It’s 1940 in the British-controlled Bahamas. While the war rages on in Europe, the islands are only peripherally affected by it Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The Dogs (1979) Alain Jessua, Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence. Read More »
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) Robert Stevenson, Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Derek Nimmo
Lord Southmere escapes from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious “Lotus X” Read More »
L’ironie du sort / The Irony of Chance (1974) Édouard Molinaro, Pierre Clémenti, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Jacques Spiesser
‘L’ironie du sort’ takes place during the last war and is a story about the resistance movement. Read More »
Tora-san 4 / Shin otoko wa tsurai yo (1970) Shun’ichi Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Komaki Kurihara
After winning big at the races, Torajiro wants to take his aunt and uncle Read More »
Love on the Run / L’amour en fuite (1979) François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier
Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. Read More »
Tora-san 3: His Tender Love / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Fûten no Tora (1970) Azuma Morisaki, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Michiyo Aratama, Chieko Baishô
In an effort to get him to settle down, Tora’s family attempts to arrange a marriage for him. Read More »
Raid on Rommel (1971) Henry Hathaway, Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn
In 1942, in Libya, a German-speaking British intelligence officer uses former British POWs Read More »
Joseph Andrews (1977) Tony Richardson, Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern
Lady Booby alias ‘Belle’, the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby Read More »
Pascual Duarte (1976) Ricardo Franco, José Luis Gómez, Diana Pérez de Guzmán, Paca Ojea
Adapted from a famous novel by Camilo J. Cela. Pascual Duarte, a farmer from Extremadura Read More »