Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Helmut Berger, Dominique Sanda
- Remarkable comeback for dir. De Sica after being written off by the critics, this winner of 1971s Best Foreign Film Oscar recreates the tragically…
Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, The (1971)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Arthur Brauss
- Enigmatic tale of a maturing goalkeeper who abandons his soccer team and ambles about Germany. Dir. Wender's typical sketchbook narrative provides…
Le Souffle Au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart) (1971)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Benoit Ferreux
- A much praised coming–of–age tale concerns a sickly, but promiscuous teenage boy growing up in a stilted bourgeois family in 1950s Dijon…
Love (Szerelem) (1971)
- Dir. Karoly Makk
- A quiet miracle of the little–seen Hungarian cinema, this quietly impressive story follows a woman's ongoing attention to her vibrant but…
Max and the Junkmen (Max Et Les Ferrailleurs) (1971)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider
- French crime drama set in the noir shaded streets of Paris follows a frustrated detective getting tangled up in a love triangle after commissioning a…
Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Bruno Corazzari…
- Mesmerising giallo horror starring 70's Italian cinema queen and frequent Martino collaborator Edwige Fenech as the socialite wife of a diplomat who…
Third Part of the Night (Trzecia czesc nocy) (1971)
- Dir. Andrzej Zulawski
- A World War II film told as a feverish abstract nightmare. Set in Nazi–occupied Poland, the story follows a young man who joins the resistance…
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
- Dir. Amando De Ossorio
Feat. Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Maria Elena Arpon
- Savage 13th Century Templars are resurrected in modern times to exact revenge on young nymphs. The Redemption label redeems another trashy bloodlust…
Trafic (Traffic) (1971)
- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati
- Mr. Hulot's final clownish outing sees him invent a revolutionary motor car which proves to be problematic en route to Amsterdam.
Tristana (1971)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
- Catherine Deneuve plays a beautiful young heroine burdened with a vulgar husband and a knee ailment that will require her leg to be amputated!…