Leslie H. Martinson – FBI Code 98 (1963)
Robert Cannon (Jack Kelly), Fred Vitale (Ray Danton) and Alan Nichols (Andrew Duggan), three men vital to America’s missile program, are en route to Cape Canaveral when a bomb is discovered in a...
View ArticleKihachi Okamoto – Akage aka Red Lion (1969)
Gonzo (Toshiro Mifune), a member of the Imperial Restoration Force, is being asked by the emperor to deliver official news to his home village of a New World Order. Wanting to pose as a military...
View ArticleGérard Oury – Le Corniaud AKA The Sucker (1965)
In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American...
View ArticlePaul Almond – Act of the Heart (1970)
Martha Hayes, a woman fanatically devoted to Jesus Christ, ekes out a meager existence in Montreal, Canada. As a singer in an Anglican Church choir, Martha meets and is fascinated by Father Michael...
View ArticleVatroslav Mimica – Tifusari AKA Typhoid Victims (1963)
The film was inspired by Jure Kaštelan’s famous war poem Tifusari. Aleksandar Marks’s woodcut-style drawings graphically depict hallucinations of sick partisans marching through wastelands. 254MB | 12...
View ArticleJan Nemec – Oratorio for Prague [+Extra] (1968)
One of the most powerful documentaries ever made, Oratorio for Prague contains the only footage from the Soviet-led invasion of Prague in 1968. Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Nĕmec (A Report on the...
View ArticleJerzy Kawalerowicz – Matka Joanna od aniolów AKA Mother Joan of the Angels...
In the seventeenth century, Father Suryn arrives in Ludyn, a village on what was then the eastern border of Poland, to perform exorcisms on the Ursuline nuns who are allegedly possessed by the devil....
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Jean-Luc Godard’s documentary Sympathy for the Devil combines footage of the Rolling Stones in a recording studio creating one of their masterpieces (the song gave the film its name) with the sort of...
View ArticleJean Aurel – Les Femmes aka The Vixen (1969)
Plot Outline: Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs. 951MB | 1:27:03 | 656×384 | avi...
View ArticleKazuo Ikehiro – Zatôichi senryô-kubi AKA Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)
Synopsis:After paying his respects at the grave of a man he accidentally killed, the legendary blind swordsman Zatoichi (played in top form as always by Shintaro Katsu) arrives at a village where the...
View ArticleWei Lo – Duan hun gu AKA Death Valley (1968)
Synopsis:Lo Wei was twenty years into his notable career when he wrote, directed, and co-starred in this tale of a murdered lord, a hired killer who unknowingly becomes friends with his intended...
View ArticleAndrey Konchalovskiy – Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne...
From Senses of Cinema:Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh (Asya’s Happiness) is a seminal film, a film that suffered numerous title changes and edits by edict. It is a...
View ArticleLuigi Bazzoni & Franco Rossellini – La donna del lago AKA The Possessed (1965)
Quote:When a visitor arrives in a small Italian village, he discovers that the residents are acting like soul-less zombies–and he begins to suspect that they may be under the influence of a mysterious...
View ArticleHajrudin Krvavac – Diverzanti AKA The Demolition Squad (1967)
Yugoslavian resistance fighters send out eight men on a suicide mission to bomb the airport in this World War II action drama. The locals have successfully kept the Nazis at bay on the ground, but the...
View ArticleIshirô Honda – Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijû Baragon AKA Frankenstein...
With Berlin falling, Nazi doctors ship the beating heart of the Frankenstein monster to Tokyo by U-boat. A Japanese military scientistin Hiroshima intends to use the heart, which cannot die, to create...
View ArticleZdenek Podskalský – Bílá paní AKA The White Lady (1965)
Synopsis:This castle has its own ghost – a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is a good ghost, she can make someone’s...
View ArticleSatsuo Yamamoto – Tengu-to aka Blood End (1969)
Quote:BLOOD END is one of the great unknown films from Japan’s golden era of the late 1960’s. Starring NAKADAI Tatsuya in one of his best roles, this is the story of the Mito Tengu Group who attempted...
View ArticleVera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec & Evald Schorm –...
Quote:One of the defining works of the Czech New Wave was the portmanteau film Pearls from the Deep (Perlicky na dne, 1965). Not only did it bring five key directors of the Wave (Chytilova, Jires,...
View ArticleJean-Pierre Melville – Le deuxième souffle (1966)
Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in this crime thriller. He plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes...
View ArticleEvald Schorm – Návrat ztraceného syna AKA The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)
Quote:Though he was very much a member of the community of filmmakers who graduated from FAMU and went on to shake things up during the sixties, Evald Schorm also stood apart from the rest. Like his...
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