Shin Kishida stars as Juzo, a self-important pinku eiga director plainly modeled on Nagisa Oshima. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The Manila Rope (1976) Veli-Matti Saikkonen, Erkki Pajala, Vesa Mäkelä, Esko Hukkanen
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Read More »
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) Franco Zeffirelli, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare. Read More »
Peppermint Soda (1977) Diane Kurys, Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. Read More »
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971) Rosa von Praunheim, Berryt Bohlen, Bernd Feuerhelm, Ernst Kuchling
Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. Read More »
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) Paul Wendkos, Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth, Dean Jagger
While he studied at the university, Andrew Patterson, a successful professor, was initiated to the order of ‘The Brotherhood of the Bell’ Read More »
Chapter Two (1979) Robert Moore, James Caan, Marsha Mason, Joseph Bologna
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone Read More »
The Brood (1979) David Cronenberg, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Read More »
Terminal Island (1973) Stephanie Rothman, Don Marshall, Phyllis Davis, Ena Hartman
In the wake of a Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates San Bruno island as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts Read More »
Nightmares Come at Night (1970) Jesús Franco, Diana Lorys, Paul Muller, Jack Taylor
In Zagreb, the striper Anna de Istria works in a sleazy cabaret. She is seduced by the blonde Cynthia Robins that invites her to move to her house. Read More »