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Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder    More Info
Starring: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Kurt Raab, Marius Aicher, Gustl Datz, Marquard Bohm, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

 In this tribute to U.S. gangster films, Ricky (Karl Scheydt), an American Vietnam vet originally from Munich, is hired by crooked cops to eliminate criminals they have not been able to catch. Things don't go as the cops planned, as Ricky plays the bad guys against the "good" guys.

Director: Antonio Margheriti    More Info
Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Klaus Kinski, Michele Mercier, Enrico Osterman, Irina Maleeva, Karin Field, Paolo Gozlino, Peter Carsten, Silvano Tranquilli, Raf Baldassarre

 Director Margheriti remakes his 1964 film "Castle of Blood" with a new cast. Alan Foster (Anthony Franciosa) accepts a bet from Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) and Lord Blackwood (Enrico Osterman) to spend a night in Blackwood's haunted mansion. When the dead return, Alan tries to escape.

Director: Hugo Fregonese    More Info
Starring: Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Patty Shepard, Helga Geissler, Angel del Pozo, Craig Hill, Paul Naschy, Fajda Nicol, Manuel de Blas, Diana Sorel

 Alien invaders from a dying planet arrive on Earth to take it over. A good way to start would be to bring our favorite monsters (Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, The Mummy, and The Werewolf) back to wreak havoc. But–The Werewolf decides to fight the invaders.

Director: Francois Truffaut    More Info
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Daniel Ceccaldi, Daniel Boulanger, Claire Duhamel

 In this, the fourth chapter of Francois Truffoult's "Antoine Doinel," Antoine (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is married to Christine (Claude Jade) but has an affair with Kyoto (Hiroko Berghauer), which results in Christine opting to get away from "domestic bliss."

Director: Dario Argento    More Info
Starring: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf, Umberto Raho, Renato Romano, Giuseppe Castellano, Pino Patti, Werner Peters

 After witnessing a murder attempt in Rome, American tourist Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante) investigates, and his actions put him and girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall) in jeopardy when the serial killer Sam spotted begins to stalk them.

Director: Eric Rohmer    More Info
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Beatrice Romand, Laurence DeMonaghan, Michele Montel, Gerard Falconetti

 Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy) is a sensible man who has professed that he is in firm control of his emotions–then for some unexplained reason he becomes obsessed with touching Claire's knee!

Director: Akira Kurosawa    More Info
Starring: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Junzaburo Ban, Kiyoko Tange, Michiko Hino, Imari Tsuji, Keiji Furuyama, Hisashi Igawa, Hideko Okiyama, Kunie Tanaka

 Kurosawa tells of life in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo through the lives of several of its inhabitants, covering the range of emotion from tragedy to humor. The title refers to the sounds that a mentally challenged, young man makes as he goes around the slums in his pretend trolley. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci    More Info
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, Jose Quaglio, Yvonne Sanson, Giuseppe Addobbati

 Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) represses his homosexual tendencies in an attempt to conform to the 1930s' middle-class Italian society. He even marries Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli). But on his way to Paris for their honeymoon, Marcello's fascist bosses give him a gun and orders to assassinate his old teacher, a political dissident. Doubts now begin to plague Marcello, and he is not sure that he is up to the task at hand.

Director: Jacques Demy    More Info
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig, Micheline Presle, Fernand Ledoux, Henri Cremieux, Sacha Pitoeff, Pierre Repp, Jean Servais

 When the queen (Catherine Deneuve) died, she made the king (Jean Marais) promise to marry a woman as beautiful as she, and he chooses his own daughter (also played by Catherine Deneuve). The daughter is not happy with this match, and a fairy (Delphine Seyrig) offers advice and helps her to escape. But, it is a prince (Jacques Perrin) who finally comes to the rescue.

Director: Jesus Franco    More Info
Starring: Marie Liljedahl, Maria Rohm, Jack Taylor, Nino Korda, Herbert Fux, Paul Muller, Christopher Lee, Anney Kablan, Maria Luisa Ponte, Colette Giacobine

 Teenager Eugenie (Marie Liljedahl) becomes the center of physical and moral abuse in this version of Marquis de Sade's "Philosophy in the Boudoir." Eugenie's father's (Paul Muller) lover, Madame de St. Ange (Maria Rohm), will have sex with him only if he allows Eugenie to come to the Madame's island mansion. Once there, Eugenie encounters sex games and drugs that totally corrupt her.

Director: Werner Herzog    More Info
Starring: Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Marianne Saar, Gertrud Piccini, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner, Gerard Maerz, Erna Gschwendtner, Pepi Hermine

 Institutionalized dwarfs are fed up with the conditions in their compound and rebel in violent fashion against their keepers. A parable on man's inhumanity to man.

Director: Noriaki Yuasa    More Info
Starring: Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy, Kon Omura, Junko Yashiro, Ryo Hayami

 When an ancient and sacred statue is dug up, monster lizard Jiger is awakened and begins wreaking havoc. Our hero Gamera tries to end this nonsense, but Jiger's tail impacts Gamera's chest during a fight, leaving eggs in the wound. Soon the baby lizard hatches and sucks the blood from Gamera. Fear not; two youngsters take a submarine ride through Gamera's bloodstream and kill the invader.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder    More Info
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer, Gunther Kaufmann, Ingrid Caven, Carla Egerer, Katrin Schaake, Irm Hermann, Jan George, Lilo Pempeit

 Fresh out of prison, Franz (Harry Baer) attempts to start a new life, but it becomes too hard and he reverts to his old ways. An early Fassbinder effort that displays his original thinking.

Director: Armando Robles Godoy    More Info
Starring: Julio Aleman, Raul Martin, Sandra Riva, Marcela Robles, Fernando Hilbeck, Jorge Montoro, Hernan Romero

 A city couple decides to move to the jungles of Peru in this beautifully filmed account of their story. It is based on the director's own experiences.

Director: Mario Bava    More Info
Starring: Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, Gerard Tichy, Jesus Puente, Femi Benussi, Luciano Pigozzi, Antonia Mas, Veronica Llimera, Silvia Lienas

 Successful, but impotent, fashion designer John Harrington (Stephen Forsyth) is also a murderer of women who have modeled his creations. As the killings continue, we start seeing the problems that drive John. Bloody, as is common with Bava, but with Bava's unique style.

Director: Elio Petri    More Info
Starring: Gian Maria Volonte, Florinda Bolkan, Salvo Randone, Gianni Santuccio, Arturo Dominici, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti, Aldo Rendine, Massimo Foschi, Aleka Paizi

 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is the story of an Italian police inspector (Gian Maria Volonte) who murders his lover, plants evidence, and is sure police will not arrest him.

Director: Claude Chabrol    More Info
Starring: Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Drouot, Michel Duchaussoy, Catherine Rouvel, Marguerite Cassan, Annie Cordy, Jean Carmet, Louise Chevalier

 During a drug-induced rage, Charles (Jean-Claude Drouot) attacks his wife, Helene (Stephane Audran), and their four-year-old son, severely injuring the son. Helene takes the son to the hospital and rents a room. Meanwhile, Charles moves in with his wealthy parents. His father (Michel Bouquet) believes that Helene is to blame for the problems and is determined to gain custody of the injured grandson. He hires Paul (Jean-Pierre Cassel) to dig up dirt on Helene, but when that comes up negative, a plan is devised to manufacture dirt.

Director: Andrzej Wajda    More Info
Starring: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Leszek Drogosz, Stefan Friedmann, Mieczyslaw Stoor, Jerzy Zelnik, Tomasz Lengren

 Mayhem reins as jubilant prisoners are freed from a concentration camp at the end of World War II. But quiet Tadeusz (Daniel Olbrychski) is only interested in retrieving his books. As resettlement stresses the survivors, Tadeusz and Nina (Stanislawa Celinska) meet and try to cope with "freedom." Powerful, but sad.

Director: Claude Lelouch    More Info
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Daniele Delorme, Charles Gerard, Christine Lelouch, Charles Denner, Amidou, Yves Robert, Judith Magre, Aldo Maccione, Paul Le Person

 Immediately after Simon (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is released from jail, he calls on friends Charlot and Martine (Charles Gerard and Christine Lelouch) to help in his new escapade: kidnap a boy and force the bank where the boy's father works into paying a large ransom. Although the ransom is paid, complications lie ahead for the trio.

Director: Guy Casaril    More Info
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Annie Girardot, Jean Carmet, Jacques Duby, Jess Hahn, Jacques Jouanneau, Noel Roquevert, Dominique Zardi, Angelo Bardi, Lucien Barjon

 Sister Agnes (Brigitte Bardot) takes off to check out life on the "outside," participating in several adventures, including prostitution. Eventually she returns to her former life as a nun.

Director: Michael Armstrong    More Info
Starring: Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Vuco, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Fux, Gaby Fuchs, Johannes Buzalski, Michael Maien, Ingeborg Schoner, Adrian Hoven

 Witch hunter Count Cumberland (Herbert Lom) extracts confessions from his victims by sadistic means. His apprentice, Count Christian von Meruh (Udo Kier), has supported Count Cumberland but loses faith after rescuing Vanessa (Olivera Vuco) during a torture session to obtain her confession. This act of running afoul of Count Cumberland leads to the sacrifice of Christian at the hands of villagers. Of course, Count Cumberland escapes, which sets the stage for the sequel: "Mark of the Devil Part 2."

Director: Olle Hellbom    More Info
Starring: Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Par Sundberg, Beppe Wolgers, Martin Ljung, Jarl Borssen, Alfred Schieske, Wolfgang Volz, Ollegard Wellton, Fredrik Ohlsson

 Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking, the girl wonder, is back with Inger Nilsson in the role of Pippi. Pippi finds a note in a bottle that has washed ashore; the note states that her father is being held by pirates in the South Seas. So, off goes Pippi in a balloon to save the day–with her friends she is babysitting and her parrot and monkey. Many adventures result as she deals with the pirates.

Director: Olle Hellbom    More Info
Starring: Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Par Sundberg, Hans Alfredson, Benno Sterzenbach, Ollegard Wellton, Walter Richter, Fredrik Ohlsson, Kurt Zips

 Red-haired heroine Pippi Longstocking is back, again being played by Inger Nilsson, in another episode of Astrid Lindgren's character. Two children have run away, and Pippi sets out to find them, and, of course, there are many adventures along the way.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville    More Info
Starring: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet, Paul Amiot, Pierre Collet, Andre Ekyan, Jean-Pierre Posier, Francois Perier

 Suave thief Corey (Alaine Delon) is released from prison at the same time that criminal Vogel (Gian Maria Volonte) escapes from custody. After Corey robs his mob boss Rico (Andre Ekyan), he teams up with Vogel and sharpshooter Jansen (Yves Montand) to pull off a sophisticated jewel heist. Meanwhile, Police Commissioner Mattei (Bourvil), from whom Vogel escaped, will do anything to bring the thieves to justice, with the mob boss also in the hunt. A great heist film.

Director: Marcel Ophuls    More Info


 This documentary examines the lives of residents of a French town who lived through World War II partly under the Vichy government and partly under Nazi control. This film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and is a good companion piece to "Hotel Terminus–The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie", an Oscar winner for Ophuls (Best Documentary) 18 years later.