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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

89 Metascore

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

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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

80 Metascore

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

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

72 Metascore

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

93 Metascore

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

33. Woodstock (1970)

R | 184 min | Documentary, History, Music

95 Metascore

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

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

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

68. The Strangler (1970)

96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

74 Metascore

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

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

Directors' Fortnight

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

Directors' Fortnight

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

Directors' Fortnight

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

Directors' Fortnight

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

Directors' Fortnight

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

Directors' Fortnight

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

Directors' Fortnight

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

Directors' Fortnight

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

Directors' Fortnight



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