Double crosses and backstabbing while older yakuza bosses fight for the title of “The Godfather of Japan” violent history and a cast full of stars. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Spermula (1976) Charles Matton, Dayle Haddon, Udo Kier, François Dunoyer, Horror, Sci-Fi
The planet Spermula is facing destruction and the Spermulites plan to relocate to Earth. To do this, they have come up with a brilliant plan. Read More »
Nihon no fûikusaîchi / The Fixer (1979) Yasuo Furuhata, Shin Saburi, Masakazu Tamura, Kyôko Enami, Crime
A fixer controls political events from behind the scenes – the portrait of a political fixer and his machinations. Read More »
Anaparastasi / Reconstruction (1970) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos, Crime, Drama
A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Read More »
To proxenio tis Annas / The Engagement of Anna (1974) Pantelis Voulgaris, Anna Vagena, Smaro Veaki, Kostas Rigopoulos, Drama
Anna, a shy village girl has come to live and work at the house of an elderly Athenian lady, where the family decides to arrange a match for her, as middle-class ethics prescribe. Read More »
Not Tonight, Darling (1971) Anthony Sloman, Luan Peters, Vincent Ball, Jason Twelvetrees, Drama
A lonely ‘Stay-at-Home’ Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a ‘Peeping Tom’, who is being put up to it by his friend. Read More »
Lie ri kuang feng / Stormy Sun (1973) Min-Hsiung Wu, Yi Chang, Mi Tien, Ying Bai, Action, Drama
Lee Ta-Yen and his gang murder Hsieh Yu-Lan and her parents after raping the girl. Determined to avenge his family, Han Ching, the family’s sole survivor, goes to the city to search for Lee and his accomplices. Read More »
Perfect Friday (1970) Peter Hall, Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, David Warner, Comedy, Crime
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. Read More »
Whoever slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Curtis Harrington, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Horror, Thriller
This is a retelling of the old tale of Hansel and Gretel, but set in England in the 1920s. To the children and staff at the orphanage, Auntie Roo is a kindly American widow who gives them a lavish Christmas party each year in her mansion, Forrest Grange. Read More »
Leptirica / The Butterfly (1973) Djordje Kadijevic, Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan ‘Cica’ Perovic, Drama, Horror
Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle – her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. Read More »