A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children’s lives in working class Bolton.
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Tag Archives: 1970s
The Girl from Petrovka (1974) Robert Ellis Miller, Goldie Hawn, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A beautiful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent. The KGB is most displeased and does everything it can to break them up. Read More »
More American Graffiti (1979) Bill Norton, Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Comedy, Drama, War
Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Charles Martin Smith and Paul Le Mat return in this laugh-filled follow-up look into the lives of the gang from George Lucas’ original coming-of-age classic, American Graffiti. Set a few years later, the film traces the continuing hopes, dreams and romances of these high school friends. Read More »
Madame Zenobia (1973) Eduardo Cemano, Tina Russell, Elizabeth Donavan, Levi Richards, Adult
Beautiful, but sad and dejected young widow Marcia is unable to find sexual gratification with her fiancé Eric because of her continuous love affair with her deceased husband John. Read More »
The Health Spa (1978) Clair Dia, Abigail Clayton, John Seeman, Kay Parker, Drama, Adult
June Winters and Alice are reporters sent by their boss Mr. Martin to investigate Todd’s Eurosex Health Spa. Read More »
Hardcore (1977) James Kenelm Clarke, Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel, David Cole, Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Erotic
Titillating revelations, sexual conquests and comic capers abound as 70s sex icon Fiona Richmond charts Read More »
Lies My Father Told Me (1975) Ján Kadár, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Yossi Yadin, Drama
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won’t work.
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The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) Christopher Miles, Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Drama, Romance
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author’s death in 1930 Read More »
The Gardener (1974) James H. Kay, Katharine Houghton, Joe Dallesandro, Rita Gam, Horror
Ellen and her husband John enjoy the good life in their lovely Costa Rica home-all that’s missing is a nice garden. Read More »
Bakuhatsu! Boso yugi / Detonation! Violent Games (1976) Teruo Ishii, Kôichi Iwaki, Yutaka Nakajima, Yumi Takigawa, Action, Crime
Teruo Ishii’s West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It’s the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide. Read More »
Test pilota Pirxa / Pilot Pirx’s Inquest (1979) Marek Piestrak, Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Drama, Sci-Fi
This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Read More »
Sleeper (1973) Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Miles, a nebbishy clarinet player who also runs a health food store in NYC’s Greenwich Village, is cryogenically frozen, and brought back – 200 years in the future Read More »
My Lover My Son (1970) John Newland, Romy Schneider, Donald Houston, Dennis Waterman, Drama
Francesca Anderson, the rich wife of an older millionaire, can’t cope with the death of her lover, who is the father of her only son, James. Read More »
Father’s House (1975) Alex Segal, Cliff Robertson, Robert Preston, Eileen Brennan, Drama
While recuperating from a heart attack–brought about in part by his job as a hard-charging but highly paid executive–a man begins to reflect on his life and the simpler time when he was growing up. Read More »
Man About the House (1974) John Robins, Richard O’Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett, Comedy
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Read More »