In early Republic of China when Taiwan was still under Japanese occupation, people were oppressed, and their condition was miserable. A Kung Fu coach from China was invited to Taiwan. His name was Wan Chin-san. Mr. Wan established a Kung Fu School in a small village and refused any Japanese to be his student. For this reason, he was assassinated. When his son, Wan Ming-Chieh, heard the terrible news, he came to Taiwan in search of his father.
Cinematic Era: 1970s Vintage
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In order to carry out subversive work, the Chekist remains in a city occupied by whites. To do this, he moves into the doctor's apartment a singer, a graduate of the conservatory, who was joyfully welcomed by the doctor's family, and then, after the arrival of the whites, introduces himself as the husband of this singer, a businessman Couturier.
A Story About a Simple Thing
7.0 1975 • Cinematic -
A sexually adventurous couple finds their sordid affairs may ultimately be their undoing in director Jones Brown’s lurid thriller. Emotionally starved and desperate to experience new thrills, a bored housewife gets what she asked for when her bored husband begins pimping her out to the wealthy and powerful. But when the seeds of deceit are planted, paranoia takes hold and plunges their fantasy world of pleasure into a bottomless pit of darkness.
Lust
2.9 1979 • Cinematic -
A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.
Wide Open
3.5 1974 • Cinematic -
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Two Iida
7.0 1976 • Cinematic -
An intelligence officer disguises himself as a thief to try and recover a fortune worth of stolen gold.
Sazaa
6.0 1972 • Cinematic -
In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a high-ranking crime lord.
Street Killing
10.0 1976 • Cinematic -
Chia Ling plays the title character, who wields her way through a standard martial arts premise, but demonstrates tremendous grace and agility as she chops, kicks, and flies through the air.
The Imprudent Iron Phoenix
7.0 1973 • Cinematic -
A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebrating his ninth birthday, concludes his parents have separated and develops a plan to place himself in dad's care. Along with a new friend they run away to Milan to search for Marco's father. Once executed, our little hero learns the truth about his famous race-car driving father. Can mom and his pals help him deal with the trauma?
The Beautiful Summer
9.0 1974 • Cinematic -
A 23-year-old Columbia University dropout seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
5.8 1970 • Cinematic -
White-haired Demon
0.0 1978 • Cinematic -
A celebrity lineup selected by a “specially conducted nationwide survey” entertains.
The People's Command Performance: '77
0.0 1977 • Cinematic -
A cartoon composed of four parts, parodying "classical" gangster and criminal movies of four countries: robbery American style, French style, Italian style and Russian style. All cartoon characters resemble real movie stars of 50th and 60th.
A Robbery In... Style
7.1 1978 • Cinematic -
Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18, womanizing and drinking and rejecting responsibility because he sees no reason to take life seriously. Surprisingly enough, despite his devil-may-care attitude, he has several important people in his life. He maintains a special relationship with Stan, an old mentor who lives in a nursing home, and Ruth, the only woman he truly cares about. Andrew is his best friend but grows tired of Will's antics, and he is soon to be married and moving on. Will constantly has something up his sleeve but his pranks inevitably bring pain and tragedy to those closest to him, forcing him to reevaluate his life and make some difficult decisions.
The Rowdyman
4.0 1972 • Cinematic -
The Crane Fighter is set just after the majority of the Shaolin monks have been outlawed and killed by the, I think, Ching Dynasty. A few have escaped, and live secretly among the common people. One old guy has a daughter that he has forbidden to learn kung fu, but she does so anyway, by watching some other monks in a nearby temple.
The Crane Fighter
5.9 1979 • Cinematic -
Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
6.7 1971 • Cinematic -
Love for Eternity
0.0 1971 • Cinematic -
A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
Invitation from the Beach
0.0 1978 • Cinematic -
Emanuelle's daughter Pussy introduces her to her new lover and she suffers a flash of recognition.
The Daughter of Emanuelle
4.2 1975 • Cinematic -
An erotic, comedic anthology film in which a young couple becomes addicted to having their trysts recorded, a woman cheats on her husband with an older man and desperately attempts to avoid the traps set for her, and a man, with the help of a mad scientist, is able to have an amorous encounter with Cicciolina.
Fancy a Woman
3.8 1978 • Cinematic -
To gain control of a gold mine, the owner Ho Kwai-Shan is poisoned by the Lee family. His daughter Yu-Ling is staying with her uncle at his martial arts school and was due to return home. Just before she leaves, the masters son, Sha Yu-Lung, returns home to teach at his a fathers school. Sha is given the task of taking Yu-Ling home but she takes an instant disliking to him
Enter the Panther
4.0 1975 • Cinematic -
A businnesman, Sotiris Karelis, is presented to the piano teacher and twice a widow, Antzolina, and asks her to sell her mansion in order to convert it into a hotel. The same time, an Italian music group arrive in Corfu, which has been abandoned by Alinda Ritsi singer. Antzolina is persuaded not only to host her home but also to replace the singer. However, there is a lot of confusion because the singer of the group Alinda Ritsi comes in Corfu with her fiancée, and everyone is starting to look for their real identities.
The Countess of Corfu
5.9 1972 • Cinematic -
In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.
Riddles of the Sphinx
4.8 1977 • Cinematic -
After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Soon, she has become an important member of the pirate gang and has begun acquiring the loyalty of key members. Eventually, she makes her move and challenges the leader, a demi-god, known as "The Daughter of the Sun."
Noroît (Une Vengeance)
7.0 1976 • Cinematic -
A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls in love with her.
Sea of Wonders
0.0 1978 • Cinematic -
CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series.
Of Thee I Sing
7.0 1972 • Cinematic -
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.
Long Shot
9.0 1978 • Cinematic -
The news that the television is going to make a film about the cooperative's leisure activities leads the locals to extraordinary social and sporting activity, but the only result is a chain of endless confusions, misunderstandings and disasters...
Televize v Bublicích aneb Bublice v televizi
8.0 1974 • Cinematic -
actionn adventure movie
Savane - Sex and Diamonds
4.1 1978 • Cinematic -
A dramatization of the events leading up to the 1935 assassination of Huey Long, the flamboyant and controversial governor of Louisiana.
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
7.0 1977 • Cinematic -
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Witchhammer
7.6 1970 • Cinematic -
Sexy hippie chicks Carol and Maureen get more than they bargained for when they hitch a ride with groovy hippie dude Chuck in his nifty mobile bus home. The trio get lost in the Florida Everglades following a fierce rain storm and embark on a startling spiritual journey of self-discovery.
Pick-up
4.6 1975 • Cinematic -
A small-town doctor neglects his family to look after his patients.
Dr. Max
7.0 1974 • Cinematic -
Karin, a Swedish music student in Rome, falls in love with Bruno, a medical student. After learning he is married, she returns to Sweden, where she meets and marries David, an American diplomat. When he is assigned to Rome, Karin’s past unexpectedly comes back into her life.
Story of a Woman
7.0 1970 • Cinematic -
Film starring Kalpana Iyer and Prakash Mehra
Prem Jaal
0.0 1979 • Cinematic -
The legendary Sid James stars as the head of a chaotic household in this movie spin-off from the hit ITV sitcom. Sid Abbott and his best mate Trevor (Peter Butterworth) enjoy home-brewing. Plans to turn their hobby into a profitable, if illicit, sideline come unstuck when a Customs and Excise officer (Terry Scott) moves in next door! What’s more, Sid’s outspoken and madcap family hinder neighbourly relations even further.
Bless This House
6.4 1972 • Cinematic -
An employee of the foreign trade association Kazakov makes an offer to the American businessman Vikas to invest in the construction of a chemical plant. It was decided to build it on the site of a gasification station in Nizhne-Pechorsk. Vikas' decision to conclude a contract for the construction of the plant becomes known to American businessmen, who are not interested in this cooperation. Ron Kluger comes to Moscow to interfere with the negotiations...
Right of First Signature
0.0 1978 • Cinematic -
After being framed, a cowboy is sent to jail. After his time is served, he leaves with vengeance in his heart. Soon he meets a young Native American woman and together they go to settle their score with a small town and its corrupt leader.
Gone with the West
2.8 1975 • Cinematic -
The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.
The Billion Dollar Bubble
7.5 1978 • Cinematic -
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Office Lady Journal: Ruined Lust
10.0 1974 • Cinematic -
A street-gang member kills the gang's leader and blames it on a rival gang.
Cat Murkil and the Silks
5.3 1976 • Cinematic -
Set during the time of the Chola invasion, the film tells the story of a courageous Pandiyan king. The king filled the hearts of his people with courage, patriotism and faith to help fight the Cholas.
Madhuraiyai Meetta Sundharapandiyan
9.0 1978 • Cinematic -
With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and more participants are losing and Robin Hood eventually wins the award, his masquerade reveals. For none of the participants is as handy with a bow and an arrow like Robin Hood. With the help of his coolness and his friends Robin Hood may escape the dangerous situation.
The Arrows of Robin Hood
6.4 1976 • Cinematic -
Kumo no Yuna
0.0 1971 • Cinematic -
Unfinished and lost film directed by Rustam Khamdamov, shot in 1972-1974.
Unexpected Joy
4.7 1972 • Cinematic -
When Vishnu, a reputed judge, is mistakenly assumed as Anil, who is the murderer of Dhanraj, he decides to travel to Anil's home town and unravel the mystery behind it.
Dastaan
4.5 1972 • Cinematic -
A hip American agent and his foxy associate try to recover a hundred pounds of stolen plutonium in Italy before it can be used by terrorists.
Top Secret
10.0 1978 • Cinematic -
A family drama about life of a few children in Ukraine during thirties.
Escape from the Palace
0.0 1975 • Cinematic -
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
The Music Machine
10.0 1979 • Cinematic -
Sunil is convicted of murder and is on the run. But the long arm of the law and his past finally catch up with him. Can he outrun his destiny for long?
Daag
7.0 1973 • Cinematic -
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
9.0 1970 • Cinematic -
The morale of the army is low as the countess sets out to overthrow the enemy army..
The Lost Kung Fu Secrets
6.5 1979 • Cinematic -
Neerum Neruppum, is a 1971 Indian Tamil directed by P. Neelakantan, starring M. G. Ramachandran in the lead role and J. Jayalalitha, R. S. Manohar, Cho Ramaswamy among others. The movie is a remake of 1949 M. R. Radha movie Apoorva Sagodharargal.
Neerum Neruppum
6.5 1971 • Cinematic -
A discredited police inspector is given a second chance, in the form of a dangerous assignment. Chosen because of his uncanny resemblance to a Lt. Revere, the inspector impersonates him in order to penetrate a group of mercenaries with orders to assassinate its leader.
Without Warning
5.2 1973 • Cinematic -
A confused young man seems like he's eternally waiting for something, but he never really lives up to see it.
Passing Days
7.0 1970 • Cinematic -
Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.
Transplant
10.0 1979 • Cinematic -
A Saturday Date
0.0 1976 • Cinematic -
The film raises acute issues in construction, where, back in the 1970s, all the social shortcomings of large-scale but short-term production projects were concentrated: premature completion of projects, mismanagement, weak control, theft, and fraud.
Feedback
6.0 1978 • Cinematic -
Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
3.3 1979 • Cinematic -
A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.
Charley-One-Eye
5.0 1973 • Cinematic