Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Cries and Whispers (1972)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson…
- “It’s Monday morning and I’m in pain…” So begins one of Bergman’s most nerve–wrecking psychodramas, set in a 19th household of…
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Glenn Corbett, Anton Diffring, Stephane Audran
- German police procedural directed by Samuel Fuller, made as part of the television series Tatort but also given a theatrical release in the USA. An…
Dirty Money (Un Flic) (1972)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
- Final film by the suspense–specialist Melville (LE SAMOURAI), spins a familiar tale of cops and bank–robbers involving Alain Delon,…
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeiosie (1972)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran…
- Best Foreign Film Oscar–winner in which six guests convene for a meal they never actually get to eat! Bunuel veers between reality and illusion…
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Barbara Bouchet, Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian…
- A compelling Giallo mystery from Italian master Lucio Fulci (THE BEYOND) following a detective investigating a series of child murders in a southern…
Fellini's Roma (1972)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Federico Fellini
- The Italian master's eclectic home town portrait blends reconstructed memoirs and contemporary images (incl. a stunning traffic jam sequence) into a…
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
- Dir. Shunya Ito
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Kayuko Shiraishi
- A classic of Japanese 70s exploitation cinema, this charts the grim road to freedom for a gaggle of women escaped–convicts with a feverish…
French Screen Icons: Jean-Paul Belmondo 2 (The Inheritor, Scoumoune: Mafia Warfare, The Body of My Enemy) (1972-1976)
- Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Three films starring French leading–man Jean–Paul Belmondo.
French Screen Icons: Jean-Paul Belmondo 3 (The Professional, The Outside Man, The Loner, Amazone) (1972-1987)
- Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Four films starring French leading–man Jean–Paul Belmondo.
Hanzo The Razor Trilogy (The Razor: Sword of Justice; Razor 2: The Snare; Razor 3: Who's Got the Gold?) (1972-1974)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu
- Mind–boggling samurai film series combines a 1970s taste for heroic bloodshed with a strongly Japanese sexploitation angle.
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