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The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) on 17 september 1970
, 1h40Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Glenn Ford, Dean Jagger, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Will Geer, Robert Pine
Rating71%
Professor Andrew Patterson (Glenn Ford) returns to his alma mater, the College of St. George in San Francisco, for the initiation of a new member into a secret society, the Brotherhood of the Bell. The man who initiated Patterson 22 years earlier, financier Chad Harmon (Dean Jagger), is presiding at the initiation. Harmon gives him an address and instructs Patterson to go there to receive an assignment from the society; Patterson has been selected to prevent Dr. Konstantin Horvathy (Eduard Franz) from accepting a deanship at a college of linguistics. The Brotherhood wants this post for one of their own. Patterson is given dossiers of people who helped Horvathy defect to the United States, and he is to threaten to reveal these to the government of Horvathy's homeland if Horvathy accepts the new post. Against Brotherhood policy, Patterson consults Harmon about the legality and ethics of his assignment. Harmon tells Patterson to do it and be grateful that more is not asked of him.
The Executioner (1970) on 16 september 1970
, 1h47Directed by Sam Wanamaker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Peppard, Joan Collins, Judy Geeson, Oskar Homolka, Ernest Clark, Charles Gray
Rating60%
John Shay (George Peppard), a British MI5 agent, had grown up in the United States, and who was nearly killed while on assignment abroad. Convinced that he was framed, he returns to London to uncover the mole responsible for the set-up. John Shay suspects that his colleague Adam Booth (Keith Michell) is a Russian spy. The action takes place in London, Athens, Istanbul and Corfu, where Shay goes in his investigation trying to gather evidence that Booth is a double agent. When Shay's superiors are not convinced, and even after a special hearing clears Booth of any wrongdoing, he takes matters into his own hands and executes Booth.
The Heirs (1970) on 15 september 1970
, 1h50Directed by Carlos Diegues
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Actors Paulo Porto, Daniel Filho, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hugo Carvana
Rating66%
Cromwell (1970) on 16 september 1970
, 2h19Directed by Ken Hughes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Nigel Stock, Geoffrey Keen, Dorothy Tutin
Rating69%
Oliver Cromwell is a devout Puritan, a country squire, magistrate and former member of Parliament. King Charles I's policies, including the enclosing of common land for the use of wealthy landowners and the introduction of "Popish" and "Romish" rituals into the Church of England have become increasingly grating to many, including Cromwell. In fact Charles regards himself as a devout Anglican, permitting his French Queen to practise Roman Catholicism in private but forbidding her to bring up the young Prince of Wales in that faith. Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World, but, on the eve of their departure, he is persuaded by his friends to stay and resume a role in politics.
R.P.M. (1970) on 16 september 1970
, 1h32Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield, Graham Jarvis, Alan Hewitt
Rating53%
Set against the political turmoil of the 1960s, radical student activists occupy a university's administration building with a list of 12 demands. Unable to resolve the situation, President Tyler (John Zaremba) resigns, so the Board of Trustees considers a student-made shortlist of recommended professors to take over the job of university president. The board finalizes the choice of Professor F.W.J. "Paco" Perez (Anthony Quinn), despite his radical beliefs, given his close past relationship with students.
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) on 16 september 1970
, 1h36Directed by Werner Herzog
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Comedy horror films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Patricia Hayes
Rating66%
A group of dwarfs confined in an institution on a remote island rebel against the guards and director (all dwarfs as well) in a display of mayhem. The dwarfs gleefully break windows and dishes, abandon a running truck to drive itself in circles, engineer food fights and cock fights, set fire to pots of flowers, kill a large pig, torment some blind dwarfs, and perform a mock crucifixion of a monkey.
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968) on 14 september 1970
, 1h31Directed by Alain Resnais
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance
Themes Time travel films
Actors Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac, Van Doude, Irène Tunc, Claire Duhamel
Rating70%
Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) is leaving hospital after a failed attempt at suicide, when he is asked to participate in a mysterious experiment in time travel by a private research body. They have succeeded in sending mice back unharmed for periods of one minute, but need to send a human back to confirm the subject did actually revisit the past. Claude agrees, but instead of returning promptly as the mice had done, he re-experiences many episodes from his past in a highly disjointed and fragmented manner, in interludes of seconds or minutes.
We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore (1970) on 16 september 1970
, 1h30Directed by Georges Dumoulin
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Richard Leduc, Marie-France Pisier, Siegfried Rauch, Georges Claisse, Jean-Pierre Ducos, Serge Rousseau
Rating64%
Au printemps 1944, dans la forêt de la Woëvre, en Lorraine, un groupe de jeunes maquisards accueille quatre déserteurs allemands.
Street Scenes 1970 (1970) on 14 september 1970
, 1h15Directed by Martin Scorsese
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Harvey Keitel, Verna Bloom, Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese
Rating65%
The Naked Zoo (1970) on 18 september 1970
, 1h18Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Rita Hayworth, Ford Rainey, Fay Spain, Joe E. Ross
Rating40%
Habitant à Miami, Mme Golden est l'épouse d'un millionnaire se déplaçant en chaise roulante. Elle est dans la force de l'âge et son époux ne lui donne pas entièrement satisfaction. Elle entame donc une liaison avec un auteur obscur nommé Terry Shaw. Celui-ci profite de la générosité de sa maîtresse pour organiser des soirées coûteuses où les invités se droguent à loisir. Mme Golden finit par se brouiller avec Terry. Celui-ci tente une réconciliation mais le mari millionnaire les surprend et tente de les abattre. Terry parvient à s'emparer de son pistolet et le tue. La police croit à un accident. Reprenant leur liaison, Mme Golden et Terry ne tardent pas à se rebrouiller. Mme Golden le fait chanter. Terry décide de s'en débarrasser et la fait mourir d'une surdose de stupéfiant. La police continue à ne pas le soupçonner et lui, grâce à l'argent des Golden, devient un auteur à succès. La fille des Golden revient alors à Miami et apprend toute la vérité sur la mort de ses parents. Elle tue Terry à la première occasion.
Tristana (1970) on 20 september 1970
, 1h40Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Antonio Casas, José Calvo
Rating73%
Tristana is an orphan adopted by nobleman don Lope Garrido. Don Lope falls in love with her and thus treats her as daughter and wife from the age of 19. But, by age 21 Tristana starts finding her voice, to demand to study music, art and other subjects with which she wishes to become independent. She meets the young artist Horacio Díaz, falls in love, and eventually leaves Toledo to live with him. When she falls ill, she returns to don Lope. The illness results in her losing a leg, which changes her prospects; here, the film substantially varies from the novel.