The owner of a small zoo uses the animals to kill his enemies. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
The Puppeteer (1962) Dom Roberto
João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity – what coins the people of Lisbon’s Read More »
Black Cat / Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Read More »
Pearls of the Deep / Perlicky na dne (1965) Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jirí Menzel, Pavla Marsálková, Ferdinand Kruta, Alois Vachek
Set against the backdrop of a repressed Czechoslovakia, five non-related vignettes are presented Read More »
A Report on the Party and Guests / O slavnosti a hostech (1966) Jan Nemec, Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Jiri Nemec
A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day outing in the country, that outing which includes having a picnic. Read More »
Inferno of Torture / Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike
High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »
Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze Read More »
Run, Psycho, Run / Più tardi Claire, più tardi… (1968) Brunello Rondi, Gary Merrill, Elga Andersen, Georges Rivière
A man and his wife are vacationing on the Tuscan coast in 1912. When the wife is murdered Read More »
Hercules and the Captive Women / Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961) Vittorio Cottafavi, Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni
The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) Read More »
The War Is Over / La guerre est finie (1966) Alain Resnais, Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold
Diego is one of the chiefs of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris Read More »