I love French, German, English and Scandinavian films from the 60s and 70s. 
Great Italian horror came out then, and some fun Japanese too...and tons of countries were trying to copy American action films.
I prefer dramas...here's a beginning list.
what do you like?


Fellini's Roma - (1972, Italy, Frederico Fellini) (Peter Gonzales)
Solaris - (1972, Russia, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Cousin, Cousine - (1976, France, Jean Charles Tacchella)
The Last Metro - (1981, France, Francois Truffaut) (Catherine Deneuve)
Day For Night - (1973, France, Francois Truffaut) (Jacqueline Bisset)
Belle De Jour - (1967, France, Luis Bunuel) (Catherine Deneuve)
Scenes From A marriage - (1974, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman) (Liv Ullmann)

and this classic- see it.  Klaus Kinski is a nut and thought he was God while filming.. it's just about a horrible man on a horrible conquest in the Peruvian forest...one of those movies where you KNOW the cast is suicidal cuz of pirhana and disentery...
http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/images/Up_Images/up-102_Aguirre_1.jpg

ahhh..I know what you guys like.  Street fighter.
was it from japan?  it was made in like 73...soooo great.

i'd have to go with godzilla vs. megalon (1975).

actually i saw solaris with my folks WAY back in the day. that's a hot one. although, you know, mellowly paced.

i'd have to go with godzilla vs. megalon (1975).

actually i saw solaris with my folks WAY back in the day. that's a hot one. although, you know, mellowly paced.

Yes...it took the russians two years to make a very slow and etherial film...and the americans 6 months to perfect it..I mean make it slower.

you MUST see The Tenant by roman Polaski.  it's cringe film at it's finest.  it's so demented and sad...
and yes realistic.
love it.
embrace it. its what 70s foreign film is about.

Cannily casting himself in the title role, Polanski plays the mild-mannered occupant of a Parisian flat previously rented by a woman who committed suicide by leaping from her upper-floor balcony. The woman's leftover belongings and the harsh attitudes of disapproving neighbors (including Melvin Douglas and Shelley Winters) begin to grate on the new tenant's psyche; his paranoia shifts from simmering anxiety to full-blown psychosis, until fate itself seems to run in a complete, tragically tormenting circle.

What? you like wierd, disturbing cinema with surreal symbolism?
then why haven't you seen The Tin Drum? (1979)

AND to sweeten the deal....the author of the story just admitted to working in the SS when he was young!  It's on CNN!
Now you gotta see it! Creeepy!

Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...

gunther grass, yeah? i heard about that whole thing. it IS kinda weird just because he was all on, we have to confront our past and be all upfront about it...

gunther grass, yeah? i heard about that whole thing. it IS kinda weird just because he was all on, we have to confront our past and be all upfront about it...


yeah he said he needed to find the right avenue (or something) to express the expereince.

yeah he said he needed to find the right avenue (or something) to express the expereince.

yeah, the "Getting caught" avenue.

shame too, i liked that guy.

yeah, the "Getting caught" avenue.

shame too, i liked that guy.


yeah.
go watch the film.

Fellini's Roma - (1972, Italy, Frederico Fellini) (Peter Gonzales)
Solaris - (1972, Russia, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Cousin, Cousine - (1976, France, Jean Charles Tacchella)
The Last Metro - (1981, France, Francois Truffaut) (Catherine Deneuve)
Day For Night - (1973, France, Francois Truffaut) (Jacqueline Bisset)
Belle De Jour - (1967, France, Luis Bunuel) (Catherine Deneuve)
Scenes From A marriage - (1974, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman) (Liv Ullmann)
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
Street fighter
The Tenant
The Tin Drum (1979)


Out of what you listed I've only seen

Cousin, Cousine - (1976, France, Jean Charles Tacchella)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)
The Tin Drum (1979)

For Cousin, cousine, I've never seen a movie so into showing what self-centered bastards all the characters really are. You think someone was getting treated unfairly by their husband or wife and 20 min later they're stickin' it to someone else. It is a film with a couple of good scenes though and there's one I'll never forget -- the slow dance near the pool and the attendant gradually turning out the lights.

I saw Aguirre over 15 years ago. For a historical film (and I do likes them types of films) I was disappointed with it. If you like Aguirre then take a look at "Cabeza de Vaca" from 1991. As far as movies about explorers in the new world it's even more strange and thought provoking than Aguirre.

The Tim Drum. I saw that one on cable probably 25 years ago. It was a one-good-scene kind of movie. As for the rest of it I think I was siding with the Nazis on this one. Please don't ever make me see that movie again. 1977's "Soldier of Orange" from Holland is a better war movie.

The Tenant - that Roman Polanski made some of the most depressing movies during the '60s. I haven't seen it but read about it.

Solaris. Never seen it, but want to see his "The Mirror" from 1975. It's supposed to be his best.

I'm familiar with the other directors listed but not those particular films. But I do think Truffaut is overrated from what I've seen (is that a scene from Jules & Jim on the right side of all of your replies ?)

For '70s only foreign movies I always liked (by year)

The Conformist (1970)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Barry Lyndon (1975) (is this one considered foreign ?)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
The Rutles (1978)

:)

picnic at hanging rock! peter weir did another movie in the 70s called "the last wave" that i quite dig.

I like foreign flicks, especially if they are labeled "Banned In the US" . Anything weird or controversial, I'm there.
I bought "The Tin Drum"  because I heard about the 'controversial eroticism' . I  think I fell asleep.  Had to watch it a few times .

A few others that I bought for this very same reason, were
In The Realm Of The Senses- (Japan 1976)- this movie  was banned at it's premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1976, and deemed as pornographic. It does have some pretty graphic scenes in it, but the story is well told. It's the story of an ex-prostitute , now house servant, who becomes involved in  a love-obsession with the master of the house. What starts as a casual diversion escalates into a passin that ultimately ends in a gruesome murder.

and the next one ,  Salo- The 120 Days of Sodom- ( Italy- 1975) this one was banned in several countries, and rightfully so. It is by far one of the most disgustingly graphic films I ever have seen. I watched it once and couldn't watch it again. It's got everything, from coprophilia, to torture, to incest, to homosexual rape , to disembowelment. But that tagline "banned" hooked me .

I like foreign flicks, especially if they are labeled "Banned In the US" . Anything weird or controversial, I'm there.
I bought "The Tin Drum"  because I heard about the 'controversial eroticism' . I  think I fell asleep.  Had to watch it a few times .

A few others that I bought for this very same reason, were
In The Realm Of The Senses- (Japan 1976)- this movie  was banned at it's premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1976, and deemed as pornographic. It does have some pretty graphic scenes in it, but the story is well told. It's the story of an ex-prostitute , now house servant, who becomes involved in  a love-obsession with the master of the house. What starts as a casual diversion escalates into a passin that ultimately ends in a gruesome murder.

and the next one ,  Salo- The 120 Days of Sodom- ( Italy- 1975) this one was banned in several countries, and rightfully so. It is by far one of the most disgustingly graphic films I ever have seen. I watched it once and couldn't watch it again. It's got everything, from coprophilia, to torture, to incest, to homosexual rape , to disembowelment. But that tagline "banned" hooked me .
i started reading the book 120 days of sodom and i got through about four pages. i like to think i have a pretty thick skin too.

the marquis is not without his redeeming qualities, i actually like a lot of his philosophical thought. but his fiction is excruciating.

he was like the original performance artist. i've read his biggest crime in actual life was to occasionally pay prostitutes to spank them. but he's remembered in history as one of the great torturers of all time, and this is apparently almost all a myth. it was about how shocking his fiction was, it was so abysmal the powers that be had to keep finding ways to incarcerate him, because they were terrified of him.

picnic at hanging rock! peter weir did another movie in the 70s called "the last wave" that i quite dig.


oh i love both of those... I really need to see them again; it's been years!

I like foreign flicks, especially if they are labeled "Banned In the US" . Anything weird or controversial, I'm there.
I bought "The Tin Drum"  because I heard about the 'controversial eroticism' . I  think I fell asleep.  Had to watch it a few times .

A few others that I bought for this very same reason, were
In The Realm Of The Senses- (Japan 1976)- this movie  was banned at it's premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1976, and deemed as pornographic. It does have some pretty graphic scenes in it, but the story is well told. It's the story of an ex-prostitute , now house servant, who becomes involved in  a love-obsession with the master of the house. What starts as a casual diversion escalates into a passin that ultimately ends in a gruesome murder.

and the next one ,  Salo- The 120 Days of Sodom- ( Italy- 1975) this one was banned in several countries, and rightfully so. It is by far one of the most disgustingly graphic films I ever have seen. I watched it once and couldn't watch it again. It's got everything, from coprophilia, to torture, to incest, to homosexual rape , to disembowelment. But that tagline "banned" hooked me .


I"m partial to the banned films as well- and i find they were particularly brutal in the 70s...was The Devils in the 70s?  That Vanessa Redgrave made some insane stuff...so did Oliver Reed.  The Devils was not very graphic, but they explained how they were going to torture the nuns...I"ll let you see it for yourself if you like the disturbing, crazy stuff. 

And a comment for a post earlier- i particullrly like the european films, but japan was putting out great stuff at the time.

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