min 35mm colour film was shot by AK Bir over a period of 2 weeks, and edited over 1 year by the filmmaker herself. The film was made within Rs 2 lakhs and has rarely been screened in India. Based on a true story, Chhatrabhang explores caste dynamics in a drought stricken village in rural India. This complex film transforms a 3 line news report into a lyrical feature film about the trauma of dilemma, and the processes involved in resolve, change and reform.Read More »

  • F. Sutrisno – Bandit-bandit internasional AKA The Mad, the Mean, and the Deadly (1977)

    1971-1980AsianF. SutrisnoIndonesiaMartial Arts

    Google Translate:
    “The police are up against an international stealing gang, whose loot includes many diamonds. In collaboration with Interpol, the police crushes the gang.”

    Sinopsis
    Kali ini polisi menghadapi sindikat perampok internasional. Barang rampokannya antara lain intan dan berlian. Bekerja sama dengan interpol, polisi berhasil menumpas sindikat ini.Read More »

  • Something Weird Video – Too Much Loving AKA Robot Love Slaves (1971)

    1971-1980CultEroticaSomething Weird VideoUSA

    Quote:
    A skeevy tale. Gangly-looking scientist Clark is too distracted by his latest project to pay sufficient attention to his nagging wife, who wants him to give her warm baths because she likes to pretend she can’t walk (or something). As it turns out, hubby’s spending all his time in the basement turning young women (maybe from corpses; it’s a little unclear) into automated robot servants designed to give pleasure to anyone in sight. Various other couplings in the neighborhood culminate when wifey, hubby and her lover end up in the basement with the robot concubines, complete with a sort-of twist ending. Apparently intended to be softcore in nature, though a scene with regular early-’70s performer Billy Lane is clearly unsimulated based on a few camera slip ups.
    – Nathaniel Thompson, Mondo DigitalRead More »

  • Mike Leigh – The Permissive Society (1975)

    Mike Leigh1971-1980DramaUnited Kingdom

    During an evening spent at his house with his sister, a girl realizes that she doesn’t really have much in common with her boyfriend.Read More »

  • Joan Micklin Silver – Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

    1971-1980DramaJoan Micklin SilverRomanceUSA

    Quote:
    Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. His roommate is “an unemployed jacket salesman,” his mother is a spacey, laxative overdosing, overly eccentric basket-case, his perpetually happy sister finds love in the dorkiest of guys, his step-father has a jones for Turtle Wax and his boss asks him for advice about his Ivy League son’s sexual problems. He listens to Janis Joplin and dreams of getting Laura back once and for all. He does everything in his power to win her back from Ox, and the lengths he goes to provide the structure of the film in this bittersweet romantic comedy…a film that explores what happened to the Woodstock generation when they transcended their idealism (i.e. it was expected that they fall in love and face the music of routine). Charles is perhaps the quintessential saint of this ideology.Read More »

  • Roberta Findlay – A Woman’s Torment (1977)

    1971-1980EroticaHorrorRoberta FindlayUSA

    Quote:
    An interesting blend of a Psycho inspired slasher with a hardcore sex film, A Woman Tormented is actually a pretty excellent movie. Tara Chung steals the show as Karen, the woman with deep psychological problems who is very much a ‘black widow’ who does in every man who crosses her path. She gives an inspired performance, and we’re actually able to believe that she is as messed up as the story would like us to think, as she curls into the fetal position in the shower to avoid the voices she knows she shouldn’t listen to. Seeing her masturbate with almost self destructive glee after giving in to her bloodlust and returning to the shower to clean herself off solidifies her state for us, and we know she’s completely off her rocker.Read More »

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