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Directed by Ron O'NealOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films set in Africa,
Gangster filmsActors Roscoe Lee Browne,
Ron O'Neal,
Robert Guillaume,
William Berger,
Jacques Sernas,
Federico BoidoRating44%
Priest (O'Neal) has retired from his former life as a cocaine hustler back in the streets of New York and now living comfortably in Rome, Italy with his lover Georgia (Frazier). Through a mutual associate with whom he plays cards, he comes into contact with Dr. Lamine Sonko (Browne) a native of a small African country. Dr. Sonko is a revolutionary living in Rome also and would like Priest to assist him with supplying guns for his fellow countrymen to defeat colonialism in his country. Priest is not interested at first but Dr. Sonko, having learned some things of his background, presses upon him he has an obligation to help African people. Having time to think and perhaps feeling a sense of guilt for his cocaine hustling days, Priest decides to visit Africa to see things for himself against the wishes of Georgia. Returning to Rome from his visit, he decides to assist Dr. Sonoko. He is able to acquire the guns needed by winning at cards against an regular associate. Dr. Sonko needs him to get the guns into his country without detection, which Priest agrees to do. While arriving in the small fictional African nation, Priest is captured and detained by a few European officials representing the government. The officials suspect gun smuggling, but do not find any evidence when searching the wooden crates delivered. They question Priest on the whereabouts of the guns without getting answers, which leads them to beat and lock him in a dark room. Priest cleverly rigs an electric light switch in the room to kill one of the officials who guard him and ambushes a second to escape capture. Beaten and exhausted, he exits the dark room similar to a slave dungeon while entering the daylight of outside as the Muslim call to prayer echoes all around. Priest has now fulfilled a certain sense of personal responsibility, and seems to be absolved from his past life. He returns to Rome and to Georgia as they embrace and walk away together in arms., 2h
Directed by Herbert RossOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors James Coburn,
Richard Benjamin,
Dyan Cannon,
James Mason,
Raquel Welch,
Joan HackettRating71%
On a one-week Mediterranean pleasure cruise aboard the yacht of movie producer Clinton Greene (Coburn), the guests include actress Alice Wood (Welch), her talent-manager husband Anthony (McShane), talent agent Christine (Cannon), screenwriter Tom Parkman (Benjamin), Tom's wife Lee (Hackett), and film director Philip Dexter (Mason)., 1h30
Directed by John HoughOrigin United-kingdomGenres Fantastic,
Fantasy,
HorrorThemes Ghost filmsActors Pamela Franklin,
Roddy McDowall,
Clive Revill,
Gayle Hunnicutt,
Roland Culver,
Peter BowlesRating66%
Physicist Lionel Barrett is enlisted by an eccentric millionaire, Mr. Deutsch, to make an investigation into "survival after death" in "the one place where it has yet to be refuted." This is the Belasco House, the "Mount Everest of haunted houses," originally owned by the notorious "Roaring Giant" Emeric Belasco, a six-foot-five perverted millionaire and supposed murderer, who disappeared soon after a massacre at his home. The house is believed to be haunted by numerous spirits, the victims of Belasco's twisted and sadistic desires., 1h55
Directed by Paul MazurskyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexualityActors George Segal,
Susan Anspach,
Kris Kristofferson,
Marsha Mason,
Shelley Winters,
Paul MazurskyRating61%
Stephen Blume (Segal), a Beverly Hills divorce lawyer, tries to regain the wife (Anspach) who has divorced him., 1h35
Directed by Richard L. BareOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
Crime,
SlasherThemes Serial killer filmsActors David Bailey,
Tiffany Bolling,
Randolph Roberts,
Scott Brady,
Edd Byrnes,
Madeleine SherwoodRating55%
The Grandview is a sprawling Californian hotel with a terrible secret: single blonde visitors who check in don't check out. Hotel detective Rick Stewart (David Bailey) begins investigating what's happened to a handful of vanishing guests but he soon becomes personally involved when his brunette ex-wife, Lisa James (Tiffany Bolling), arrives for a singing engagement at the hotel. When Lisa dons a blonde wig for her performance, she finds herself the next target of a psychopathic killer., 1h33
Directed by J. Lee ThompsonOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Action,
Adventure,
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fictionThemes Films about animals,
Films about computing,
Post-apocalyptic films,
Films about religion,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Films set in the future,
Films about apes,
Political films,
Cyberpunk films,
Dystopian films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifère,
Disaster filmsActors Roddy McDowall,
Claude Akins,
Natalie Trundy,
Severn Darden,
Lew Ayres,
Paul WilliamsRating54%
Told as a flashback to the early 21st century with a wraparound sequence narrated by the orangutan Lawgiver (John Huston) in "North America - 2670 A.D.", this sequel follows the ape leader, Caesar (Roddy McDowall), years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. In this post-nuclear society, Caesar tries to cultivate peace between the apes and the surviving humans. A gorilla general named Aldo (Claude Akins), however, opposes this and plots Caesar's downfall. Caesar is married to Lisa (Natalie Trundy), the female ape of the previous film, and they have a son, named Cornelius (Bobby Porter) in honor of Caesar's father.Coffy (1973)
on 13 june 1973 , 1h31
Directed by Jack HillOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Pam Grier,
Booker T. Bradshaw,
Robert DoQui,
Allan Arbus,
Sid Haig,
Linda HaynesRating67%
Nurse "Coffy" Coffin (Pam Grier) seeks revenge for her younger sister's getting hooked on drugs and having to live in a rehabilitation home, a product of the drug underworld, mob bosses, and a chain of violence that exists in her city. The film opens with Coffy showing her vigilante nature by killing a drug supplier and dealer. She does this without getting caught by using her sexuality as an attractive and athletic woman willing to do anything for a drug fix., 3h3
Directed by Lindsay AndersonOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Fantasy,
MusicalActors Malcolm McDowell,
Ralph Richardson,
Rachel Roberts,
Arthur Lowe,
Helen Mirren,
Graham CrowdenRating75%
The film opens with a short fragment outside the plot but clearly related on repeated viewings. Grainy, black-and-white, and silent, a title "Once Upon a Time" leads to Latino labourers picking coffee beans while armed foremen push rudely between them. One worker (McDowell with black hair and moustache) pockets a few beans ("Coffee for the Breakfast Table") but is seen by a foreman. He is next seen before a fat Caucasian magistrate who loses some saliva as he removes his cigar only to say "Guilty." The foreman pulls his machete and lays it across the unfortunate laborer's wrists, bound to a wooden block, revealing that he is to lose his hands for the theft of a few beans. The machete lifts, descends, and we see McDowell draw back in a silent scream. The scene blacks out, the word NOW appears onscreen and expands quickly to fill it., 1h52
Directed by John GuillerminOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about immigration,
Films about terrorism,
La précaritéActors Richard Roundtree,
Frank Finlay,
Neda Arnerić,
Vonetta McGee,
Frank McRae,
Spiros FocásRating59%
At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is drugged with a tranquilizer dart, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa (much of the movie was filmed in Ethiopia), assuming the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker. His job is to help break a criminal ring that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way.