Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

The hotel manager has a close eye on the maid, and the guests ...

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria.

Pushpa, thrown out of her house by her husband, is pushed into prostitution by someone she trusts, and has a complex relationship with an unhappily married businessman, but finally gets what she has always longed for.

Ömer, a clumsy tourist, finds himself captured by a cannibal tribe led by the imposing Chief Faruk. His bumbling antics soon charm the defiant Zeynep, turning his peril into a riotous clash of cultures and unexpected camaraderie.

Clyde King, a toy store employee whose hobbies include making wooden toys and stalking women, is coveted by the female owner of one of the biggest toy companies in the world. She is enchanted by King's hand-carved toys, and she delegates the recruitment of the toy-maker to her second-in-command, Lyle "Skippy" Burns. However, King will not join her company as she reminds him of his mother. She becomes the subject of bizarre fantasies in which "Mother," the toy company owner as imagined by King, brow-beats and humiliates him. Discovering King's predeliction for leaving the toy store to stalk women, Skippy first tries to entice Clyde into signing an employemnt contract by supplying him with women, even going as far to dress himself up in drag as a prostitute. But every time he sets King up with a woman, the encounter ends disastrously, so Skippy finally decides to kill him.

In an attempt to earn money for a bride dowry, a young man unwittingly embarks on a globe-trotting journey that takes him from his homeland of North Ossetia all the way to Alaska.

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

Long panoramic shots and tracking shots in the Louvre Museum, the Hôtel de Lauzun or the Petit Palais allow us to discover the works of Delacroix, Horace Vernet, David, Ingres, Courbet, Manet, etc. An actor reads excerpts from Baudelaire's Salons where he expresses admiration or detestation. (source: Canopé)

Innocent Namya the son of the tough Shitabai, is taken by his friends to see a Tamasha performance. He gets so excited by the Mahabharata scene of Draupadi's Vastraharan, that he jumps on stage disrupting the performance. He goes to the next village to see the performance again, where as the actor who is to play the monkey-god Hanuman gets drunk, He is invited to understudy the part. Namya's distraught mother kicks him out of the house, but the dancer Kalavati offers him shelter. Then a simpleton Namya falls in love with the glamours Kalavati.

Hassan, a young man from Tanta, loves Basima, the neighbor’s daughter, and is alone with her in a moment of weakness, as a result of which she loses her virginity, but he reassures her that he will return from Cairo to marry her, not knowing that Basima is pregnant. Hassan goes to Cairo, and his wallet is stolen, but the thief gets hit by a car and dies. Everyone thinks that Hassan lost his life, and Basmaya gets into trouble.

An Italian mondo documentary about Finland. Among other things, it showcases intricacies of local mating culture, sports, Midsummer festivities and sauna.

A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.

Henry wants to sleep with lots of beautiful women, but they keep blowing him off...until a Hindu guru teaches him the technique of "substitution."

A Soviet officer serves as a counterspy amidst enemies.

A traumatised Korean War veteran is accused of arson and murder. Now, the deceased's criminal attorney daughter is determined to send him in prison, even though he claims he's innocent. Will she destroy a man in the name of the law?

Cowboy on a revenge trip gets caught up in the sadistic games of some black-hats and goes through a whole narrative cycle with them before discovering the identity of the people he was originally looking for.

When the wealthy owner of an upscale brothel dies, our hero Victor, is sent on a wild goose chase to find the three beautiful heiresses. His only clue is that each of the three women have a hamster branded on their buttocks! When the girls are mysteriously murdered, it is up to Victor to solve the murders.

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she discovers that the wine he has brought is not intended for her.

Performance by the Leningrad Academic Theater named after. A.S. Pushkin based on the comedy by I.S. Turgenev.

Sabarimala Sree Dharmashastha is a 1970 Indian Malayalam film, directed by M. Krishnan Nair

This early Taiwanese Wuxia film is a classic genre tale of a revenge-seeking swordswoman (Cheung Ching-ching).

While navigating from Rio de Janeiro to Vitória, the stewards Didi (Renato Aragão) and Dedé (Dedé Santana) and the inexperienced captain of the passenger vessel Anna Nery flirt with a group of models. In the return trip, Didi and Dedé simulate that the ship is sinking, and with another steward, they kidnap the captain and use a liferaft to go to a desert island with four models. But the island is the hidden place of a dangerous gang of smugglers, jeopardizing the group.

The camera follows a fly as it walks about the body of a nude woman. Shot in extreme closeup and accompanied by Ono's eponymous song, the film sets out to celebrate the human body.

Video by Dennis Oppenheim

Bollywood 1970

Carla has a birthday party for her pimp Troy and invites Brenda, Chi-Chi, Wild Willie and Big John. They all have softcore sex.

Roland and Rattfink are movie stars in this cartoon. Rattfink gets fed-up playing as a villain who gets beat up by a hero (Roland) in his every movie, so he his father (who's a producer of the studio) to make him a hero in his future movie. His dad makes him a hero, and makes Roland Rattfink's stunt double, all the stunts miss Roland and hits Rattfink instead. Fed up again, Rattfink demands that he and Roland acts in separate features. Rattfink gets a script where he is General Custard. Fed-up again, Rattfink chases his dad by throwing his Oscars at him.

Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.

Eric, a 14-year-old boy, is now almost alone. His mother, faced with her husband's bizarre behavior, left the marital home. Eric's father, for his part, leads a triple existence. On the other hand, he maintains apparently normal relations with his son, but at the same time he leads an unacknowledged, secret life "elsewhere", where confused, equivocal relations bind him to a strange, elusive woman, whose vision sometimes inspires feelings of filial love, sometimes reveals to him the bitter taste of a passion faded by time.

In the 1920s, in Turkmenistan, Qalli-bai makes the difficult decision to join the Basmachi, leaving behind his ailing wife in the care of their daughter, Dzhamal.

Follows a PE teacher, whose attempt to impress the need for self-control on his pupils verges on the sadistic.

Visitors from another planet arrive in the city to study humans. Their lack of knowledge about basic traffic rules leads them into a series of troublesome situations.

One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small professor.

Koos van der Merwe disguises himself as Captain James van der Merwe to be with the daughter of a millionaire, but unbeknownst to Koos, James' twin brother is also about to arrive and confusion is bound to reach climax.

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet protrudes from under the bed cover and the toes come alive and discuss how painful they are after being cramped into ill-fitting shoes all day. The toes show in a series of flash-backs how they have been maltreated, and a dream shows how they would like to be treated - feet measured, shoes fitted and lots of time spent out of shoes and stockings.

Documentary about Peter Kubelka

Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.

Man raised in a brothel tries to earn his living as a pimp, but gets in trouble when his girlfriend cheats on him with an older man.

Amateur film about a doctor who performs an illegal heart transplant only to have his drunken brother botch it. Film features actual open-heart surgery footage, as well as scenes of body painting and performance art.

The Ramsay Brothers' first attempt at a horror film.

A couple gets intimate in the privacy of their home, but a neighbor's daughter accidentally witnesses, leading to a court trial on Sexual Liberty in Private.

Daughter of a private eye falls in love with father’s playboy client. Pretending to have a busy love life, she makes him jealous and he also starts to love her. When father discovers the affair he asks the Playboy to leave his daughter not knowing she’s pregnant.

Mondo Rocco is a collection of short films weaved together as it was seen in the Park Theater in Los Angeles in 1969/1970. Charming in their innocence, Rocco's films captured important moments in gay history and are an invaluable resource.

Explore the growth of Aberdeen’s sparkling streets.

An expedition of archaeology students in Israel.

The film is an experimental documentary form, made using the stop-motion method. It is a single shot in total plan, showing an aerial view of the Balucki Market in Lodz. The realization method involved recording two frames every five seconds without changing the camera setting. From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

A tragicomedy about people who are able to make use of the war situation for their own benefit. The Gavora family of four leave their secure village home blinded by the vision of a big career and easy earning of money in the capital city.

John Wayne hosts this film which was produced during the Vietnam War when the Communist threat was at its height.

The film tells about the adventures of the intelligence officer Hoş Memo, who is trying to expose an international crime network. Melikyan is the leader of a gang engaged in smuggling historical artifacts. The gang has been chasing the Artemis statue for years. Moving with Professor Max to find this priceless statue made of gold, Melikyan kidnaps Fotoş. Fatoş is the daughter of the archaeologist who found the Artemis statue and knows the location of the statue.