Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Lady Snowblood AKA Shurayukihime (1973) Toshiya Fujita, Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
Yuki’s family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. Read More »
Mother, Jugs and Speed (1976) Peter Yates, Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
Los Angeles: A new law says that the first ambulance that arrives at an accident obtains the contract to transport the injured person. Read More »
My Way AKA Waga michi (1974) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Rokkô Toura
Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body Read More »
The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet AKA Kadin Hamlet (1977) Metin Erksan, Fatma Girik, Sevda Ferdag, Reha Yurdakul
An extraordinary interpretation of Hamlet from the phenomenal director of the Turkish Cinema: Metin Erksan. Read More »
Executive Action (1973) David Miller, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer
A dramatization about how the high level covert conspirators in the JFK assassination might have planned Read More »
Heat AKA Fiebre (1971) Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli, Horacio Priani
Sandra was married to a racehorses landowner. They do not love each other. Read More »
Boulevard Nights (1979) Michael Pressman, Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Marta DuBois
Kid brother Chuco (Danny De La Paz) is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Read More »
Dillinger (1973) John Milius, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Read More »
The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians AKA Profetul, aurul si Ardelenii (1978) Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iulian Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu
Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. Read More »