Dr. Laurence Jeffries, a neurosurgeon, intent on his research, neglects his wife Frances. The frustrated woman accordingly takes a lover, Paul Damien, a French journalist. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Daguerréotypes (1976) Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda, Documentary
Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
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Glissements progressifs du plaisir / Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot, Michael Lonsdale, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Erotic
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. Read More »
Smierc prezydenta / Death of the President (1977) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Zdzislaw Mrozewski, Marek Walczewski, Henryk Bista, Drama, History
Set at the historic moment of rebirth of Poland after World War I. The newly organized National Assembly elected Gabriel Narutowicz Read More »
Follow Me! / The Public Eye (1972) Carol Reed, Mia Farrow, Topol, Michael Jayston, Comedy, Drama
When a straight-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. Read More »
Child’s Play (1972) Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Paul Reis returns to the exclusive Catholic prep school he graduated from nine years earlier as a gym teacher. Read More »
The Last Of Sheila (1973) Herbert Ross, Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, James Mason, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run car accident following a party one night. A year later her multi-millionaire husband, Clinton, invites a group of her friends to spend a week on a his yacht. Read More »
The Telephone Book (1971) Nelson Lyon, Sarah Kennedy, Norman Rose, James Harder, Comedy, Erotic
The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Read More »
The Emigrants / Utvandrarna (1971) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Drama, History
This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America Read More »
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) Roger Vadim, Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
In a California high school, a married teacher is the athletic coach and faculty advisor. Read More »