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Tag Archives: 1970s
Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972) Martin Ritt, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page
Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn’t marry soon. Read More »
The Fatal Flying Guillotine (1977) Raymond Lui, Carter Wong, Sing Chen, Shao-Peng Chen
Those rascally Shaolin monks are at it again, and this time they’re tracking down some vitriolic villains who have heisted a sacred book. Read More »
The Greek Tycoon (1978) J. Lee Thompson, Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, Raf Vallone
Theo Tomasis, from humble beginnings, is an aging Greek shipping magnate who works on his own moral (or amoral as the case may be) code Read More »
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) Frank Perry, Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous Read More »
Alice Goodbody (1974) Tom Scheuer, Colleen Brennan, Daniel Kauffman, Keith McConnell
Sharon Kelly plays a naive waitress who sleeps her ways to bigger and bigger roles in a musical adaptation of Julius Caesar Read More »
Lumiere (1976) Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bosé, Francine Racette, Caroline Cartier
Sarah, an actress nearing 40, has invited the woman who has been her best friend for 16 years Read More »
Blacker Than the Night (1975) Carlos Enrique Taboada, Claudia Islas, Susana Dosamantes, Lucía Méndez
When four women move into an old house left by one woman’s aunt, strange things begin to happen. Read More »
Cuidado, Madame (1970) Júlio Bressane, Maria Gladys, Helena Ignez, Suzana de Moraes
Three maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses. Read More »
Reflections of Murder (1974) John Badham
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy’s school plot and carry out his murder. Read More »