Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1774 Films to Buy & Rent
Claire's Knee (1970)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy
- The director's fifth moral tale gained him major international recognition. A curiously droll tale of a middle–aged man's obsession with the…
Confession, The (L'Aveu) (1970)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti…
- A high–ranking government official in Communist Czechoslovakia is taken prisoner and forced to confess to treason he never committed.
Decameron, The (1970)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
- The first part of dir. Pasolini’s ‘medieval trilogy’, this adapts ten of Boccaccio’s famously ribald tales of the Italian Middle Ages. With…
Domicile Conjugal (Bed and Board) (1970)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Serio–comic misadventures of Truffaut's alter–ego, Antoine Doinel, an immature father–to–be who is unsettled in matrimonial…
Ear, The (Ucho) (1970)
- Dir. Karel Kachyna
Feat. Jirina Bohdalova, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Jiri Cisler
- Set over the course of an evening this is a searing look at life under an oppressive totalitarian system and an equally harsh examination of a…
Fellini Satyricon (1970)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born…
- Freely adapted from the Roman author Petronious, this follows the adventures of two bisexual youths through the decadent, fragmented age of Rome's…
Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest) (1970)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer…
- The second in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career.
In this…
Medea (1970)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Maria Callas
- Pasolini's stylised, passionate rendering of Euripides play blessed with the formidable presence of Maria Callas, in a non–operatic role, as…
Spider's Stratagem, The (1970)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli
- Investigating the death of his anti–fascist father, Giulio Brogi is enveloped in an atmosphere of mystery as he strolls the sleepy town where…
Double Suicide (Shinjû: Ten no amijima) (1969)
- Dir. Masahiro Shinoda
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Shiwa Iwashita, Hosie Komatsu
- A landmark of avant–garde Japanese cinema aims to replicate the startling aesthetic of traditional 'bunraku' puppetry in its enactment of an…