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The Blood Rose (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 1h32Directed by Claude Mulot
Origin France
Genres Horror
Actors Anny Duperey, Philippe Lemaire, Howard Vernon, Michèle Perello, Valérie Boisgel, Jacques Seiler
Rating57%
Frederick Lansac is a botanist and portraitist who runs a beauty salon. Lansac meets and falls in love with Anne at a dress ball and the two get married. The two move into Lansac's home but at one of Lansac's portrait exhibitions, Anne's face is pushed into a bonfire from a jealous woman which horribly scars Anne's face. Anne isolates herself in her home where she slowly becomes less mentally stable as well as having erotic dreams about her nurse Agnès. Lansace learns that one of his clients, Dr. Rohmer is a former plastic surgeon who has halted from practising medicine and currently only performs plastic surgery on criminals. Lansac blackmails Rohmer into performing a grafting surgery on his wife to restore her former beauty. Lansac tricks two woman to of his clients to his home to become the donors for his wife's new face but the two die in the process. Barbara (Elizabeth Tessier), the sister of Anne's former nurse comes to the chateau to look for her sibling, but finds Anne who demands to have her face. Barbra manages to escape and Rohmer commits suicide. Realizing how far his wife has grown into madness, Lansace has his wife killed by his servants and then gives himself up to the police.
The Baby Maker (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 1h49Directed by James Bridges
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors Barbara Hershey, Scott Glenn, Collin Wilcox, Jeannie Berlin, Helena Kallianiotes, Brenda Sykes
Rating60%
Barbara Hershey portrays a flower child who is hired to have the baby of a middle-class couple (Collin Wilcox-Horne and Sam Groom).
Give Her the Moon (1970) on 2 october 1970
, 1h32Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Marthe Keller, Philippe Noiret, Bert Convy, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Valentina Cortese, Henri Crémieux
Rating57%
Une jeune femme veut voir le vaste monde . Un beau milliardaire yankee veut l'épouser mais elle aime l'instituteur du village. Tant pis, le village voyagera lui aussi avant que de revenir où il fut bâti ...
Cannon for Cordoba (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 1h44Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Political films
Actors George Peppard, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone, Pete Duel, Don Gordon, Gabriele Tinti
Rating57%
It is 1912 and groups of Mexican revolutionaries have been attacking towns on both sides of the Mexican-American border. The most powerful of these groups is led by a former Mexican army general, Héctor Cordoba. When a surprise attack results in six cannons falling into the hands of Cordoba and his men, the United States government puts General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing (John Russell) in charge of seeing that the cannons will never be used against the American people. Pershing turns to Captain Rod Douglas (George Peppard), instructing him to gather a group of men to take part in the dangerous mission into the heart of the Cordoba's territory.
Night Slaves (1970) on 29 september 1970
Directed by Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Andrew Prine, Leslie Nielsen, Scott Gregory Marlowe, Tisha Sterling
Rating60%
Clay and Marjorie, an estranged married couple, take a vacation together while Clay recuperates from a serious auto accident. They end up in a sleepy little town which seems to be normal, except at night when the townspeople (and Marjorie) turn into zombies, file into trucks and head out of town. They always return by morning, and no one has any memories of the night before. Only Clay is unaffected due to the presence of a metal plate in his head, and no one believes his story.
Cover Me Babe (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 1h29Directed by Noel Black
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Forster, Sondra Locke, Sam Waterston, Ken Kercheval, Michael Margotta, Susanne Benton
Rating45%
Tony Hall is a film-school student who does not care to make conventional films. His first avant-garde effort features Melisse, who soon becomes Tony's lover and moves in with him.
Rabbit, Run (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 1h34Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Caan, Carrie Snodgress, Anjanette Comer, Jack Albertson, Henry Jones, Melodie Johnson Howe
Rating54%
In Reading, Pennsylvania, former high school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is dissatisfied with both his failure to find a career and with his loveless marriage to Janice, an alcoholic who is pregnant with a child neither of them wants. Following an argument with Janice, Rabbit looks up his old basketball coach Marty Tothero, who is now living in squalor. Marty decides that Rabbit needs a woman, and he introduces him to Ruth, a part-time prostitute. When Rabbit moves in with Ruth, Jack Eccles, the family minister, tries to persuade him to return to his wife, but Rabbit refuses. Eventually, Rabbit also becomes disenchanted with Ruth, and when Janice has her baby, Rabbit goes to the hospital and effects a reconciliation. For a time, they live in relative harmony, but Janice's insistence on a less active sex life leads to bitterness, and Rabbit again takes off. Janice resumes her solitary drinking, this time with tragic results; while in a drunken stupor, she accidentally drowns the baby. Learning of his child's death, Rabbit returns home and finds that everyone holds him responsible. At the funeral, Rabbit responds to his parents' and in-laws' accusing glances by screaming his innocence. Fleeing from the cemetery, he goes to Ruth's apartment; but Ruth, who is now pregnant with his child, refuses to let him in unless he agrees to divorce Janice and marry her. Although he promises to do so, Rabbit is still unable to make a commitment to anyone and runs away again.
Equinox (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 1h20Directed by Dennis Muren
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Horror
Themes Demons in film
Actors Frank Bonner, Forrest J Ackerman, Robin Christopher
Rating52%
Four young adults – Dave, Susan, Jim, and Jim's girlfriend, Vicki – head into the woods to look for a lost scientist, Dr. Arthur Waterman. The friends have a picnic and glimpse a mysterious castle in the woods. They find that Dr. Waterman's cabin seems to have been destroyed. A forest ranger, who is Asmodeus in human form, watches over the teenagers. When the group stumbles into a cave, a strange old man presents them with an ancient book filled with magical lore and symbols. Asmodeus sends monsters – a giant ape-like creature and a green-skinned, fur-clad giant – to retrieve the book from them at all costs. The ape-like creature kills the old man. The castle seems to have disappeared, however the friends discover that it has been rendered invisible by magic.
A History of the Blue Movie (1970) on 4 october 1970
Directed by Alex de Renzy
Origin USA
Genres Pornographic
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Candy Barr, Bonnie Holiday, Tempest Storm
Rating61%
How Do I Love Thee? (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 1h50Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jackie Gleason, Maureen O'Hara, Shelley Winters, Rosemary Forsyth, Rick Lenz, Don Beddoe
Rating50%
Tom Waltz, a college professor, finds out that Stanley, his father, is in Lourdes, France. He quickly catches a flight there over his wife Marion's objections.
Dodes'ka-den (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 2h20Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Kin Sugai, Junzaburō Ban, Yūko Kusunoki, Kunie Tanaka, Hisashi Igawa, Tatsuo Matsumura
Rating72%
The film focuses on the lives of a variety of characters who happen to live in a rubbish dump. The first to be introduced is a mentally challenged boy who lives in a world of fantasy in which he is a tram conductor. He is both the tram and the tram driver and follows a set route and schedule through the dump; his dedication to the fantasy is fanatical. The film title refers to a Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound made by a tram or train while in motion ( "Do-desu-ka-den do-desu-ka-den do-desu-ka-den"). The sound is made by the boy as he makes his daily faux-tram route through the dump.
The Traveling Executioner (1970) on 1 october 1970
, 1h35Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Themes Prison films
Actors Stacy Keach, Bud Cort, Stefan Gierasch, Marianna Hill, Graham Jarvis, James Sloyan
Rating62%
Jonas Candide, a former carnival showman, travels around the South in 1918 with his own portable electric chair, going from prison to prison with his young assistant, Jimmy, charging one hundred dollars per execution. Two of Jonas' potential victims are siblings Willy and Gundred Herzallerliebst. While Jonas successfully executes Willy, he falls for Gundred, hoping to fake her execution.