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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, noir, twisted, period piece ...
Plot:
seduction, femme fatale, murder, manipulation, mansion, inheritance, betrayal, deception, psychological manipulation, obsession, greed, domestic drama ...
Time:
year 1970
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, realistic, depressing, psychological ...
Plot:
prison, brutality, torture, injustice, lawyer, escape, prison life, prison escape, drug, drug smuggling, court, violent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1978, year 1975 ...
Place:
turkey, brooklyn new york city, greece, istanbul turkey, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and ...
Style:
epic, saga, exciting, sad, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
superhero, time travel, heroes, alternate timeline, invasion, superhuman powers, alien, superhero team, tony stark character, alien superhero, final battle, humanity in peril ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 1970, year 2012, year 2014 ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, japan, missouri, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs like "Killer Queen", "Bohemian ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, rough, sexy, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
musician, music, lgbt, gay, aids, rock band, singer, rock music, musician's life, friendship between men, music industry, rock concert ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1982, year 1975 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, england, britain, edinburgh scotland, munich germany ...
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178K
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Style:
black and white, inspirational, period piece, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
maid, class differences, pregnant woman, servant, pregnancy, routine, nanny, mission, saving a life, child, female protagonist, middle class ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, year 1970, year 1971
Place:
mexico city, nebraska, south america, mexico
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Fine television chronicle of the events of May 1970 at Kent State University in Ohio that led to the killing of four students by the National Guard. Barkin's screen debut!
Plot:
vietnam war, protest, national guard, college student, college campus, anti war protest, political protest, army vs civilians, journalism, riot, university, baby ...
Time:
year 1970
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665K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, journalism, maniac, murder mystery, mind game, journalist, true crime, paranoia, killer, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, year 1971, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
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246K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychological, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, rape, last will and testament, unwanted pregnancy, incest, twists and turns, civil war, pregnant from rape, incest rape, torture, lebanese civil war, family problems ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 2009, year 1970, y2k ...
Place:
middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
dictatorship, brazilian military dictatorship, politics, coming of age, football, soccer, boy, children, political unrest, life is a bitch, family relations, working class ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s
Place:
brazil, latin america, south america, sao paulo brazil, israel
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119K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Style:
detective, atmospheric, surreal, sexy, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private investigator, investigation, private detective, marijuana, conspiracy, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, hippie, drug trade, paranoia, obsession, betrayal, teeth ...
Time:
70s, year 2014, year 1967, year 1970, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california, usa, beverly hills
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554K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, exciting, clever, visually stunning ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
racing, race car, car race, racecar driver, formula 1, success, rise to the top, motor sport, car racing, race, world champion, rivalry ...
Time:
70s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1970, year 1976 ...
Place:
europe, britain, vienna, japan, mount fuji ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Style:
suspenseful, cynical, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, women, small town, psychopath, obsession, psycho killer, french countryside, female teacher, cave painting, village ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pierre, a successful expert in building highways has a traffic accident. Being seriously wounded, he is lying waiting for death and remembering his past in flashbacks.
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, older man younger woman relationship, classical music, mistress, road accident, reckless driving, speed, sports car, psychoanalyst, love, post war, trippy ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. The inquisitor targets nobles and merchants, whose property and goods are then ...
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, gothic horror, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
witch, burned at the stake, inquisition, medieval, torture, burned alive, torture chamber, witchcraft, occult, religions or cults, priest, church ...
Time:
middle ages, 20th century, year 1970, 17th century
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story is an allegory of Adam and Eve, in a modern (made in the '60s) Health Retreat. The action involves our hero wandering the grounds where she becomes obsessed with a mysterious man in red, who may or may not be a killer.
Style:
erotic, avant garde, art house, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot:
adam and eve, renaissance, surrealism, trippy, swamp, garden, woman, modernism, sister, sisters, folk horror, nudity ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, europe, central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden ...
Style:
spaghetti western, stylized, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nun, cowboy, gunfight, cowboys and outlaws, rescue, heroes, danger, partner, gunslinger, rivalry, rebelliousness, violence ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, year 1970
Place:
mexico, latin america, sonora, france
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, maniac, police detective, investigation, female psychopath, psychopath, voyeurism, attempted murder, amateur detective, murder, killer ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their ...
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
summer, friends, forest, holiday, self discovery, countryside, male friendship, love and romance, buddies, social differences, wooing, woods ...
Time:
year 1970, 20th century, 60s
Place:
india
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children -- Bonfamille's prize family of domesticated house cats -- the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the heirs, leaving them out on a country road. All seems ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, sweet, cute, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
cat, talking animal, animal life, friendship, butler, getting home, social differences, mischievous children, danger, hopes, animal, animal protagonist ...
Time:
1910s, 70s, year 1970, 20th century, edwardian era
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable ...
Style:
black and white, cult classic, black comedy, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
surrealism, rebellion, sadism, art, revolution, fighting the system, misfit, vengeance, absurdism, handicapped, chaos, dwarf ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son ...
Style:
touching, meditative, compassionate, depressing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
poverty, samurai, redemption, social differences, life is a bitch, working class, slum, character study, tragedy, unlikely friendships, hopes, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 60s
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, society, injustice, working undercover, legal, social decay, sabotage, union, rebel, social change, coal mine ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, year 1970
Place:
usa, america, pennsylvania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent ...
Style:
sexual, psychosexual thriller, offbeat, controversial, realistic ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
coming of age, nude young male, male pubic hair, unrequited love, female pedophile, male nudity, public nudity, female orgasm, skinny dipping, swimming, sex with a minor, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1970, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, eastern europe, europe, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Simon (Bruce Davison), a student at a fictional university in San Francisco (based on San Francisco State College) is indifferent to the student protests around him, until walking in on a naked woman (Kristina Holland) in his dormitory ...
Style:
political, social, serious, realistic, political drama
Plot:
hippie, counterculture, vietnam war, university, chaos, liberal, police brutality, social issues, tyranny, student protest, marxist, underground ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
san francisco
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14K
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of ...
Style:
sexual, cerebral, political, art house, philosophical ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, wedding night, stroke, tumor, death of husband, orphan, deaf mute, nightmare, maid, passion, amputation, disability ...
Time:
1920s, year 1970, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
spain, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf'), and the resolution is worse ...
Style:
political, cult classic, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
communism, renaissance, spy, night, election, suspicion, totalitarian regime, modernism, family problems, promotion, couples, totalitarianism ...
Time:
year 1970, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
eastern europe, prague, russia, central europe, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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 earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a ...
Style:
fairy tale, allegory, surreal, sexual, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
innocence, teenage girl, folk horror, wedding night, surrealism, menstruation, folklore, magic realism, older man younger woman relationship, supernatural, female protagonist, vampire ...
Time:
19th century, year 1970, near future
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. His wife pushes him to seek a promotion, which may be a long shot after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
Style:
art house, controversial, cult classic, existential, realistic ...
Plot:
uxoricide, family relations, murder, existentialism, losing-it hero, everyday life, colleague, serial killer, alienation, suicide, midlife crisis, marxism ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, epic, action adventure, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mexican revolution, cowboy, epic battle, female nudity, shootout, marriage, coin, buddy, pacifist, hawk, union, combat ...
Time:
year 1970, 19th century, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, texas, usa, latin america
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33K
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, disturbing, sexy, psychedelic ...
Plot:
desert, surrealism, boy, murder, revenge, religion, rape, church, violence, russian roulette, lion, dark hero ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
south america, latin america, mexico
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