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Tag Archives: 1970s
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973) Yasuzô Masumura, Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa, Kazuko Inano, Keizô Kanie
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. Read More »
Peccato veniale (1974) Salvatore Samperi, Laura Antonelli, Alessandro Momo, Orazio Orlando
In Versillia’s sandy beaches during the summer of 1956, a gawky adolescent, Sandro, spends his vacation by the sea Read More »
Colt in the Hand of the Devil (1973) Gianfranco Baldanello, Robert Woods, William Berger, George Wang
When a cowboy is released from prison he fulfils a promise to visit a town run by a gang of ruthless gunmen. Read More »
The Domino Principle (1977) Stanley Kramer, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark
Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can’t seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. Read More »
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970) Hy Averback, Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Tensions grow between the small army base and people from the nearby town. Read More »
Bang Bang (1971) Andrea Tonacci, Paulo César Peréio, Abrahão Farc, Jura Otero
The actor of a film being made lives without distinction his own personal reality and his character’s fiction. Read More »
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Reiko Oshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yukie Kagawa
After a life in reform school, Rika (Reiko Oshida) tries her hand at becoming a decent, upstanding citizen. Read More »
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) Agnès Varda, Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women’s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Read More »
Puppets Under Starry Skies (1978) Hôjin Hashiura, Yoichi Miura, Kazuhito Takei, Ako
A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. Read More »
Happy Mother’s Day, Love George (1973) Darren McGavin, Patricia Neal, Cloris Leachman, Bobby Darin
A teenage drifter becomes embroiled in the lives and mysteries of the residents in a small coastal fishing village while searching for his family roots. Read More »
Pancho Villa (1972) Eugenio Martín, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors
Having lost his influence and on the way to be executed in Mexico City, the once mighty Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa Read More »
The Petrified Forest (1973) Masahiro Shinoda, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi
Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Read More »
Images in a Convent (1979) Joe D’Amato, Paola Senatore, Marina Hedman, Paola Maiolini
Locked behind the walls of a convent are an order of beautiful nuns whose vows force them to forget the pleasures of sexual contact. Read More »
Black Samson (1974) Charles Bail, Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Connie Strickland
Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. Read More »