Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as strong-willed 35-year-old widow Alice Hyatt, trying to forge a new life for herself and…
Browsing: Movies – 1970s
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Produced by Bill Osco of Flesh Gordon (1974) fame, this musical reimagining is more panto than porno and actually has some wit and style to…
Religious overtones run through this offbeat, multilayered whodunnit horror movie, telling the tale of a devout New Jersey family’s struggle to reveal the killer in…
Musical version of Alice in Wonderland – the story of a girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole, finds herself in a magical world with…
When Alien hit theatres in 1979, science fiction movies had mostly been flying saucer films with goofy looking aliens who abducted good-looking models to their ships to…
Joe (Martin Potter), Sue (Julia Foster) and Barry (Nicky Henson) meet as strangers at a noisy wedding reception held in a poorer area of London…
This epic made-for-television film – adapted by Paul Monash from the 1929 book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque (which had already been…
Director Bob Fosse’s partly autobiographical, self-indulgent, but occasionally brilliant musical had a Fellini-like vision of the life and death of top choreographer, Joe Gideon (Roy…
Based on their own book, All The President’s Men told the tale of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward – the two junior reporters who uncovered the scandals…
Originally promoted with the provocative tagline “Is 15-and-a-half too young for a girl? Is one wife enough for one man?”, this time capsule of a…
Till Death Us Do Part’s Warren Mitchell heads an outstanding cast as an ambitious but none-too-bright insurance salesman in this sharply scripted comedy of workplace…
Starting out as a two-minute sketch on Idle’s post-Monty Python comedy show, Rutland Weekend Television, The Rutles took on a life of their own when Saturday Night…
After making an impact with his role in George Lucas’s American Graffiti (1973), Paul Le Mat starred in this crime melodrama from director Floyd Mutrux. Bobby…
“The problem is, I just can’t seem to avoid sex.” This amiable sex farce follows the exploits of a young Australian man (Graeme Blundell) who…
This feeble sequel to 70s Australian sex comedy Alvin Purple (1973) has the irresistible young Alvin (Graeme Blundell) grinning and baring all as he switches places…
Director Lionel Jeffries adapted this follow-up to The Railway Children (1970) from the Antonia Barber novel, The Ghosts. A near-destitute widowed mother, Mrs Allen (Dorothy…
Virginal Arthur Barlen (Juan Fernadez) envies the sexual prowess of his dying friend, Felix (Sam Stewart). When Felix dies, Arthurs blackmails Dr Cyril Meade (Bernard…
Director Wim Wenders – one of the wunderkinder of the new German cinema – adapted this psychological thriller from the novel Ripley’s Game by Patricia…
Four California teenagers get a final, nostalgic glimpse of innocence before facing college and life in general in 1962 in this spot-on portrait of American…
“This is Alan Freed . . . and this is rock’n’roll.” With these words, the young hearts of New York beat fast as the celebrated radio…