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A Swiss bank learns that the confidentiality of several anonymous numbered accounts has been compromised and blackmail threats have been made to five holders of the accounts. They include a crooked arms dealer, who received a demand for five million Swiss francs. He refuses to pay and is shot dead. The bank is also told to pay ten million francs to keep the accounts secret.
The bank hires David Christopher (Janssen), a former U.S. Treasury official who now resides in Geneva. In the course of his investigation, Christopher talks to the four living blackmailees – beautiful Zürich resident Denise Abbott (Berger), Texas businessman Dwight McGowan (John Ireland), Chicago crook Robert Hayes (John Saxon) and Dutchman Andre Kosta (Arthur Brauss).Read More »
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Jack Arnold – The Swiss Conspiracy (1976)
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Barbara Peeters – Starhops (1978)
1971-1980Barbara PeetersComedyUSAThree carhops try to help save a failing drive-in restaurant.Read More »
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Doo-yong Lee – Choihui jeungin AKA The Last Witness (1980)
Doo-yong Lee1971-1980ActionCrimeSouth KoreaJi-hye, the daughter of an army captain, receives a treasure map from her father just hours before he is killed by communist guerillas in the mountains near their home. While the communists are defeated, several escape the battle and begin a quest to track down the map and make its secrets their own.Read More »
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Anthony Spinelli – Aunt Peg (1980)
Anthony Spinelli1971-1980EroticaUSAA Hollywood adult film producer tries to get by financially while having numerous sexual encounters to satisfy her insatiable lust for sex.Read More »
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Zerkalo AKA Mirror (1975) (HD)
1971-1980Andrei TarkovskyArthouseDramaUSSRA dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.Read More »
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Stalker [Lumière Publishing] (1979)
Andrei Tarkovsky1971-1980DramaSci-FiUSSRA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.Read More »
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Masaru Konuma – Ikenie Fujin AKA Wife to Be Sacrificed (1974)
Masaru Konuma1971-1980EroticaJapanAkiko, a woman must endure an extreme ritual when her ex-husband, who has recently escaped from jail, kidnaps her, brings her to a house in remote wooded area. There he subjects her to sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Through the rage and lust, the pair develop a relationship, that flourishes especially when Kunisada, the ex-husband, meets a young couple…Read More »
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Béla Tarr – Cinemarxisme (1979)
Béla Tarr1971-1980ArthouseExperimentalHungaryA student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979.
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Bill Hays – The Serpent Son [The Oresteia] (1979)
1971-1980Bill HaysClassicsTVUnited KingdomThis trilogy was broadcast in three weekly instalments as Agamemnon, Grave Gifts (the production’s title for Choephoroi, the play also known as Libation Bearers) and Furies (the production’s title for Eumenides). The three plays went out at 9.25pm on BBC2 on Wednesday nights (95, 85, and 75 mins respectively). The trilogy was followed by a half-hour ‘sophisticated modern comedy’ in the style of the ancient satyr play which traditionally followed tragic trilogies: Raphael and McLeish’s Of Mycenae and Men—which follows the reunion of Helen (Diana Dors) and Menelaus (Freddie Jones) after the fall of Troy—was directed by Hugh David.Read More »