1970s

A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders. He is sold into slavery in Brazil. In present day Nigeria, at his father’s deathbed, the young Babatunde promises to go to Brazil and search for traces of their once-enslaved ancestors. Beginning with a Candomblé ritual, his journey takes him ever deeper into this culture and, in a dream-like sequence, affords him a deeper understanding of his ancestors’ suffering and powers of resistance. Balogun effortlessly links present with past, real with magical worlds and discourse with trance. The hypnotic atmosphere is also heightened by the music of the Nigerian drummer Remi Kabaka, which plays with repetitive patterns and distortions. ×Read More »

The first movie to be directed by Stepan Andranikyan, better known as Sergei Parajanov’s art director. Based on a story by Andranikyan’s neighbour, it was originally meant to be entirely wordless, but officials insisted he add a narrative poem explaining the story about the love between Astghik, the star of the night, and the young sun Vahagn.

Sources differ on the year of release, with Armenian ones (including Kinodaran) saying 1971 and Russian ones (including animator.ru) saying 1972. It won 2nd prize in the animation category at the All-Union Film Festival in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, 1973.Read More »

Synopsis
Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation involving super-secret conflicts between NATO, the CIA and the Pentagon. An American politician, whom she has been photographing, is the target of an assassination conspiracy. Her husband, also a news photographer, gets wind of it, and is killed. As she investigates, she also begins to know more than is safe for her. Unfortunately for her, her charming neighbor Julien (Jacques Dutronc), an old friend, is also involved.

Danièle Gaur, photographe, enquête sur le suicide présumé de son mari Michel, retrouvé noyé. Ses investigations la conduisent à découvrir un complot visant à assassiner John W. Maxwell et à faire la connaissance de Julien Mercier, voisin de Michel.Read More »

An extraordinary interpretation of Hamlet from the phenomenal director of the Turkish Cinema: Metin Erksan.
In this presentation Hamlet is female and search vengeance of her father.
The relotionship of mother and son has a metamorphosis in that situation and force She-Hamlet to look for the lost father-and-daughter affection.
A foolish young girl, frenetic acts, glowing costumes, singing and dancing under expressionist camera angles.

Nominated for the Golden Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival , Intikam Melegi – Kadin Hamlet is Erksan’s latest work of cinema.Read More »

Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries (imdb)Read More »

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Destined to become a famous madame, a young woman experiences her sexual awakenings.

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Sensational Janine (German: Josefine Mutzenbacher… wie sie wirklich war – 1. Teil) is a 1976 West German hardcore costume drama-sex comedy film directed by Hans Billian. The film is an adaptation of the anonymous early 20th century novel Josephine Mutzenbacher on the sexual awakening of the eponymous and fictional fin-de-siècle Viennese courtesan.Read More »

A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.Read More »

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Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover, was a German serial killer responsible for the murders of two dozen boys and young men during the so-called ‘years of crisis’ between the wars. His case would partly inspire Fritz Lang’s M, and its central character portrayed by Peter Lorre, as well as this forgotten gem from 1973.

Tenderness of the Wolves treats the viewer to a few weeks in the company of a killer. Baby-faced and shaven-headed, in a manner that recalls both M and F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, Haarmann is a fascinating, repulsive figure. Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, he dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight. This isn’t an easy film to watch, but it certainly gets under the skin…Read More »

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Infatuated with her ​​new charge, the young and innocent orphan Rose-Marie,, the pimp Desmond arrives in ‘Far West’ Borntown (fictional mining town of Quebec), accompanied by a procession of prostitutes to establish a brothel.Read More »