The Best Movies Of 1970

The film takes place in an Indian village at the end of the 19th century. Colonial reality, the arbitrariness of the authorities, the slaughter of peasants ...

When the village of Kleinenberg is cursed by the Prince of Darkness, his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and he is resurrected. Two innocent victims are searching for their missing loved one. It w...

Jane Eyre is an orphan who is sent to a school and eventually becomes a governess to a girl in Thornfield hall. While she is there, there are many strange things that happen, and eventually she and Ed...

A police detective's investigation points to his best friend.

This film is part of the series "Treasures of Russian ballet".

An early Téo Hernandez film exploring the space of a garden.

In Düsseldorf-based filmmaker Lutz Mommartz’s Das Atem des Schafes (The Breath of the Sheep, 1970) we see Scotland as an outsider. Recorded on a trip to the Highlands ahead of his participation in Str...

A young woman suffering from torment and cruelty after the death of her mother as a result of the treatment of her father's wife and after her father's death, a friend takes care of her father but his...

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in l...

Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rumours start to spread that he may be a werewolf and responsible for a series of killings. The local A...

Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner of a small service station. Tired of supporting his despotic and demanding wife, Romolo searches for ...

Sandra, a teenager who lives in the countryside, is brutally abused by her neurotic and alcoholic father. After his death, Sandra goes to San Francisco to experience the free love.

Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring lives and get in contact with one of Count Dracula's servants. They perform a nightly ceremony to restore the co...

A young American in Denmark becomes embroiled in the sex lives of two local erotic dancers.

Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. His wife pushes him to seek a promotion, which may be a long shot after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?

An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert...

Rome, Italy is the capital of Italy. A senior police officer exposing evidence incriminating him after committing a heinous crime because of his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the la...

The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.

The deputy manager of the bank has a plan to rob the branch. He decided to go ahead with his plan when he became involved with the attractive Lady Dorset. He is in need of her help and her husband is ...

Documentary film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. The film features an unannounced rooftop concert by the group, their last performance in publ...

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully wor...

Summer in Germany, anno 1970. Italy is the number one destination. As every year, swarms of Teutonic tourists make their way to the Adriatic Sea. Only Willi Hirsekorn (Heinz Erhardt) from Castrop-Raux...

Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed a...

A boy finds an injured German Shepherd Dog whom he names Smoke.

A serial killer is on the run in London and the police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

In Crimes of the Future, sexually mature women appear to have been wiped out by a plague caused by the use of cosmetics. Adrian Tripod is the director of the House of Skin. Following the disappearance...

Two young English women are on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to look for her. But who can she depend on?

Two small-time crooks fight over a woman in 1930. They start working for the local mobsters with fixed horse races and fights. Their easy-going approach to crime starts to change when they decide to g...

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

The charismatic criminal Paris Pitman ends up in prison.

He ended the period of creating works exclusively using the body as a medium with the “Zerreissprobe” (Breaking Test) in 1970. His 43rd Aktion was the last and at the same time the most radical of his...

This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a l...

Adapted from Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi's well-known novel of the same name, this classic film by Egyptian master Youssef Chahine was eight years in the making. Chronicling a small peasant village's st...

The postman is a S.D. Kluger tells us about a small baby named Kris who was raised by a family of elf toymakers, and answered some of the most common questions about Santa Claus. Kris wanted to delive...

The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and narrowly escapes a murder attempt. He decided to take revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

During a rescue mission to locate missing astronaut George Taylor, John Brent crash lands on the Planet of the Apes. Along with Taylor's companion, Nova, they attempt to find him after he disappeared ...

In a castle, where the Thirld World is located, the man is dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is aware of the menace his old victims repre...

A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing hi...

The movie follows Joe as he tries to get more drugs. Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend is the focus of the plot, which takes place over a single day. Joe o...

Tongue-in-cheek chiller about a ruthlessly sadistic student who will stop at nothing in pursuit of advancing his shocking scientific experiments. Young Victor Frankenstein murders his own father in or...

Dr. Burke doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean, but she is in love with her. An old school friend of Burke's who plays Dr. Dare in a popular TV series is...

The location is the east shore of the Caspian Sea, where a Red Army soldier has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. He was caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army...

Raju is a clown. He is what he is and always will be. He must always make people laugh and be happy, no matter how unhappy he is, as his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to t...

It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta...

The United States and Japan were on the verge of war in the summer of 1941. The days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War, are covered in "Tora! To...

Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingl...

Two brothers fall in love with the same girl. Nevertheless, the girl likes the older brother. A guy tries to set these two brothers apart and make the younger one addicted to gambling. He wins everyth...