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Tag Archives: 1970s
Wild Honey (1972) Don Edmonds, Edward Blessington, K.W. Christian, Uschi Digard
A farm girl girl runs away from her sexually abusive father and ends up in Los Angeles. Read More »
When a Stranger Calls (1979) Fred Walton, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda
High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, “Have you checked the children lately?” Read More »
Bless This House (1972) Gerald Thomas, Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson
1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Read More »
Dr. Sexual and Mr. Hyde (1971) Anthony Brzezinski, Suzanne Fields
A Scientist runs a spooky asylum and does sexual experiments on the female inmates. Read More »
Calmos (1976) Bertrand Blier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. Read More »
The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Tom Jeffrey, Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, John Jarratt
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war Read More »
The Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street (1976) Didier Philippe-Gérard, Helga Trixi, Dawn Cummings, Nadja Mons
Following failed suicide attempts, three professional women wind up sharing a hospital room where the mysterious Maude (Dutch Trixie Heinen) comes to visit Read More »
Germany in Autumn (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. Read More »
Halloween (1978) John Carpenter, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran
The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. Read More »
Fievres Nocturnes (1978) Claude Bernard-Aubert, Brigitte Lahaie, Ursula White, Jean-Louis Vattier
Pierre has sexual fantasies about his next door neighbor Marianne leading his wife to get him an appointment with a sex therapist. Read More »
An Unmarried Woman (1978) Paul Mazursky, Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy
Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. Read More »
The Blood Rose (1970) Claude Mulot, Philippe Lemaire, Anny Duperey, Elizabeth Teissier
Frédéric Lansac, an artist and botanist, has a wild affair with party girl Moira, but throws her over when he meets the lovely Anne. Read More »
Darker Than Amber (1970) Robert Clouse, Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall
Professional beach bum and ‘knight errant’ Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. Read More »
Too Late the Hero (1970) Robert Aldrich, Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. Read More »