Opium and the Stick
1970
Opium and the Stick 1970
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- Premiere:
- 14 сент. 1970
- Country:
- Algeria
- Genre:
- War, Drama and Action
- Director:
- Ahmed Rachedi
- Actors:
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-José Nat, Sid Ali Kouiret, Mustapha Kateb and Rouiched
- Tags:
- Movies 1970, Movies Action, Movies 1970 Action, Movies Drama, Movies 1970 Drama, Movies War, Movies 1970 War
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1970 Movies
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The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
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- Year: 1970
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Western, Comedy and Action
- Rating:
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Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy, Adventure and Fantasy
- Rating:
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The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: Sweden
- Genre: Romance and Drama
- Rating:
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After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a drunken bigot with a bloodlust who works at a local factory.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama and Crime
- Rating:
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After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: USA, Italy, USSR and France
- Genre: War and Drama
- Rating:
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Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: Germany
- Genre: Crime and Drama
- Rating:
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Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama
- Rating:
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At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy and Drama
- Rating:
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Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: Spain and Italy
- Genre: Western
- Rating:
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An innocent man sentenced to ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, is released from jail, promising to seek revenge on the guilty.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: Italy and Germany
- Genre: Western, Horror and Mystery
- Rating:
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An immigrant returns to his village after many years, only to find that no one is waiting for him. When his wife and her lover murder him, an investigator attempts to reconstruct the crime, while a film crew documents the event.
Movie
- Year: 1970
- Country: Greece
- Genre: Crime and Drama
- Rating:
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Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.
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- Year: 1970
- Country: Spain and Italy
- Genre: Western
- Rating:
Best director movies - Ahmed Rachedi
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In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
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- Year: 1970
- Country: Algeria
- Genre: War, Action and Drama
- Rating: