Showing posts with label 1970's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970's. Show all posts

February 08, 2015

Frenzy (1972) Trailer

Frenzy


A deadly new twist from the original Hitchcock.

Frenzy is a 1972 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Frenzy is the last film from Hitchcock. Set in London, Frenzy tells the story of a serial killer who strangles women to death with a necktie. 

February 06, 2015

My Uncle Antoine (1971) Trailer

Mon oncle Antoine


Mon oncle Antoine is a 1971 National Film Board of Canada (Office national du film du CanadaFrench language drama film.

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The film examines life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos Region of rural Québec prior to the Asbestos Strike of 1949. Set at Christmas time, the story is told from the point of view of a 15-year-old boy (Benoît, played by Jacques Gagnoncoming of age in a mining town. The Asbestos Strike is regarded by Québec historians as a seminal event in the years prior to the Quiet Revolution. Jutra's film is an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and cleric-dominated society on the eve of the social and political changes that transformed the province a decade later.
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February 02, 2015

Moskva-Kassiopeya (1974)

Moskva-Kassiopeya


Moscow-Cassiopeia (RussianМосква — Кассиопея) is a Soviet 1973 film directed by Richard Viktorov based on a script by Isai Kuznetsov and Avenir Zak.

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From the depths of the universe Earth can hear the radio signals of intelligent beings from a planet of the star system Shedar (Alpha Cassiopeia constellation). A project is set up, proposed by the young inventor Vitya Sereda, to send a spaceship to reach the planet - but the flight will last for decades, so the crew of the spaceship "Dawn " (Starship relativistic nuclear annihilation), is to be recruited from teenage students.The project is all carefully thought out but student Fyodor Lobanov stows away aboard the starship and unwittingly causes it to transcend the speed of light and so reaching its target 27 years ahead of schedule...
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January 31, 2015

Opening Night (1977) Trailer

Opening Night


Opening Night is a 1977 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes, and starring Gena RowlandsBen GazzaraJoan BlondellPaul StewartZohra Lampert, and Cassavetes.

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A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress.

January 29, 2015

The Shout (1978) Trailer

The Shout


A film of intense perversity - the madness of the mind.

The Shout is a 1978 British horror film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, based on a short story by Robert Graves that was adapted for the screen by Michael Austin.

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The Shout stars Alan Bates as a mysterious travelling man who invades the lives of a young couple, played by Susannah York and John Hurt. Hurt is a composer, who experiments with sound effects and various electronic sources in his secluded Devon studio. The couple provides hospitality to Bates, but his intentions are gradually revealed as more and more sinister. He claims he has learned from an Aboriginal shaman how to produce a "terror shout" that can kill anyone who hears it unprotected.
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January 28, 2015

Airport (1970) Trailer

Airport


The #1 novel of the year - now a motion picture!

Airport is a 1970 American drama film starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin, directed and written by George Seaton, and based on Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel of the same name

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In the sky, Capt. Vern Demerest (Martin) must maintain control of a 707 with his pregnant stewardess girlfriend (Jacqueline Bisset), a sly stowaway (Hayes), and a bomb-toting maniac (Van Heflin) aboard. Often imitated but never equaled, this box office hit was adapted by Academy Award winner George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street, The Country Girl) from the best seller by Arthur Hailey (Hotel).

January 25, 2015

Darling Lili (1970) Trailer

Darling Lili


 For a spy, love is the deadliest enemy. 

Darling Lili is a 1970 American musical film.

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Set in Paris during World War I. Lili Smith/Schmidt is a German spy being requested to go under cover to help Germany during the war, to try and find out their plans. Her "uncle" wishes her to fulfill the operation, whereas one of his colleagues believed she is not capable of performing such an operation as she is British. She soon finds herself following Major William Larrabee's every move and spending all her time either with him or thinking of him. Her "uncle" realises she's in love with him but Lili is not facing that she is. Things & people are coming between her true fate. But what is it...Written by OneSpecialJulie <julu3@hotmail.co.uk>

January 23, 2015

The First Great Train Robbery (1978) Trailer

The First Great Train Robbery


Never have so few taken so much from so many.


The First Great Train Robbery – known in the U.S. as The Great Train Robbery – is a 1979 film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his novel The Great Train Robbery .

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Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and a great deal of planning in order to pull it off.

January 21, 2015

Vampire Circus (1972) Trailer

Vampire Circus


The Carnival comes to town!


Vampire Circus is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Robert Young.

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A village in Nineteenth Century Europe is at first relieved when a circus breaks through the quarantine to take the local's minds off the plague. But their troubles are only beginning as children begin to disappear and the legacy of a long-ago massacre is brought to light.

January 16, 2015

The Sinful Dwarf (1973) Trailer

 Dværgen


A young bride . . . left alone to the lewd passions of an evil dwarf!


The Sinful Dwarf (original title: Dværgen) is a 1973 Danish film by Vidal Raski.

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Olaf (Torben Bille) brings women to the home he shares with his drunken mother (Clara Kelle). Once the unlucky ladies arrive, they are drugged, imprisoned, tied up and then turned into junkie-prostitutes. Then Brian joins the party forcing the women to polish his head.

Nude for Satan (1974) Trailer

Nuda per Satana


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Italian Gothic horror that tells the tale of a man who stops at a remote castle hoping to get medical help for an injured woman, only to find the inhabitants mirror the darker sides of the woman and himself.

Diary of a Lover (1977)

Tagebuch eines Liebenden


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January 14, 2015

Heart of Glass (1976) Trailer

Heart of Glass


Heart of Glass (GermanHerz aus Glas) is a 1976 film directed and produced by Werner Herzog, set in 18th century Bavaria.

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A small village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret. Written by Anonymous

Karl May (1974) Excerpt

Karl May


Karl May is a 1974 West German biographical drama film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Helmut Käutner as the writer Karl May.

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Despair (1978) Trailer

Despair


Despair is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.

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Hermann Hermann is a successful entrepreneur in the 1930s Germany. As the Nazis gradually rise to power, Hermann, who is a Russian émigré, becomes increasingly frightened and mentally unstable. His attempts at leaving the country are accompanied by symptoms of madness, the most vivid being his belief that he found his exact double, although the person in question differs from him in every respect. He creates an elaborate plan that would allow him to flee to Switzerland, but it soon becomes unclear whether his voyage leads him to a neutral country or merely allows him to take refuge in his madness.

Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) Trailer

Glissements progressifs du plaisir


Successive Slidings of Pleasure (FrenchGlissements progressifs du plaisir) is a 1974 French fantasy film directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet.

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A cult erotic drama from the perverse imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Marienbad, Trans-Europ-Express), SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE delves into the twisted mind of a young woman (Anicee Alvina) suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora (Olga Georges-Picot, Love and Death). Imprisoned in a convent, the girl's seductive wiles hypnotize the cops and clerics that surround her. All submit to her sexual whims, and are drawn into a sado-masochistic world where fantasy and reality are pleasurably blurred.

January 13, 2015

Where the Red Fern Grows (1974) Trailer

Where the Red Fern Grows


A True Story of a Boy and His Dogs


Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1974 film directed by Norman Tokar, based on the 1961 novel of the same name

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Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs. Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with "Old Dan" and "Little Ann." The movie follows the inseparable trio as they romp relentlessly through the Ozarks, trying to tree the elusive "Ghost" raccoon. Their efforts prove victorious as they win the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, capture wily ghost coons and bravely fight a mountain lion. Through these adventures Billy realizes the meaning of true friendship, loyalty, integrity and heroics, in this timeless and poignant coming of age story. Written by Anonymous

January 10, 2015

I, Monster (1971) Trailer

I, Monster


I, Monster is a 1971 British horror film directed by Stephen Weeks (his feature debut) for Amicus Productions.

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Psychologist Charles Marlowe (Lee) invents a drug which will release his patients' inhibitions. When he tests it on himself, he becomes the evil Edward Blake, who descends into crime and eventually murder. Utterson (Cushing), Marlowe's lawyer, believes that Blake is blackmailing his friend until he discovers the truth.

Tales from the Crypt (1972) Trailer

Tales from the Crypt


DEATH LIVES in the Vault of Horror!


Tales from the Crypt is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Freddie Francis.

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Five persons are visiting a catacomb following a guide and get lost. They find that they are trapped in a crypt and, out of the blue, they see The Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson) that tells five stories: (1) And All through the House: On the Christmas Eve, Joanne Clayton kills her husband expecting to receive his insurance. She hears on the news that the police are seeking-out a serial-killer posing of Santa Claus. When the man knocks on her door, she can not call the police since the body of her husband lays on the living room, and Joanne locks windows and doors. When she looks for her daughter, she has a lethal surprise. (2) Reflection of Death: Carl Maitland leaves his wife and children and leaves town with his mistress. However something happens during their journey (3) Poetic Justice: The widower janitor Arthur Edward Grimsdyke is a good man that spends his leisure time with the children from the neighborhood. His heartless neighbor James Elliot does not like him and destroys his... 

Fear in the Night (1972) Trailer

Fear in the Night


Fear in the Night is a 1972 British psychological horror film, directed by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Hammer Film Productions

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It took Penny Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Penny is convinced he means to harm her... is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences? 

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