8.1

The Last Picture Show

1970, USA

• Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Sharon Ullrick, Randy Quaid, Joe Heathcock, Bill Thurman, Barc Doyle, Jessie Lee Fulton, Gary Brockette, Helena Humann, Loyd Catlett, Robert Glenn, John Hillerman, Janice E. O'Malley, Floyd Mahaney, Kimberly Hyde, Noble Willingham, Marjorie Jay, Joye Hash, Pamela Keller, Gordon Hurst, Mike Hosford, Faye Jordan
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Peter Bogdanovich
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry).

  7.9

The French Connection

1970, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale, Bill Hickman, Ann Rebbot, Harold Gary, Arlene Farber, Eddie Egan, André Ernotte, Sonny Grosso, Benny Marino, Patrick McDermott, Alan Weeks, Al Fann, Irving Abrahams, Randy Jurgensen, William Coke, The Three Degrees, Frank Adonis, Gilda Albertoni, Sheila Ferguson, Sarina C. Grant, Joe Lo Grippo, Melonie Haller, Valerie Holiday, Eric Jones, Charles McGregor
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): William Friedkin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.

  7.8

Dirty Harry

1970, USA

• Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, John Larch, John Mitchum, Mae Mercer, Lyn Edgington, Ruth Kobart, Woodrow Parfrey, Josef Sommer, William Paterson, James Nolan, Maurice Argent, Jo De Winter, Craig Kelly, Ann Bowen, George Burrafato, Joy Carlin, Bill Couch, Jana D'Amico, Tony Dario, Diane Darnell, Diana Davidson, Vince Deadrick Sr., Chuck Dorsett, Al Dunlap, Larry Duran, Denise Dyer
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Don Siegel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.

  7.7

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1970, USA

• Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Antony Holland, Hugh Millais, Manfred Schulz, Jace Van Der Veen, Jackie Crossland, Elizabeth Murphy, Carey Lee McKenzie, Thomas Hill, Linda Sorenson, Elisabeth Knight, Janet Wright, Maysie Hoy, Linda Kupecek, Jeremy Newson, Wayne Robson, Jack Riley, Robert Fortier, Wayne Grace, Wesley Taylor, Anne Cameron
• Genre: Drama, Western
• Director(s): Robert Altman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.

  7.6

Kes

1970, UK

• Actors: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes, Bernard Atha, Laurence Bould, Joey Kaye, Ted Carroll, Robert Naylor, Agnes Drumgoon, George Speed, Desmond Guthrie, Zoe Sutherland, The 4D Jones, Eric Bolderson, Joe Miller, Beryl Carroll, Julie Shakespeare, Bill Dean, Geoffrey Banks, John Grayson, Duggie Brown, Trevor Hesketh, Stephen Crossland, Harry Markham, David Glover, Frank Norton, Martin Harley
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Ken Loach
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (Colin Welland) and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, until tragedy strikes.

  7.6

Tristana

1970, France, Italy, Spain

• Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Antonio Casas, Jesús Fernández, Vicente Soler, José Calvo, Fernando Cebrián, Antonio Ferrandis, José María Caffarel, Cándida Losada, Joaquín Pamplona, Mary Paz Pondal, Juanjo Menéndez, José Blanch, Sergio Mendizábal, Luis Aller, Luis Rico, Saturno Cerra, Jesús Combarro, Leonardo Scavino, Vicente Roca, Ximénez Carillo, Adriano Domínguez, José Riesgo, Rosa Luisa Goróstegui, Antonio Cintado, Pilar Vela, Lorenzo Rodríguez
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Luis Buñuel
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

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.

  7.6

Le genou de Claire

1970, France

• Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Michèle Montel, Gérard Falconetti, Fabrice Luchini
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Eric Rohmer
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, an Italian writer and old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura, but he falls for Laura's half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her knee.

  7.5

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970, USA, Japan

• Actors: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Takahiro Tamura, Eijirô Tôno, Jason Robards, Wesley Addy, Shogo Shimada, Frank Aletter, Koreya Senda, Leon Ames, Junya Usami, Richard Anderson, Kazuo Kitamura, Keith Andes, Susumu Fujita, Edward Andrews, Bontarô Miake, Neville Brand, Ichiro Ryuzaki, Leora Dana, Asao Uchida, George Macready, Norman Alden, Kazuko Ichikawa, Walter Brooke, Hank Jones
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Richard Fleischer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbour. American intelligence is breaking the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might come.

  7.4

El topo

1970, Mexico

• Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau, José Luis Fernández, Alf Junco, Gerardo Zepeda, René Barrera, René Alís, Federico Gonzáles, Vicente Lara, Pablo Leder, Giuliano Girini Sasseroli, Cristian Merkel, Aldo Grumelli, Mara Lorenzio, David Silva, Ignacio Martínez España, Eliseo Gardea Saucedo, Héctor Martínez, Paula Romo, Bertha Lomelí, Juan José Gurrola, Víctor Fosado, Agustín Isunza, Jacqueline Luis, Carlos Lavenant, Eliseo Pereda, Pablo Marichal, Beatriz Beltrán Lobo
• Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Western
• Director(s): Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Available languages:
  • English English.

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual, mystical landscape strewn with old Western movie, and ancient Eastern religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader's woman Mara as his. El Topo's surreal way is bloody, sexual and self-reflective, musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.

  7.2

Vanishing Point

1970, USA, UK

• Actors: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin, Paul Koslo, Robert Donner, Timothy Scott, Charlotte Rampling, Gilda Texter, Anthony James, Arthur Malet, Karl Swenson, Severn Darden, Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Lee Weaver, Cherie Foster, Valerie Kairys, Tom Reese, Owen Bush, John Amos, Val Avery, Rita Coolidge, David Gates
• Genre: Action, Drama
• Director(s): Richard C. Sarafian
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and highway patrol they start a chase to bring him into custody. Along the way, Kowalski is guided by Supersoul - a blind DJ with a police radio scanner. Throw in lots of chase scenes, gay hitchhikers, a naked woman riding a motorbike, lots of Mopar and you've got a great cult hit from the early 70's.

  7.2

Klute

1970, USA

• Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Vivian Nathan, Morris Strassberg, Barry Snider, Betty Murray, Jane White, Shirley Stoler, Robert Milli, Anthony Holland, Fred Burrell, Richard B. Shull, Marc Malvin, Rosalind Cash, Jean Stapleton, Jan Fielding, Antonia Rey, Robert Ronan, Richard Russell Ramos, Jerome Collamore, Candy Darling, Kevin Dobson, Veronica Hamel, Richard Jordan, Margaret Linn
• Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
• Available languages:
  • English English.

John Klute's friend has totally disappeared. The only clue a connection with a call girl, Bree Daniels. Klute taps her phone in order to gain evidence against her to blackmail her into helping him find his friend. While Klute searches, someone is stalking Bree.

  7.2

The Last Valley

1970, UK, USA

• Actors: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson, Arthur O'Connell, Madeleine Hinde, Yorgo Voyagis, Miguel Alejandro, Christian Roberts, Brian Blessed, Ian Hogg, Michael Gothard, George Innes, Ralph Arliss, Claudia Butenuth, Paul Challen, Chris Chittell, Kurt Christian, Dave Crowley, Holly du Marreck, Mark Edwards, John Hallam, Frazer Hines, Leon Lissek, Andrew McCulloch, Michaela, Seyton Pooley, Irene Prador, Jack Shepherd
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
• Director(s): James Clavell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.

  7.2

Herostratus

1970, UK

• Actors: Mona Chin, Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Hilda Marvin, Helen Mirren, Malcolm Muggeridge, Vivienne Myles, Antony Paul, Peter Stephens, Brigitte St. John
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Don Levy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When Max, a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.

  6.9

The AristoCats

1970, USA

• Actors: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, Dean Clark, Paul Winchell, Liz English, Thurl Ravenscroft, Gary Dubin, Vito Scotti, Lord Tim Hudson, Nancy Kulp, Pat Buttram, George Lindsey, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Hermione Baddeley, Charles Lane, Bill Thompson, Ruth Buzzi, Robie Lester, Peter Renaday
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music
• Director(s): Wolfgang Reitherman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Retired madame Adelaide Bonfamille enjoys the good life in her Paris villa with even classier cat Duchess and three kittens: pianist Berlioz, painter Toulouse and sanctimonious Marie. When loyal butler Edgar overhears her will leaves everything to the cats until their death, he drugs and kidnaps them. However retired army dogs make his sidecar capsize on the country. Crafty stray cat Thomas O'Malley takes them under his wing back to Paris. Edgar tries to cover his tracks and catch them at return, but more animals turn on him, from the cart horse Frou-Frou to the tame mouse Roquefort and O'Malley's jazz friends.

  6.8

Soldier Blue

1970, USA

• Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Jorge Rivero, Dana Elcar, Bob Carraway, Martin West, James Hampton, Mort Mills, Jorge Russek, Aurora Clavel, Ralph Nelson, Marco Antonio Arzate, Ron Fletcher, Conrad Hool, Lance Hool, Eddie Little Sky, Barbara Turner
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
• Director(s): Ralph Nelson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta, and his disgust for her anti-American beliefs. They reach the cavalry campsite on the eve of an attack on a Cheyenne village, where Honus will learn which side has really been telling him the truth.

  6.7

Love Story

1970, USA

• Actors: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, Russell Nype, Katharine Balfour, Sydney Walker, Robert Modica, Walker Daniels, Tommy Lee Jones, John Merensky, Andrew Duncan, Charlotte Ford, Sudie Bond, Julie Garfield, Kevin O'Neal, Milo Boulton, Ellen Stretton, Stephen Dowling, Bob O'Connell, Donald Warnock, Grant Willis
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Arthur Hiller
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to build their life together. Relying only on each other, they believe love can fix anything. But fate has other plans. Soon, what began as a brutally honest friendship becomes the love story of their lives.

  6.6

Rio Lobo

1970, USA

• Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Victor French, Susana Dosamantes, Sherry Lansing, David Huddleston, Mike Henry, Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Dean Smith, Robert Donner, George Plimpton, Edward Faulkner, Peter Jason, Chuck Courtney, Robert Rothwell, Don 'Red' Barry, Harold Cops, Stanley Corson, Sondra Currie, José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla', Chuck Hayward, Conrad Hool, Lance Hool, John Hudkins, Frank Kennedy, Charlie Longfoot
• Genre: Adventure, Western, Romance, War
• Director(s): Howard Hawks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Col. Cord McNally an ex union officer teams up with a couple of ex Johnny Rebs to search for the traitor who sold information to the South during the Civil War. Their quest brings them to the town of Rio Lobo where they help recover this little Texas town from ruthless outlaws who are led by the traitor they were looking for.

  6.6

The Twelve Chairs

1970, USA

• Actors: Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Andréas Voutsinas, Diana Coupland, David Lander, Vlada Petric, Elaine Garreau, Robert Bernal, Will Stampe, Bridget Brice, Nicholas Smith, Rada Djuricin, Branka Veselinovic, Miodrag 'Mladja' Veselinovic, Mel Brooks, Radomir Popovic, Petar Banicevic, Dejan Cavic, Ljubomir Cipranic, Radmilo Curcic, Rasa Djukin, Bogdan Jakus, Vojislav Micovic, Milivoje Popovic-Mavid, Aleksandar Stojkovic, Paul Wheeler
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy
• Director(s): Mel Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the hidden fortune.

  6.6

The Phantom Tollbooth

1970, USA

• Actors: Butch Patrick, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Candy Candido, Hans Conried, June Foray, Patti Gilbert, Shepard Menken, Cliff Norton, Larry Thor, Les Tremayne, Michael Earl
• Genre: Family, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
• Director(s): Chuck Jones
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure.

  6.4

The Vampire Lovers

1970, UK

• Actors: Ingrid Pitt, George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Peter Cushing, Ferdy Mayne, Douglas Wilmer, Madeline Smith, Dawn Addams, Jon Finch, Pippa Steel, Kirsten Lindholm, Janet Key, Harvey Hall, John Forbes-Robertson, Charles Farrell, Shelagh Wilcocks, Graham James, Tom Browne, Joanna Shelley, Olga James, Jill Easter, Lindsay Kemp, Sion Probert, Vicki Woolf
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Roy Ward Baker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest. Some of the villagers begin dying, however, and the General's daughter Laura soon gets weak and pale, but Marcilla is there to comfort her. The villagers begin whispering about vampires as Marcilla finds another family on which to impose herself. The pattern repeats as Emma gets ill, but the General cannot rest, and seeks the advice of Baron Hartog, who once dealt a decisive blow against a family of vampires. Well, almost.