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Movies mentioned in Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

by hectorcombe-74349 • Created 6 years ago • Modified 6 years ago
I wanted to watch this documentary to find out about a lot of good old forgotten and cult movies. So here it is
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  • Margaux Hemingway in Lipstick (1976)

    1. Lipstick

    19761h 29mR37Metascore
    5.6 (2.9K)
    A top fashion model seeks justice after getting sexually assaulted by her teenage sister's obsessive music teacher.
    DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsMargaux HemingwayChris SarandonPerry King
  • Dustin Hoffman in Straw Dogs (1971)

    2. Straw Dogs

    19711h 53mR75Metascore
    7.4 (67K)
    A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
    DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsDustin HoffmanSusan GeorgePeter Vaughan
  • Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye (1973)

    3. The Long Goodbye

    19731h 52mR87Metascore
    7.5 (41K)
    Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.
    DirectorRobert AltmanStarsElliott GouldNina van PallandtSterling Hayden
  • Some Call It Loving (1973)

    4. Some Call It Loving

    19731h 43mR
    5.3 (484)
    A woman who's been asleep for years is part of a carnival that sells her kisses for a buck. A lonely jazz musician buys her. Once awake, the two of them and his two girlfriends hook up. But sometimes, dreams are better than reality.
    DirectorJames B. HarrisStarsZalman KingCarol WhiteTisa Farrow
  • Jenny Agutter and Fabio Testi in China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

    5. China 9, Liberty 37

    19781h 42mR
    6.1 (1.6K)
    The railroad hires a condemned killer to murder an uncooperative rancher but the assassin fails to deliver, prompting the railroad men to go after him instead.
    DirectorsMonte HellmanTony BrandtStarsJenny AgutterWarren OatesFabio Testi
  • Attilas '74 (1975)

    6. Attilas '74

    19751h 43m
    7.1 (330)
    An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
    DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsMichael CacoyannisRauf DenktasGlafkos Klerides
  • Malicious (1973)

    7. Malicious

    19731h 38mR
    6.3 (3.8K)
    A widower and two of his sons become infatuated with their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.
    DirectorSalvatore SamperiStarsLaura AntonelliTuri FerroAlessandro Momo
  • Black Orpheus (1959)

    8. Black Orpheus

    19591h 40mPG81Metascore
    7.4 (13K)
    A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
    DirectorMarcel CamusStarsBreno MelloMarpessa DawnLourdes de Oliveira
  • Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in In a Lonely Place (1950)

    9. In a Lonely Place

    19501h 34mApproved
    7.9 (38K)
    A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
    DirectorNicholas RayStarsHumphrey BogartGloria GrahameFrank Lovejoy
  • A Safe Place (1971)

    10. A Safe Place

    19711h 34mGP
    4.9 (1.4K)
    A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.
    DirectorHenry JaglomStarsTuesday WeldOrson WellesJack Nicholson
  • Susannah York in Images (1972)

    11. Images

    19721h 44mR
    7.0 (8.3K)
    Whilst writing a children's book, a woman interrupted by images unsure if they may, or may not be real
    DirectorRobert AltmanStarsSusannah YorkRene AuberjonoisMarcel Bozzuffi
  • Welcome to L.A. (1976)

    12. Welcome to L.A.

    19761h 46mR
    5.8 (1.3K)
    The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.
    DirectorAlan RudolphStarsKeith CarradineSally KellermanGeraldine Chaplin
  • Mädchen in Uniform (1958)

    13. Mädchen in Uniform

    19581h 31m
    7.0 (1.9K)
    In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
    DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsLilli PalmerRomy SchneiderTherese Giehse
  • Donkey Skin (1970)

    14. Donkey Skin

    19701h 31m70Metascore
    7.0 (7.2K)
    A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.
    DirectorJacques DemyStarsCatherine DeneuveJean MaraisJacques Perrin
  • The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

    15. The Fearless Vampire Killers

    19671h 31mApproved56Metascore
    7.0 (35K)
    A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJack MacGowranRoman PolanskiAlfie Bass
  • Overlord (1975)

    16. Overlord

    19751h 23mNot Rated88Metascore
    7.1 (3.6K)
    During World War 2, a young lad's called up and, with increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training for D-day.
    DirectorStuart CooperStarsBrian StirnerDavyd HarriesNicholas Ball
  • The Disappearance (1977)

    17. The Disappearance

    19771h 31mR
    5.7 (832)
    Contract killer Jay Mallory 's wife Celandine has disappeared from their apartment. When he is hired by members of an international organization to carry out a hit in England, he suspects that they are connected with her disappearance.
    DirectorStuart CooperStarsDonald SutherlandFrancine RacetteDavid Hemmings
  • Kathleen Turner in Crimes of Passion (1984)

    18. Crimes of Passion

    19841h 47mR52Metascore
    6.4 (9.3K)
    A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher.
    DirectorKen RussellStarsKathleen TurnerAnthony PerkinsBruce Davison
  • Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor in Silver Streak (1976)

    19. Silver Streak

    19761h 54mPG41Metascore
    6.9 (23K)
    On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance--but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
    DirectorArthur HillerStarsGene WilderRichard PryorJill Clayburgh
  • Harvey Keitel in Fingers (1978)

    20. Fingers

    19781h 30mR
    6.7 (3K)
    A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother.
    DirectorJames TobackStarsHarvey KeitelTisa FarrowJim Brown
  • Andrei Rublev (1966)

    21. Andrei Rublev

    19663h 9mR
    8.0 (59K)
    The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
    DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay Grinko
  • The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

    22. The Decline of Western Civilization

    19811h 40mNot Rated93Metascore
    7.5 (5.4K)
    A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.
    DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsEugene TatuAlice Bag BandBlack Flag
  • Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980)

    23. Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession

    19802h 3mR
    6.9 (10K)
    When a married American woman ends up in a Vienna hospital after a suicide attempt, an inspector seeks to uncover the cause and eventual demise of her torrid affair with a psychoanalyst.
    DirectorNicolas RoegStarsArt GarfunkelTheresa RussellHarvey Keitel
  • Romy Schneider and Fabio Testi in That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

    24. That Most Important Thing: Love

    19751h 49mR
    7.0 (5K)
    Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.
    DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsRomy SchneiderFabio TestiJacques Dutronc
  • Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße (1972)

    25. Tatort

    Episode: 

    Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße

    (1972)
    1970– 2h 8mPGTV Episode
    6.1 (427)
    An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.
    DirectorSamuel FullerStarsGlenn CorbettChrista LangStéphane Audran

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