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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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Julien Duvivier – Diaboliquement vôtre AKA Diabolically Yours (1967)
1961-1970CrimeFranceJulien DuvivierThrillerA provocative French thriller places a wealthy man (Delon) at the center of an extraordinary plot after a car crash leaves him unable to remember who he is. With his wife (Senta Berger) convinced he is faking amnesia, he sets out to discover who and why someone wants him to believe he is going crazy and should end his life.Read More »
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Édouard Molinaro – Peau d’espion (1967) (HD)
1961-1970Édouard MolinaroFranceThrillerSynopsis :
Charles Beaulieu, who served as an Army officer during the Algerian War, has become a novelist. Unfortunately for a playboy who lives in a big way like him, his books sell poorly. His need for money makes him accept an offer by Major Rhome, his former superior in Algeria, now one of the heads of the French counter-espionage agency. Charles’ mission will consist in preventing the defection of laser specialist Henri Banck’s defection to Red China…
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Jean-Pierre Desagnat – Les Etrangers AKA The Strangers (1969)
1961-1970CrimeFranceJean-Pierre DesagnatThrillerChamoun and May lives in no-mans land after running from the mafia. One day Kaine, a diamond robber show up. He’s on the run from Sheriff Blade. Now they are hunted by the mafia and the law.Read More »
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Cy Endfield & Roger Corman & Gordon Hessler – De Sade (1969)
1961-1970Cy EndfieldDramaEroticaGordon HesslerRoger CormanUSAA fictionalized biography of the world’s most celebrated sexual and physical pervert, who was infamous for his erotic behavior – going from woman to woman, seeking a love that eluded him.Read More »
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Wim Wenders – Der scharlachrote Buchstabe AKA The Scarlet Letter (1973)
1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyWim WendersWenders explained that the experience of directing this, his second film, was the usual one which occurs with a new director. It is much more difficult and much less successful. One of the biggest problems is that the interior shots were finished first (Normally exteriors are shot first). These were shot at a studio in Cologne. If you notice in the interior shots, the landscape outside the windows does not appear. The windows were covered with a variant of the rice paper you see in traditional Japanese homes. This was done because they did not know what the outside would look like. Care also had to be taken with not showing the environment outside the doors of interior shots. Read More »
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Volker Schlöndorff – Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass AKA The Morals of Ruth Halbfass (1972)
Volker Schlöndorff1971-1980CrimeDramaGermanyfrom Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis, “Volker Schlöndorff’s Cinema”
Volker Schlöndorff based his film “Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass” on a rather spectacular murder case that involved a rich Düsseldorff industrialist’s wife, Minouche Schubert. The case was the stuff of tabloid newspaper exposés, and to some extent “The Morals of Ruth Halbfass” was a calculated attempt by Schlöndorff to win over a popular audience.Read More »
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Werner Klingler – Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse AKA The Terror of Doctor Mabuse (1962)
1961-1970CrimeGermanyHorrorWerner KlinglerSynopsis
Evil genius Dr. Mabuse hypnotizes the director of an insane asylum in this remake of Fritz Lang’s 1933 cinematic landmark.Read More » -
Michael Verhoeven – Wer im Glashaus liebt… AKA He Who Loves in a Glass House (1971)
1971-1980ArthouseCultGermanyMichael VerhoevenMichael Verhoeven shot the film on 16mm in the Vienna studio of painter Hundertwasser, for the first time with his wife Senta Berger as an actress.
Due to “Indecent Exposure” Verhoeven and his main actor were imprisoned for three days. The film was temporarily confiscated for its obscenity.Read More »
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