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Anaparastasi / Reconstruction (1970) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos, Crime, Drama
A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Read More »
To proxenio tis Annas / The Engagement of Anna (1974) Pantelis Voulgaris, Anna Vagena, Smaro Veaki, Kostas Rigopoulos, Drama
Anna, a shy village girl has come to live and work at the house of an elderly Athenian lady, where the family decides to arrange a match for her, as middle-class ethics prescribe. Read More »
Not Tonight, Darling (1971) Anthony Sloman, Luan Peters, Vincent Ball, Jason Twelvetrees, Drama
A lonely ‘Stay-at-Home’ Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a ‘Peeping Tom’, who is being put up to it by his friend. Read More »
Lie ri kuang feng / Stormy Sun (1973) Min-Hsiung Wu, Yi Chang, Mi Tien, Ying Bai, Action, Drama
Lee Ta-Yen and his gang murder Hsieh Yu-Lan and her parents after raping the girl. Determined to avenge his family, Han Ching, the family’s sole survivor, goes to the city to search for Lee and his accomplices. Read More »
Perfect Friday (1970) Peter Hall, Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, David Warner, Comedy, Crime
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. Read More »
Whoever slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Curtis Harrington, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Horror, Thriller
This is a retelling of the old tale of Hansel and Gretel, but set in England in the 1920s. To the children and staff at the orphanage, Auntie Roo is a kindly American widow who gives them a lavish Christmas party each year in her mansion, Forrest Grange. Read More »
Leptirica / The Butterfly (1973) Djordje Kadijevic, Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Drama, Horror
Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle – her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. Read More »
Satansbraten / Satans Brew (1976) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. Read More »
Frauen In New York / Women in New York (1977) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eva Mattes, Angela Schmid, Margit Carstensen, Comedy
The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the manicurist Read More »
Hong quan xiao zi / Disciples of Shaolin (1975) Cheh Chang, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Ming Li Chen, Action, Drama
Impetuous young martial arts master Kuan takes a job at a textile factory where another disciple of the revered Shaolin discipline warns him about the rival Manchu clan, who run another nearby mill. Read More »
Saigo no tokkôtai / The Last Kamikaze (1970) Jun’ya Satô, Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Shin’ichi Chiba, Drama, War
Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze) is set in the final months of World War II, when it was increasingly obvious that Japan was going to lose the war. Read More »
The Greatest (1977) Tom Gries, Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Biography, Drama, Sport
Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. Read More »
The White Dawn (1974) Philip Kaufman, Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Adventure, Drama, History
In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Read More »
At Long Last Love (1975) Peter Bogdanovich, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Comedy, Romance, Musical
This film was Peter Bogdanovich’s homage to musical comedies of the 1930s. A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O’Kelly meet and fall in love. Read More »