The Adventurers (1970)

The Adventurers (1970)

Dax Xenos (Bekim Fehmiu), a 10-year old boy in the South American country of Corteguay, witnesses the rape and murder of his mother by government soldiers and runs to his father, Jaime (Fernando Rey), who is with a band of revolutionaries. Jaime’s men capture the government soldiers, give Dax the privilege of personally executing his mother’s murderers, and then take the boy to their hideout in the mountains where he meets Amparo (Leigh Taylor-Young), the daughter of revolutionary leader Rojo.

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Tristana (1970) - Catherine Deneuve

Tristana (1970)

In the 30’s, in Spain, the teenager Tristana becomes an orphan when her mother, who is the servant of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), dies. Don Lope is a decadent but respected aristocrat, anticlerical and liberal with socialist principles, and he becomes the guardian of Tristana. Don Lope sexually abuses of Tristana and develops a strange lover/father relationship with her.

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