A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler’s murder and a possible insurance scam.Read More »
1971-1980
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Walter Grauman – They Call It Murder (1971)
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Fernando Matos Silva – O Mal-Amado (1974)
1971-1980DramaFernando Matos SilvaPortugalThe Soares are a bourgeois couple, living in a good neighbourhood of Lisbon, but João, their son, is not integrating well in that pattern. He attends more political meetings than classes at the Faculty of Economy, and gets a job but that’s short lived because his female boss makes him her lover.Read More »
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Walerian Borowczyk – Dzieje Grzechu AKA The Story of Sin (1975)
Walerian Borowczyk1971-1980DramaPolandSynopsis:
The life of a beautiful, young and pious woman is thrown into chaos when her parents takes in a dashingly handsome lodger. Having embarked on a torrid affair, the lodger goes off to Rome to seek a divorce from his estranged wife.Unable to live apart from her beloved, our hero leaves home only to fall prey to the infatuations and lusts of a band of noble admirers, unsavoury criminals and utopian do-gooders…Read More »
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Anne Claire Poirier – Mourir à tue-tête AKA A Scream from Silence (1979)
1971-1980Anne Claire PoirierArthouseCanadaDramaQuote:
A therapist’s client, a young auditioning actress, a guru’s disciple, a secretary, a wife: five short rape stories before the start of the main story. Suzanne, a nurse, returns home at midnight after her work. She is attacked by a man who forces her into his truck, beats her, insults her, rapes her. The following medical examination and statements at the police station are felt as an extension of the rape. Library documents broaden the subject to all those women who, during the Vietnam War among others, serve as distractions to the warriors, to this barbaric practice still current in Africa, clitoridectomy, “the most absolute rape, that of the woman within the woman.”Read More » -
Jean Garret – Possuídas Pelo Pecado (1976)
Jean Garret1971-1980BrazilDramaDr. Leme, a rich old man, is frustrated about not having children with his wife Raquel. In his mansion, he gives parties filled with drinking and sex with his secretaries. André, his driver, becomes lover of Rachel and they plan to kill Lemer to get hold of his fortune.Read More »
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Frédéric Rossif – Georges Mathieu ou La fureur d’être (1974)
Frédéric Rossif1971-1980ArthouseDocumentaryFranceSummer 1971. In front of Frederic Rossif’s cameras, a young Vangelis Papathanassiou improvises live on screen using his self-made set-up of electronic instruments and percussions while George Mathieu is painting two giant canvases: The Election of Charles Quint and The Necessity of Hope. The great French dramaturge François Billetdoux writes a beautiful text specially for this opportunity.Read More »
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Claude Chabrol – Juste avant la nuit aka Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Claude Chabrol1971-1980FranceThrillerCharles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.Read More »
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Eloy de la Iglesia – Los placeres ocultos AKA Hidden Pleasures (1977)
Eloy de la Iglesia1971-1980DramaEroticaQueer Cinema(s)SpainA highly controversial film upon its release in Spain as the first feature narrative with homosexuality openly discussed, Hidden Pleasures follows Eduardo, a wealthy banker who has a pastime for hiring young street hustlers to keep his bed warm, yet ignores requests from a friend to join the social gay movements. One day while cruising around town he spots Miguel, an extremely handsome teen who has a penchant for women and motorcycles. Eduardo offers Miguel a job and eventually gets closer and closer with him. Eduardo’s building lust and the jealousy of others in their lives creates havoc for all.Read More »
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Karel Zeman – Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci AKA A Thousand and One Nights (1974)
1971-1980AnimationCzech RepublicFantasyKarel ZemanAMG: In this animated feature-length movie, five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor (originally five separate “shorts” created between 1971-1974) get him mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life. As Sinbad triumphs over adversity, parents should be warned that some scenes of unexpected cruelty and questionable ethics (the Old Man of the Sea has his head crushed while he is too drunk to know what he is doing), may not be the best fare for smaller totsRead More »