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Director: Claude Chabrol    More Info
Starring: Orson Welles, Marlene Jobert, Anthony Perkins, Michel Piccoli, Guido Alberti, Ermanno Casanova, Mathilde Ceccarelli, Eric Frisdal, Giovanni Sciuto, Vittorio Sanipoli

 In this interesting mystery, Charles (Anthony Perkins) becomes enamored with his father's (Orson Welles) new bride (Marlene Jobert), and events lead to murder.

Director: Aleksandar Petrovic    More Info
Starring: Mimsy Farmer, Ugo Tognazzi, Pavle Vujisic, Alain Cuny, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ljuba Tadic, Tasko Nacic, Janez Vrhovec, Fabijan Sovagovic, Danilo Stojkovic

 This whimsical satire takes place in Moscow during the 1920s. Playright Nikolaj (Ugo Tognazzi) attends the dress rehearsal for his play in which most cast members object to performing. His girlfriend, Margaret (Mimsy Farmer), and Professor Voland (Alain Cuny) both want the play to go on. When Nikolaj discovers that the Professor is, in reality, the Devil, his attempt to warn others results in him being placed in an asylum. Now the Devil is free to add his own special effects to the play, and audience chaos follows.

Director: Michele Lupo    More Info
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Florinda Bolkan, Giuliano Gemma, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Bruno Corazzari, Vittorio Fanfoni, Wolfgang Preiss, Romano Puppo, John Bartha, Allen Stanley

 Newly paroled safecracker Wallace (Kirk Douglas) joins up with a trapeze artist (Giuliano Gemma) in a plot to partake of $1 million through illegal means.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder    More Info
Starring: Hans Hirschmuller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Andrea Schober, Gusti Kreissl, Kurt Raab, Heide Simon, Klaus Lowitsch, Karl Scheydt, Ingrid Caven

 This is a bleak, but powerful, portrait of Hans, a fruit peddler on the streets of a German town. Starting with high hopes after returning from a tour in the French Foreign Legion, he settles into a loveless marriage, and his depression gets deeper as his failures mount. He finally drinks himself to death.

Director: Claude Lelouch    More Info
Starring: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione, Yves Robert, Johnny Hallyday, Nicole Courcel, Andre Falcon, Juan Luis Bunuel

 Five thieves find that business is slowing with a change in the times. They decide they need new line of work and posing as terrorists, complete with abductions, is the business of choice. Business booms.

Director: Federico Fellini    More Info
Starring: Federico Fellini, Peter Gonzales, Stefano Majore, Pia De Doses, Renato Giovanneli, Fiona Florence, Marne Maitland, Galliano Sbarra, Alvaro Vitali, Gore Vidal

 This semi-autobiographical film looks at Rome as seen by Federico Fellini when he arrived in the city and provides his impressionistic view of life.

Director: Wim Wenders    More Info
Starring: Senta Berger, Lou Castel, Hans Christian Blech, Yella Rottlander, Yelena Samarina, William Layton, Rudiger Vogler, Tito Garcia, Jose Villasante, Alfredo Mayo

 This is a good Wim Wenders rendition of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic tale. Wenders' characterization of the early immigrants' biases and customs is interesting, and the acting is likewise good. It tells the story of Hester Prynne (Senta Berger) who is disgraced after having a sexual encounter and must wear the letter "A" on her blouse, and of the Reverend (Lou Castel) living with his indiscretion but sworn to secrecy by Hester.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky    More Info
Starring: Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Juri Jarvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Nikolai Grinko, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Sos Sarkissian, Olga Barnet, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Yulian Semyonov

 The Solaris mission has been operating a base on a distant planet. Now, when one of its three scientists dies, a psychologist, Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis), is sent to take his place. Upon his arrival, Kelvin notices very strange occurrences that appear related to alien life forms. Another good film from a good director.

Director: Sergio Corbucci    More Info
Starring: Tomas Milian, Susan George, Telly Savalas, Rosanna Yanni, Franco Giacobini, Eduardo Fajardo, Herbert Fux, Laura Betti, Werner Pochath, Alvaro de Luna

 Mean and violent Jed (Tomas Milian) robs the rich and gives to the poor in this spaghetti Western set in the Southwest. He takes on a partner, Sonny (Susan George), who wants to experience excitement–and she gets it. Meanwhile, the sheriff (Telly Savalas) is on their trail.

Director: Francois Truffaut    More Info
Starring: Bernadette Lafont, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand, Andre Dussollier, Philippe Leotard, Anne Kreis, Gilberte Geniat, Daniele Girard, Martine Ferriere

 While writing his book "Criminal Women," criminology student Stanislaus (Andre Dussollier) visits a prison and interviews inmate Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont). As she relates her past to Stanislaus, she reveals that while she is accused of attempting to kill both her husband (Philippe Leotard) and her lover (Charles Denner), she has indirectly been involved in the killing of her father and mother-in-law as well. By the time she finishes her stories, Stanislaus, like others before, falls in love with Camille, and now he determines to prove her innocence.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard    More Info
Starring: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Jean Pignol, Pierre Oudrey, Elizabeth Chauvin, Eric Chartier, Yves Gabrielli, Castel Casti, Louis Bugette

 A journalist (Jane Fonda) and her former filmmaker husband (Yves Montand) get involved in a factory strike in this film about revolutions and relationships amidst global imperialism.

Director: Ciuliano Carnimeo    More Info
Starring: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Paola Quattrini, Giampiero Albertini, Franco Agostini, George Rigaud, Annabella Incontrera, Oreste Lionello, Carla Brait, Carla Mancini

 [Full title: "What Are Those Strange Drops of Blood Doing on Jennifer's Body?"] Jennifer (Edwige Fenech) moves into an apartment and immediately becomes the target of a killer. There are plenty of suspects in this fair mystery/thriller that has its share of "grossness" as well.

Director: Istvan Szabo    More Info
Starring: Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Karoly Kovacs, Rita Bekes, Erzsi Pasztor, Edit Lenkey, Andras Balint, Zoltan Zelk, Peter Muller, Janos Jani

 A Hungarian apartment building is to be demolished. As the time for demolition nears, the residents reflect on their pasts–including World War II's stories and changes brought about by the war as well as from the 1956 revolt. Visionary.

Director: Federico Fellini    More Info
Starring: Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio, Giuseppe Ianigro, Magali Noel, Nando Orfei, Ciccio Ingrassia, Luigi Rossi, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli

 Federico Fellini presents an insightful view of mid-1930s' Italy as seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy. This is the picture of a changing Italy as fascism overtakes the country and received the Best Foreign Film Academy Award.

Director: Juan Antonio Bardem    More Info
Starring: Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, Alfredo Mayo, Nuria Gimeno, Christine Betzner, Maribel Martin, Saturno Cerra, Juan Cazalilla, Susana Latour, Erasmo Pascual

 Newly released from a mental institution, John (Renaud Verley) returns home to exact revenge on his aunt and three cousins who had unjustly committed him three years earlier.

Director: Vittorio De Sica    More Info
Starring: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, Jose Maria Prada, Adriana Asti, Teresa Gimpera, Anna Carena, Miranda Campa, Hugo Blanco, Angela Cardile

 Clara (Florinda Bolkan) has her hands full trying to support her family–children, disabled husband, obnoxious brother-in-law, and senile mother–on the meager wages of a factory worker. Things take a turn for the better when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and enters a sanatorium where her spirits and body are improved. Sadly, it's only a brief vacation before she must return to her former life.

Director: Alfonso Arau    More Info
Starring: Alfonso Arau, Pancho Cordova, Carmen Salinas, Lina Montes, Carolina Barrett, Virma Gonzalez, Arturo Alegro, Hector Ortega, Raul Padilla, Agustin Isunza

 A stranger (Alfonso Arau) arrives in a Mexican town and is mistaken for a federal inspector for whom they have been anxiously waiting. He is treated as a hero in expectation of doing great things for the community. Meanwhile, the government attempts to get him to leave by offering bribes. A fun flick based on a comic strip, "The Super Machos."

Director: Bertrand Tavernier    More Info
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Yves Afonso, Julien Bertheau, William Sabatier, Jacques Hilling, Clotilde Joano, Andree Tainsy, Sylvain Rougerie

 Michel Descombes (Philippe Noiret) is a clockmaker who lives with his son. One day when a policeman shows up at his doorstep and states that Michel's son, Bernard (Sylvain Rougerie) has committed murder and is on the lam, he realizes that he doesn't know much about his own son. Michel must reevaluate his life and beliefs after Bernard is captured and expresses no remorse over his actions since the man deserved to be killed. Excellent performance by Noiret.

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre    More Info
Starring: Alain Delon, Sydne Rome, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Marc Bory, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Louis Seigner, Jacques Maury, Monique Melinand, Madeleine Ozeray

 Julien (Alain Delon) has high political ambitions and devises plans to achieve a government post. Meanwhile, he strives to please his mistress, Creezy (Sydne Rome), while dealing with his problems, which include his radical son and a guilt complex concerning his wife who is in a mental institution. Based on an award-winning novel by Felicien Marceau.

Director: Carlos Aured    More Info
Starring: Paul Naschy, Fabiola Falcon, Patty Shepard, Maria Silva, Maritza Olivares, Jose Manuel Martin, Eduardo Calvo, Antonio Vidal Molina, Santiago Rivero, Ines Morales

 Paul Naschy is back for the seventh time as the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky. A curse had been put on Waldemar hundreds of years ago, and now the curse is revived by a gypsy to gain revenge on Waldemar.

Director: Satyajit Ray    More Info
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Babita, Sandhya Roy, Govinda Chakravarty, Chitra Banerjee, Suchita Roy, Sheli Pal

 In 1942 a famine took the lives of five million people in India. This is the story of how the tragedy affected the nature of one Bramin schoolteacher, Gangacharan.

Director: Michele Lupo    More Info
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Tony Lo Bianco, Edwige Fenech, Jean Rochefort, Jess Hahn, Fausto Tozzi, Mario Erpichini, Adolfo Lastretti, Silvano Tranquilli, Nello Pazzafini

 Feared crime boss Frankie (Lee Van Cleef) has an admirer in small-time hustler Tony (Tony Lo Bianco). Though Frankie doesn't care for Tony, the two teams up after Tony saves Frankie from a mob hit man. An Italian-made spoof on the mob scene.

Director: Claude Lelouch    More Info
Starring: Lino Ventura, Francoise Fabian, Charles Gerard, Andre Falcon, Claude Mann, Frederic de Pasquale, Mireille Mathieu, Lilo, Gerard Sire, Silvano Tranquilli

 Con man Simon (Lino Ventura) is released from prison with investigators on his trail–the jewelry from his last big job has not been found and the police hope he will lead them to it. After Simon loses the tail, he looks up his partner in crime (Charles Gerard) and reminisces about the heist and the woman (Francoise Fabian) he found while preparing for it.

Director: Carlos Aured    More Info
Starring: Paul Naschy, Emma Cohen, Victor Alcazar, Helga Line, Betsabe Ruiz, Luis Ciges, Julio Pena, Maria Jose Canudo, Juan Cazalilla, Francisco Llinas

 A warlock (Paul Naschy) is decapitated by an angry mob, and his wife (Emma Cohen) is likewise tortured and executed in medieval France. Now, a descendant uncovers the pair, and terror reigns supreme as they come back to life–with other zombies joining in the romp. Violent.

Director: Mario Bava    More Info
Starring: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano, Alida Valli, Espartaco Santoni, Gabriele Tinti, Kathy Leone, Eduardo Fajardo, Franz von Treuberg

 Lisa (Elke Sommer) gets lost while touring Italy. She ends up in a mansion that is truly weird: corpses, wax dummies (one that looks like her), a depraved family, and a strange housekeeper (Telly Savalas) who is the Devil. A gory, unsettling film.