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1970s Movies

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

October 23, 2020January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

Nicholas and Alexandra opens in 1904 with Alexei’s birth during the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas II is warned by his cousin Grand Duke Nicholas and the Prime Minister Count Sergei Witte that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They also tell him there is a rising demand by the Russian people for representative government, health care, voting, and workers’ rights, but Nicholas wants to maintain the autocracy. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky have formed.

1960s Movies

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

October 11, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Agony and the Ecstasy opens in documentary style, chronicling the work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It then follows Michelangelo, a renowned sculptor of the Republic of Florence in the early 16th century, and shows him at work on large-scale sculptures near St. Peter’s Basilica.

1970s Movies

Theater of Blood (1973)

July 25, 2020January 22, 2023 - by greatmovies

Theater of Blood movie storyline. Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart (Vincent Price) is a matinèe favorite Shakespearean actor of the old school, finding difficulty coping with new theater roles, who wreaks revenge on on the theater critics who give their annual Guild’s “Best Actor” award to a new and upcoming actor rather than him.

1960s Movies

The System (1964)

July 19, 2020January 24, 2023 - by greatmovies

The System movie storyline. There are two weeks left in the British summer holiday season. Coastal resort towns like Roxham survive by the throngs of summer tourists, largely shutting down in the off season. Steve Taylor – Tinker to his friends – knows the routine better than most, he a tourist photographer.

1960s Movies

Barabbas (1962)

July 3, 2020February 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

Barabbas movie storyline. In times of great upheaval during Passover in early-first-century Jerusalem, the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, finds himself before a pressing dilemma.

1970s Movies

Equus (1977)

May 19, 2020July 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

Equus movie storyline. Hesther Salomon, a magistrate, asks her platonic friend Martin Dysart, a disillusioned psychiatrist who works with disturbed teenagers at a hospital in Hampshire, England.

1970s Movies

The Big Sleep (1978)

May 19, 2020July 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Big Sleep movie storyline. Philip Marlowe is asked by the elderly General Sternwood to investigate an attempt at blackmail on one of his daughters.

1970s Movies

The Medusa Touch (1978)

May 19, 2020July 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Medusa Touch movie storyline. John Morlar is watching a British television broadcast when an anchorman states that American astronauts are trapped in orbit around the moon.