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Tag Archives: 1970s
Cop or Hood / Flic ou voyou (1979) Georges Lautner

When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute’s house Read More »
The Payoff / La mazzetta (1978) Sergio Corbucci, Nino Manfredi, Paolo Stoppa, Marisa Laurito

Sasá Iovine, a small-time Neopolitan operator, finds himself in the thick of a multi-murder Read More »
Mame (1974) Gene Saks, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur

It’s the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis Read More »
Sweet Games of Last Summer / Sladké hry minulého léta (1970) Juraj Herz, Jana Plichtová, Frantisek Velecký, Peter Debnar

One of the gems of the czechoslovak new wave. Impressionism on a film screen inspired by Maupassant’s Mouchette. Read More »
One Hundred Lei / 100 Lei (1973) Mircea Saucan, Ion Dichiseanu, Ileana Popovici, Violeta Andrei

In 1970s Romania rebellious and erratic teenager Petre Pantea is struggling to win Read More »
Twinky (1970) Richard Donner, Charles Bronson, Orson Bean, Honor Blackman

A middle-aged author of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl. Read More »
The Butterfly Affair (1971) Jean Herman, Claudia Cardinale, Stanley Baker, Henri Charrière

Popsy double-crosses her older partner Silva. Silva has arranged to divert diamonds Read More »
The Goat Horn / Kozijat rog (1972) Metodi Andonov, Katya Paskaleva, Anton Gorchev, Milen Penev

The film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Read More »
Beyond the Bridge / Dincolo de pod (1977) Mircea Veroiu, Leopoldina Balanuta, Maria Ploae, Mircea Albulescu

Mara, a hard-working widow woman brings up his two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town. Read More »