Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
A Special Day (1977)- Dir. Ettore Scola
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon - Quietly subversive drama set entirely in a working–class apartment building in Rome, on the fateful day in 1938 that Mussolini welcomed Hitler…
Ascent, The (Voskhozhdeniye) (1977)
- Dir. Larisa Shepitko
Feat. Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoli Solonitsyn - A Soviet WWII classic shot in appalling winter conditions in which two partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the…
Bilitis (1977)- Dir. David Hamilton
Feat. Patti D'Arbanville - Tissue–thin sex drama from famed 1970s photographer Hamilton (he of those misty images of nude or lace–clad women), going into dreamy…
Chess Players, The (1977)- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Richard Attenborough - India's first internationally renowned film–maker draws upon the ancient game of chess as a metaphor for Anglo–Indian political relations…
Despair (1977)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Fassbinder's blackly comic adaptation of Nabakov's novel about delusion, depression and decline of the human spirit. Dirk Bogarde plays a Russian…
Man Who Loved Women, The (1977)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Charles Denner, Leslie Caron, Brigitte Fossey… - Charles Denner plays a dedicated skirt–chaser, who falls in love with women so constantly he is brought to the point of…
Padre Padrone (1977)- Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Feat. Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli… - An affecting true story about a Shepherd's son who escapes the shackles of family expectations and returns mature and educated to confront his…
Serpent's Egg, The (1977)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Isolde Barth, Heinz Bennent, Toni Berger - Jewish trapeze–artist Keith Carradine endures the depravities and anti–semitism of 1920's Berlin. Out of the director's most grotesque…
The Devil, Probably (Le diable probablement) (1977)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc… - Distinctive late–period inclusion into the incredible canon of films from director Robert Bresson (DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST), following a…
1900 (Novecento) (1976)- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Robert De Niro - Spectacular saga spans the first half of 20th Century Italy, and follows two men, one a peasant (Gerard Depardieu), the other a nobleman (Robert de…
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