#178 – The Conformist, (Il conformista), 1970, Bernardo Bertolucci
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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#378: M*A*S*H
#378 – M*A*S*H, 1970, Robert Altman
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
#448: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
#448 – Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto), 1970, Elio Petri
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
#549: Performance
#549 – Performance, 1970, Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell
Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.
#686: Tristana
#686 – Tristana, 1970, Luis Buñuel
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 the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos.
#704: A Touch of Zen
#704 – A Touch of Zen, (俠女), 1970, King Hu
Ming dynasty noblewoman Yang must escape from the evil eunuch Hsu. She seeks refuge at a decrepit town where she gets assistance from a naive scholar & a group of mysterious yet powerful monks.
#760: Patton
#760 – Patton, 1970, Franklin J. Schaffner
“Patton” tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton’s career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton’s numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
#772: Le Cercle Rouge
#772 – Le Cercle Rouge, 1970, Jean-Pierre Melville
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
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