Cinematic Era: 1974 Vintage

About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.

Murat works as an ambulance driver at a hospital. However, the money he earns is not enough to support his family. A lawyer named Turhan offers Murat to commit a robbery together. Murat accepts because he needs the money. They carry out the robbery, but Turhan does not keep his word. After the robbery, he kills everyone and escapes with the money. Murat is seriously injured and arrested by the police. Turhan learns that Murat is still alive. He wants to prevent Murat from testifying in court. He kills Murat's wife and takes his son Erkan, raising him as his own man. Turhan will try to eliminate Murat using Erkan.

The prototype of the hero of the film - Soviet Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Galan, who devoted the last years of his life to exposing the Greek Catholic Church and the Ukrainian nationalists.

Kemal is a casino owner, Tayyar is after his casino. Asli goes to a boarding-school, her granny is a flower seller from whom Kemal always buys some. Asli's father is in jail. One day Kemal hits Asli with his car, they become friends. She wants him to come to the school party, introducing him as her father. Tayyar's assassin shoots Kemal, Asli nurses him as he is released from hospital. They feel close to each other, yet Kemal wants her to stay away from the mafia world, he finds out that Asli is Fatma's grandchild. Fatma tells her that Kemal is married and has children. Tayyar kidnaps Asli, he asks Kemal for his casino to set her free. Kemal meets Tayyar, a volley starts and Kemal gets fatally wounded. Asli and Kemal loved each other, unfortunately Kemal dies.

A panorama of the Clyde, from Biggar to Brodick, with Billy Connolly as your guide. Directed by Murray Grigor for the Films of Scotland Committee.

Young schoolboy Slava Kurochkin suddenly finds himself in a town where books characters live.

Beginning with a flashback, Richard goes for a vacation at the hometown of his friend, Roni. There, he dates Roni’s sister, Katyana, and makes her pregnant. But Katyana chooses another young man who lives in the town, as she sees Richard falling for Nina, who has always been jealous of her. Richard leaves, leaving a necklace and swearing a furious oath that he will destroy all women. The flashback ends and we see Rizal, who is left by his mother, Katyana. Rizal is Richard’s son. He becomes a vagabond and is found in a weak condition by Roni and his daughter, Riana. He is taken care of until he is grown up. Then Roni is disabled after an accident and his wife, Nina, becomes a prostitute and joins a crime syndicate. When Rizal and Riana start to have an intimate relationship, Nina throws Rizal out of the house, and then he starts a job as a police informant.

A young man and a young woman spend the evening by the campfire. The girl asks about the starry sky and the photometric paradox, and the young man answers her with lyrical statements of great people about the infinity of the Universe. Frustrated, she rides off on a motorcycle with another young man.

Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.

Middle-aged lust: a man, in his thirteenth and therefore omen-filled marriage year, cheats on his wife.

A movie about desire

Carlos, a widower in his forties, lives with his daughter Lolita and his sister Merche. He is a candidate to Spanish Court's Proctor, so frequently travels outside Madrid. During one of those trips, he is forced to return at home precipitously, because his sister informed him that Lolita has left the house to live with some friends.

Based on the Jules Verne's novel "Danube pilot." The film is set during Bulgarian people struggle against the Turkish oppressors. Bulgarian Sergei Ladko embarks on a voyage on the Danube under the guise of traditional "Danube Anglers League" competition in order to bring the rebels money to buy weapons.

A man investigates on the death of his friend, killed by the henchmen of a Casino big boss. The boss sends the Casino girl to seduce him, then he hires a professional killer.

The first of Perry Como's Christmas specials includes appearances by Rich Little and figure skater Peggy Fleming as well as performances by the Carpenters and by Perry Como himself. Also featured a reenactment of the Birth of Jesus Christ.

A young man who grew up with an orphan girl and realizes that one day he is in love with her, but he cannot express his love. The young girl also loves her, but she can't even say it to herself.

An educational comedy film from Guinness instructing how to clean out your pipes in the pub.

It was this now legendary appearance at California Jam I that would expose Black Sabbath to many mainstream American television viewers via ABC-TV. The band appeared alongside such acts as Deep Purple, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rare Earth, Seals & Crofts and The Eagles It was originally broadcast on ABC’s ‘Wide World in Concert’ series, which aired three songs from Sabbath on May 24th, 1974 – and later rebroadcast this segment in November ’74. This footage has never been commercially available, aside from one clip of “Children of The Grave”. The entire show was recorded as a soundboard audio, but apparently only these four songs were captured on video. Track Listing: Intro-Footage of the band arriving, Children of the Grave, Post-show interview with Ozzy, War Pigs, Paranoid, Killing Yourself to Live. (Order may differ based on source.)

A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.

In a rural setting, a sex worker struggling with a lack of clients encounters a fairy who offers magical assistance, drawing new customers to her. When a rival appears and begins to attract attention, the conflict gives way to an unexpected shift in relationships. The story concludes with a collective transformation among the characters, reframing the initial conflict.

"Film político" (1974) is a 4-minute short comedy film directed by, written by, and starring Pedro Almodóvar. It is one of his earliest amateur works, created in 1974 during the final years of the Franco dictatorship in Spain. The film is a brief satire reflecting his early independent filmmaking efforts.

Counter to the popular image of Erik XIV as the mad king Strindberg paints him as an intelligent but weak king, brought down by his insecurities.

The scene is Ukraine. In 1943, after the Hungarian' defeat at the river Don, soldier Balogh decides to visit his family.

Popa arrives to New York and of course along with her the troubles and tangles.

On a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members.

The Impossible Hour is a concentrated study of Ole Ritter's attempt in Mexico City in 1974 to set a new record for the hour - described in the film as "the noblest, most difficult record that can be set on a bicycle". A brief retrospective in black and white sets the historical framework, with shots of Ritter and Eddy Merckx' successful record attempts in 1968 and 1972 respectively, and a few words about former record holders such as Fausto Coppi.The film follows Ritter's three record attempts chronologically, which, accompanied by a Mexican marching band on the bandstand, all fail.

Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.

In a small French village, an angel appears disguised as a beautiful young blond.

1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in command, a farmer, and the other members of the group will kidnap a north american colonel stationed in Venezuela to force his government to suspend the execution of the vietnamese Nguyen Van Troi, accused of trying to assassinate the American Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.

In full marital crisis, Fiorenza, young Roman bourgeois, must travel to Eritrea to her dying father, former colonizer who made his fortune there. On the death of it, rather than return to Italy, Fiorenza decides to spend some time there, and met the extravagant Getulio, determined to make him discover Africa.

Two retirees decide to extend their vacation beyond the usual date, near a lake where they own a villa. From that moment on, everything becomes hostile: the butcher stops delivering meat, there is no milk, their electricity is cut off, and their car is sabotaged. Don't we want to show them that when your time is up, on vacation or in life, it's not a good idea to linger and that you have to disappear?

This television film records Ingmar Bergman’s Copenhagen stage production of Molière’s The Misanthrope, presented as a guest performance at the Royal Danish Theatre. The play centers on Alceste, a man who rejects social hypocrisy and flattery, whose rigid principles are tested by his love for the socially adept Célimène.

An elderly wealthy woman’s public charity in a forgotten town sparks tension and rivalry among neighbors. A working-class wife is pushed into a harsh maze of institutions as the conflict spills into family life.

Sir Lionel Hibury is visiting an old friend in Rome, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Sir Lionel is not pleased when daughter, Sheila, become romantically involved with a wealthy young man staying in the flat above them.

A couple (Karin Thome and Eberhard Klasse), whose relationship can't hold up to the pressure of their financial and career problems, only have their child left as the remaining connecting link. But even their child becomes a pawn in their egoistic power games and possessiveness. The crisis reaches a peak first then, when the husband finds out about an affair that the wife is having and sets out to claim the same rights for himself. This takes him to New York, where he settles. The wife gets her hands on all the cash reserves and follows him there. In spite of the new location, they still remain a couple with a disturbed and insensitive miscommunication, that instinctively cling even more to each other in the new and alienating environment.

A TV movie. The film features songs by Yu.Vizbor, V.Berkovsky, S.Nikitin.

An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading.

Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days of Gomorrah was a favorite of Sanders-Brahms, who brought feminist politics to the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s. It is a forceful piece of capitalist realism, critiquing working-class alienation and commodity culture.

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Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.

A dark tale in which a successful novelist is unbalanced by an assured young female fan.

The body of a young man in a dress suit is found on a country road by Lake Biel in Switzerland. The victim happens to be none other than Schmied, the new police inspector who had just been appointed to replace Baerlach, the old police captain.

An American advertising tycoon chooses a weekend therapy clinic as the ideal place in which to assess the various candidates for the vice-presidency of his firm.

Images of nature with no human presence are contrasted with an urban industrial landscape.

Maria is a record saleswoman by profession. She is lucky to have a job, because the year is 1930 and a major economic crisis has hit the world, accompanied by an army of unemployed people, especially in Germany. Maria is aware of her good fortune; in order to secure it, she has to do without many things. What business owner would employ an unmarried woman with a child in times like these? When Maria became pregnant, she, like many other women, had to become "active" and do something about this "misfortune". So she seeks "help" from a female doctor, trusting in her youth and hoping for better times when family happiness could come true for her.

Anghel found haven living in squalor with destitute and petty, young criminals led by Toni. When he fell in love with a young woman, it caused friction and separated them, and revealed further differences between the two when they met again at the hands of justice.

King Arthur and Gareth set out to rescue Guinevere from the clutches of Sir Turquine.

Afacan, who lives with his father and stepmother, one day finds an old family photo album in the attic. His father begins to tell him the story of his real mother. Years ago, Murat saved Gül—who had attempted suicide—from death and brought her back to life. They marry, but a treacherous trap set by Osman, Murat’s assistant at the factory, tears the couple apart. Unable to accept what had happened, Gül ends up in a mental institution. Osman’s second plan is to eliminate Afacan and his father and, with the help of his stepmother Jale, lay claim to a vast fortune. Afacan accidentally overhears the truth about his mother and is heartbroken.

A poor woman dies due to her son's inability to provide necessary treatment, leading to him becoming a thief and falling in love with a girl.

In Granada TV’s 1974’s Starmaker, head Kink Ray Davies proved once again that he’s not like everybody else, producing a rock opera for television that tells the story of an insufferable, vain, egotistical rock star (played by Davies, naturally) who switches places with an “ordinary person” named Norman, working in Norman’s crappy job and living Norman’s crappy life to find inspiration for his next album. (Well, it’s a little more complicated than that…) Davies’ play reveled in breaking the fourth wall: cameras and microphones are visible throughout and the play’s author/star himself even ends up a member of the audience. Starmaker was a dry run for the themes of the Kinks’ 1975 album, The Kinks Present a Soap Opera.