Drama Movies
Scorpio ’70 (1970)
This exploitation flesh feature finds three couples carrying on erotic adventures on board a pleasure-cruising yacht.
Scrooge (1970)
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
Song of Norway (1970)
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars…
Dodes’ka-den (1970)
Bartleby (1970)
An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
The Twelve Chairs (1970)
In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
I Start Counting (1970)
An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is a serial killer.
Waterloo (1970)
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from…
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
The friendship between two Arizona dirt bike racers is tested when they both lust for an attractive runaway young woman who joins them on the racing circuit.
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel….
I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need…
All the Right Noises (1970)
A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tells him that she is…
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it…
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic…
Ice (1970)
An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that…
C.C. and Company (1970)
A motorcycle rebel rescues a woman from his gang and fights an outlaw guru for supremacy.
Black Angels (1970)
When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.
The Great White Hope (1970)
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
Nightbirds (1970)
While living rough on the streets of London’s East End, a young man named Dink encounters the mysterious Dee and they begin a relationship. When tenderness gives way to cruelty,…
Underground (1970)
An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.
Spring and Port Wine (1970)
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children’s lives in working class Bolton, England.
Uncle Vanya (1970)
Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor’s first wife, who manages…
The Baby Maker (1970)
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband’s baby because of the…
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them…
Rabbit Run (1970)
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a…
Heroic Purgatory (1970)
The Buttercup Chain (1970)
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when…
Adam at Six A.M. (1970)
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative’s death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer…
Loving Memory (1970)
An isolated brother and sister live with their memories and a grisly secret.
The Naked Zoo (1970)
Love and crime in Miami’s Cocoanut Grove artist’s colony. Swinging young writer Stephen Oliver has a falling-out with benefactress Rita Hayworth in the wake of a wild LSD party. Rita…
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong…