A young farm boy who can’t seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The Incident AKA Jiken (1978) Yoshitarô Nomura, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinobu Ôtake, Toshiyuki Nagashima
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife Read More »
Yanks (1979) John Schlesinger, Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Read More »
St. Michael Had a Rooster AKA San Michele aveva un gallo (1972) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Giulio Brogi, Daniele Dublino, Renato Cestiè
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Read More »
Atlantic Wall AKA Le Mur de l’Atlantique (1970) Marcel Camus, Bourvil, Peter McEnery, Sophie Desmarets
In 1944, Léon Duchemin , a restaurant owner living in Normandy, leads a peaceful life. Read More »
The Hussy AKA La drôlesse (1979) Jacques Doillon, Claude Hébert, Madeleine Desdevises, Paulette Lahaye
Twenty-something François collects boxes and bottles and resells them to shopkeepers. Read More »
Foxy Brown (1974) Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. Read More »
Take Me High (1973) David Askey, Cliff Richard, Deborah Watling, Hugh Griffith
Merchant banker Tim, excited to hear he’s to go to New York, is sent to Birmingham Read More »
England Made Me (1973) Peter Duffell, Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegard Neil
A story about an English businessman in 1930s Germany who encounters a financier who has forged his career on greed Read More »
Sebastiane (1976) Paul Humfress, Derek Jarman, Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy
300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Read More »
The Kiss of Death AKA Il bacio (1974) Mario Lanfranchi, Maurizio Bonuglia, Eleonora Giorgi, Martine Beswick
Delitto d’autore (1974) Mario Sabatini, Sylva Koscina, Pier Paolo Capponi, Luigi Pistilli
A wealthy Countess is warned that if she gives a valuable painting away as first prize Read More »
Demon Pond AKA Yashagaike (1979) Masahiro Shinoda, Tamasaburô Bandô, Gô Katô, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Read More »
Of Gods and the Undead AKA Os Deuses e Os Mortos (1970) Ruy Guerra, Norma Bengell, Othon Bastos, Ítala Nandi
In the 1930’s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history Read More »
Roads to the South AKA Les routes du sud (1978) Joseph Losey, Yves Montand, Miou-Miou, Laurent Malet
Fathers and sons, and political exile. In the fall of 1975, Franco is dying but repression continues. Read More »