Cinematic Era: 1977 Vintage

A funny story about fifth grader Ottokar who is always ready to fight for justice.

Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf.

Short film about flax cultivation, the work of the Rivne Flax Mill, and Hero of Socialist Labor Milentina Stanislavivna Bondareva.

Biographical documentary on the life of the Cypriot leader, through his personal narrative. The difficult and full of sacrifices course of a man, from the rural province to the presidential office.

Northern Ireland, 1969: The Westmoreland Light Infantry is posted to Belfast, along with Major Harry Lightoller and his wife Claire.

A boy escapes from a reformatory, but comes again into conflict with the law. During a robbery he hits a woman with a bottle on the head. He is convinced he killed her and because of his past thinks that nothing matters anymore. Only when he finds out that the victim did not die, he reveals the truth about what happened.

Two ten-year-old children, Gloria and Jacques, meet at the former's birthday party. It is love at first sight and they vow eternal love. Unfortunately, the First World War breaks out and they are separated. The people around them do not understand the deep feelings that link them to each other. When they meet again after the war, Gloria has become a cabaret dancer whereas Jacques has married in the USA. Nothing seems possible between them any longer...

A huge earthquake struck the city of Jinfeng in the year of 1976. Liu Xu, the proxy for the Gang of Four, locked down the news of the earthquake in order to gain power for them. Party Secretary Li on the other hand, organized all power to help the local people to fight against the aftershocks. This film originally planned during the last period of cultural revolution, with the subplot of criticizing Gang of Four added after the arrests of them. Shot on the ruins of Tangshan earthquake and finished in August 1977, the film only screened once in Guangzhou before failed to pass the censorship and sealed up forever.

Ammini is the daughter of Sivan Pilla Muthalaali. Sivan Pillai was one of the richest man in the locality years ago. However he spoiled all wealth once he became addicted to gambling. Now they are staying in a house whose condition is pathetic. Ammini joins police and currently appointed as the traffic police in the locality, which Sivan Pilla can't accept. After watching a young and energetic Ammini, a medical representative Sudhakaran falls for her. Sudhakaran comes to Ammini's house and asks for her hand. When Sivan Pillai and his wife Padmavathi was about to accept the proposal, Ammini tells that she is not prepared for the marriage now and she will think about it only after 5 years. A dejected Sivan Pillai, with the remaining money in hand decides to restart the business of wood export along with his staff Kittu Pillai and leaves home.

Film cameras take us behind the scenes as Michael Crawford explains the detailed preparations for some of the hilarious but extremely dangerous stunts that are a special feature of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

Sivathaandavam is a 1977 Indian Malayalam film, directed by N. Sankaran Nair. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Bahadoor and Jayasudha in the lead roles. The film has musical score by M. B. Sreenivasan.

Ann-Margret singing and dancing at the Grand Ole Opry House with Minnie Pearl, Bob Hope, Perry Como and Chef Atkins.

The film is a remake of the 1975 Hindi film Amanush. It revolves around a man who is falsely implicated and imprisoned for a crime he doesn't commit. Disappointed with life, he takes to the bottle on his release.

After losing her husband she starts living with her 6 kids and trying to survive. There is one person who wants to get married with her but the kids are not happy about it. Kocasını yitirdikten sora altı çocuğuyla yalnız kalan fedakar genç bir anne, çok yaramaz ve gelişme çağındaki çocukları ile düzenli bir yaşantı sürdürmeye çalışmaktadır. Genç kadınla evlenmek isteyen biri vardır fakat çocuklar bu meseleye fazla olumlu bakmazlar. Her şeyden önce çocuklarının mutluluğunu düşünen genç kadın evlenme teklifini kabul etmeyecektir. ...

During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.

A young journalist, abandoned by her wealthy lover, sets out with a musician inventor to stage a musical.

First transmitted in 1977, this documentary follows three months in the life of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets (also known as the Black Mafia) as they move from their Dover barracks for a tour of duty at the Tower of London. The Royal Green Jackets are light infantry, trained to move fast. Above all they are riflemen and take pride in their reputation of being thinking fighting soldiers.

A strange phenomenon is taking place in the village of Viișoara: the men have disappeared! Because they couldn't stand the tyranny of Varvara, who runs the agricultural cooperative, they preferred to get a job in a factory, but things don't go according to plan there either...

Filmed in 1977 in the Cayman Islands, The Cayman Triangle shows just how crazy the local pirates were back in their heyday, and just how far the islands have come since. Join the original swashbuckling Pirate Durty Reid Walker and other pirates if the Camyan Triangle as they wreak havoc among the locals and themselves across the Caribbean... and in the process, almost start World War III!

The search for a hidden treasure in a villa pits four friends against each other. Originally filmed under the title "Fate la nanna coscine di pollo" in 1977, this apparently sat on a shelf until more explicit sex footage (featuring Ajita Wilson) was added to the works for the 1983 release.

Madhu, a schoolteacher, goes on a trip to Nagarhole National Park with her son Chandru. But things go awry when Chandru and his friends decide to sneak out and visit the forest.

A César award nominated short feature.

Morteza loves Zari but Zari's bankrupt father agrees to wed her to a wealthy man who will pay all his debts. Zari suicides in the night of the wedding and Morteza leaves the city (Jahrom) ...

The film is about a cop and a hitman meeting up. Kemal is a cop. He stops the mafia in Istanbul from doing stuff like drug dealing and smuggling. The mafia boss Abbas has to get rid of Kemal because the big boss, Grandpa, told him to. He makes a deal with Kadırgalı Tahir, an ex-con. Kadırgalı Tahir just got out of jail. Though he wants to leave his criminal ways behind, he agrees to kill Kemal to provide his son with a better life. When Kadırgalı Tahir and Kemal face off, they will confront the dark parts of their pasts.

Ilija is a night guard in a factory. One night he oversleeps and is awoken in the morning by a radio report of his death. He tries to contact his employers to clear up this misunderstanding but the world around him starts breaking apart.

What was supposed to be a 40 minute performance gets extended another 20 minutes with 3 more songs to the already sung 35 songs in Bing’s only fully televised concert! Recorded a month and a half before his death, we see Bing in great form performing many songs he was associated with. He is accompanied by the Joe Bushkin Quartet and his son Harry Crosby.

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Teenage friends Cindy and Leah have decided to leave their abusive homelives behind, stealing Cindy's father's car and setting out on the road to freedom. On the way, they meet up with a sleazy guy named Tank who invites them up to his place. As Tank showers, the two girls decide to take off, stealing Tank's wallet and his car. His car, however, happens to contain $2 million from a bank job he just pulled off, and Tank is now rather intent on tracking the pair down and reclaiming what's his.

Jack spends his days smoking pot, drinking and hitting on girls together with his friends. As opposed to his friends, Jack actually knows what he wants to do with his life, he wants be an author. After a long summer together with his friends Jack finally has an idea for his first book...

Naami Chor is a 1977 Bollywood action film directed by Kamal Mehra

A man is kidnapped when he is mistaken for another and his wife tries to collect a large life insurance but he reappears alive.

A man famous for his toughness cuts himself off from everything after being released from prison. But his past never leaves him alone. His enemies from his past life, the people he has harmed in some way, never leave him alone. His young son Sezercik does everything he can to save his father from these men. He takes on a task that is too big for him.

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A hitman goes on a quest of revenge after his wife and child are killed in a car bomb set by his former compatriot. However, his tendency to shoot without thinking soon ends in tragedy, adding fuel to his undying bloodlust.

Joseph and Helen, who had been boyfriends, there meeting some years later and fall madly in love again, but now the two are married. His hard and clandestine love story addition is determined by the circumstances of the times in which they have lived: the last years of the Franco regime and the beginning of the transition.

The film ballet based on the play by Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion" to the music of Timur Kogan. For the first time, an attempt was made to translate the play into the language of choreography. And although the musical “F. My Fair Lady” was taken as the basis, the choreographer D. Bryantsev and director A. Belinsky offered a completely original interpretation of the famous work - classical ballet dancers act as real dramatic actors.

Film adaptation of Werner Keller's bestselling non-fiction book, which attempts to show in a "less spectacular way than the original" that archaeological finds and findings do not contradict biblical statements.

A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Robert Klein returns to HBO for another hour of his classic comedy.

A tale of two unwed sisters whose lives have been imprisoned by their father.

A man under investigation is held under arrest in a prison cell with seven other men. Three simultaneously operated cameras were used to film in a real prison cell.

One episode of the “Seventeen” series (1977)

Ion is the head of workers' team who install high-voltage lines in the mountains. He discovers a design error that could put many lives in jeopardy and knows that the chief designer is Valeria, his ex-girlfriend from adolescent days.

Deals with the efforts of the Ninth Automobile Transportation Team deputy captain to improve public transit in rural Jiangcheng District, while simultaneously fighting mistaken lines of thought in the team and corruption and collusion with local black market thieves and operators taking advantage of the poor and inconvenient transport situation to fleece the local peasants.

Roberto, Pierre and Pedro are very different men, with very different life paths; However, one thing unites them: the three are suspected of having murdered Colonel Pacífico, the rich and powerful owner of the city of Parada de Deus, in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais. However, jail may be the least of his problems, as the colonel's brother is a bloodthirsty gunslinger looking for revenge.

Surrounded by his children, his wife Ethel, and Sammy Davis, Jr., RFK visits schoolchildren around the city, and is every bit the good patriarch and dutiful public servant. But it’s the films’ fleeting, in-between, moments where Pennebaker most precisely hits the mark, offering reflection on the possibilities that Robert Kennedy’s all too brief life foreclosed. Set against the pageantry of a long ago Christmas, the film speaks to tragic contingencies of history lying far beyond the ken of politics that continue to circumscribe the tortured destiny of our country.

The satiric film is a dramatic-ironic picture of the Hungarian intellectuals in the seventies. Ebes, whose art has been awarded for its merits conglomerating folk features with modernity, can hardly believe that from his parents, old friends, and the sons of the people he did not even receive a telegram of congratulation.

"Alone"- A psychological and moral drama dealing with the crisis of feelings in interpersonal relations. Young heroes, basing their relationship on a program-based resignation from emotional involvement, under the influence of a tragic accident, change the rules of past coexistence.

A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different.

Tells the story of Inem who is fortunate to become a big lady after previously being a maid. She contributes a lot to society. The comedy element is still felt in this film

A nurse arrives at a small town to discover that the blood supply at the hospital is being raided by a small group of vampires.