Giuliano Carnimeo – Buon funerale, amigos!… paga Sartana AKA Have a Good...
Synopsis:After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left...
View ArticlePeter Ustinov – Billy Budd (1962)
H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere. He relies on his cruel...
View ArticleLuis Buñuel – Viridiana (1961)
Synopsis:After years in Mexican exile, Buñuel returned to his native Spain to make this dark account of corruption, which was immediately banned. A young nun, full of charity, kindness, and idealistic...
View ArticleHoward Hawks – Red Line 7000 (1965)
Quote:The story of three racing drivers and three women, who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends. Jim Loomis and Mike Marsh drive for Pat Cassarian. Jim expects his fiancée...
View ArticleAndrzej Wajda – Krajobraz po bitwie AKA Landscape After Battle (1970)
Quote:Andrzej Wajda’s Krajobraz po bitwie / Landscape After the Battle was a ground-breaking film discussing the personal stories of the inmates of a WW-II camp. The film also draws inspiration from...
View ArticleCarlos Diegues – A Grande Cidade ou As Aventuras e Desventuras de Luzia e...
Directed by Cacá Diegues and released in 1966, it also has the suggestive subtitle of The adventures and misadventures of Luzia and her three friends from far away. Announcing, in general lines, the...
View ArticleAllan Davis – The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Fourth Square (1961)
Plot Synopsis by Sandra BrennanBased on an Edgar Wallace mystery, this suspenseful drama centers on an attorney who is determined to prove that his client is not a murderous burglar. 935MB | 54mn 36s...
View ArticleRoberto Rossellini – Atti degli apostoli aka Acts of the Apostles (1969)
from the imdb comments: The second in a series of historical films begun by Roberto Rossellini in the late 1960’s was this sublime movie for Italian television which traces the spread of Christianity...
View ArticleWojciech Has – Jak byc kochana AKA How to Be Loved (1963)
Quote:A drama about unfulfilled love (screenplay by Kazimierz Brandys based on his own short story). The film is for the most part the reminiscence of a radio actress named Felicja, who thinks back to...
View ArticleSatsuo Yamamoto – Zatôichi rôyaburi AKA Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
Synopsis:When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free. But it’s really all just a plot to enlist...
View ArticleRobert Tronson – The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Man at the Carlton Tower...
Plot Synopsis by Sandra BrennanIn this Edgar Wallace mystery, the trouble begins when a Rhodesian jewel thief kills a policeman and simply disappears. Now it is up to an intrepid detective, a former...
View ArticleJules Dassin – Up Tight! (1968)
Proto-blaxploitation from great master Jules Dassin Jules Dassin wanted to remake the 1935 film “The Informer” with an all-black cast, set in inner-city America. The original story was based on the...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Masculin féminin aka Masculine Feminine (1966)
A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes. 2.99GB | 1h 44mn | 790×576 | mkv...
View ArticleAntonio Carlos da Fontoura – Copacabana Me Engana AKA Copacabana Fools Me (1968)
From IMDB:Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn’t have a job, he doesn’t go to school, he just lives on the spur of the...
View ArticlePere Portabella – No compteu amb els dits (1967)
Quote:The medium-length film No compteu amb els dits, Pere Portabella’s first work as a director, starts with the following phrase: “defeated…but not conquered”. This may or should be taken as an...
View ArticleRoger Corman – X AKA X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Quote:A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences. Extras:• Terror Vision! (Interview with Joe Dante on “X”)• Audio commentary with...
View ArticleRené Clément – Le passager de la pluie AKA Rider on the Rain [+Extras] (1970)
Synopsis (possible spoilers):‘A beautiful young woman in the South of France is stalked by, then raped by, a mysterious masked assailant. She shoots him dead soon afterwards and dumps his corpse in...
View ArticleAlfred Vohrer & Samuel M. Sherman – Die blaue Hand AKA Creature With the Blue...
Die blaue Hand is a pretty wild movie on its own terms. It crams a lot of bizarre digressions into a mere 74 minutes, not counting some stuff reportedly inserted after the fact by an American...
View ArticleIrvin Kershner – The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Mordecai Jones is a rural con artist (a ‘flim-flam man’) who takes on a young army deserter; Curley as his protege, and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Sheriff Slade is in hot pursuit of the...
View ArticleSusumu Hani – Kanojo to kare AKA She and He (1963)
Quote:One of Hani’s recurring themes was the status of women in modern society. His first attempt at the subject was this Antonioniesque melodrama set in a sterile high rise complex. A woman resident...
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