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Sadko (1953)
Important distinction
It is worth pointing out that the link provided for those who want to buy this film takes you to where the American-International version is being sold, with the title of The Magic Voyage of Sinbad. This is a long way from being the same film. The A-I version is black-and-white rather than color, shorter, and seems as if it is not really the same film. My Betamax copy of this has not been watched in years, but I am certain lacked half of the interesting scenes, and certainly lacks the wonderful music.
The original version, as Sadko, can be rented from Netflix, and presumably is rented and sold elsewhere. It became available in the West only a few years ago in a dubbed format. It is a fantasy spectacle on a level with the Korda Thief of Baghdad.
Garou Garou, le passe-muraille (1951)
A perfect spy refuses the job.
I will echo the comments from Barslater. This is politically complex for all of being a romantic fantasy, more mature in its attitudes than the French have been since they produced it. Back in the days when I put together film programs for science fiction conventions, I tried very hard to find a rental copy to show and never could.
The film is rather more elaborate than its source material, a short story by Marcel Ayme, "The Walker Through Walls," which is ironically more easily available than the film. The film was shown on channel 13 in Baltimore, and since their massive catalog of prints (they were a DuMont station originally with a lot of time to fill) was sold the the Merican Film Instutute, it should really be available somehow.
Surfer Girls (1976)
Two girls hang around the beach looking for guys and find them.
This is I think the best of the hundreds of hardcore porn movies that I watched between about 1971 and 1982. The only recognizable name (to me, anyway, these days) in it is Joey Silvera, who is hauled off to jail three-quarters of the way through. The other significant male role is played by somebody who was around in those things but I guess did not last.
It begins with two teenage girls talking, and a fantasy of one of them is shown. The go to the beach where one hooks up quickly with a muscular guy, who plows her on a hill, while the other tries for someone who ignores her for a taller girl whom he balls in the van the two guys have. But he comes back and the four go to a party where the second fellow is arrested for drugs.
The other three go to the muscular man's place where he takes the second girl on a fur rug. Kind of romantic and sensual for what it is.