A female master assassin is sent to take down a syndicate boss who is making a power play for the top. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Insiang (1976) Lino Brocka, Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Ruel Vernal
Trapped in the slums, Insiang finds living with her disapproving, sharp-tongued mother, Tonya, trying. Read More »
Breakout (1975) Tom Gries, Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland
Jay Wagner is framed by the mob and sent to prison in Mexico. Read More »
Wanda Nevada (1979) Peter Fonda, Brooke Shields, Fiona Lewis
Romantic drama following the fortunes of a drifter named Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) who wins Read More »
Muhomatsu Returns Home (1973)
Three years after his first two documentaries on these soldiers who did not return Read More »
The Great White Hope (1970) Martin Ritt, James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert
Boxer Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) is the world’s reigning heavyweight boxing champion. Read More »
Home for Christmas (1978) Rick Hancox
Here is the quintessential Hancox ‘personal documentary,’ a film in which both the production Read More »
Hell’s Gate Island / Gokumon-to (1977) Kon Ichikawa, Koji Ishizaka, Yôko Tsukasa, Reiko Ôhara
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946. Read More »
Demons of the Mind (1972) Peter Sykes, Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. Read More »
The Killer Is on the Phone / L’assassino… è al telefono (1972) Alberto De Martino, Telly Savalas, Anne Heywood, Osvaldo Ruggieri
A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer Read More »