During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Rum Runners (1971) Robert Enrico, Lino Ventura, Brigitte Bardot, Bill Travers, Adventure, Comedy
In the prohibition years, the ‘rumrunners’ travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. Read More »
Castle of Purity (1973) Arturo Ripstein, Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Drama
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” Read More »
American Hot Wax (1978) Floyd Mutrux, Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno, Drama, History, Music
This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock ‘n’ roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Read More »
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973) Robert Lamoureux, Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Aldo Maccione, War, Action, Comedy
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears – nobody knows they’ve been taken captive. Read More »
A Police Inspector Calls (1975) Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu, Action, Crime, Drama
The Iron Guard, also called Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic motion of intense appropriate Read More »
The Choirboys (1977) Robert Aldrich, Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A group of Los Angeles cops opt to take off a few of the pressures of the jobs by participating in a variety of kinds of following hours debauchery. Read More »
The Phantom of Liberty (1974) Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Comedy
This surrealist film is made up of series of only vaguely connected episodes, most beautifully the dinner party scene where individuals sit lavatories around a dinner table Read More »
Rainbow Bridge (1972) Chuck Wein, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Amacker, Baron Bingen, Documentary, Drama, Music
A documentary about various singers, musicians, artists, astrologers, etc., who attended a “New Age” gathering in Maui, Hawaii. Read More »
The Phantom Gunslinger (1970) Albert Zugsmith, Troy Donahue, Sabrina, Elizabeth Campbell, Western
The Phantom Gunslinger is place from the city of”Tucca Flats.” The peaceful existence of this town is interrupted by the arrival of a bunch of bandits, such as Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, along with a few others. The sheriff leaves city, but not before naming Bill because his successor. Bill, regrettably, does not carry or even understand how to use a gun, as well as the outlaws take over Tucca Flats. Read More »
Midway (1976) Jack Smight, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Action, Drama, History, War
He summer of 1942 attracted Naval stalemate into the Pacific since the Japanese and American fleets stood even numbers each waiting for another to start a renewed offensive. Read More »
Skullduggery (1970) Gordon Douglas, Richard Wilson, Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Adventure
An expedition to the interior of Papua New Guinea comes along with a tribe of ape-like men and women that may or might not be ancestors of ancient man. Read More »
Rolling Thunder (1977) John Flynn, William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, Action, Crime, Drama
Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and can be provided numerous presents from his hometown since he’s a war hero. Read More »
Ring of Darkness (1979) Pier Carpi, Anne Heywood, Valentina Cortese, Frank Finlay, Horror
Young girls join a Satanic cult surrendering their bodies and will completely into the Devil himself. Read More »
Violette (1978) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Within a interwar France struggling with deep political and social change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the limits of her working-class (and potentially incestuous) household, with troubling consequences. Read More »