Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3369 Films to Buy & Rent
Amarcord (1974)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armendo Brancia
- Fellini's last bonafide masterpiece – an inspired recreation of his memories of growing up in small–town Italy during the Fascist 1930s…
Arabian Nights (Il Fiore Delle Mille e Una Notte) (1974)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Tessa Bouche
- For the final part of his “Trilogy of Life”, Pasolini interweaves several of the tales of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’,…
Celine & Julie Go Boating (Celine et Julie vont en bateau) (1974)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier
- Rivette assaults the narrative form for his epic–lengthed, dream–like, near indescribable tale of two girls whose lives and imaginations…
Conversation Piece (1974)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano
- A retired professor, who leads of solitary and ordered existence is disturbed by rich and overbearing new tenants in his Roman palazzo.
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Effi Briest (1974)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla
- Thoughtful drama, from provocative German Dir. Fassbinder, recounting the story of a stifled married woman whose long hidden affair reveals itself…
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira
- The title refers to the only case of a man who was 'born' as an adult. He has lived in a dark cellar all his life and has never seen another human…
French Screen Icons: Alain Delon 2 (Icy Flesh, The Gypsy, Like a Boomerang, A Crime) (1974-1993)
- Feat. Alain Delon
- Four films starring French leading–man Alain Delon.
French Screen Icons: Romy Schneider (Love in the Rain, A Woman at Her Window) (1974-1976)
- Feat. Romy Schneider
- Two French films from the 1970's starring German–born screen icon, Romy Schneider.
Golden Lotus (Jin ping shuang yan) (1974)
- Dir. Han Hsiang Li
Feat. Yang Chun, Hu Jien, Tien Ni…
- Now rather obscure erotica from the Shaw Brothers, adapting the classic Chinese novel about a 'Casanova' of the Sung Dynasty and various intertwined…
Icy Flesh (Icy Breasts; Les seins de glace) (1974)
- Dir. Georges Lautner
Feat. Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur
- Alain Delon potboiler, with the French leading man succumbing to the wiles of an alluring, if deadly femme fatale. Better known as 'Icy Breasts'.