Cannes 1977
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1. 3 Women (1977)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Votes: 17,290
In Competition
2. Bang! (1977)
100 min | Drama
Magnus is divorced and has an affair with an art teacher at the school where he works. When he thinks she's pregnant, he is worried because he is in love with another woman.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Susan Hampshire, Alf Hellberg, Kristina Kamnert-Suneson, Staffan Liljander
Votes: 181
In Competition
3. Black Joy (1977)
97 min | Comedy
A Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustle and bustle of life in Brixton, South West London.
Director: Anthony Simmons | Stars: Norman Beaton, Trevor Thomas, Dawn Hope, Floella Benjamin
Votes: 248
In Competition
4. Bound for Glory (1976)
PG | 147 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland
Votes: 5,592
In Competition
5. Budapesti mesék (1977)
90 min | Drama
A yellow tram lies overturned on the riverbank at the end of the war. Tattered, ragged, homeless men huddle together in a group, load it on rails trying to take it to the remise. Their ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ági Mészáros, Maja Komorowska, Franciszek Pieczka, András Bálint
Votes: 262
In Competition
6. Car Wash (1976)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar, Richard Brestoff
Votes: 8,197
In Competition
7. The American Friend (1977)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain
Votes: 18,609
In Competition
8. Elisa, My Life (1977)
125 min | Drama
Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Rey, Isabel Mestres, Joaquín Hinojosa
Votes: 975
In Competition
9. Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)
107 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story follows the life of Leni Gruyten, a regular German woman during the 1930s and 40s. Through her interactions with friends, family, and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown.
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic | Stars: Romy Schneider, Brad Dourif, Michel Galabru, Vadim Glowna
Votes: 388
In Competition
10. Oi kynigoi (1977)
168 min | Drama
On New Year's Eve, a group of hunters finds the frozen body of a dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Giorgos Danis, Mary Hronopoulou
Votes: 1,043
In Competition
11. Iphigenia (1977)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras, Tatiana Papamoschou
Votes: 2,141
In Competition
12. J.A. Martin photographe (1977)
100 min | Drama
The wife of photographer J. A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Marcel Sabourin, Monique Mercure, Marthe Thierry, Catherine Tremblay
Votes: 399
In Competition
13. Backbone (1975)
91 min | Drama, Horror
A microbiologist is trying the figure out the source of a bad odor that is spreading across New Belgrade blocks, having thought that it may be in a direct relation with a rampant suicide rate.
Director: Vlatko Gilic | Stars: Dragan Nikolic, Predrag Lakovic, Mira Banjac, Milutin Butkovic
Votes: 191
In Competition
14. La communion solennelle (1977)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a family is told from 1890 until present times. There are date meetings,wars,separations,betrayals,dramas,comical situations.
Director: René Féret | Stars: Christian Drillaud, Claude Bouchery, Isabelle Caillard, Patrick Fierry
Votes: 93
In Competition
15. The Lacemaker (1977)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance
A reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Düringer
Votes: 3,024
In Competition
16. The Truck (1977)
76 min | Drama, Romance
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 454
In Competition
17. Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort (1977)
114 min | Drama
A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Marcel Sabourin, Anouk Ferjac, Myriam Boyer, Roger Blin
Votes: 37
In Competition
18. Padre Padrone (1977)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Drama
The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli, Fabrizio Forte
Votes: 4,366
In Competition
19. Podranki (1977)
93 min | Drama
A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.
Director: Nikolay Gubenko | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Georgiy Burkov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Aleksei Cherstvov
Votes: 424
In Competition
20. The Duellists (1977)
PG | 100 min | Drama, War
France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox
Votes: 26,728 | Gross: $0.20M
In Competition
21. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)
122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renzo Carboni
Votes: 3,053
In Competition
22. The Purple Taxi (1977)
R | 107 min | Drama
With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully (Fred Astaire) runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Noiret, Peter Ustinov, Agostina Belli
Votes: 659
In Competition
23. A Special Day (1977)
Approved | 106 min | Drama
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd
Votes: 15,842
In Competition
Out of Competition
25. The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere, Lia Tanzi
Votes: 1,052
Out of Competition
26. Slap Shot (1977)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren
Votes: 41,254 | Gross: $28.00M
Out of Competition
27. Aïda (1977)
165 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Pierre Jourdan | Stars: Gilda Cruz-Romo, Grace Bumbry, Peter Gougalov, Ingvar Wixell
Les Yeux fertiles
28. Beethoven - Tage aus einem Leben (1976)
108 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives modestly and is dependent upon private patrons. Nagged... See full summary »
Director: Horst Seemann | Stars: Donatas Banionis, Stefan Lisewski, Hans Teuscher, Renate Richter
Votes: 49
Les Yeux fertiles
29. Catherine (1977 TV Movie)
115 min | Drama
Director: Paul Seban | Stars: Claude Aufaure, Françoise Bette, Jean-Pierre Colin, Jacques Giraud
Les Yeux fertiles
30. A Simple Heart (1977)
95 min | Drama
Felicita is a peasant woman who works as a maid. Teodoro moves from one family to another, becoming attached to everyone and always getting bitter disappointments.
Director: Giorgio Ferrara | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Adriana Asti, Tina Aumont, Alida Valli
Votes: 24
Les Yeux fertiles
31. Ha-Gan (1977)
90 min | Drama
An old man tends his garden under the threat of encroaching urbanization. In wanders a beautiful tourist, dazed and naked after a sexual assault, and he mistakes her for an angel.
Director: Victor Nord | Stars: Shaike Ophir, Melanie Griffith, Tuvia Tavi, Shoshana Duer
Votes: 121
Les Yeux fertiles
32. The Seagull (1977)
132 min | Comedy, Drama
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Laura Betti, Giulio Brogi, Pamela Villoresi, Remo Girone
Votes: 99
Les Yeux fertiles
33. Heinrich (1977)
125 min | Biography
The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Heinrich Giskes, Grischa Huber, Hannelore Hoger, Lina Carstens
Votes: 49
Les Yeux fertiles
34. Les lieux d'une fugue (1978 TV Movie)
41 min
He was eleven and two months old. He had just run away from home.
Director: Georges Perec | Star: Marcel Cuvelier
Votes: 20
Les Yeux fertiles
35. Mozart - Aufzeichnungen einer Jugend (1976)
224 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Director: Klaus Kirschner | Stars: Pavlos Bekiaris, Diego Crovetti, Santiago Ziesmer, Marianne Lowitz
Votes: 26
Les Yeux fertiles
36. Paradistorg (1977)
113 min | Drama
A merchant's house in the Stockholm archipelago. Katha, an old woman comes here every year. So does her father, who once built the house. She wants the family, her children and their ... See full summary »
Director: Gunnel Lindblom | Stars: Marianne Aminoff, Maria Blomkvist, Anna Borg, Margaretha Byström
Votes: 154
Les Yeux fertiles
37. El mundo de Pau Casals (1977)
90 min
The great Catalonian cellist tells of his life and work, and of his long exile between the year of the Franco takeover (1939) and the the death of that Fascist dictator (1976).
Director: Joan-Baptista Bellsolell | Star: Pau Casals
Les Yeux fertiles
Les Yeux fertiles
39. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1977)
105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Basil Hallward is a mediocre painter. His exhibitions owe their success to his social position and nothing more. But one day Basil meets Dorian Gray, symbol of youth and a certain beauty.
Director: Pierre Boutron | Stars: Raymond Gérôme, Patrice Alexsandre, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Denis Manuel
Votes: 66
Les Yeux fertiles
40. Rhinoceros (1974)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
Director: Tom O'Horgan | Stars: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black, Joe Silver
Votes: 1,308
Les Yeux fertiles
41. Scott Joplin (1977)
PG | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Eubie Blake
Votes: 327
Les Yeux fertiles
42. Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano (1977)
103 min | Drama
In Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko, Antonina Shuranova
Votes: 3,777
Les Yeux fertiles
43. Camelamos naquerar (1976)
17 min | Short, Drama
Director: Miguel Alcobendas | Stars: Chuscales, Paco Cortés, Antonio Cuevas 'El Piki', Gómez de Jerez
L'Air du temps
44. The Children of Theatre Street (1977)
G | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary on the Kirov School of Ballet in Russia, narrated by Princess Grace of Monaco.
Directors: Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack | Stars: Grace Kelly, Angelina Armeiskaya, Michaela Cerna, Galina Mezenzewa
Votes: 167
L'Air du temps
45. Queridísimos verdugos (1977)
103 min | Documentary
Exploration of a particularly dark zone of the Francoism along with three executioners of death sentences still active in the Spain of the early seventies. Beyond the allegation against ... See full summary »
Director: Basilio Martín Patino | Stars: Claudio Rodríguez, Vicente Copete, Antonio López, Bernardo Sánchez
Votes: 175
L'Air du temps
46. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
PG | 103 min | Documentary
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson
Votes: 6,633
L'Air du temps
47. Mais qu'est ce qu'elles veulent (1977)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Coline Serreau | Stars: Lasse Braun, Véronique Monod
Votes: 21
L'Air du temps
48. Moi, Tintin (1976)
51 min | Documentary
A documentary about herge and his experience writing the tin tin comics.
Directors: Henri Roanne, Gérard Valet | Stars: King Albert I, Élisabeth de Bavière, Robert Baden-Powell, Tsar Nicholas II
Votes: 65
L'Air du temps
49. The Naked Civil Servant (1975 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 77 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge, Stanley Lebor
Votes: 1,902
L'Air du temps
50. News from Home (1976)
85 min | Documentary
Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 2,811
L'Air du temps
51. One Man (1977)
PG | 87 min | Drama, Thriller
A crusading TV reporter finds his life ripped apart as he investigates a story about a company's deadly criminal negligence.
Director: Robin Spry | Stars: Len Cariou, Jayne Eastwood, Carol Lazare, Barry Morse
Votes: 75
L'Air du temps
52. Pumping Iron (1977)
PG | 86 min | Documentary, Sport
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically-acclaimed film that made Schwarzenegger a household name.
Directors: George Butler, Robert Fiore | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Matty Ferrigno, Victoria Ferrigno
Votes: 24,945
L'Air du temps
53. Raoni (1978)
84 min | Documentary
An examination of issues surrounding the survival of the indigenous tribes of north central Brazil.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Luiz Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Marlon Brando, Clive Kelly, Jacques Perrin, Paulo César Peréio
Votes: 98
L'Air du temps
54. San Gottardo (1977)
90 min | Drama
San Gottardo is first and foremost a film about emigration, the exodus brought about by the construction of the two tunnels - the railway tunnel (1872-1882) and the road tunnel (1969-1976).... See full summary »
Director: Villi Hermann | Stars: Roberto Abbati, Ugo Albertini, Maurice Aufair, Paolo Bocelli
Votes: 10
L'Air du temps
55. Torre Bela (1975)
105 min | Documentary
The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas Harlan, Jacques d'Arthuys, Anna Devoto, Luc Mohler, Luisa Orioli | Stars: Thomas Harlan, Maria Vitória, José Neves Paiva, Herculano Valada Martins
Votes: 127
L'Air du temps
56. All This and World War II (1976)
PG | 88 min | Documentary, History, Music
WWII newsreel footage intercut with Beatles songs performed by other artists like Helen Reddy and Rod Stewart, juxtaposing the music with war imagery.
Director: Susan Winslow | Stars: Milton Berle, Humphrey Bogart, William C. Bullitt, Winston Churchill
Votes: 216
Le Passé composé
57. Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Director: Steven York | Stars: Ossie Davis, Fredi Washington, George Johnson, Lorenzo Tucker
Le Passé composé
58. Bogart (1967 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Marshall Flaum | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Charlton Heston
Le Passé composé
59. Ciné Follies (1977)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Philippe Collin | Stars: Pierre Alcover, Andrex, Annabella, Arletty
Votes: 7
Le Passé composé
60. Life Goes to the Movies (1976 TV Movie)
152 min | Documentary, History
A look at the history of film from 1936-1972, with a special emphasis on the social impact of the medium and the way it both reflected and influenced American life.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Henry Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli
Votes: 54
Le Passé composé
61. Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
86 min | Comedy, Western
The "Rattler" is secretly the head of an outlaw band have been terrorizing the residents of Peaceful Valley with a crime wave of rustling, killing and robbing. The Federal Government has ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Patterson | Stars: Rex Allen, Gene Autry, Don 'Red' Barry, Robert Blake
Votes: 43
Le Passé composé
62. The Pictures That Moved: Australian Cinema 1896-1920 (1968)
45 min | Documentary, History
Australian cinema from the very beginning, from the newsreels, ethnographic and actuality films to the controversy of "The Story of the Kelly Gang" to the success of "The Sentimental Bloke". Australian cinema was making its mark.
Director: Alan Anderson | Star: Raymond Longford
Votes: 19
Le Passé composé
63. The Passionate Industry (1971)
60 min | Documentary, History
From an origin that promised so much, the Australian film production industry faced new challenges from abroad which ultimately proved to be more than they could cope with. Unfortunately very few films from then now survive.
Director: Joan Long | Star: Charles Chauvel
Votes: 14
Le Passé composé
64. That's Action (1977)
PG | 78 min | Documentary
A documentary about old action movies and action heroes with John Wayne as the center piece. Although interesting it is filled more with action sequences from movies then information about ... See full summary »
Director: G. David Schine | Stars: Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Ann Dvorak, Glenn Ford
Votes: 131
Le Passé composé
65. Omar Gatlato (1977)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Boualem Benani, Aziz Degga, Farida Guenaneche, Rabah Leghaa
Votes: 191
International Critics' Week
International Critics' Week
67. Liebe das Leben, lebe das Lieben (1977)
102 min | Drama
The gentle inhabitants of a quaint Berlin apartment house, damaged by the Second World War but possessing an elegance of its own, love the place where they live, with its motto Liebe das ... See full summary »
Director: Lutz Eisholz | Stars: Brigitte Mira, Erhard Dhein, Heidrun Kussin, Manfred Lehmann
International Critics' Week
68. Caminando pasos... caminando (1977)
92 min | Drama
Director: Federico Weingartshofer | Stars: Socorro Avelar, Álvaro Carcaño, Flora Carreón, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
International Critics' Week
69. Seishun no satsujinsha (1976)
132 min | Crime, Drama
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Director: Kazuhiko Hasegawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Mieko Harada, Etsuko Ichihara, Ryôhei Uchida
Votes: 369
International Critics' Week
70. Ben et Bénédict (1977)
95 min | Drama
Ben obeys, Benedict doesn't. Ben loses, Bénédict wins. This is because Bénédict just embodies Ben's fantasies. If she was real - Bénédict would ask Bernard, a university mate, to offer his ... See full summary »
Director: Paula Delsol | Stars: Françoise Lebrun, André Dussollier, Daniel Duval, Jacqueline Staup
Votes: 11
International Critics' Week
71. Twenty Days Without War (1977)
101 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova
Votes: 1,580
International Critics' Week
72. 25 (1977)
120 min | Documentary
Documentary made in Mozambique about its process of independence and President Samora Machel's revolutionary government.
Directors: Celso Luccas, José Celso Martinez Corrêa
Votes: 10
Directors' Fortnight
73. Aftenlandet (1977)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Dystopian presentation of a Denmark in imminent risk of sinking into police violence and a military coup.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Bent Andersen, Kai Schøning Andersen, Mogens Andersen, Oluf Andersen
Votes: 150
Directors' Fortnight
74. Outsiders (1977)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
In protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo (outsiders) kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Tabata Ndiaye, Alioune Fall, Moustapha Yade, Matoura Dia
Votes: 1,094
Directors' Fortnight
75. Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires (1977)
120 min | Documentary
A Shakespearian story full of noise and fury, but that means something. In the role of the "Grand Helmsman", Mao ZeDong himself, in the role of Madame Mao, famous actress Lan Ping, aka Jian... See full summary »
Directors: Francis Deron, Jean-Paul Tchang, René Viénet
Votes: 18
Directors' Fortnight
76. Continuar a Viver ou Os Índios da Meia-Praia (1977)
110 min | Documentary
The film documents the start, and difficult progress of a house cooperative in the fishermen's village of Meia Praia, during the revolutionary process in Portugal, from April 25, 1974 until mid-1976.
Director: António da Cunha Telles | Stars: Fernando Romão, José Romão, José Veloso, António da Cunha Telles
Votes: 30
Directors' Fortnight
77. The Earth Is Flat (1977)
112 min | Comedy
A student returns home to his local community to find that it has been transformed into late 17th century Brazil.
Director: Henrik Stangerup | Stars: Torben Bille, Fábio Carmargo, Glória Cristall, Paulo Fortes
Votes: 18
Directors' Fortnight
78. Llocsi caimanta (1981)
100 min
A rural community in the Ecuadorian Andes suddenly faces a land dispute with the legal representatives of a large company. The discovery of very rich ore deposits in the territory is the ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Sanjinés
Votes: 20
Directors' Fortnight
79. Gizmo! (1977)
G | 77 min | Comedy, Documentary
Compilation of man inventing strange contraptions in the 30's through 50's.
Director: Howard Smith | Star: Milt Moss
Votes: 455
Directors' Fortnight
80. Nine Months (1976)
88 min | Drama
A village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The work manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki, Gyula Szersén, Tibor Kristóf
Votes: 356
Directors' Fortnight
81. La Historia Me Absolvera (1977)
154 min | Documentary
A lengthy interview of Fidel Castro by an italian journalist who's very familiar with Cuban politics.
Directors: Dick Idestam-Almquist, Gaetano Pagano | Star: Fidel Castro
Directors' Fortnight
82. La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro (1977)
110 min | Drama
A man returns to the village his mother has told him he was from, and tries to find out about the father she also told him about, as he encounters a people full of fear and superstition.
Director: Nicolás Sarquís | Stars: Raúl del Valle, Augusto Kretschmar, Martha Roldán, Luisa Vehil
Votes: 10
Directors' Fortnight
83. Långt borta och nära (1976)
98 min | Drama
Mania Becker starts working in a mental hospital which she hasn't any experience in. She meets a young man who has stopped talking. He has been considered an interesting case and Mania ... See full summary »
Director: Marianne Ahrne | Stars: Lilga Kovanko, Robert Farrant, Jan-Erik Lindqvist, Helge Skoog
Votes: 76
Directors' Fortnight
84. The Devil, Probably (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Votes: 4,736 | Gross: $0.03M
Directors' Fortnight
85. Les enfants du placard (1977)
105 min | Drama
Nicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her. Since ... See full summary »
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel, Georges Marchal
Votes: 82
Directors' Fortnight
86. Les Indiens sont encore loin (1977)
95 min | Drama
A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Director: Patricia Moraz | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christine Pascal, Mathieu Carrière, Chilpéric de Boiscuillé
Votes: 102
Directors' Fortnight
87. Nós por cá Todos Bem (1977)
80 min | Drama
A film crew goes to Várzea dos Amarelos visit the mother of the director, fixing some of the moments of the local life and listens to the old lady.
Director: Fernando Lopes | Stars: Zita Duarte, Vanda França, Adelaide João, Fernando Barradas
Votes: 28
Directors' Fortnight
88. Urs Al-Zayn (1976)
90 min | Drama
Everyone in his village believes that Zein is a simpleton, a half-wit, an amiable buffoon. Thus, his braying laughter and public declarations of love for village maidens only win laughter ... See full summary »
Director: Khalid Al Siddiq | Stars: Ali Mahdi, Sunni Dafallah, Ibrahim Hujazi, Mohamed Khairi
Votes: 22
Directors' Fortnight
89. Prata Palomares (1972)
125 min | Thriller
While waiting for directions, two revolutionaries hide in a church, where they meet a woman who wants to have a son with one of them.
Director: André Faria | Stars: Renato Borghi, Carlos Gregório, Renato Dobal, Paulo Augusto
Votes: 55
Directors' Fortnight
90. Sun of the Hyenas (1977)
104 min | Drama
The quick-witted jump on the bandwagon with the development's German financiers, the others tag behind as employees, deserting their boats to sell tinned sardines and hawk postcards to the overweight foreign tourists who crowd the beaches.
Director: Ridha Behi | Stars: Salah Benmoussa, Hélène Catzaras, Larbi Doghmi, El Ghazi
Votes: 39
Directors' Fortnight
91. Stunde Null (1977)
108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Leipzig area in 1945. The American occupying forces withdraw to the Elbe river, leaving the territory to the Russians.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Kai Taschner, Herbert Weissbach, Günter Schiemann, Anette Jünger
Votes: 118
Directors' Fortnight
92. Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
In the 1930's, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province, fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the Canadian prairie. At first he's ... See full summary »
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke
Votes: 484
Directors' Fortnight
93. Haro (1977)
100 min | Drama
After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.
Director: Gilles Béhat | Stars: Laurent Malet, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Valérie Mairesse, Nathalie Courval
Votes: 9
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
94. Le coeur froid (1977)
88 min | Thriller
A governess tries to save her pupil in jeopardy.
Director: Henri Helman | Stars: Maud Rayer, Johann Ménard, Maurice Germain, Maria Laborit
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
95. La question (1977)
112 min | Drama, War
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Director: Laurent Heynemann | Stars: Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Françoise Thuries
Votes: 94
Perspectives du Cinéma Français
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