The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Year: 1977
Country: USA
Director: Charles B. Pierce
Starring: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Jim Citty, Charles B. Pierce, Robert Aquino
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Set in the late 40's the residents of Texarkana, Texas are left terrorized by a mysterious hooded killer who is stalking victims during the evening and leaving the local police at a loss.
The Call of the Wild
Year: 1972
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, West Germany, France
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Charlton Heston, Sancho Gracia, Alfredo Mayo, George Eastman, Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, Maria Rohm
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ACADEMY AWARD® winner Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur) heads an international cast as John Thornton in this adaptation of the classic novel by Jack London, famed author of The Sea Wolf and White Fang. Government mail carriers Thornton and Pete Smith (Raimund Harmstorf) take mail and supplies across the brutal Yukon wilderness from Skagway to Dawson City during the 1898 Klondike gold rush. An intelligent German Shepherd, Buck is stolen from his beloved owner in California and sold to John as a sled dog, whose loyalty to his new master is tested when John tries his own hand at prospecting. Praised by Leonard Maltins Movie & Video Guide for its "str...
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Genres: Western
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Robert Duvall, Cliff Robertson, Donald Moffat, Royal Dano, Robert H. Harris, Matt Clark, Wayne Sutherlin
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The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN.
Innocent Bystanders
Genres: Action, Crime, Adventure
Year: 1972
Country: UK
Director: Peter Collinson
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Ferdy Mayne, Warren Mitchell, Sue Lloyd, Stanley Baker, J.G. Devlin, Derren Nesbitt
Available Quality: Hi Def
This one came in kind of late in that period of all the 007-imitation movies. Some of them were terrible, like "Operation Kid Brother" (which starred Sean Connery's brother Neil!). And some were pretty good, like "Innocent Bystanders". It is well-directed and its cinematography is excellent. Its rapid editing is really neat at first, but it gets kind of annoying after a while. Baker is excellent as a cold-blooded agent who has been double-crossed by his own people. I was amused by the constant bickering of Baker's two rival agents. "Innocent Bystanders" also has a couple alumni from the 007 movies: Donald Pleasence from "You Only Live Twice" ...
The Enforcer
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1976
Country: USA
Director: James Fargo
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bradford Dillman, John Crawford, Albert Popwell, John Mitchum, Harry Guardino, Rudy Ramos
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Picking up three years after the events in Magnum Force, a threatening terrorist group called, The People's Revolutionary Strike Force declare war to the city of San Francisco and demand a ransom to be paid, otherwise they plan to blow the city apart. While Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan is at a limbo following his unorthodox method during a robbery, he's at it to dispatch the terrorist group, by playing their game by being more dirty than ever. But this time, he's got a new partner, which might prove the task to be somewhat more difficult than ever, unless the two can work together.
Man in the Wilderness
Year: 1971
Country: USA
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Starring: Sheila Raynor, James Doohan, Bryan Marshall, Percy Herbert, Richard Harris, Henry Wilcoxon, Robert Russell
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In the early 1800's, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilisation and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
Harold and Maude
Year: 1971
Country: USA
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Eric Christmas, Ruth Gordon, Ellen Geer
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The self-destructive and needy wealthy teenager Harold is obsessed by death and spends his leisure time attending funerals, watching the demolishing of buildings, visiting junkyards, simulating suicides trying to get attention from his indifferent, snobbish and egocentric mother, and having sessions with his psychologist. When Harold meets the anarchist seventy-nine-year-old Maude at a funeral, they become friends and the old lady discloses other perspectives of the cycle of life for him. Meanwhile, his mother enlists him in a dating service and tries to force Harold to join the army. On the day of Maude's eightieth birthday, Harold proposes ...
Marathon Man
Year: 1976
Country: USA
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Marc Lawrence, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
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A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his globe trotting brother, his European girlfriend and a Nazi war criminal in hiding. Includes one of the most agonizing torture scenes ever portrayed. "Is it safe?" You'll never see your dentist the same way again.
Money Movers
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1978
Country: Australia
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Tony Bonner, Terence Donovan, Ed Devereaux
Available Quality: DivX
An armoured car company is the target of repeated heists. Company leadership is enforcing new measures in order to tighten the security. However, the biggest danger of a new heist lies within the company's own ranks.
Massage Parlour
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Year: 1972
Country: West Germany
Director: Eberhard Schröder
Starring: Elisabeth Volkmann, Lukas Ammann, Felix Franchy
Available Quality: Hi Def
France, a reporter working from an international news agency, manages to be paid to visit all of Munich's massage parlors. He wants to find the whereabouts of Sonia, a personal masseuse with whom he experienced perfect bliss.
The Brood
Year: 1979
Country: Canada
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Robert A. Silverman, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Reiner Schwartz, Oliver Reed, Susan Hogan, Henry Beckman
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A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric and unconventional psychologist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with her mother and is covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from seeing the daughter but faces resistance from the secretive psychologist. Meanwhile, the wife's mother and father are attacked by strangely deformed children, and the man begins to suspect a connection with the psychologist's methods.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Genres: Action, Adventure, War
Year: 1970
Country: USA, Mexico
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Enrique Lucero, Shirley MacLaine, Alberto Morin, Armando Silvestre, John Kelly, David Estuardo
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Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defences. Inevitably the two become good friends but Sara has a secret..
Tristana
Genres: Drama
Year: 1970
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Director: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, José Calvo, Catherine Deneuve, Antonio Casas, Lola Gaos, José María Caffarel
Available Quality: Hi Def
When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable nature, despite his socialistic views about business and religion. But Don Lope's one weakness is women, and he falls for the innocent girl in his charge, seduces her, makes her his lover, though all the while explaining to her that she is as free as he. But when she acts on this freedom, Don Lope must deal with the consequences of his world-view.
The Way Of The Dragon
Year: 1972
Country: Hong Kong
Director: Bruce Lee
Starring: Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Fu Ching Chen, Chung-Hsin Huang, Tony Liu, Robert Wall
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Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off. The American martial artist Colt is hired and has a showdown with Tang in Rome's famous Colosseum.
The Wold Shadow
Genres: Short
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Stan Brakhage
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A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in the shadows? Something green is out of focus. The light flashes, and the screen goes dark from time to time. We look up close at the bark of trees. Is the god of the forest to be seen?
We Won't Grow Old Together
Genres: Drama
Year: 1972
Country: Italy, France
Director: Maurice Pialat
Starring: Jean Yanne, Marlène Jobert, Christine Fabréga
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We Won't Grow Old Together (French: Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble) is a 1972 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival where Jean Yanne won the award for Best Actor.
Zorro
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 1975
Country: Italy, France
Director: Duccio Tessari
Starring: Adriana Asti, Stanley Baker, Giampiero Albertini, Moustache, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Alain Delon, Marino Masé
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A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.
The Process
Genres: Short
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Unknown
Available Quality: DivX
Was distinguished professor of film studies at the University of Colorado.Made nearly 380 films, each lasting between 9 seconds and 4 hours.Born in a home for unwed pregnant women. Adoptive mother named him James Stanley Brakhage.Dropped out of Dartmouth during his freshman year (1952).Dartmouth College class of 1955.Though his films were rarely seen outside the experimental film community, there is one bit of film that Brakhage is supposed to have made that practically everyone in America has seen -- the original shot of a Downy fabric softener bottle falling in slow motion into a plump pile of towels.Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "Wor...
The Machine of Eden
Genres: Short
Year: 1970
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Available Quality: DivX
Though this film were rarely seen outside the experimental film community, there is one bit of film that Brakhage is supposed to have made that practically everyone in America has seen -- the original shot of a Downy fabric softener bottle falling in slow motion into a plump pile of towels.
The Legend of Hell House
Year: 1973
Country: UK
Director: John Hough
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Peter Bowles, Roland Culver, Pamela Franklin, Gayle Hunnicutt
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A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.