Peppermint Soda - Diabolo menthe - (Diane Kurys, 1977)

In 1963 Paris, 13-year-old Anne is a listless student, largely unconcerned with grades—or the Cold War anxiety hovering over daily life. She lives with her divorcée mother and increasingly politically aware older sister Frédérique, and wants most of all to wear stockings, sit in cafés, and spy on her sister. Diane Kurys’ tenderly crafted, autobiographical directorial debut is by turns sweet and solemn, delicately honing in on the quiet loneliness of trying to find oneself in the early years of teenagehood.

Director: Diane Kurys.

Writers: Diane Kurys, Alain Le Henry.

Stars: Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac, Michel Puterflam, Yves Réiner, Robert Rimbaud, Marie-Véronique Maurin, Corinne Dacla, Coralie.

Subs: English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10019558787750

Farewell to the Ark - Saraba hakobune (1984)

Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Terayama’s final and elaborate opus takes place on a remote Okinawan island, where a mythical time law rules and shapes memories, life and even death. Sutekichi and his cousin Su-e love each other, attracting the attention and insults of the superstitious inhabitants of an isolated village beyond time. When Sutekichi murders his rival Daisaku, the couple decides to flee from the village, but Sutekichi is haunted by Daisaku’s ghost and increasingly affected by the unforgiving course of time.


Director: Shûji Terayama

Writers: Gabriel García Márquez (novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”), Rio Kishida, Shûji Terayama.

Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Takahashi.

 

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10073589746342 

The Eccentrics - Sherekilebi - (1974)

Two eccentrics who have ended up in jail due to their inability to conform build a fantastical flying machine to flee their grey reality. At once a bizarre comedy with bite about two outsiders in some indeterminate place at some indeterminate time, a plea for the power of dream and a concealed critique of the system.


Director: Eldar Shengelaia. 

Stars: Vasili Chkhaidze, Dato Jgenti, Ariadna Shengelaia, Boris Tsipuria, Abrek Pkhaladze, Merab Eliozishvili, Akaki Bakradze, Grigol Tkabladze.

 

A movie from former  Soviet Union. 

 

Subtitled in English.

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/9878213298854

Måker (1991)

During World War I in Norway, a shipping magnate goes bankrupt, and the family being used to a high-spending life moves to a summer cabin with moonshine and smuggling as a way out. Love and art are sacrificed in the hunt for old honor, with the children as victims.


Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg. 

Writers: Terje Kristiansen, Vibeke Løkkeberg.

Stars: Helge Jordal, Vibeke Løkkeberg, Tonje Kleivdal Kristiansen, Marie Kristiansen, Helga Urdal, Marius Krogh, Keve Hjelm, Klaus Hagerup, Elisabeth Granneman, Sossen Krohg, Chatarina Larsson, Christian Barmen, Geo von Krogh, Tor Vister.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/9993950071462 

The White Caravan - Tetri karavani - (1963)

For generations, shepherds from villages high up in the mountains have been traveling with their vast sheep herds, moving them to distant pastures where they spend the long winter. Each of the villagers has a story to tell, intimated through flawless concision, while the film’s effortlessly fluid epic narrative is interwoven with lyrical passages, together creating a timeless cinematic poem about the primary values in life.

 

1964 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

A movie from former Soviet Union.

Directors: Tamaz Meliava, Eldar Shengelaia. 

Stars: Spartak Bagashvili, Ariadna Shengelaia, Imedo Kakhiani, Giorgi Kikadze, Merab Eliozishvili, Dodo Abashidze, Gogutsa Kuprashvili, Valentin Donguzashvili.

 

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/9886558063270 

Deep Crimson - Profundo carmesí - (Arturo Ripstein, 1996)

Set in 1940s northern Mexico, this film re-tells the story of “The Lonely Hearts Killers”, a famous couple of murderers who made victims of lonely and wealthy widows in the USA. Coral is a rotund and passionate nurse who knows handsome gigolo Nicolas Estrella and falls for him immediately. Nicolas rejects her because she’s not rich, but Coral is determined to get him at any cost. She abandons her children and follows the man in spite of his way of living. Together they will scheme to swindle and murder women who look for love and companions writing letters to a sentimental courier.

A new Director's Cut premiered in September 2023 at the Venice Film Festival. It includes 24 minutes of previously unreleased footage. Most notably, the scene in which Coral prepares to perform an abortion is extended to show the procedure, and the scene in which she prepares to murder the a child plays out in full, with her shown putting the girl in the tub and drowning her. I am not sure that this version posted here is a Director´s Cut release.

Director: Arturo Ripstein. 

Writer: Paz Alicia Garciadiego.

Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Regina Orozco, Marisa Paredes, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Julieta Egurrola, Rosa Furman, Verónica Merchant, Sherlyn, Giovani Florido, Fernando Palavicini, Alexandra Vicencio, Esteban Soberanes, Gastón Melo, Juan de la Loza, Álvaro Carcaño, Paco Mauri. 

Subtitled in English

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/10216936835700

Black Lizard - Kuro Tokage - (1968)

Japanese sixties comedy featuring a cunning female jewel thief named Black Lizard who tries to kidnap Sanaye, a wealthy jeweler’s beautiful daughter as part of a plot to steal the jeweler’s expensive “Star of Egypt” diamond. To thwart the planned kidnapping, the jeweler hires Japan’s number one detective, the brilliant Akechi. This sets off a dual between Black Lizard and Akechi as each tries to outwit the other. In the process, the two adversaries develop a mutual respect and affection for each other.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku. 

Writers: Rampo Edogawa (novel), Yukio Mishima (stage adaptation), Masashige Narusawa.

Stars: Akihiro Miwa, Isao Kimura, Kikko Matsuoka, Jun Usami, Yûsuke Kawazu, Kô Nishimura, Toshiko Kobayashi, Sônosuke Oda, Kinji Hattori, Kyôichi Satô, Jun kato, Ryuji Funakoshi, Mitsuko Takara, Yukio Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba.

Cameo: The presence of Yukio Mishima , the famous Mishima, as human statue. 

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/9450429221542

Don´t Shoot the Composer (Ken Russell, 1966) - Documentary about Georges Delerue

This documentary is far from an ordinary profile of Georges Delerue. It also serves as a calling card for Ken Russell, whose work would define the 1970s as Delerue’s did in the 1960s. It begins with a sly work of pastiche, parodying the conventions of French noir. It goes onto encompass slapstick, verité scenes of the Delerue family and a harrowing montage of the Vietnam War. This eclectic approach gives us a sense of the different facets of Delerue’s life- his love of cinema, his home life, his work ethic. It also prefigures Russell’s feature length biopics of Mahler and Liszt, though in a more modest- and lucid- fashion.

Director: Ken Russell.

Stars: Georges Delerue, Ken Russell, John Drummond.

Subtitled in English,

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/6908806564518

From the Clouds to the Resistance - Dalla nube alla resistenza - (1979)

With two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò”, taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese’s novel “La luna e i falò”: after WWII the emigrant ‘The Bastard’ comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people.

Director: Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub.  

Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Guido Lombardi, Gino Felici, Lori Pelosini, Walter Pardini, Ennio Lauricella, Andrea Bacci, Loris Cavallini, Francesco Ragusa, Fiorangelo Pucci, Mauro Monni.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2607700576934

A Primer for '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1971)

A “primer” or explanation of the basic plot, themes, sources and meanings in Stanley Kubrick’s widely praised and often misunderstood epic motion picture, released in 1968. Film clips illustrate the scenes as interpreted in a script narrated by Keir Dullea, one of the stars of the film. Includes some behind-the-scenes information and references to material not included in the final cut. Stanley Kubrick’s controversial science-fiction film classic is analyzed for its technical and visual pioneering role in viewing human history.

Director: John Musilli.

Writer: Stephan Chodorov.

Stars: Keir Dullea.

Optional English subtitles are available for this program, to enable them on the video player click on the cogwheel, click on the last option  and finally, click on “EN”.

Dog´s Heart - Cuore di cane - (Alberto Lattuada, 1976)

Based on a novel by Michail Bulgakov. Set in the early years of the Russian Revolution, a scientist turns a dog into a man.

Director: Alberto Lattuada. 

Stars: Max Von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf, Gina Rovere, Cochi Ponzoni, Vadim Glowna, Rena Niehaus, Enzo Robutti, Violetta Chiarini, Amerigo Tot, Ilona Staller, Giuliano Petrelli.

Music by Piero Piccioni.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2664286784166

The Wolf af the Door - Oviri - (1986)

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin, follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.

Director: Henning Carlsen. 

Stars: Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Sofie Gråbøl, Valeri Glandut, Ghita Nørby, Merete Voldstedlund, Fanny Bastien, Jørgen Reenberg, Henrik Larsen, Jesper Bruun Rasmussen, Yves Barsacq, Thomas Antoni, Kristina Dubin, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Morten Grunwald.

1986 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2537591736998

Chère Louise (1972)

Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi, an Italian who is down on his luck. Though he moved to France to find work, he was robbed of his money and papers and is stranded. When he helps her bury her dogs, which her neighbour has poisoned for barking, their relationship grows to a new level.

Director: Philippe de Broca.

Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Julian Negulesco, Didi Perego, Jill Larson, Lucienne Legrand, Pippo Starnazza, Luce Fabiole, Jenny Arasse, Louis Navarre, Yves Robert.

Music by: Georges Delerue.

Subltitled in English. 

Courtesy of RareFilmm.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/9739431774886

The Red Spectacles - Jigoku no banken: akai megane - (1987)

As the world decayed into chaos, the Metropolitan Police had no choice but to fight back, creating an elite unit of police. They became known as Kerberos, the Watchdogs of Hell. Over time, though, the zeal of the police force was transformed into cruelty and corruption. Three of the elite rebelled against the system. But only one, senior detective Koichi Todome, escaped to freedom. Several years later, he returns home. But why? What is left for him in this city that continues to decay? Koichi must now determine who is friend and who is foe as he attempts to unravel what happened after he left.

Director: Mamoru Oshii. 

Writers: Mamoru Oshii (original story), Kazunori Itô & Mamoru Oshii (screenplay).

Stars: Shigeru Chiba, Machiko Washio, Hideyuki Tanaka, Tesshô Genda, Mako Hyôdô, Ichirô Nagai, Yasuo Ôtsuka, Hirô Oikawa, Takashi Kanematsu, Toshio Furukawa, Tomohiro Nishimura, Hidetoshi Nakamura, Takahiro Hirai, Fumihiko Tachiki, Takeyuki Funato, Daiki Nakamura, Zenchû Mitsui, Mitsuhiro Uwabe, Naoyuki Yoshinaga, Fuyuki Shinada, Kazuo Tauchi, Norio Kurisaki, Fumi Hirano, Takayoshi Ito, Kintarô Sakata, Hideyo Amamoto

Subtitles: English

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/9812979288742

The Flight of the Eagle - Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd - (1982)

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

Director: Jan Troell. 

Writers: Klaus Rifbjerg, Ian Rakoff, Jan Troell & Georg Oddner (screenplay), Per Olof Sundman (freely adapted from the novel by).

Stars: Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz, Sverre Anker, Clément Harari, Eva von Hanno, Lotta Larsson, Jan-Olof Strandberg, Henric Holmberg, Ulla Sjöblom, Mimi Pollak, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Ingvar Kjellson, Bruno Sörwing. 

Subtitles in English. Courtesy of RareFilm.

Link fot the movie: https://ok.ru/video/2566689000102

Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Goddard , 1990)

Composed entirely by literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, Godard’s film works as an allegory on film. The loose narrative tells about a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies but some time later, he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?

Director: Jean-Luc Godard.

Writers: Jacques Audiberti (novel), Jean-Luc Godard (scenario) (uncredited).

Stars: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent, Roland Amstutz, Cécile Reigher, Laurence Côte, Joseph Lisbona, Véronique Müller, Joe Sheridan.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2610668440230

The Invitation - L"Invitation - (1973)

After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden.

Director: Claude Goretta. 

Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, François Simon, Jean Champion, Corinne Coderey, Michel Robin, Cécile Vassort, Rosine Rochette, Jacques Rispal, Neige Dolsky, Pierre Collet, Lucie Avenay, Roger Jendly, Gilbert Costa, William Jacques, Daniel Stuffel. 

1973 Cannes Film Festival – Winner International Prize, Dramatic Film.

1973 Cannes Film Festival – Winner Jury Prize.

1973 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

1974 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Subltitled in English.

Link to watch the movie (Third Party): https://ok.ru/video/2610407541414

The Games of Countess Dolingen - Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz - (1981)

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely erotic event in the life of a little girl and the musings of a schizophrenic woman. Also involved is an enigmatic spouse who prepares a surprise for a burglar.

Binet’s first independent feature film is exceptional in French film history. With its uncanny atmosphere, this visually exquisite study of female erotic fantasy was largely inspired by the short story “Dunkler Frühling” (Dark Spring) by the German poet Unica Zürn, whom Binet very much admired. In three stories woven together in various ways, she tells of the crime of one man (Michael Lonsdale), the unfulfilled love of a young girl and the fate of a neglected wife (Carol Kane).

Director: Catherine Binet. 

Writers: Catherine Binet, Bram Stoker (short story “Dracula’s Guest”), Unica Zürn (novel).

Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Carol Kane, Katia Wastchenko, Marina Vlady , Emmanuelle Riva, Roberto Plate, Marilu Marini, Robert Stephens, Marucha Bo, Antoine Binet, Raoul Escari, Tobie Schumer, Carine Toly, Nathalie Goldnadel, François Mouren-Provensal. 

Subtitled in English.

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2610668702374

The Pedestrian - Der Fußgänger (Maximilian Schell, 1973)

Aging German man Heinz Alfred Geise is a successful business owner whose past is quite haunting; during World War II he helped orchestrate a Nazi-led bloodbath in a small Greek village. When this secret is exposed in a newspaper article, it causes his son, Andreas, to try to kill both his father and himself. 

Directed by the great actor Maximilian Shell.

A rare movie with English subtitles.

Director: Maximilian Schell. AKA The Pedestrian

Writers: Dagmar Hirtz, Maximilian Schell, Franz Seitz (uncredited).

Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, Gertrud Bald, Elisabeth Bergner, Lil Dagover, Käthe Haack, Peter Hall, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Maximilian Schell, Ruth Hausmeister, Dagmar Hirtz, Johanna Hofer, Silvia Hürlimann, Christian Kohlund, Walter Kohut, Alexander May, Herbert Mensching, Peter Moland, Herbert Mensching Françoise Rosay. 

LINK FOR THE MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/2563503753894

Out of the Unknown - Sci-Fi TV Series - Epsiode 2 - The Counterfeit Man - (1965)

This is one of the surviving episodes of the British TV Series - Out of the Unknown, aired from 1965 to 1971. Something similar to The Twilight Zone. A classic anthology science fiction series which features adaptations of stories by famous authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl and John Wyndham.

This is the second episode.

On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. But perfect enough to escape discovery on the long return trip to Earth? Can the deadly counterfeit be detected and stopped before its hunger for new life can endanger an entire planet?

Directed by

George Spenton-Foster

Writers

Alan Nourse, Philip Broadley

Stars

Alexander Davion, David Hemmings, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell

Subs: English.

LINK:  https://dai.ly/k4VxdTifBBlJfACTJji

Je t'aime, Je t'aime (Alan Resnais, 1968)

"Je T'aime, Je T'aime (1968, Alan Resnais), a rarely-seen science-fiction cult film, exercises the viewer's mind with superb style. As with the films of Jean Luc Godard, "Je T'aime" has a chaotic narrative which oozes with dystopian gloom. The non-linear structure is a bit fatiguing and frustrating. Still, I like it because of the arresting imagery and magnetic cast.

Claude Ridder (played by Claude Rich), who has held many different office jobs, has recently survived a suicide attempt. When leaving the sanitarium, Claude is approached by creepy members of a secret organization which is conducting time-travel experiments. At the remote facility he is encouraged to allow the scientists to transport him back a year in time for a minute. The scientists tell him that they have successfully conducted this experiment with lab mice and now need him for the first human trial. A few days later, Claude and a mouse (in a small container) enter the Time Machine (which looks like a human brain from the outside). The Time Machine (TM) starts up. Woops—it immediately begins skipping like a dirty CD. While the scientists outside the TM lament their inability to stop it, Claude begins reliving short segments of his past randomly without end. He can exit the TM only after decompressing for four minutes; but the endlessly-looping Time Machine keeps interrupting the closing sequence. The repeated perspective of a large brain in the background with anxious scientists in the foreground worried about the brain's condition comments upon brainwashing.

Director

Alain Resnais

Stars

Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac

Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Spanish.

MOVIE LINK: https://dai.ly/k4gtLbNayOcFUqCNQRQ

Elizabeth R - BBC Mini Series - Episode 6 - Sweet England´s Pride (1972)

 This the final episode of this remarkable mini series. It deserved a 1080p resolution but this is the only available.

MOVIE LINK WITH SUBS IN ENGLISH: https://dai.ly/k1rSaYX2Zi7aRLCNgB4

We are now in the final years of Elizabeth’s life and reign. Though she defeated the Armada she is still at war with Spain and later battles have been a strain on the country’s treasury. Many of these battles have been headed by Robert Devereaux, the favorite who replaced Dudley but Devereaux is much more arrogant than his stepfather and a bigger headache for her Council.

Elizabeth still relies on her Spirit, the elder Cecil but his son now serves the Queen and serves her well despite her ever changing moods. If his father can deal with it, so can he but like his father he has another favorite causing chaos in the realm but as I said before, Devereaux is worse than Dudley.

This is no more evident then when he DARES to try to raise a hand to her in front of her Council and they all prove they would be willing to kill him right then and there because what he did was treason. Still, like Dudley before him, he is bound to make a mistake that will get him out of favor.

He does make a mistake and it is the ultimate betrayal, a rebellion! Not even Dudley had the balls to do that and making matters worse he makes fun of her. His arrogance was so great he honestly thought the people would back him but they know which way the wind blows and it is always in the Queen’s favor. This time she does not hesitate. She orders his execution and he can’t talk his way out of it this time. He is even willing to throw his own kin under the bus to spare his swelled head but it’s not enough. He’s finished, it’s his own doing and the Council members present are enjoying every second of his downfall and demise.

Elizabeth’s final days are full of agony and pain. Her servants plead with her to go to bed but she refuses and spends long hours standing, her thumb in her mouth. This actually happened and Glenda recreates this splendidly. Finally she sits down and dies peacefully but not until she names Mary Queen of Scots’ son James VI as her heir and with this final act she unites the kingdoms of Scotland and England.

This series respects the history it represents with a cast equally respectful and sadly they do not make historical dramas like this anymore. Now it’s more sexualized rather than plot driven and younger generations look more to these shows to learn their history rather than look in the materials the writers of this series did.

THIS IS NOT ALL, FOLKS! 

I WILL TRY TO POST THE MOVIE 'MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS'  WITH VANESSA REDGRAVE AND GLENDA JACKSON, WHICH WAS FILMED BY THE SAME TIME.

Elizabeth R - Mini Series - Episode 5 - The Enterprise of England (1972)

The execution of Mary Queen of Scots has outraged the Catholic factions of Europe and now the Spanish are threatening to invade England. Elizabeth still holds Cecil and Walsingham responsible but Cecil is in poor health and she needs him now more than ever because her realm is in danger. Cecil has put up with a lot from her, yet he is still willing to serve her. So is Robert Dudley who is also in poor health and though still married part of his heart is still with Elizabeth.

His stepson, Robert Devereaux is the Queen’s new favorite and he is a little jealous yet there is nothing he can do about it. Elizabeth likes young, handsome men around her but they need to be able to cope with her ever changing moods like the rest of the court does.

The Spanish invasion begins at sea while Elizabeth rides out to Tilbury to rally her land forces. Glenda recites the Queen’s famous rallying cry with both power and passion and gives the men the boost they need to fight for England. But they really won’t need to. The damage is being done to the Spanish fleet at sea. The defeat of the Armada humiliated the Spanish and Phillip II. It also sent a message that Elizabeth wouldn’t give up her crown without a fight and her people were behind her.

But the joy of her victory is short lived. She soon learns her beloved Robert Dudley is dead. She knew he was ill but wasn’t ready to face the thought of losing him. Now she is forced to and we can see the deep love she still had for him by the intense grief she displays when she is finally alone. In this moment, she is not a Queen but a woman, a woman with a broken heart that will never heal.

NOW THE EPISODE IS PUBLISHED ON MY CHANNEL REVISTA CINE TV ORION AT DAILYMOTION. WITH ENGLISH SUBS.

https://dai.ly/k3zwpCdlbxxa4eCLTdu

The Streets of San Francisco TV Series - Episode 0 - Pilot - (1972)

The Streets of San Francisco is an American television crime drama filmed on location in San Francisco and produced by Quinn Martin, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. Television (QM produced the show on its own for the remainder of its run).

It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two homicide inspectors in San Francisco. The show ran for five seasons on ABC between 1972 and 1977, amassing a total of 119 60-minute episodes.[2] Douglas left the series at the start of its final season, and was replaced by Richard Hatch.

The series started with a pilot movie of the same title (based on the 1972 detective novel Poor, Poor Ophelia[3][4] by Carolyn Weston) a week before the series debuted. Edward Hume, who wrote the teleplay for the pilot, was credited as having developed the series based on characters in Weston's novel. The pilot featured guest stars Robert Wagner, Tom Bosley, a
nd Kim Darby.

LINK FOR THE EPISODE, SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH:

https://dai.ly/k4evO4glzlXREMCLeHq

Elizabeth R - 1971 Mini Series - Episode 4 - Horrible Conspiracies

Mary, Queen of Scots, has been held prisoner in a British castle for 20 years, basically being spoiled while under house arrest, yet unable to leave. Behind the scenes scheming goes on with Catholic supporters of Queen Mary setting up a treachery against Queen Elizabeth. All Queen Mary seems to want is to return home or claim the throne of England through less nefarious means. Enemies of Queen Mary, desperate to rid themselves of her, step up to convince Queen Elizabeth to sign her execution, but she refuses. Their craftiness knows no bounds, and as history shows, that fate was sealed as Mary was in her castle prison.

Set nearly 30 years into her reign, Queen Elizabeth has given up on the idea of finding a husband and spawning an heir, so this episode deals mainly with political intrigue rather than the romantic pressures of the previous two episodes. Both queens are presented with noble personalities, so there's no Livia. Livilla, Messalina, Agrappinilla, Eleanor or Isabel to make a she devil out of either character.

Both women knew from birth that family loyalty in royalty is inconsequential when it comes to maintaining order for the throne. In their eyes, the other is the one doing the plotting, unaware of the set-up being plotted around them. In her second episode, Vivian Pickles is quite good, a bit more matronly and age appropriate than Vanessa Redgrave was in the same year's "Mary Queen of Scots" where Jackson also played Elizabeth. Both portrayals are worth acclaim though. The men here in charge of the plot are quite sinister, especially Dudley who tells a condemned man that death is quick but the path to it is tedious before he taunts him with torture. History has been brutal for millenniums, but the subtlety of the hint of that brutality makes it all the more vicious

Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I - Elizabeth R (Elizabeth Regina)

Vivian Pickles as Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

Movie File: https://mega.nz/file/XgABjbaI#xQINC0oBqxQEKEAKhndnl3Z-kd10vD1cjD3t23IWkAo

English Subtitles File: https://mega.nz/file/CgBnyTrQ#gq9D0mfUpd-kJrmzbOeW8Wl40eDlFhQMieDfc-QHdkU

Portuguese Subtitles File: https://mega.nz/file/L0Q1HIgI#2Zv2v8zahGEwxy84hUYSfBFCAb6A3xsp2aAUfNOoCZI

Il Presidente del Borgorosso Football Club (1970)

In 1970 the football sports industry was nothing new, but a comedy/comical film about it definitely was. Alberto Sordi plays the part of Benito Fornaciari, a pale, religiously devout Catholic Upper Middle class Italian, who inherits from a long lost uncle a minor league football club, of all things!. He decides to visit the club so as to sell it. But the local population have other ideas, through an almost armed uprising they “force” him not to sell the club, but rather, lead it to other glories on the football field. Gradually his initial reservations about football slowly erode away to be replaced by an almost fanatical devotion to “his” football club, to the point that he abandons his family, friends and home town.

Director: Luigi Filippo D’Amico.

Writers: Sergio Amidei, Alberto Sordi, Adriano Zecca.

Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Accatino, Rino Cavalcanti, Dante Cleri, Teodoro Corrà, Rossana Di Lorenzo, Tina Lattanzi, Margarita Lozano, Carla Mancini, Elena Pedemonte, Omar Sivori, Francesco Sormano, Carlo Taranto, Giuliano Todeschini, Rosita Torosh.

Composer: Piero Piccioni.

VIDEO LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://files.fm/f/bffbs7funy

Elizabeth R - 1971 TV Mini series - Episode 3

As England reels after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France,  Elizabeth meets her most eligible suitor yet: François, Duke of Alençon, the younger brother of the French king. A marriage will cement France's sought-for alliance with England. Despite the Puritans' rousing opposition in the country (of which her zealously anti-Catholic councillor Sir Francis Walsingham secretly approves), Elizabeth seems taken with the witty and flower-tongued François. As her duties as queen clash with her feelings as a woman, Elizabeth faces her toughest decision.

The marriage would have cemented an alliance between England and France. However, Elizabeth eventually abandoned the proposal in 1581. 

Elizabeth is charmed by François, but her advisors are cautious and anti-Catholic. 

The Puritans in England are also strongly opposed to the marriage. 

Elizabeth's xenophobic subjects are also discontent with the proposal. 

Elizabeth may have been aware that Anjou was her last realistic chance of marriage and of having an heir. 

Director

Richard Martin

Writer

Julian Mitchell

Stars

Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Ronald Hines and Michael Williams as Duke of Alençon.

Subtitles: English and Portuguese.

English subs link for download: https://mega.nz/file/eppVBSQQ#XLX8ufJv0f1ghSKAtz6y4K20G2RLk5elgVV9Wge9XJY

Portuguese subs link for download: https://mega.nz/file/ShoAnRzK#NGwOvv-PX2JahEkLGQ9hArdwF0TwiMX2FTq4UQgxcYU

Video link for download: https://mega.nz/file/eoBhWDob#Zar3yx2i6LJxM6A12k5LwKxOERdxxi15NiF7ngE_1xk

Link for costume movie review: https://frockflicks.com/tbt-elizabeth-r-1971/

Elizabeth R - 1971 Mini Series - Episode 2

At last crowned queen, Elizabeth, 25 yeras old,  finds herself under immense pressure to marry, while her relationship with Robert Dudley prompts widespread scrutiny, threatening a scandal.

Now on the throne. Queen Elizabeth is a young monarch with plenty of suitors.

The King of Spain expresses an interest, but to Elizabeth  his Catholicism and interest in her half sister gets in the way.

Elizabeth is attracted to Lord Robert Dudley, her Master of the Horse.

Unfortunately, Dudley is married, his ancestors had a penchant for betrayal and when his wife is suddenly found dead, Dudley is accused.

Director

Herbert Wise

Stars

Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Ronald Hines

Subs in English and Portuguese for download:

• English: https://mega.nz/file/PkBkhaAa#XQtY6-nKgH39aiijPMfcQGzl-KvhCBYqQnjO3PvuZxs
• Portuguese: https://mega.nz/file/PlIlkSTI#xg5Gc8Hggz7o41iCJe7TW1dHpEs9T1mXA5Js6RfXKcA

Video for download: https://mega.nz/file/e5xDjILD#m5FhrhPy_GWSGqhJK1QFfvAko8NVVWycWBFcOV_HZoU

Elizabeth R - 1971 Mini Series - Episode 1

 

After the death of her half-brother King Edward VI, the young Princess Elizabeth is dragged into an ongoing battle with her half-sister, the newly crowned Queen Mary.

Jason Kemp later played King Edward VI's uncle Arthur, Prince of Wales in The Shadow of the Tower (1972), which is a prequel to this miniseries.

Bernard Hepton (Archbishop Thomas Cranmer), Rosalie Crutchley (Catherine Parr), Basil Dignam (Bishop Stephen Gardiner) and John Ronane (Thomas Seymour) all reprise their roles from The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).

Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 90-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England. It was first broadcast on BBC2 from February to March 1971, through the ABC in Australia and broadcast in the United States on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. The series has been repeated several times, most recently from 15 March 2023, by BBC Four.

Elizabeth R was filmed at a variety of locations including Penshurst Place which doubled as the queen's castle grounds and Chiddingstone in Kent, though all the interiors were recorded at the BBC Television Centre.

The first episode was broadcast on 17 February 1971, beginning on screen with the year 1549 as the setting, with Princess Elizabeth's difficult ascent to the throne of England nine years later. The final episode was shown on 24 March 1971, the 368th anniversary of the Queen's death on March 24, 1603. It was repeated almost immediately in response to audience demand

This is not a YouTube video. Find the link for the 1st episode and two subs (English, Portuguese). Download to watch.

Portuguese subtitles: https://mega.nz/file/7l4WQDTQ#Lu86qUqv8U-YrH9NstNvcNiBqx7GbwgJ8ARByqaHcvk

English subtitles: https://mega.nz/file/ulRBjYwD#8at5IaBqhbfHjB3qcrMnwCzkrNoT3ILEr-VGFr5TYJU

Video: https://mega.nz/file/z94WgK5B#xCy4eLrRB6Em-1tuRXMl4fRtgNkNkl1DGC0eJPaooY0

Tonight or Never - Heute nacht oder nie - (1972)

Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of actors (including cult cabaret artist Ingrid Caven) are hired to entertain the guests, performing fragments from the “cultural scrap heap”: GONE WITH THE WIND, Madame Bovary, Tennessee Williams, Swan Lake. The decadent proceedings take on a dangerous edge when the actors incite the servants to revolt against their masters-but is the Revolution also part of the act?

Director: Daniel Schmid. 

Stars: Ingrid Caven, Voli Gelier, Peter Chatel, Igor Josza, Peter Kern, Béatrice Stoll, Rosemarie Heinikel, Harry Baer, Viktor Latscha, Irene Olgiatti, Peter-Christian Berner, Anna Fadda, Léonie Küng, Angelika Prosa, Liz Panama, Bohoumil Octabecz, Silvio Pasquarelli, Peter Hartmann.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3454162242214

The Gorgon Case - Sprawa Gorgonowej - (1977)

On December 30, 1931 a 17-year-old daughter of engineer Henryk Zaremba is murdered. Rita Gorgonowa, a housekeeper, nanny of Zaremba\’s children, and his lover is accused of the murder. It was the most sensational murder of those times, followed with interest by the general public in Poland. The film is a reconstruction of the events, in particular of the trial itself. Majewski\’s picture raises the issues related to the functioning of the judiciary system, stressing the fundamental principle of law that in order to sentence an accused person indisputable evidence of guilt is required.

Director: Janusz Majewski. 

Stars: Ewa Dalkowska, Aleksander Bardini, Mariusz Dmochowski, Andrzej Lapicki, Roman Wilhelmi, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Jan Englert, Wojciech Pszoniak, Stanislaw Zaczyk, Wiktor.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/4602424527526

Jacob, the Liar - Jakob der Lügner - (1975)

Trapped in a Polish Ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. In order to be believed, he feigns access to a hidden, strictly forbidden radio. Quickly he becomes a one-man bulwark against despair, a reluctant hero, but a tragic figure still-a man ultimately powerless to see or change the fate of his people. 

Director: Frank Beyer. 

Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell, Manuela Simon, Dersö Garas, Zsuzsa Gordon, Friedrich Richter, Margit Bara, Armin Mueller-Stahl. 

1975 Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Bear.

1977 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

MOVIE LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://ok.ru/video/2610668505766

Brainwashed - Schachnovelle - (1960)

In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.

Director: Gerd Oswald. AKA Brainwashed

Writers: Stefan Zweig (novel), Harold Medford, Gerd Oswald, Herbert Reinecker.

Stars: Curd Jürgens, Claire Bloom, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf, Albert Bessler, Rudolf Forster, Alan Gifford, Jan Hendriks, Albert Lieven, Harald Maresch, Dietmar Schönherr, Karel Stepanek, Wolfgang Wahl, Hans Söhnker.

1960 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

Curd Jurgens is one of my favorite German actors. Here is Werner von Basil. Later he would portrait Werner von Braun.

Another curious thing is that this movie is based on a novel by the celebrated writer Stefan Zweig.

MOVIE LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://ok.ru/video/3800131963558

Bástyasétány hetvennégy - Singing on the Treadmill (1974)

Singing on the Treadmill is a surreal operetta parody about the realities of day-to-day socialism. The film is set in a vast garbage dump where, in the depths of a quarry, next to a derelict factory building, two librettists are penning a frothy operetta about the paternalism of Kadarism, its lies, reality perceived through rose tinted glasses and squabbles over a housing allocation. However, their lacquered players are not prepared to bend to their will, they take offence and start demanding independence, rejecting ‘orders from above’ about partners and housing. Gyula Gazdag’s grotesque parody that works on several levels is amusing and dream-like, full of free-flowing associations and remarkable solutions. Citing its “disheartening existentialism”, the authorities banned the film for 10 years.

Director: Gyula Gazdag.

Writers: Gyula Gazdag, Miklós Györffy.

Stars: Evald Schorm, István Iglódi, Lili Monori, Róbert Koltai, Judit Pogány, Sándor Halmágyi, Mari Kiss, Zoltán Papp, Eszter Csákányi, László Helyey, Hédi Temessy, Lajos Öze, Hanna Honthy.

A movie from Hungary

Movie Link with English Subs: https://ok.ru/video/3837588605606

Marcel Proust's Time Regained - Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre - (1999)

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.

Director

Raúl Ruiz

Stars

Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, Chiara Mastroianni and John Malkovich as Le Baron de Charlus.

Subs: English, Portuguese

LINK : https://youtu.be/FXx04uFCEts

Tokyo Heaven - Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase- (1990)

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death.

Director

Shinji Sômai

Writer

Yuhei Enoki

Stars

Kiichi Nakai, Riho Makise, Tsurube Shôfukutei

Subs: English.

LINK: https://youtu.be/_xOiKs116bM

MY CHANNEL REVISTA CINE TV DEVON IS OFFILINE AGAIN -BACK IN MARCH 2025.

 After a few days waiting the second strike to expi
re, the channel is on public mode again.

The library of movies is online.

I have just posted a French movie: Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier, 1962).

Crossing fingers for not receiving a new strike.  It is an unfair battle as you all know.

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The Ninth Heart - Deváté srdce - (1979) - MOVIE PUBLIC ON YOUTUBE AND LATER BLOCKED BY THE PLATFORM. SORRY.

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine children's hearts.

Director

Juraj Herz

Stars

Ondrej Pavelka, Anna Malová, Julie Juristová

Country of origin :Czechoslovakia

The director, Juraj Herz, also directed The Cremator (1969)

Subs: English.

Link : https://youtu.be/xXjeEdwFSfo