Rock Around the Clock (1956)


 Rock Around the Clock (1956) 

The first true rock and roll feature film, Rock Around the Clock is a highly fictionalized account of the discovery of rock and roll by small-time promoter Steve Hollis, when Hollis visits a small town to find Bill Haley and the Comets packing in the crowds. Hollis also finds time for romance with teenage dancer Lisa. The main purpose of the film was to introduce Haley to a worldwide film audience. The band was joined by fellow rockers Freddie Bell and the Bellboys along with The Platters for this early rock musical. This film was banned in many countries after reports of teenagers ripping up the seats in their excitement over the loud, raucous music on the soundtrack, though today the film is more likely to spur nostalgia. (Alex IMDB)






Alice in den Städten (1974 Germany)


 Alice in den Städten (1974 Germany)
aka 
Alice in the Cities 


German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice's grandmother.(Karl Engel IMDB)








An American Werewolf in London (1981)


 An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Two American tourists in Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. 





The Road (2009)


 The Road (2009)

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other. (Sean Pollock IMDB)





Los ritos sexuales del diablo aka Black Candles(1982 Spain)

 Los ritos sexuales del diablo(1982 Spain)

aka
Black Candles
Hot Fantasies
Naked Dreams

A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house whose rites seem to centre somewhat on large-scale sexual congress. 

Black Candles is easily Jose Larraz's most notorious film and probably his best known after the masterpiece Vampyres. And it's notoriety revolves around one scene where a Satanic coven enacts a bizarre rite involving extracting the reproductive fluid of a goat, symbolizing The Beast, as some kind of nauseating balm to be used in preparing the waif like sister of a murdered man for her role as the bride of Satan. Spanish horror from the 1970s has a very special flavor to it that is somewhat of an acquired taste. It's not for everyone. (IMDB)