In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Hexen geschändet und zu Tode gequält / Mark of the Devil II (1973) Adrian Hoven, Erika Blanc, Anton Diffring, Percy Hoven, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders “witches” and “heretics” during the Inquisition. Read More »
Qui? / The Sensuous Assassin (1970) Léonard Keigel, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Gabriele Tinti, Mystery, Thriller
Marina and her boyfriend have an argument while on a trip in France. While driving with the car among the cliffs, he starts speeding and the car falls into the sea. Read More »
The Canterbury Tales (1972) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Comedy, Drama, History, Erotic
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust. Read More »
Attention, les Enfants Regardent / Attention, the Kids Are Watching (1978) Serge Leroy, Alain Delon, Sophie Renoir, Richard Constantini, Drama, Thriller
It’s set within a seaside villa, where under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows. Read More »
Young Lady Chatterley (1977) Alan Roberts, Harlee McBride, Peter Ratray, William Beckley, Drama, Romance, Erotic
Cynthia inherits her aunt’s large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt’s diary and finds out (and graphically imagines) Read More »
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979) Patrick Montgomery, Edward Binns, Paul Kohner, Marcel Dalio, Documentary
Erich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. Read More »
Na wylot / Through and Through (1973) Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Franciszek Trzeciak, Anna Nieborowska, Irena Ladosiówna, Crime
Based on a pre-war murder case of the Malisz couple. They end up committing a petty robbery and a sordid murder. Read More »
Sissy’s Hot Summer (1979) Candida Royalle, Bob Glen, Alan Colberg, Adult, Comedy
This story is an X-rated take-off of the hit TV series about three roommates (Sissy, Janet, and Jack.) Read More »
Home Before Midnight (1979) Pete Walker, James Aubrey, Alison Elliott, Mark Burns, Drama
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him. Read More »
Boxcar Bertha (1972) Martin Scorsese, Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Crime, Drama, Romance
Based on “Sister of the Road,” the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman Read More »
The UFO Incident (1975) Richard A. Colla, James Earl Jones, Estelle Parsons, Barnard Hughes, Biography, Drama, History
Through memory flashbacks accessed by hypnotic regression, depicts the alleged UFO abduction of Betty and Barney Hill on September 19, 1961 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Read More »
The Cremators (1972) Harry Essex, Maria De Aragon, Marvin Howard, Eric Allison, Sci-Fi
An alien life form that is a huge ball of living matter invades earth, and replenishes itself by absorbing people. Read More »
Le juge et l’assassin / The Judge and the Assassin (1976) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Crime, Drama, History
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Read More »
Bloodline (1979) Terence Young, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. Read More »