1970s

  • Jean-François Davy – Prenez la queue comme tout le monde (1973)

    Jean-François Davy1971-1980ComedyEroticaFrance

    Erotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.Read More »

  • Sara Gómez – De cierta manera (1977) (HD)

    1971-1980CubaDramaSara GómezThe Female Gaze

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    Quasi documentary about the creation of the Miraflores housing development after the Cuban revolution. In this first Cuban feature film made by an Afro-Cuban and by a woman, Sara Gómez uses innovative documentary and fictional techniques to focus on the marginalised in the poorest, most underdeveloped areas of Cuba. Against a backdrop of dismantled slums and new housing construction, the relationship between a mulatta and a Black Cuban unfolds as a conflict between ingrown ideas of race, class and gender and a Revolution that is trying to dismantle the old, outmoded structures.Read More »

  • Beni Montresor – La messe dorée AKA La profonda luce dei sensi (1975)

    1971-1980Beni MontresorDramaEroticaFrance

    Lucia Bosé and Maurice Ronet in the movie “The Golden Mass”
    Rome: “I’m finishing to shoot a movie about women’s delirium and men’s tiredness in the world of today”, says Beni Montresor, the young scenographer at his second direction with the movie called “The Golden Mass” (The Deep Light of Senses). A movie which tells the story of a party during which all the participants want to get rid of their tabooes. The party takes place by night in a luxurious baroque castle in France. The lead actors: Lucia Bosé and Maurice Ronet.Read More »

  • Tom Toelle – Das Millionenspiel AKA The Millions Game (1970)

    Drama1961-1970GermanySci-FiTom Toelle

    A German action/sci-fi television film of 1970, directed by Tom Toelle and starring Jörg Pleva, Suzanne Roquette and Dieter Thomas Heck.

    Wolfgang Menge wrote the screenplay, adapting the short story “The Prize of Peril” by the American writer Robert Sheckley. Wolfgang Menge and Tom Toelle received the 1971 Prix Italia for best television movie.Read More »

  • Alanis Obomsawin – Mother of Many Children (1977)

    1971-1980Alanis ObomsawinCanadaDocumentary

    Collage of stories about the lives and times of sturdy Indigenous and Native women from all around the world and their enduring struggles to maintain their personal matriarchal traditions.Read More »

  • Claude Berri – Le pistonné AKA The Man with Connections (1970)

    1961-1970Claude BerriFranceWar

    the AMG clerk wrote :
    “Claude (Guy Bedos) is content with his life. He has a girlfriend Tania (Zorica Lozic) and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent for basic training outside Paris before being shipped off to Algeria. His stops in Morocco and Algeria are uneventful as far as military action goes […]
    Claude Pieplu is the Commandant who tries but can’t get Claude out of his military obligations. Georges Geret plays the gruff Sergeant who takes a liking to the pacifistic soldier in this comedy drama.”Read More »

  • Jean Rollin – Apothéose Porno (1976)

    1971-1980ComedyEroticaFranceJean Rollin

    Mid 1970’s Jean Rollin porn opus which is credited to one of his many pseudonyms, Michel Gand. His involvement with this film varies upon the source material but I think his influence can be seen in the finished product. In the context of his hardcore film output.
    The film begins with Élisabeth Buré, in her brunette phase, getting ready to dress while being watched by Richard Lemieuvre on the bed. this proceeds to sex. Catherine Castel is waiting impatiently in another room. She goes to investigate and joins in for awhile then leaves. Guy Royer arrives and he and Catherine Castel have sex on a couch while watching a porn film. Frequent intercutting occurs between the film within a film and what is going on on the couch.Read More »

  • Paul Wendkos – Terror on the Beach (1973)

    1971-1980Paul WendkosThrillerTVUSA

    “Terror on the Beach” is a tense and relatively gripping ABC Movie of the week, starring yet again Dennis Weaver in the role of anxious father and husband of a continuously bickering household. All he ever wanted was to take his family on a camping trip to a secluded beach, but the trip inevitably turns into a nightmarish ordeal. Apart from the typical complications that probably all American model families have to struggle through (like the kid rebelling against their parents and such) there’s the slightly more disturbing situation of a gang of youthful hoodlums with beach buggies terrorizing the living daylights out of them. Inventively cashing in on the contemporary Charles Manson hype, the thugs are hippies that petrify the Glynn family for no reason than to get kicks. Read More »

  • Georges Dufaux – À votre santé (1974)

    1971-1980CanadaDocumentaryGeorges DufauxTV

    Here’s a wonderful example of the high standards quality of the Canadian production of the Film Office, whatever the destination of the film is : in this case, a TV movie.

    If you have seen Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital, here’s a complementary view on the restless activity, and consequently accidents, generated by big cities that end into the Emergency rooms of public hospitals.Read More »

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