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When the young woman Tristana’s mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope… Somewhere between the innocent girl and the not so innocent mistress is the bizarre, sensuous story of Tristana Luis Buñuel…
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Bird With The Crystal Plumage, The (1970)
Sam, an American writer in Rome, witnesses a murder attempt on the wife of the owner of an art gallery by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves – but Sam is powerless to do anything as…
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Butcher, The (1970)
Butcher Popaul meets schoolteacher Helene at a wedding in a small rural French village. They become friends. But girls are murdered in the area and Helene finds at the scene the lighter she gave Popaul… Claude Chabrol Stéphane Audran, Jean…
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Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970)
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telekinetic humans. The bizarre world you met in ‘Planet of…
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Kes (1969)
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (David Bradley), a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by…
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Twisted Nerve (1968)
Martin is a troubled young man. With a mother who insists on treating him like a child, a stepfather who can’t wait to see the back of him… Cleaver. Cleaver. Chop. Chop. First the mom and then the pop. Then…
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Point Blank (1967)
Based on the theme of the individual pitted against the large, impersonal organization. Here the central character is an old-fashioned loner of a gunman embroiled with a large-scale, corporate criminal operation behind a respectable-looking ‘front’. Without delving into psychology or…
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of…
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Django (1966)
In the opening scene a lone man walks, behind him he drags a coffin. That man is Django. He rescues a woman from bandits and, later, arrives in a town ravaged by the same bandits. The scene for confrontation is…
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Cop (1988)
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him. He’s a cop with the odds against him … it’s time to even the score James…
