Even by the standards of the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF), this 58-minute film is a painfully juvenile adventure which will test the patience of even…
Browsing: Movies 1970
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Luke (Jim Brown), an escaped chain-gang prisoner in the post-Civil War West, is told of a fortune in government gold hidden by a Mexican general…
It is obvious why El Topo was embraced by John Lennon, Dennis Hopper, Timothy Leary and their counterparts. It is a violent, brutal, confusing, occasionally fascinating and…
It’s possible that a trillion years from now, a visiting alien will open a time capsule and alight upon a can of film containing this…
Lonely, well-matured suburban nymphomaniac spinster Kath (Beryl Reid) and her ruggedly masculine but closeted gay brother, Ed (Harry Andrews), get more than they expected when…
Four teenagers – David (Edward Connell), Susan (Barbara Hewitt), Jim (Frank Bonner) and Vicki (Robin Christopher) – are trekking through a national park, attempting to…
This British Lion film was manic comedian Marty Feldman’s first starring role after his appearance in Richard Lester’s The Bed Sitting Room (1969). The determinedly…
British Intelligence agent John Shay (George Peppard, whose accent is explained by the excuse that “he grew up in America”) suspects his colleague Adam Booth…
Witnessing the brutal murder of a visiting President in Malta, young Ziggy (Mark Lester of Oliver! fame) – who is known for telling tall tales…
Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces is a road movie built around the evasive charm of Jack Nicholson. Screenwriter Adrien Joyce partly based the character on the actor’s…
It’s hard to fathom why the venerable British director Carol Reed – whose filmography spans the film-noir classic The Third Man (1949) to the Oscar-winning…
This tense and complicated (very) British thriller has recovered drug addict and best-selling author, Tim Brett (David Hemmings), holidaying in Italy, where he arranges to…
A nerve gas leak from a biological warfare factory in Alaska kills everyone over the age of 25 in this hopelessly surreal comedy from cult…
Made on the back of Easy Rider (1969) and the anti-Vietnam War campaign, this was one of several “campus movies” that enabled studio executives to look…
Incestuous twins Jacki (Judy Geeson) and Julian (Martin Potter) fall into the Swinging London scene during a break from university. The pair see Jacki’s stuffed…
Christine Adams (Jacqueline Bisset) is the grasshopper of the title. We first meet her, aged 19, in her Canadian home town near the US border,…
Lieutenant Roger Manley (Richard Carballo) is a cop who enjoys entrapping women for solicitation arrests and seems completely averse to sex – until a black…
Harry England (Michael Crawford), once a mechanic and now an easy-going and carefree car salesman, has one great passion in life – motor cars. At…
This comedy starring Robert De Niro (in one of his earliest roles) as Jon Rubin, a directionless Vietnam vet and would-be ‘erotic filmmaker’, established Brian…
A true-crime movie about oily Spanish gigolo Ray Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) and his enormous American nurse sidekick Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler), who prey on…