Cannes 1970
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1. The Buttercup Chain (1970)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. Two decades later, they fight their unrequited love, each taking lovers who eventually fall for each other.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Hywel Bennett, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jane Asher, Sven-Bertil Taube
Votes: 172
In Competition
2. Don Segundo Sombra (1969)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Western
The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentina pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the field, next to his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a solitary gaucho.
Director: Manuel Antin | Stars: Adolfo Güiraldes, Juan Carvalledo, Luis Manuel de la Cuesta, Luis Medina Castro
Votes: 64
In Competition
3. The Pizza Triangle (1970)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini, Manuel Zarzo
Votes: 2,250
In Competition
4. The Land (1970)
130 min | Drama
A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed
Votes: 2,449
In Competition
5. Élise ou la vraie vie (1970)
104 min | Drama
In 1957, Elise Le Tellier, a young woman from Bordeaux, decides to join her brother Lucien, a revolutionary who has decided to become a worker instead of a notable. Lucien has secured a ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Drach | Stars: Marie-José Nat, Mohamed Chouikh, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Bisson
Votes: 114
In Competition
6. Harry Munter (1969)
101 min | Drama
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work ... See full summary »
Director: Kjell Grede | Stars: Jan Nielsen, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Gun Jönsson, Georg Adelly
Votes: 111
In Competition
7. The Dreamer (1970)
R | 85 min | Drama
The love story of a young man who is attached to an older woman until the appearance of a younger girl interrupts him. He has an affair with the younger girl but his love for the older woman makes him return to the nursing home.
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Tuvia Tavi, Liora Rivlin, Berta Litwina, Shlomo Bar-Shavit
Votes: 13
In Competition
8. Hoa Binh (1970)
GP | 93 min | Drama, War
A small Vietnamese boy grows up during the horrors and hardships of The Vietnam War era.
Director: Raoul Coutard | Stars: Phi Lan, Huynh Cazenas, Xuan Ha, Le Quynh
Votes: 250
In Competition
9. I tulipani di Haarlem (1970)
102 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman becomes emotionally and romantically dependent on the man who foils her suicide attempt.
Director: Franco Brusati | Stars: Carole André, Frank Grimes, Gianni Garko, Gianni Giuliano
Votes: 41
In Competition
10. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 13,337 | Gross: $0.27M
In Competition
11. Landscape After Battle (1970)
109 min | Drama, History, Romance
The film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar
Votes: 884
In Competition
12. Le dernier saut (1970)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Édouard Luntz | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Michel Bouquet, Cathy Rosier, Eric Penet
Votes: 78
In Competition
13. Leo the Last (1970)
R | 104 min | Drama, Comedy
A social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw, Calvin Lockhart, Glenna Forster-Jones
Votes: 667
In Competition
14. The Things of Life (1970)
GP | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Gérard Lartigau, Jean Bouise
Votes: 5,554
In Competition
15. M*A*S*H (1970)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 76,920 | Gross: $81.60M
In Competition
16. The Falcons (1970)
100 min | Drama
The daily routine of a falconry shows the newcomer how order through dictatorship can and cannot work.
Director: István Gaál | Stars: Ivan Andonov, György Bánffy, Judit Meszléry, Ferenc Paláncz
Votes: 224
In Competition
17. Malatesta (1970 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama
The Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta lives in exile in London 1910 . Because of revolutionary activities in Ancona he was initially relegated to the island of Lampedusa. In London he creates a new cell of anarchists.
Director: Peter Lilienthal | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Christine Noonan, Vladimír Pucholt, Diana Senior
Votes: 42
In Competition
18. Metello (1970)
107 min | Drama, History
Struggling with life in 18th-century Italy, young Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Massimo Ranieri, Ottavia Piccolo, Frank Wolff, Tina Aumont
Votes: 347
In Competition
19. A Very Crazy Asylum (1970)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Nildo Parente, Isabel Ribeiro, Arduíno Colassanti, Irene Stefânia
Votes: 150
In Competition
20. O Palácio dos Anjos (1970)
96 min | Drama
Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", securing money and success, but some problems as well.
Director: Walter Hugo Khouri | Stars: Geneviève Grad, Luc Merenda, Rossana Ghessa, Adriana Prieto
Votes: 78
In Competition
21. Fruit of Paradise (1970)
99 min | Drama
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.
Director: Vera Chytilová | Stars: Jitka Nováková, Karel Novak, Jan Schmid, Julius Albert
Votes: 1,263
In Competition
22. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of three wildly neurotic characters: A facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco
Votes: 1,027 | Gross: $0.39M
In Competition
23. The Strawberry Statement (1970)
R | 109 min | Drama, Romance
An apolitical college student joins a group of campus protesters to meet girls but gets swept up in their cause and involved in a violent confrontation with police.
Director: Stuart Hagmann | Stars: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort, Murray MacLeod
Votes: 1,803 | Gross: $0.80M
In Competition
24. A Simple Story (1970)
97 min | Documentary, Drama
A documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to adjust to France after many years in Tunisia... See full summary »
Director: Abdellatif Ben Ammar | Stars: Juliet Berto, Fouad Zaouch, Amor Khalfa, Pia Colombo
Votes: 14
In Competition
25. ¡Vivan los novios! (1970)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Leo travels with his mother to a touristic Mediterranean spot in order to marry his girlfriend Loli. However, the funny and open minded girls from Northern Europe make Leo reconsider his plans.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Laly Soldevila, José María Prada, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 364
In Competition
26. Le bal du comte d'Orgel (1970)
95 min | Drama
1920. Count Anne d'Orgel entertains the upper crust of Paris. A handsome young man, François de Séryeuse, who is fascinated by him, gets into his manor and falls in love with Mahé, the ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Sylvie Fennec, Bruno Garcin, Micheline Presle
Votes: 45
Out of Competition
27. Le territoire des autres (1970)
92 min | Documentary
Directors: François Bel, Michel Fano, Jacqueline Lecompte, Gérard Vienne
Votes: 26
Out of Competition
28. Mictlan o la casa de los que ya no son (1969)
80 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Raúl Kamffer | Stars: Sergio Kleiner, Silvia Li, Lilia Aragón, Rocío Sagaón
Out of Competition
29. The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
The story, adapted from a novella by D.H. Lawrence, tells how the daughter of a staid Rector in the north of England, rebels against her family by having a relationship with a gypsy, and how "the voice of the water" triumphs in the end.
Director: Christopher Miles | Stars: Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Mark Burns
Votes: 388 | Gross: $1.18M
Out of Competition
30. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
M | 129 min | Drama
The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young
Votes: 20,847 | Gross: $12.60M
Out of Competition
31. Tristana (1970)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama
Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos
Votes: 12,825 | Gross: $0.01M
Out of Competition
32. Voyage chez les vivants (1970)
98 min | Documentary
Director: Henry Brandt | Stars: Isaac Asimov, Joseph Faye, Nini Guérard, Jean Négroni
Out of Competition
33. Woodstock (1970)
R | 184 min | Documentary, History, Music
Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
Director: Michael Wadleigh | Stars: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker
Votes: 18,465 | Gross: $50.00M
Out of Competition
34. Camarades (1970)
85 min | Drama
22 year-old- Yan is trying hard to find his way in life: a job he likes, an ideal. In Saint-Nazaire, his home town, he vegetates, just like his father, an unambitious worker. His fiancée, ... See full summary »
Director: Marin Karmitz | Stars: Jean-Paul Giquel, Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Jean-Pierre Melec
Votes: 44
International Critics' Week
35. Éloge du chiac (1969)
27 min | Short, Documentary
Documentaire de Michel Brault. Réalisé sous forme de conversations entre une jeune institutrice dans une école française de Moncton et ses élèves, ce film montre les difficultés des ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Brault | Star: Rosanna Leblanc
Votes: 44
International Critics' Week
36. Kes (1969)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Family
A working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: David Bradley, Brian Glover, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie
Votes: 22,935
International Critics' Week
37. Misshandlingen (1969)
104 min | Drama
A rebellious socialist undergoes a mental examination after he assaulted a stranger. The psychologist is looking to track the aggression from childhood, while the socialist sees it as a natural reaction to the class society's oppression.
Director: Lars Lennart Forsberg | Stars: Knut Pettersen, Björn Granath, Berit Persson, Stig Billberg
Votes: 121
International Critics' Week
38. O Cerco (1970)
111 min | Drama
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but ... See full summary »
Director: António da Cunha Telles | Stars: Maria Cabral, Miguel Franco, Ruy de Carvalho, Mário Jacques
Votes: 134
International Critics' Week
39. On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi (1969)
48 min | Documentary
A feature documentary written by a collective of young workers in the aftermath of France's May 1968 events, and based on the premise that a film about a group of people should be made by those people themselves and not by others.
Director: Christian Zarifian
International Critics' Week
40. Ramparts of Clay (1970)
GP | 87 min | Drama
In an Algerian village, the workers of a salt mine go on strike because of low wages. The owner calls the army to control the men, but a young woman cuts off the water to force the troops to retreat.
Director: Jean-Louis Bertuccelli | Stars: Leila Shenna, Ahmed Kadri, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Votes: 131
International Critics' Week
41. Oh, Sun (1970)
98 min | Drama
A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. However, he is disappointed when he sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment.
Director: Med Hondo | Stars: Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Ambroise M'Bia, Gabriel Glissant
Votes: 834
International Critics' Week
42. The River Schooners (1968)
110 min | Documentary
The life of the people living on the Ile-aux-Coudres, the way these men construct their own schooners, the hard work in coasting or on the high seas.
Director: Pierre Perrault | Stars: Laurent Tremblay, Aurele Tremblay, Yvan Tremblay, Eloi Perron
Votes: 38
International Critics' Week
43. Crows (1969)
76 min | Drama
A flat-broke aging boxer living on the verge of existence, associates with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for money.
Directors: Ljubisa Kozomara, Gordan Mihic | Stars: Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Milan Jelic, Jelisaveta 'Seka' Sablic, Ana Matic
Votes: 129
International Critics' Week
44. Warm in the Bud (1970)
57 min | Drama
Two sensitive youths growing up in the insensitive 19th century. Upon approaching manhood, Moritz and Melchior come to grips with the inevitable in highly unorthodox fashion.
Director: Rudolph Caringi | Stars: Robert Mont, Dean Stricklin, Toni Hamilton, Bruce Johnson
Votes: 10
International Critics' Week
45. Ice (1970)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
"An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Kramer | Stars: Robert Kramer, Leo Braudy, Tom Griffin, Paul McIsaac
Votes: 290
International Critics' Week
46. A Married Couple (1969)
97 min | Documentary
An "actuality drama" about a real-life marriage in crisis, in which the couple attempts to identify and resolve the conflicts and resentments that have driven them to the brink of separation.
Director: Allan King | Stars: Billy Edwards, Antoinette Edwards, Bogart Edwards, Merton
Votes: 643
47. À nous deux, France! (1970)
58 min | Comedy, Drama
Evoking mixed marriages and their difficulties, the author depicts the wanderings of a young black husband.
Director: Désiré Ecaré | Stars: Pierre Garnier, Frédérique Layne, Marie Gabrielle N'Guipie, Fabienne Fabre
Votes: 11
Directors' Fortnight
48. Arthur Penn, 1922-: Themes and Variants (1970 TV Movie)
86 min | Documentary
Arthur Penn's career is examined via interviews with the director himself (recalling his life and work), interviews with the people who have worked with him including Anne Bancroft, Dustin ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Hughes | Stars: Arthur Penn, Dede Allen, Anne Bancroft, Warren Beatty
Votes: 19
Directors' Fortnight
49. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner
Votes: 6,288
Directors' Fortnight
50. Bhuvan Shome (1969)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A lonely bureaucrat goes on holiday to a Gujarat village where a young peasant woman helps him see beyond his job and develop a newfound empathy for people.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Utpal Dutt, Suhasini Mulay, Shekhar Chatterjee, Sadhu Meher
Votes: 581
Directors' Fortnight
51. Caliche Sangriento (1969)
128 min | Drama, History, War
The plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Hector Duvauchelle, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 108
Directors' Fortnight
52. Love-in '72 (1970)
X | 86 min | Drama
A man must decide whether to flee the U.S. draft and go to stay in Canada or go fight for his country in Vietnam.
Directors: Kemal Horulu, Sidney Knight, Simon Nuchtern | Stars: John Ross, Linda Southern, Susan Sparling, Will Patent
Votes: 36 | Gross: $0.25M
Directors' Fortnight
53. Des Christs par milliers (1969)
90 min | Drama
Director: Philippe Arthuys | Stars: Jean Vilar, Danièle Delorme, Nadine Basile, Douchka
Directors' Fortnight
54. Destroy Yourselves (1968)
75 min | Drama
"Destroy Yourself" is a 'primitive' film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It's the first Zanzibar film (and predates the very naming of the movement), an attempt to make a film ... See full summary »
Director: Serge Bard | Stars: Caroline de Bendern, Juliet Berto, Thierry Garrel, Alain Jouffroy
Votes: 69
Directors' Fortnight
55. Giv gud en chance om søndagen (1970)
94 min | Drama
The relevance of being a young parson in the modern life of the early 1970s.
Director: Henrik Stangerup | Stars: Ulf Pilgaard, Lotte Tarp, Vibeke Reumert, Ove Sprogøe
Votes: 36
Directors' Fortnight
56. Don Giovanni (1970)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The narrative follows how Don Giovanni tries to seduce a young woman who is manically searching for Christian icons.
Director: Carmelo Bene | Stars: Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Vittorio Bodini, Gea Marotta
Votes: 107
Directors' Fortnight
57. Eika Katappa (1969)
144 min | Comedy, Drama
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music - with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Gisela Trowe, Carla Egerer, Rosemarie Heinikel, Magdalena Montezuma
Votes: 128
Directors' Fortnight
58. End of the Road (1970)
X | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
After a stay in an asylum, Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer and begins a disastrous affair with Rennie, the wife of a colleague.
Director: Aram Avakian | Stars: Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, Dorothy Tristan, James Earl Jones
Votes: 365
Directors' Fortnight
59. Entre tu et vous (1970)
65 min | Drama
A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
Director: Gilles Groulx | Stars: Pierre Harel, Paule Baillargeon, Dolorès Monfette, Manon d'Amour
Votes: 40
Directors' Fortnight
60. Fuoricampo (1969)
81 min | Drama
Alienated youth. One talks about film with an old girl friend.A bearded friend stresses the need for political change. Another with kids has taken to his bed out of pessimism. The girl argues with another friend on a boat trip.
Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Bruno Cattaneo, Nicole Tessier, Alessandro Haber, Vittorio Fanfoni
Directors' Fortnight
61. The Year of the Cannibals (1969)
GP | 88 min | Drama
The streets of a big city are full of dead bodies but people seem not to notice and pass by indifferently. At the behest of the authorities, the bodies of those citizens who were killed ... See full summary »
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Britt Ekland, Pierre Clémenti, Tomas Milian, Delia Boccardo
Votes: 515
Directors' Fortnight
62. James ou pas (1970)
80 min | Drama
As he sets off for the countryside outside Geneva, taxi-driver Hector hears a gunshot and notices a shadowy figure slipping away from the scene. His next passenger is James, who needs to go... See full summary »
Director: Michel Soutter | Stars: Harriett Ariel, Jean-Luc Bideau, Serge Nicoloff, Nicole Zufferey
Votes: 48
Directors' Fortnight
63. Jänken (1970)
95 min | Drama
Inger gets pregnant with an American man who abandons her. Maskot moves in with Inger. She wants them to start a relationship, but the Maskot has other plans. He performs several thefts and uses Ingers apartment as a hub.
Director: Lars Forsberg | Stars: Anita Ekström, Lars Green, Mona Dan-Bergman, Inger Ekström
Votes: 20
Directors' Fortnight
64. Winter in Mallorca (1970)
GP | 106 min | Biography, Drama
In 1838, cigar-smoking French writer, George Sand and her lover, composer-pianist Frédéric Chopin rent a former monastery in Mallorca as a winter retreat. However, what promised to be a warm, sunny vacation soon turns sour.
Director: Jaime Camino | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Christopher Sandford, Henri Serre, Enrique San Francisco
Votes: 34
Directors' Fortnight
65. La odisea del General José (1968)
68 min
Director: Jorge Fraga | Stars: Georgina Almanza, Idalia Anreus, Miguel Benavides, René de la Cruz
Directors' Fortnight
66. L'araignée d'eau (1970)
76 min | Drama, Fantasy
Bernard, an entomologist, moves to the country with his wife to write in peace and quiet. When he brings home a water spider their lives change irrevocably as the insect transforms into a beautiful young woman.
Director: Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | Stars: Elisabeth Wiener, Marc Eyraud, Marie-Ange Dutheil, André Julien
Votes: 62
Directors' Fortnight
67. L'escadron Volapük (1970)
102 min | Comedy
Director: René Gilson | Stars: Olivier Hussenot, André Thorent, Marc Chapiteau, Juliet Berto
Directors' Fortnight
68. The Strangler (1970)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings.
Director: Paul Vecchiali | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Eva Simonet, Paul Barge
Votes: 343
Directors' Fortnight
69. L'opium et le bâton (1969)
135 min | Action, Drama, War
An Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the ... See full summary »
Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Mustapha Kateb, Rouiched, Mahieddine Bachtarzi, Sid Ali Kouiret
Votes: 121
Directors' Fortnight
70. La chambre blanche (1969)
78 min | Drama
A film poem in which a married couple engage in conversation about love, death, and life while the scenery changes around them.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Michèle Magny, Marcel Sabourin
Votes: 18
Directors' Fortnight
71. La hora de los niños (1969)
65 min | Drama
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Armando Coria, Carlos Nieto, Bebi Pecannis, Carlos Savage
Votes: 18
Directors' Fortnight
72. Le révélateur (1968)
67 min | Drama
A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur" describes the procedure to develop or "reveal" film negatives.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Bernadette Lafont, Stanislas Robiolle
Votes: 771
Directors' Fortnight
73. Handcuffs (1970)
80 min | Drama
Small village in mountains of Dalmatinska Zagora is under total control of Andrija, local Party official. One day two members of secret police come to the village and everybody knows they ... See full summary »
Director: Krsto Papic | Stars: Fabijan Sovagovic, Adem Cejvan, Jagoda Kaloper, Ilija Ivezic
Votes: 413
Directors' Fortnight
74. Macunaima (1969)
Not Rated | 95 min | Fantasy, Comedy
Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family and ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Stars: Grande Otelo, Paulo José, Jardel Filho, Dina Sfat
Votes: 2,093
Directors' Fortnight
75. Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969)
78 min | Drama, Horror
There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other ... See full summary »
Director: Júlio Bressane | Stars: Márcia Rodrigues, Renata Sorrah, Antero de Oliveira, Vanda Lacerda
Votes: 553
Directors' Fortnight
76. Molo (1969)
92 min | Drama
The main character is a shipbuilder who wanders off after his first ship is launched. He takes to the road, and his life takes him from one woman to another, while his wife is in waiting. ... See full summary »
Director: Wojciech Solarz | Stars: Ryszard Filipski, Witold Holtz, Kalina Jedrusik, Tadeusz Kalinowski
Votes: 37
Directors' Fortnight
77. Mon amie Pierrette (1969)
69 min | Drama, Romance
A young man and his girlfriend visit his parents at their lake house for the weekend. While there, the couple meets an eccentric artist who comes between them.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Raoul Duguay, Yves Marchand, Francine Mathieu
Votes: 18
Directors' Fortnight
78. The Inheritors (1969)
110 min | Drama
An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.
Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: Sérgio Cardoso, Odete Lara, Mário Lago, Paulo Porto
Votes: 97
Directors' Fortnight
79. Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970)
88 min | Drama
Pierre Corneille's Othon adapted faithfully to cinema, set in the ruins of the Rome of now-a-days.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Adriano Aprà, Anne Brumagne, Ennio Lauricella, Olimpia Carlisi
Votes: 332
Directors' Fortnight
80. Palaver (1970)
78 min | Fantasy
"Palaver" tells us the day of three Congolese students (Albert, Victor and Marcel) who visit Bruges for a tour of the city, and end up on the beaches of Ostend. During their trip, they ... See full summary »
Director: Emile Degelin | Stars: Umberto Bettencourt, Christie Dermie, Marion Hänsel, Jean Kabuta
Votes: 53
Directors' Fortnight
81. Paradise Now (I) (1970)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary
The play is a voyage from the many to the one and from the one to the many. , , . It is a voyage for the actors and the spectators. . , . The plot is The Revolution, , , . The voyage is ... See full summary »
Director: Sheldon Rochlin | Stars: Julian Beck, Steven Ben Israel, Judith Malina
Votes: 26
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82. Film Portrait (1970)
81 min | Documentary, Biography
A diary film in which Jerome Hill presents his life and milieu through different scenes, many hand-colored and animated.
Director: Jerome Hill | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Ernest Borgnine, Cyd Charisse, Jerome Hill
Votes: 99
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83. Putney Swope (1969)
R | 84 min | Comedy
The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney Swope.
Director: Robert Downey Sr. | Stars: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell
Votes: 4,356 | Gross: $2.73M
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84. Un succès commercial (1970)
77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In this satire of sexuality in the entertainment industry and voyeurism, a woman maintains 3 romantic relationships simultaneously: with her husband, with her boss, and with her lover.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Anne Lauriault, Jean-Pierre Cartier, Larry Kent, Denis Payne
Votes: 30
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85. Reason Over Passion (1969)
80 min
Reason over Passion is one of Joyce Wieland's most renowned experimental films - a cross-country travelogue, political satire, modernist experiment - which embodies many of the themes recurrent in her rich, diverse and extensive oeuvre.
Director: Joyce Wieland | Stars: Joyce Wieland, Pierre Trudeau
Votes: 50
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86. Reconstruction (1968)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher bring the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: George Constantin, Emil Botta, George Mihaita, Vladimir Gaitan
Votes: 1,716
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87. Right on! (1970)
72 min | Documentary, History, Music
This film is a combination of documentary, filmed live performance and music video for a collection of The Last Poet's classic tracks.
Director: Herbert Danska | Stars: Felipe Luciano, Gylan Kain, David Nelson, Gene Ballard
Votes: 40
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88. Ruchome piaski (1969)
76 min | Drama
Father and son are vacationing on a deserted beach. The appearance of the girl shatters their peace and harmony. The father becomes more and more interested and affectionate towards the girl.
Director: Wladyslaw Slesicki | Stars: Malgorzata Braunek, Marek Walczewski, Grzegorz Zuchowicz, Henryk Borowski
Votes: 32
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89. School Play (1970)
67 min | Comedy
A fractured, psychedelic fairy tail presented as a school play.
Director: Charles Rydell | Stars: Lory Alan Kohn, Tony Alexander, Ruth Ballan, Brigid Berlin
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90. Som natt och dag (1969)
102 min | Drama
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually ... See full summary »
Director: Jonas Cornell | Stars: Agneta Ekmanner, Gösta Ekman, Keve Hjelm, Claire Wikholm
Votes: 49
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91. The Structure of Crystal (1969)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama
Jan and Marek used to study physics together but after graduation their paths were different. Jan got married and moved to the countryside. Marek stayed in Warsaw and now wants to persuade Jan to follow his path.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Barbara Wrzesinska, Jan Myslowicz, Andrzej Zarnecki, Wladyslaw Jarema
Votes: 1,687
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92. Ternos Caçadores (1969)
115 min | Drama
A family of four people (parents and two children, one of them still a kid) live by the sea. The father studies the migratory flights of birds. One day, there appears an escaped prisoner on... See full summary »
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Maureen McNally, Susan Strasberg, Stuart Whitman
Votes: 62
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