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- DirectorBert WilliamsStarsBert WilliamsAnn LongChuck FrankleJohnson, an agent for the Liquor Control Department, is dispatched to disband a gang of cut-throat still operators on an island in the Everglades run by "Doc." He is discovered by the moonshiners and nearly escapes by diving into the crocodile-infested swamps. Completely exhausted by the long swim. he stumbles and falls and is stabbed by a masked female killer that lurks along the beach every full moon. Finally making his way he stumbles along the Cuckoo Bird Inn run by Mrs. Pratt, a twice-widowed ex-showgirl and owner of the inn. She also has a beautiful daughter named Lisa who is kept chained up in the attic except for at night since she won't escape into the darkness that she fears. Harold, the inn's caretaker, is a taxidermist whose mental and physical deficiencies are advantageous to Mrs. Pratt. While the inn's guests scheme against Johnson, the masked killer has made many unsuccessful attempts on his life. Later he finds Doc's corpse being readied for stuffing and realizes that he must discover the killer's identity or suffer the same fate. In the exciting climax, Johnson wrestles with the knife-wielding killer in the Chapel of the Dead as a fire threatens to reduce the island to cinders.
- DirectorJoseph G. PrietoStarsEleanor VaillOtto SchlessingerLewis GalenA sleazy evangelist makes a play for a small town's local tramp, but is shocked to learn that she prefers a local Black lad over him. Furious, he stirs up the town against the couple.
- DirectorMilton Moses GinsbergStarsRip TornSally KirklandRobert BlankshinePsychiatrist installs a concealed movie camera in his apartment to record the screwed-up lives of the women who visit him.
- DirectorEmilio MiragliaStarsHenry SilvaFred BeirIda GalliJ. Chandler is sentenced to death only to re-emerge as his own brother, courtesy of the CIA who have arranged the subterfuge so they can use him as a double agent.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsWilliam ShatnerFrank MaxwellBeverly LunsfordA charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control.
- DirectorIrvin BerwickStarsJonathan KiddLyn StattenFrank ArvidsonA car wreck gives Pete amnesia. He becomes an evangelist with a preacher's help. His new success leads his ex and her boyfriend to blackmail him over missing money. As his memory returns, Pete believes he killed the other driver.
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsRita TushinghamRalph RichardsonPeter CookIn post-nuclear-holocaust England, a handful of bizarre characters struggles on with their lives in the ruins, among endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing "God Save Mrs. Ethel Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Ethel Shroake", they wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the police to "keep moving", and prone to the occasional mutation into a parrot, cupboard, or even--yes, a bed-sitting room with "No Wogs" scrawled in the grime on its windows. In particular, this story revolves around the odd "love story" of a girl who lives with her parents in one compartment of a London Underground train, the commuter in the next compartment, and the doctor they meet after returning above ground in search of a nurse for the heavily-pregnant girl.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsRita TushinghamMichael YorkUtpal DuttTom Pickle, Britain's top pop artiste, travels to Bombay, India, in the 1960s to learn to play the sitar (musical instrument) from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan. Tom is taken to Zafar's home, where he gets to meet his wife and several daughters, and the maestro himself.
- DirectorDesmond DavisStarsRita TushinghamLynn RedgraveMichael YorkTwo young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsRita TushinghamOliver ReedRex SevenoaksA fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsRita TushinghamRay BrooksMichael CrawfordA young school teacher tries to master the art of flirtation using his neighbor's skills.
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsRita TushinghamColin CampbellDudley SuttonAn immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working-class marriage--and her husband's relationship with his best friend.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsRita TushinghamMichael SarneBernard LeeA young man employed by a cigarette factory is tired of his working class status and joins a gang planning to rob the factory warehouse.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsRita TushinghamDora BryanRobert StephensA pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
- DirectorDon LevyStarsMichael GothardGabriella LicudiPeter StephensWhen young poet Max (Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.
- DirectorBill KarnStarsJohnny CashDonald WoodsCay ForesterA murderous thug and his cohorts take a bank executives wife hostage after their robbery plans go awry.
- DirectorMarco VicarioStarsRossana PodestàPhilippe LeroyGastone MoschinAn international gang of thieves, led by Albert the Professor and his seductive assistant Giorgia, use meticulous planning to steal seven tons of gold from the Swiss National Bank in Geneva.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsNino ManfrediEmma PenellaJosé IsbertAn undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsJean SorelMarisa MellElsa MartinelliAn unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsTerry-ThomasEric SykesDennis PriceAn undercover private detective investigates a suspicious death at a shady health clinic.
- DirectorPeter BezencenetStarsPaul MaxwellTerry MooreMarisa MellA Canadian reporter gets mixed up in Cold-War politics, romance and espionage in Eastern Europe.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDavid NivenSharon TateDeborah KerrWorkers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsRichard BurtonRobert RyanMartha HyerAfter WW1, Zeb and Thor start a cannery business in Alaska but eventually they drift apart with Zeb becoming unscrupulous and Thor becoming involved in Alaskan politics.
- DirectorJindrich PolákStarsZdenek StepánekFrantisek SmolíkDana MedrickáThe year is 2163. Starship Ikarie XB 1 embarks on a long journey across the universe to search for life on the planets of Alpha Centauri.
- DirectorPat JacksonStarsSidney JamesKenneth ConnorShirley EatonErnie's uncle has just died, but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long, the guests begin to drop dead.