Great Movies - Part 8

1970s Movies

Little Murders (1971)

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Patsy Newquist (Marcia Rodd) is a 27-year-old interior designer who lives in a New York rife with street crime, noise, obscene phone calls, power blackouts and unsolved homicides. When she sees a defenseless man being attacked by street thugs, she intervenes, but is surprised when the passive victim doesn’t even bother to thank her. She ends up attracted to the man, Alfred Chamberlain (Elliott Gould), a photographer, but finds that he is emotionally vacant, barely able to feel pain or pleasure. He permits muggers to beat him up until they get tired and go away.

1970s Movies

The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)

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The Pursuit of Happiness movie storyline. William Popper (Michael Sarrazin) comes from a well-off family. His family and most of his peers see him as an anti-social crusader. A college dropout in New York City, William’s aimless and has no idea what to do with his life. After getting into a fatal car accident in which he accidentally kills an elderly woman, he wants to do the right thing In dealing with this situation, but doesn’t like that in order to save himself from prison, he has to put on a mask to satisfy those with authority. However, the more he tries to do the right thing, the more trouble he seems to get into.

1970s Movies

Connecting Rooms (1970)

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Connecting Rooms xplores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London owned by dour Mrs. Brent (Kay Walsh). Amongst them are busker Wanda Fleming (Bette Davis), who is flattered by the attention paid her by rebellious pop songwriter wannabe Mickey Hollister (Alexis Kanner), and former schoolmaster James Wallraven (Sir Michael Redgrave), who has been accused of pedophilia and reduced to working as a janitor in an art gallery.

1970s Movies / Claude Chabrol Movies

La Rupture (1970)

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Helene Regnier’s husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son’s condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody.

1970s Movies

Le Train (1973)

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Le Train movie storyline. In May 1940 a packed train takes refugees from a French village near the Belgian border fleeing advancing German forces. The passengers include Julien, a short-sighted radio repairer, his daughter and pregnant wife. The women are assigned to a carriage for women at the front while he has to scramble into a cattle truck at the rear. There he becomes entranced by a mysterious and beautiful young woman travelling alone.

1980s Movies

Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)

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Palermo or Wolfsburg movie storyline. A poor Italian bricklayer (nonprofessional actor Nicola Zarbo) travels to Germany in search of work, only to land in more humiliating poverty and wind up on trial for manslaughter. Director Werner Schroeter divides his story into three acts, adopting a different style for each: the first, set in Italy, mimics postwar Italian neorealism (in particular the early films of Rossellini and Visconti).

1970s Movies

Hi, Mom! (1970)

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Vietnam vet John Rubin (Robert De Niro) returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwhich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, ‘Peeping Tom’ style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical ‘Black Power’ group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism!

1970s Movies

Getting Straight (1970)

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Getting Straight movie storyline. Harry Bailey has returned from Vietnam and returns to college to earn his masters degree so he can teach English. He is considered a hero among the radical student body, but still sees the absurdity on both sides of the fence. He contends with the reactionary administration and the impetuous, often futile objectives of the restless students.

1980s Movies

Crossroads (1986)

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Eugene Martone, the “Lightening Boy” (Ralph Macchio), is a lover of blues. He studies guitar in Julliard, but he indeed is looking for the thirtieth unknown song of Roberto Johnson. One day, he meets Willie Brown, the “Blind Dog” in an old folk’s home and is convinced that he possess the lost song. Eugene helps Willie to escape the asylum and goes with him to Mississippi.

1950s Movies

Awaara (1951)

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Awaara movie storyline. Raju lives as a derelict as a result of being estranged from his bitter father, a district judge, who threw Raju’s mother out of the house years ago. Raju shacks up with a Dacoit (pickpocket bandit) as his surrogate father only to realize that the man is actually responsible for the original misunderstanding between his parents.