Comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) examines the rise and fall of his relationship with struggling nightclub singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). Speaking directly to the audience in front of a bare background, Singer reflects briefly on his childhood and his early adult years before settling in to tell the story of how he and Annie met, fell in love, and struggled with the obstacles of modern romance, mixing surreal fantasy sequences with small moments of emotional drama.
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Tag Archives: 1970s
Eraserhead (1977) David Lynch, Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
This surreal nightmare examines male paranoia. Our hero and title character, Henry, faces a number of horrifying obstacles in meeting someone of the opposite sex, meeting her parents, and procreating. Produced during a one-and-a-half-year period while director David Lynch was a student at the American Film Institute, the film launched him as a major new talent admired by cinephiles and filmmakers all over the world. It stands today as a milestone in personal, independent filmmaking.
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Puppet on a Chain (1971) Geoffrey Reeve, Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins, Alexander Knox, Action, Thriller
This detective thriller features one of the most exciting boat chases ever filmed, a scene that has been compared to the car chase in Bullitt. It is also notable for having much scenic footage of the Netherlands and of Amsterdam. In this film, the headquarters of a drug-smuggling cartel is the quarry of American narcotics agent Paul Sherman (Sven-Bartil Taube). Though the cartel’s activities are centered in Amsterdam, Sherman’s search for the headquarters leads to an island castle owned by an offbeat religious group. Sherman and his partner Maggie (Barbara Parkins) run into serious trouble when they try to gain access to the forbidding site. Paul escapes captivity and chases the culprits by boat.
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A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem – but not all goes according to plan.
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L’Enfant Sauvage (1970) François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Françoise Seigner, Drama
France, 1798. In a forest, hunters discover and capture a 12 year old boy who appears to have spent his life living like a wild animal. He is taken to a school for deaf and dumb children in Paris, where is maltreated and used as an object of scientific curiosity. An eminent doctor, Jean Itard, takes an interest in the strange child and resolves to educate him. Little by little, the feral child, whom Itard christens Victor, responds to his benefactor’s patient attempts to civilise him.
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The Big Snatch (1971) Byron Mabe, Dan Martin, Harry Chest, Momo, Peggy Church, Crime, Drama, Erotic
Guy in a pickup truck kidnaps 5 women off the street, intending to make them his sex slaves.
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Schoolgirl report 10 / Schulmädchen-Report 10. Teil – Irgendwann fängt jede an (1976) Walter Boos, Eva Berthold, Alexandra Bogojevic, Astrid Boner, Comedy, Erotic
fun series story based on what real-life German teenagers schoolgirls
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Schoolgirl report 9 / Schulmädchen-Report 9: Reifeprüfung vor dem Abitur (1975) Walter Boos, Puppa Armbruster, Sandra Atia, Ulrich Beiger, Comedy, Drama, Erotic
With them every class is sex education
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Schoolgirl report 8 / Schulmädchen-Report 8. Teil – Was Eltern nie erfahren dürfen (1974) Ernst Hofbauer, Wolf Ackva, Puppa Armbruster, Sandra Atia, Drama, Erotic
story based on what real-life German teenagers schoolgirls of the day were up to
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Bleak Moments (1971) Mike Leigh, Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Comedy, Drama
Bleak Moments (1971) is Mike Leigh’s first feature film. The film presents a stark portrayal of human isolation, centring on the failure of personal communication and social interaction. In its uncompromising outlook, it is closer to Meantime (1983) and Naked (1993) than to Leigh’s more optimistic works.
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Peccati di gioventù (1975) Silvio Amadio, Gloria Guida, Dagmar Lassander, Fred Robsahm, Drama, Erotic
Angela is not happy about her daddy’s choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be.
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Peor que las fieras (1976) Arturo Martínez, Mario Almada, Rogelio Guerra, Yolanda Lievana, Drama, Erotic
sleazy Mexican soap opera about an alcoholic, wife beating, taxi driver dad and his two hot daughters
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Trzecia czesc nocy / La 3e Partie de la nuit (1972) Andrzej Zulawski, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki, Drama, Horror, War
The film is set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. German soldiers slaughter Michal’s wife, son and mother. Michal and his father avoid death by remaining in the forest. Michal decides to join the resistance but before his first meeting, the Gestapo kill his go-between and chase him. During his escape he gets into an apartment of a pregnant woman and helps her with the childbirth…
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Schoolgirl report 7 / Schulmädchen-Report 7. Teil – Doch das Herz muß dabei sein (1974) Ernst Hofbauer, Alfred Acktun, Puppa Armbruster, Hans Bergmann, Comedy, Drama, Erotic
A bunch of lovely teenage schoolgirls work at a secret brothel where they have sex with high paying older men. After the girls all get arrested for prostitution, several of them discuss how they wound up working at said brothel
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When Love Is Lust / Quando l’amore è sensualità (1973) Vittorio De Sisti, Agostina Belli, Gianni Macchia, Ewa Aulin, Drama, Erotic
A young girl marries a handsome and successful but brutish local butcher at the behest of her contessa stepmother. The new wife turns out to be frigid on their wedding night, and the couple have a big fight. The wife goes out of town to stay with her older, married sister and gets involved with her sister’s jaded swinger friends. The husband consoles himself by picking up prostitutes and carrying on with a sexy, voluptuous neighbor right in his new mother-in-law’s villa. For some reason the mother-in-law considers this a turn-on and becomes sexually drawn to her loutish son-in-law.
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