Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts

21 June, 2017

Fascination (1979)

Synopsis:
This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats.

Starring:
Franca Maï
Brigitte Lahaie
Jean-Marie Lemaire

Director: Jean Rollin

14 May, 2017

Sunayana (1979)

About:
This movie seems to be remade after the cinema masterpiece - "City Lights" of Charlie Chaplin.


Synopsis:
Rajoo (Naseeruddin Shah) is an honest, naive, villager with a heart of gold. When he comes to the big city, he comes across a beautiful young girl, Sunayana (Rameshwari), who almost gets runover by a car. He assists her to her feet, and she tells him that she is blind, lives in a small tenement with a neighbourly woman everyone calls Maushi (Leela Mishra), and sell flowers for a living. Rajoo takes it upon himself to make arrangements to ensure that Sunayana can see again. He meets with all kinds of people in this process, namely a wealthy suicidal drunk, Heeramohan (Pinchoo Kapoor); Circus owner (Mukri); Lion-tamer, Shamsher (Rajendra Nath); Prisoner Jaggoo (Jagdeep); Prisoner #204 (Viju Khote). He also meets with Dr. Indrajeet (Vijayendra Ghatge) and arranges to pay him a sum of Rs.2000/- for Sunayana's cure. Dr. Indrajeet lives with his mom (Sulochana), and sister, beautiful Sushma (Gayetri). When Sunayana is cured, she has nowhere to go to, for Rajoo has ended up in prison, Dr. Indrajeet takes her home and introduces her to his family. After Rajoo is released to comes to see Sunayana, only to find out she and Dr. Indrajeet are about to be married that very same day.

Starring:
Naseeruddin Shah
Rameshwari
Sulochana Latkar
Murad
Gayatri

Director: Hiren Nag

03 June, 2013

La drôlesse (1979)

AKA:
The Hussy >> English
Ein kleines Luder  >> German

Synopsis:
Twenty-something François collects boxes and bottles and resells them to shopkeepers. He lives with his insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado a 11-year old, outsider of her family because of the oddness in expressing her feelings gets kidnapped by François. He takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. Despite the circumstances, an increasingly comforting relationship evolves till the police discovers them. They see the situation under a completely different point of view. Based on a true story.

Starring:
Claude Hébert
Madeleine Desdevises
Paulette Lahaye
 Director: Jacques Doillon

03 April, 2013

Love at First Bite (1979)

AKA:
Liebe auf den ersten Biss

Synopsis:
This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles through typical New York city life situations while pursuing Cindy Soundheim. But her boyfriend, Doctor Jeff Rosenberg, realizes she is under the influence of a vampire, and tries his bumbling best to convince police Lt Ferguson of what is going on, and to help him stop Dracula.


Starring:
George Hamilton
Susan Saint James
Richard Benjamin

Director: Stan Dragoti

21 May, 2012

Golmaal (1979)

Synopsis:
Ramprasad is a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man Bhavani Shankar who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. Bhavani Shankar is also against any of his employees indulging in recreation of any kind. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match he has to invent a twin brother the clean shaven Laxman Prasad to save his job. When Bhavanis daughter falls in love with the clean shaven Laxman Prasad and insists on marrying him and Bhavani insists she should marry Ramprasad things take a whacky turn. A fake mother and a hilarious chase are other enjoyable features involved in this comedy.

Starring:
Amol Palekar
Utpal Dutt
David
Deven Verma
Om Prakash
Bindya Goswami
Pushpa

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

14 April, 2012

06 April, 2012

Private Collections (1979)

AKA:
Collections Privées

Synopsis:
Three erotic short stories.
1. The Island of Sirens (Just Jaeckin): A sailor falls from his boat and lands on a tropical island which appears deserted.
2. The Grass Labyrinth (Shuji Terayama): While looking for the lyrics of an old song, a young man remembers his childhood and his strange relation with his mother.
3. The Closet (Walerian Borowczyk): In XIXth century Paris, a gentleman pays a prostitute to spend the night with her.

17 February, 2012

CIA Mind Control Techniques (1979)

Synopsis:
MK-ULTRA Program Brainwashing Experiments Documentary

06 February, 2012

Laila Majnu (1979)

About:
Movies assembled as the legendary love stories of
Romeo + Juliet / Romeo Julia
Sassi Punnu
Sohni Mahiwal (Indian / Pakistani)
Laila Majnu (Pakistani)
Shirin Farhad

Synopsis:
Kaish Amari comes from a wealthy Islamic family. At the tender age of six he is sent to school and gets friendly with a young girl named Laila. Both of them become close friends, so much so that Kaish gets himself punished and beaten for her. They mature in age so does their love much to the chagrin of Laila's dad, who wants her to marry a wealthy Arabian, Bahksh, a noble Prince. Now the region is aflame with their love story, Kaish, who is now known as Majnu, cannot get Laila out of his mind and roams around the desert semi-senile, without food or drink, while Laila is getting wed to the man of her father's choice. The question remains will love triumph in the end or is this young couple fated to be separated for the rest of their lives.

Starring:
Rishi Kapoor
Ranjeeta Kaur
Danny Denzongpa

Director: Harnam Singh Rawail

05 February, 2012

Sawan Ko Aane Do (1979)

Synopsis:
Birju (Arun Govil) lives in a small village and likes to sing. The village zamindar's (Amrish Puri) city-educated daughter, Chandrika (Zarina Wahab) returns to the village and is thrilled by Birju's voice. She encourages him to share his talents with the world and thus earn a living. Eventually both fall in love. Her father is angered when he comes to know of their affair, and he sends her back to the city and warns Birju of attempting to even think about her. Heartbroken Birju decides to go to the city, and there he meets with Gitanjali (Rita Bhaduri), who is also thrilled by his voice. She assists him in getting an audition, and which turns out to be a success. Soon Birju is singing over the radio, and becomes wealthy and popular. In the meantime, Chandrika's pround dad has lost an important court case, and as a result lost all his wealth, but his pride is still intact. When Birju returns to ask for the hand of Chandrika, he is again rebuked.

Starring:
Zarina Wahab
Arun Govil
Rita Bhaduri
Jankidas

Director: Kanak Mishra

Muhammad bin Qasim (1979)

Starring:
Nazim
Nisho
Zamurrad
Adeeb
Qavi.

Director: Akbar Banglori

03 February, 2012

Super Power (1979)

Starring:
Billy Chong

30 December, 2011

Balam Pardesia (1979)

Starring:
Padma Khanna
Rakesh Pandey

Director: Nasir Hussain

12 December, 2011

Tarana (1979)

Starring:
Mithun Chakraborty
Ranjeeta Kaur
Master Bhagwan
Jagdeep
Urmila Bhatt
Shreeram Lagoo
Om Shivpuri

Director: Deepak Bahry

11 December, 2011

Ghatkali (1979)

Starring:
Anup Kumar
Robi Ghosh
Mahua Raychowdhury
Chinmoy Ray

Director: Bimal Ray (Jr.)

08 November, 2011

Surakksha (1979)

About:
Because Mithun married the ex-wife of singer Kishor Kumar - Gita Bali, Kishor refused to sing for Mithun. The music director Bhappi Lahiri then decided to sing himself for Mithun in the film. The biggest hit number is Tum jo bhi ho dil aaj do. Later, Bhappi became famous singer too along with Music Director. He is reknowned for bringing western flavour (somehow copy) to Bollywood.
 It is a rough copy of hollywood - James Bond series.

Synopsis:
India comes under the threat of an evil terror organization called the S.S.O which plans to unleash a wave of terror attacks on the country and destroy it. The Intelligence Department comes to know about this organization, and assigns the mission of stopping them to secret agent, Gunmaster G-9 (Mithun Chakraborty). G-9 vows to capture the Boss of the Organization and burn it down to the ground. But when G-9's partner, Jackson (Tej Sapru) goes missing, G-9 finds out that he has been kidnapped by S.S.O and Jackson has been replaced with a clone. In his mission, Agent G-9 must battle dangerous gangsters, venomous snakes, Humanoids, as well as a beautiful girl, Priya (Ranjeeta Kaur), who believes that G-9 killed her father. A femme fatale by the name Neelam (Mala Jaggi) is determined to seduce and enslave G-9, threatening the espionage. How will Gunmaster G-9 rescue Jackson with the odds stacked against him? Will G-9 be able to stop S.S.O from taking control of the country?

Starring:
Mithun Chakraborty
Ranjeeta Kaur
Jeevan

Director: Ravikant Nagaich

09 October, 2011

Junoon (1979)

Synopsis:
Following the establishment of the East India Company in 1857, some Mughals, led by Sarfaraz Khan, decided to rebel against their British masters, killing many, and forcing others to flee. Three women from the Labadoor family, Grandma, Mariam, and Ruth, seek shelter with a local money-lender, Lala Ramjimal, who would like to recover his money from the Labadoors and has a vented interest in their survival. But he is unable to keep their presence secret, and Javed Khan and his men storm into his home, and take the three women to Javed's house. Under normal circumstances, these three would have been beheaded and Ramjimal and his family severely punished, but Javed would like to make Ruth his second wife. Mariam and Javed's wife, Firdaus, strongly oppose this move, but Javed is clearly obsessed by Ruth's beauty and nothing will deter him from marrying her. Then things gets really complicated when Ruth starts having feelings for Javed, and the British seek retribution for those killed by the Mughals.

Starring:
Shashi Kapoor
Shabana Azmi
Jennifer Kendal
Naseeruddin Shah
Jalal Agha
Nafisa Ali
Tom Alter
Benjamin Gilani
Karan Kapoor
Kunal Kapoor
Sanjana Kapoor
Geoffrey Kendal
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Deepti Naval
Pearl Padamsee
Sushma Seth

Director: Shyam Benegal

24 June, 2011

Sawan Ko Aane Do (1979)

Synopsis:
Birju (Arun Govil) lives in a small village and likes to sing. The village zamindar's (Amrish Puri) city-educated daughter, Chandrika (Zarina Wahab) returns to the village and is thrilled by Birju's voice. She encourages him to share his talents with the world and thus earn a living. Eventually both fall in love. Her father is angered when he comes to know of their affair, and he sends her back to the city and warns Birju of attempting to even think about her. Heartbroken Birju decides to go to the city, and there he meets with Gitanjali (Rita Bhaduri), who is also thrilled by his voice. She assists him in getting an audition, and which turns out to be a success. Soon Birju is singing over the radio, and becomes wealthy and popular. In the meantime, Chandrika's pround dad has lost an important court case, and as a result lost all his wealth, but his pride is still intact. When Birju returns to ask for the hand of Chandrika, he is again rebuked.

Starring:
Zarina Wahab
Arun Govil
Rita Bhaduri
Jankidas

Director: Kanak Mishra

12 June, 2011

Tourist Trap (1979)

Synopsis:
Teenagers come across a shut-in psychopath with telekinetic powers. He proceeds to use these powers to slay them one by one as well as animate the various mannequins he uses to keep himself company.

Starring:
Chuck Conners