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1970s Movies

Barry Lyndon (1975)

October 23, 2020January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

Barry Lyndon movie storyline. The rise and fall of the adult life of Irishman Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal), who, in his later life, would be known as Barry Lyndon, from the mid to late eighteenth century, is presented. Growing up in humble means, largely due to the early death of his aspiring lawyer father, the potential family breadwinner, Barry strives to live up to the standards of being a gentleman in every respect of the word, including monetarily.

1960s Movies

A Taste of Honey (1961)

September 26, 2020January 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

A Taste of Honey movie storyline. Jo (Rita Tushingham) is an awkward, shy 17-year-old girl living with her promiscuous alcoholic mother, Helen. Desperately longing to simply be loved, when her mother’s latest “romance” drives Jo out of their apartment, she spends the night with a black sailor on a brief shore leave. Jo’s mother abandons her to move in with her latest lover.

1960s Movies

The Fixer (1968)

August 18, 2020January 16, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Fixer movie storyline. Set in Czarist Russia in 1911, and based on the true story of Russian-Jewish peasant Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime, the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman’s life in prison, and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.

1970s Movies

The Devils (1971)

July 31, 2020January 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Devils movie storyline. Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier – the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control.