Puppet on a Chain

1971

English

6.0

♡ 2

Geoffrey Reeve Director

Alexander Knox as Colonel De Graaf

Arnold Diamond as Coroner

Barbara Parkins as Maggie

Vladek Sheybal as Meegeren

Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent, Paul Sherman, arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent, Maggie, the American is soon stirring things up.

Willard

1971

English

6.2

♡ 9

50%

38%

Action

animal attack

based on novel or book

Daniel Mann Director

Joan Shawlee as Alice

Michael Dante as Brandt

Arthur Tovey as Guest

Elsa Lanchester as Henrietta Stiles

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.

A Safe Place

1971

English

4.9

♡ 2

23%

Action

Drama

Henry Jaglom Director

Gwen Welles as Bari

Jack Nicholson as Mitch

Julie Robinson as Noah's Friend

Tuesday Weld as Susan / Noah

Noah, a young woman who lives alone in New York, is dating two very different men, Fred and Mitch, at the same time. However, she realises that neither man can totally fulfil her needs.

The Point

1971

English

7.5

♡ 15

89%

Fred Wolf Director

Alan Thicke as Narrator / Father

Dustin Hoffman as Narrator / Father

Paul Frees as Oblio's Father / Pointed Man's Right Head / King / Leaf Man / Villagers

Joan Gerber as Oblio's Mother

Years ago, there was a place called The Land of Point, because everything in The Land of Point had one: the barns, the houses, the cars, everything, even the people. Everyone in The Land of Point had a point at the top of its head. Everyone, that is, except Oblio, who was born round-headed. Since he had no point, Oblio, along with his trusty dog, Arrow, was banished to the Pointless Forest. Join them to see what wonders await these two intrepid travelers as they make their way on their amazing, song-filled journey of discovery!

Something Big

1971

English

5.7

♡ 1

Andrew V. McLaglen Director

Brian Keith as Col. Morgan

Chuck Hicks as Cpl. James

Armand Alzamora as Luis Munos

Honor Blackman as Mary Anna Morgan

Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier

Raid on Rommel

1971

English

5.5

♡ 7

31%

Henry Hathaway Director

Christopher Cary as Conscientious Objector

Patrick Whyte as Flag Captain

Richard Burton as Foster

Danielle De Metz as Vivi

Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives

1971

German

6.6

♡ 8

Rosa von Praunheim Director

Berryt Bohlen as Clemens

Bernd Feuerhelm as Daniel

Ernst Kuchling as Der Reiche

Norbert Losch as (uncredited)

Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. His adventures begin on the streets of Berlin, where the shy brunette Daniel meets the blonde Clemens, who invites him home for coffee and offers him a place to stay. Soon Daniel is living with Clemens and believes he has found the love of his life. The two try to imitate a bourgeois marriage and its lifestyle. But after four months of tedium, Daniel is cruised by a rich older man who entices him to move into his villa, where he encounters a group of older gays, pretentious in their appreciations of fine art and classical music, who fawn over him.

Die Screaming Marianne

1971

English

4.9

♡ 3

Pete Walker Director

Jon Laurimore as British Police Detective - Dark Hair

Barry Evans as Eli Frome

Susan George as Marianne Evans

Anthony Sharp as Registrar

After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate her father, who was a crooked judge. While her father wants the documents, her sister wants the money and they will each stop at nothing, even murder, to get what they want.

Oasis of Fear

1971

Italian

6.1

♡ 3

Umberto Lenzi Director

Irene Papas as Barbara Slater

Tom Felleghy as Col. Steve Slater

Ugo Adinolfi as Gas Station Attendant

Ornella Muti as Ingrid Sjoman

Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police. Forced on the run the two seek refuge at a seemingly empty isolated large villa. As it turns out the house is inhabited by the middle-aged Barbara who invites them in for some potential three-way hanky-panky that soon locks them into something far more twisted and chilling!

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971

English

7.1

♡ 7

67%

Charles Jarrott Director

Vernon Dobtcheff as Duc De Guise

Timothy Dalton as Henry, Lord Darnley

Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth

Trevor Howard as William Cecil

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

Beast of the Yellow Night

1971

English

3.5

♡ 2

14%

Eddie Romero Director

James Spencer as

Criselda as

John Ashley as Joseph Langdon / Philip Rogers

Mary Charlotte Wilcox as Julia Rogers

Satan saves Joseph Ashley from death on the condition that he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).

Web of the Spider

1971

Italian

5.6

17%

Antonio Margheriti Director

Vittorio Fanfoni as

Anthony Franciosa as Alan Foster

Klaus Kinski as Edgar Allan Poe

Michèle Mercier as Elisabeth Blackwood

Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle

Zachariah

1971

English

5.8

♡ 2

50%

George Englund Director

Don Johnson as Matthew

Hank Worden as Old Cowboy

William Challee as Old Man

Robert Ball as Stage Manager

A blacksmith and an amateur gunslinger embark on journey through the west together but soon separate and have surreal experiences of their own.

Point of Terror

1971

English

3.8

♡ 2

13%

Alex Nicol Director

Dyanne Thorne as Andrea Hilliard

Hope Lugosi as Bar Extra

Ernest A. Charles as Detective

Joel Marston as Martin Hilliard

A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares.

Lawman

1971

English

7.0

♡ 20

73%

Michael Winner Director

Robert Emhardt as Hersham

John Beck as Jason Bronson

Sheree North as Laura Shelby

Joseph Wiseman as Lucas

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.

The Bride from Hell

1971

Chinese

5.4

♡ 6

Hsu-Chiang Chou Director

Hsiao Peng Kao as Yi Kwan

Yi Kwan as

Chieh-Yi Pan as

Carrie Ku Mei as Ching Ku

Yunpeng and his servant stay at a country inn one dark evening to escape potential robbers and ghosts. But Yunpeng chances into something far more dangerous! He accidentally happens upon the comely Anu naked in bed, and to make up for his rudeness he has to marry her. Because of her beauty, the request is not too difficult to fulfill...until she is introduced to his aunts and uncles, who notice her ghastly green glow and deduce that she's a spirit from the netherworld. But there's something even darker about her appearance, and it may be revenge on his in-laws.

The Emigrants

1971

Swedish

8.0

♡ 15

94%

husband wife relationship

minnesota

ship

the new world

Jan Troell Director

Allan Edwall as Danjel

Hans Alfredson as Jonas Petter

Max von Sydow as Karl Oskar

Liv Ullmann as Kristina

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.

Skin Game

1971

English

7.0

♡ 2

59%

Gordon Douglas Director

Owen Bush as Guard

Forrest Lewis as Peter

Robert Foulk as Sheriff

Juanita Moore as Viney

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.

The Blue Hour

1971

English

3.7

♡ 1

Sergei Goncharoff Director

Mary Beth Hughes as

William Bonner as Bearded Biker

Diane Webber as Belly Dancer

Gordon Jump as Investor

THE BLUE HOUR tells the story of Tanya, a young woman with a mysterious past who finds herself trapped in a sexual hell in Los Angeles. Punctuated by striking visuals and avant-garde editing, THE BLUE HOUR is a lost masterpiece of late period sexploitation.