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Tag Archives: 1970s
Magee and the Lady (1978) Gene Levitt, Tony Lo Bianco, Sally Kellerman, Annie Semler
Magee is deep in debt and is told that he’ll lose his freighter to Bartlet Stirling, wealthy owner of a big company. Read More »
You Are Not Alone / Du er ikke alene (1978) Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen, Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogøe
A student strike at a Danish boys school is the backdrop of YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Read More »
The Deer / Gavaznha (1974) Masud Kimiai, Behrouz Vossoughi, Faramarz Gharibian, Nosrat Partovi
Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Read More »
The Widow Couderc / La veuve Couderc (1971) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo
Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son Read More »
I Love You Rosa / Ani Ohev Otach Rosa (1972) Moshé Mizrahi, Michal Bat-Adam, Gabi Otterman, Moshe Tal
The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Read More »
The Silent Revolution (1972) Edouard de Laurot, Eckehard Munck
The Silent Revolution is a 1972 German documentary film about molecular biology. Read More »
A Touch of Zen / Xia nü (1971) King Hu, Feng Hsu, Chun Shih, Ying Bai
An artist, Ku, lives with his mother near an abandoned fort, reputed to be haunted. Read More »
It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet (1976) Eric Till, John Alderton
Comedy-drama based on the books by James Herriot about a Yorkshire Read More »
Encounter with the Unknown (1973) Harry Thomason, Rod Serling, Robert Ginnaven, Gary Brockette
Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate Read More »