Paolo Cavara & Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi – Mondo cane (1962)
Synopsis:A documentary that shocked many viewers at the time of its release, this film presents scenes from across the globe that feature strange rituals. Animal slaughter and bizarre religious...
View ArticleRobert Aldrich – The Last Sunset (1961)
Quote:Brendan O’Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O’Malley’s heels is lawman Dana...
View ArticleLasse Braun – Tropical Paradise (1969)
This film was made on the tropical islands in the Caribbean and is a tribute from Lasse Braun to the girls from Trinidad. Filled with the joy of life, colours and explosive sensuality, in the...
View ArticleDavid Greenberg – Iris (1968)
A man pretends to be married to his ex-wife for the sake of his mother’s sanity. But when he finds love with his secretary, and later a 17-year-old, he ends up lost in confusion. One of the better...
View ArticleMircea Dragan – Columna AKA The Column (1968)
The Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania. He places a Roman centurion in his place to occupy his latest...
View ArticleLasse Braun – Dr. Wu (1970)
A group of spies kidnaps a lady with a secret McGuffin item. Some information from Lasse Braun: The Official Website: In February 1977, while LB was shooting some movies in London, his archive cellar...
View ArticleVicente Escrivá – Dulcinea AKA Girl from La Mancha (1962)
A letter from Don Quixote to his beloved Dulcinea arrives in the hands of Almonza, a market maid. The woman, shaken by the letter, decides to go in search of Don Quixote, whom she finds on his...
View ArticleEbrahim Golestan – Tappe-haye Marlik AKA The Hills of Marlik (1963)
The Hills of Marlik (1963, 15 min.) beautifully and suggestively documents archaeological excavations. Directed and narrated by Ebrahim Golestan. 92MB | 14mn 3s | 644×478 | mkv...
View ArticleClaude Chabrol – La ligne de démarcation (1966) (HD)
1941. A little town in the Jura is cut in half by a river that forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone. 11.5GB | 2 h 1 min | 1792×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleLasse Braun – Chains of Eroticism (1968)
A young lady explores a dungeon of a castle. Some information from Lasse Braun: The Official Website: In February 1977, while LB was shooting some movies in London, his archive cellar was flooded, but...
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 ArticleVal Guest – 80,000 Suspects (1963)
Synopsis:British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of stemming the disease, he must locate and isolate its source. As if...
View ArticleSergio Gobbi – Maldonne (1969)
Synopsis:In this thrilling mystery of mistaken identity, Jacques (Pierre Vaneck) is a piano player in a nightclub who is approached by a man he never met before. The stranger offers him a job posing...
View ArticleHynek Bocan – Cest a sláva AKA Honor and Glory (1968)
This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to bend the backbone in face of foreign rule. Situating the story at the close of the Thirty Year War...
View ArticleCornel Wilde – Lancelot and Guinevere AKA Sword of Lancelot (1963)
“Lancelot and Guinevere” (known as “Sword of Lancelot” in the U.S.) is a British 1963 film starring Cornel Wilde and his real-life wife at the time, Jean Wallace. This lesser-known version of the...
View ArticleJudd Ne’eman – Ha-Simla AKA The Dress (1969)
Three short stories of life in Tel Aviv; A girl meets a boy in a library and has to decide what to do next; A young husband comes home to meet his wife’s boyfriend; A young clerk opens a letter and...
View ArticlePierre Schoendoerffer – La 317ème section AKA The 317th Platoon (1965)
Director Pierre Schoendoerffer grippingly brings the close of the French war in Indochina to the screen in his portrayal of two officers and a group of Laotian soldiers serving under them in 1954. The...
View ArticleDino Risi – I mostri AKA The Monsters AKA 15 From Rome (1963)
This two hour film contains no less than twenty different vignettes. Traffic jams, a father passing on to his son the deceitful ways to survive everyday life, punch drunk ex-fighters, exploitation of...
View ArticleMichael Gill & Peter Montagnon & Ann Turner – Civilisation: A Personal View...
Quote:A television documentary series outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2. Both the...
View ArticleKen Loach – Cathy Come Home (1966)
Quote:From the BBC’s influential ‘Wednesday Play’ series. This tells the bleak tale of Cathy, who loses her home, husband and eventually her child through the inflexibility of the British welfare...
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