Entertainment
Movies of the 1970s
Top 500 films from the 1970s (out of 5,873 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Drakula Tok | 1,979 | Sawong Supsamruay | Horror, Comedy | 10 | 18 | Thai | Thailand | Things seem to be normal in an area of Thailand. But then Dracula is summoned to that region from Europe. He goes after a young woman. He has a bunch of dancing female vampire servants. Devils, zombies and some other weird creatures also show up. |
| The Experiencer | 1,977 | Michael Kohler | Fantasy, Mystery | 10 | 14 | English | United Kingdom | After taking a wrong turn, a young man somehow falls into a mysterious cave and becomes hopelessly lost. As he searches for a way out, the journey he experiences forces him to confront the deepest parts of himself. |
| Christmas at the Cupiello Household | 1,977 | Eduardo De Filippo | Comedy, Drama, TV Movie | 8.8 | 68 | Italian | Italy | Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently. |
| The Godfather | 1,972 | Francis Ford Coppola | Drama, Crime | 8.7 | 22,477 | English | United States of America | Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge. |
| The Godfather Part II | 1,974 | Francis Ford Coppola | Drama, Crime | 8.6 | 13,599 | English | United States of America | In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba. |
| The Message | 1,976 | Moustapha Akkad | History, Drama, Adventure, Action | 8.6 | 42 | Arabic | Algeria | In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling. |
| The Married Couples | 1,976 | Hasan Abduselam | Drama, Comedy, Family | 8.6 | 14 | Arabic | Egypt | The story revolves around the problems of married people in (Egypt) from the economic and social aspects, where the poor young man (Masoud) falls in love with the aristocratic girl (Lina), and marries her despite her father's refusal. The simple poor life experience with her husband, whom she loves, her father tries to pressure her by various means, including threatening to deprive her of the inheritance, but she is determined to stay with her husband, Masoud asks Lina to move with her to her father's villa in order to get out of the difficult life he lives in rented home. |
| Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview | 1,971 | Michael Rothery | Documentary | 8.5 | 23 | English | Unknown | A priceless gem from the fine folks at The Internet Archive: Bruce Lee’s only existing television interview, from 1971. Martial arts expert Bruce Lee became world-renowned for his performances in such Kung-fu classics as ENTER THE DRAGON. Now his only interview in English is available. Just after the release of his first film THE BIG BOSS, he spoke in Hong Kong with Canada's premier journalist Pierre Berton. This is the closest one can get to this extraordinary master. |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1,975 | Miloš Forman | Drama | 8.4 | 11,215 | English | United States of America | A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward. |
| The School of Mischief | 1,973 | Galal El Sharkawy | Comedy | 8.4 | 27 | Arabic | Egypt | In a high school plagued by five unruly students who have failed to graduate for over a decade, the principal hires a new teacher in a last-ditch effort to restore order. Effat, the newly appointed instructor, takes on the challenge with hopes of reforming the troublemakers into model students. |
| Apocalypse Now | 1,979 | Francis Ford Coppola | Drama, War | 8.3 | 8,885 | English | United States of America | At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory. |
| We All Loved Each Other So Much | 1,974 | Ettore Scola | Drama, Comedy | 8.3 | 632 | Italian | Italy | Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond. |
| Jesus | 1,979 | Peter Sykes | Drama | 8.3 | 246 | English | United States of America | Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke. |
| Neşeli Günler | 1,978 | Orhan Aksoy | Comedy, Family | 8.3 | 91 | Turkish | Turkey | Years after a divorce divides their family in half, six siblings encounter each other by chance and try to get their parents back together. |
| My Dear Brother | 1,973 | Ertem Eğilmez | Drama | 8.3 | 77 | Turkish | Turkey | Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them. |
| Doce hombres sin piedad | 1,973 | Gustavo Pérez Puig | Drama, TV Movie | 8.3 | 21 | Spanish | Spain | The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. |
| The Actor and the Savages | 1,975 | Manole Marcus | Comedy, Drama, Family | 8.3 | 15 | Romanian | Romania | Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwar period and focuses on the conflict between actor and Iron Guard movement ("savages") offended by a satirizes artistic performances. Film question the artist's freedom of expression and the danger posed by his involvement in social issues existing in a dictatorship world. |
| Space Battleship Yamato | 1,977 | Toshio Masuda | Action, Animation, Adventure, Science Fiction, Drama, Romance | 8.3 | 10 | Japanese | Japan | When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere. |
| Star Wars | 1,977 | George Lucas | Adventure, Action, Science Fiction | 8.2 | 21,949 | English | United States of America | Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire. |
| Alien | 1,979 | Ridley Scott | Horror, Science Fiction | 8.2 | 16,027 | English | United States of America | During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed. |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1,971 | Stanley Kubrick | Science Fiction, Crime | 8.2 | 13,611 | English | United Kingdom | In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune? |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | 1,970 | Elio Petri | Drama, Thriller | 8.2 | 854 | Italian | Italy | Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects. |
| The Land | 1,970 | Youssef Chahine | Drama | 8.2 | 38 | Arabic | Egypt | Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands. |
| Operation 'The Monster' | 1,976 | Manole Marcus | Comedy | 8.2 | 25 | Romanian | Romania | A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations. |
| Mastropiero que nunca | 1,979 | Les Luthiers | Comedy | 8.2 | 16 | Spanish | Argentina | 'Mastropiero que nunca' was a theatrical humour/music show by Les Luthiers, first performed on Friday 9 September 1977 and last done on Sunday 27 February 1983 (although it was headlining only during 1977 and 1978). It consisted of nine new (never performed previously) live numbers, which ranged from a madrigal to a salsa skit. PROGRAM: 1. Jingle Bass-Pipe (Obertura); 2. La Bella y Graciosa Moza Marchose a Lavar la Ropa; 3. El Asesino Misterioso; 4. Visita a la Universidad de Wildstone; 5. Kathy, la Rrina del Saloon; 6. El Beso de Ariadna; 7. Lazy Daisy; 8. Sonatas para Latín y Piano; 9. Payada de la vaca; 10. Cantata del Adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras, de sus Hazañas en Tierras de Indias, de los Singulares Acontecimientos en que se vió Envuelto, y de cómo se Desenvolvió; 11. El explicado. Two new instruments were introduced during this show: the 'Calephone da Casa' and the 'Shoephone'. |
| Abigél | 1,978 | Éva Zsurzs | Drama | 8.2 | 13 | Hungarian | Unknown | |
| Revenge | 1,978 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Action, Crime, Thriller | 8.2 | 10 | Romanian | Romania | "Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once again, who wasn't actually killed and who has returned to put an end to Paraipan's actions once and for all. When Paraipan kidnaps Moldovan's kid, the police inspector makes up his mind to punish Paraipan and his bosses and to finish off the fascist movement, lead by Zavoianu and his allies. Together with the communist that fight to gain power, Moldovan takes out his enemies one by one. |
| The Last Bullet | 1,973 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Action, Crime, Thriller | 8.2 | 10 | Romanian | Romania | A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roma... |
| Taxi Driver | 1,976 | Martin Scorsese | Crime, Drama | 8.1 | 13,193 | English | United States of America | Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. |
| Stalker | 1,979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Science Fiction, Drama | 8.1 | 2,435 | Russian | Soviet Union | Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted. |
| My Friends | 1,975 | Mario Monicelli | Comedy | 8.1 | 738 | Italian | Italy | Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them. |
| Scenes from a Marriage | 1,974 | Ingmar Bergman | Drama, Romance | 8.1 | 394 | Swedish | Sweden | Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection. |
| Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii | 1,972 | Adrian Maben | Music, Documentary | 8.1 | 218 | English | Belgium | British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew. |
| The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed | 1,979 | Stanislav Govorukhin | Action, Crime, Mystery, TV Movie | 8.1 | 85 | Russian | Soviet Union | Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand. |
| Smiling Eyes | 1,977 | Ertem Eğilmez | Family, Drama, Comedy | 8.1 | 67 | Turkish | Turkey | A couple who dreamed of having a son had five daughters in a row. When girls reach the age of marriage, there are moments that make them laugh and sometimes make them sad. |
| The Witness | 1,979 | Péter Bacsó | Comedy | 8.1 | 62 | Hungarian | Hungary | Hungary, 1950s. József Pelikán, who works as a dam keeper on the Danube, meets by chance Zoltán Dániel, an old friend whom he saved from death years before and who is now a powerful politician. |
| Tonta, tonta, pero no tanto | 1,972 | Fernando Cortés | Adventure, Comedy | 8.1 | 35 | Spanish | Mexico | |
| Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend | 1,973 | Wu Shih | Documentary | 8.1 | 31 | Chinese | Hong Kong | This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he became an international star, and his death at age 32. |
| Pictures of the Old World | 1,972 | Dušan Hanák | Documentary | 8.1 | 25 | Slovak | Czechoslovakia | A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the inhabitants of the Liptov region in central Slovakia, encompassed by the Tatra mountains, distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images. Dušan Hanák's continuation of these photographs takes the shape of a poetic visual essay, capturing more comprehensive vignettes of their isolated human experiences. |
| Winter Soldier | 1,972 | Michaël Weill | Documentary | 8.1 | 20 | English | United States of America | For three days in 1971, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about their war experiences. Nearly 30 speak, describing atrocities personally committed or witnessed, telling of inaccurate body counts, and recounting the process of destroying a village. |
| Vacation with Kids | 1,972 | Dimitar Petrov | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 8.1 | 12 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | A funny adventures of a group of children, spending their holidays at the seaside. |
| Exams at Any Odd Time | 1,974 | Ivanka Grubcheva | Comedy, Family | 8.1 | 12 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | Two novels united by common characters and a never-settled problem: the clash between sincerity of children and the heartless pragmatism and ambitions of grown-ups. |
| The Weddings of Ioan Assen | 1,975 | Vili Tzankov | Drama | 8.1 | 11 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through several marriages to enlarge the State and to support the peace in it. |
| Lone Wolf | 1,972 | Obrad Gluščević | Family, Drama | 8.1 | 11 | SH | Yugoslavia | The film follows a young boy named Ranko who discovers a large German Shepherd in the mountains, a remnant of the recent war. After freeing the dog from a trap, Ranko befriends the animal and, based on an inscription on its collar, names him Hund. However, the local villagers mistake the dog for a dangerous wolf, a "lone wolf," and resolve to kill it. Fearing for his new companion's safety, Ranko secretly brings food to Hund in the mountains. In a turn of events, the dog saves Ranko from a real wolf attack. The villagers, convinced that this "lone wolf" is responsible for killing sheep, organize a hunt. In a climactic moment, Ranko manages to save his loyal friend from the hunting party, solidifying their bond. |
| The Deer Hunter | 1,978 | Michael Cimino | Drama, War | 8 | 4,137 | English | United Kingdom | Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever. |
| Barry Lyndon | 1,975 | Stanley Kubrick | Drama, Romance, War, History | 8 | 3,097 | English | United Kingdom | An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon. |
| The Sting | 1,973 | George Roy Hill | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8 | 2,874 | English | United States of America | A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster. |
| Mirror | 1,975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama, History | 8 | 1,064 | Russian | Soviet Union | A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life. |
| A Special Day | 1,977 | Ettore Scola | Drama, Romance | 8 | 746 | Italian | Italy | Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome. |
| Autumn Sonata | 1,978 | Ingmar Bergman | Drama | 8 | 681 | Swedish | Germany | After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva. |
| An Average Little Man | 1,977 | Mario Monicelli | Drama, Comedy | 8 | 246 | Italian | Italy | A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal. |
| The Chaos Class | 1,975 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy, Drama | 8 | 163 | Turkish | Turkey | Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. When a new and obviously strict headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows. |
| Tosun Pasha | 1,976 | Kartal Tibet | Comedy | 8 | 129 | Turkish | Turkey | Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Tellioglu"s are competing for the "Green Valley". The winner will be determined by Daver Bey, who has a beautiful young daughter, Leyla. Both families try to arrange a marriage between a man from their family and Leyla, so that Daver Bey will be inclined to give the green valley to his "relatives". Tellioglus, who are behind in the race, desperately find a final solution: They will fake their idiotic butler, Saban, as the highest ranked Ottoman soldier in Egypt: Tosun Pasha. |
| The Foster Brothers | 1,976 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy, Family | 8 | 114 | Turkish | Turkey | Saban, Ramazan and Bayram are sailors in an Ottoman Navy and Hüsamettin is their commander. Hüsamettin's aide Ramazan, Saban who is foster son of Hüsamettin's sister and Bayram who is married to Hüsamettin's niece stays at Hüsamettin's family residence. Hüsamettin's sister thinks Ramazan is her foster son Saban when she realizes her mistake she introduces Ramazan to her brother as her son in law Bayram since she was afraid of Hüsamettin's short-tempered character. Things get complicated when real Saban and Bayram come to the residence. Now Saban has to be Ramazan and Bayram has to be Saban. Meanwhile, a gulyabani (a ghoul from Turkish folklore) haunts the residence. |
| From the Village to the City | 1,974 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy | 8 | 97 | Turkish | Turkey | After they find buried treasure, four hapless brothers from the countryside discover that changing their fortunes will take more than gold. |
| The Fifth Seal | 1,976 | Zoltán Fábri | Drama, War | 8 | 92 | Hungarian | Hungary | In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others, an act that will unexpectedly alter their lives forever. |
| Love | 1,971 | Károly Makk | Drama | 8 | 38 | Hungarian | Hungary | Luca, who regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law, hides from her the fact that János, his son, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge. |
| Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer | 1,976 | Assi Dayan | Comedy | 8 | 24 | Hebrew | Israel | Sergio Konstanza, a swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Sergeant is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters. |
| Hell Boats | 1,970 | Paul Wendkos | War, Drama | 8 | 22 | English | United States of America | A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up. |
| No Longer Kids | 1,979 | Samir Al Asfory | Comedy, Drama, TV Movie | 8 | 18 | Arabic | Egypt | The play tells the story of four siblings trying to stop their father from leaving his family for another woman after one of them accidentally finds a love letter from an unknown woman to their father. |
| Chuquiago | 1,977 | Antonio Eguino | Drama | 8 | 17 | Spanish | Bolivia | Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories. |
| Chinatown | 1,974 | Roman Polanski | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 | 4,167 | English | United States of America | Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together. |
| Young Frankenstein | 1,974 | Mel Brooks | Comedy | 7.9 | 3,347 | English | United States of America | A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind. |
| Amarcord | 1,973 | Federico Fellini | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 | 1,183 | Italian | Italy | In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios. |
| Paper Moon | 1,973 | Peter Bogdanovich | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.9 | 802 | English | United States of America | During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership. |
| Cries and Whispers | 1,972 | Ingmar Bergman | Drama | 7.9 | 762 | Swedish | Sweden | As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs. |
| Dersu Uzala | 1,975 | Akira Kurosawa | Adventure, Drama | 7.9 | 604 | Russian | Japan | A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods. |
| Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession | 1,973 | Leonid Gaidai | Comedy, Science Fiction | 7.9 | 393 | Russian | Soviet Union | A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973. |
| Office Romance | 1,977 | Eldar Ryazanov | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 | 255 | Russian | Soviet Union | Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself.. |
| The Ascent | 1,977 | Larisa Shepitko | Drama, War | 7.9 | 235 | Russian | Soviet Union | Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls. |
| Only Old Men Are Going to Battle | 1,973 | Leonid Bykov | War, Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.9 | 124 | Russian | Soviet Union | Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers. |
| Feyzo, The Polite One | 1,978 | Atıf Yılmaz | Comedy | 7.9 | 111 | Turkish | Turkey | To bid for his beloved's hand in marriage, poor villager Feyzo must come up with an enormous dowry to appease her father. |
| Elvis: That's the Way It Is | 1,970 | Denis Sanders | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 83 | English | United States of America | On July 31, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Elvis Presley staged a triumphant return to the concert stage from which he had been absent for almost a decade. His series of concerts broke all box office records and completely reenergized the career of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. |
| Family Honour | 1,976 | Orhan Aksoy | Drama | 7.9 | 44 | Turkish | Turkey | Rıza is a father of 5, who has economical problems but happy nevertheless. Everything changes when his younger son gets hit by a car. |
| Entre Monjas Anda El Diablo | 1,973 | René Cardona | Comedy | 7.9 | 43 | Spanish | Mexico | A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery. |
| Uncle Marin, the Billionaire | 1,979 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Comedy | 7.9 | 41 | Romanian | Romania | At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett. |
| How to Get Daddy to Change | 1,978 | Marie Poledňáková | Comedy, Family | 7.9 | 30 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Adventures of the "How to Rip Whale Tooth" (1977) heroes continue... The story takes place in the countryside, where little Vashko's dad takes him and his mother, and where another surprise awaits them: not only an excellent holiday in the setting of a rock town, but also the figure of a grandfather, understanding all the dangerous beliefs in the turbulent surface of the renewed relationship of the three closest people. Vasek's other wish comes true - his dad teaches him the secrets of rock climbing. This shared passion, however, causes further conflicts between the two parents - much to the chagrin of both Vasek and his grandfather. |
| The Golden Fortress | 1,974 | Satyajit Ray | Mystery | 7.9 | 30 | Bengali | India | A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress. |
| Yaadon Ki Baaraat | 1,973 | Nasir Hussain | Music, Action, Drama | 7.9 | 24 | Hindi | India | Three brothers are separated after their parents are murdered by a gangster. Years later, they find their paths intertwined around a family song. |
| The Last Supper | 1,976 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Drama | 7.9 | 22 | Spanish | Cuba | A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper. |
| Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In | 1,970 | Mircea Drăgan | Comedy | 7.9 | 20 | Romanian | Romania | Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way. |
| Why Was I Born a Woman? | 1,970 | Rogelio A. González | Drama | 7.9 | 15 | Spanish | Mexico | A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles. |
| We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling... | 1,976 | Petr Schulhoff | Comedy | 7.9 | 13 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that is how it all started. |
| Heartworn Highways | 1,976 | James Szalapski | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 13 | English | United States of America | The music speaks for itself in this performance documentary that highlights some of the biggest names within the country-folk scene in Texas and Tennessee during the last weeks of 1975 and the first weeks of 1976, eschewing narration and staged interviews. |
| The Mathematician and the Devil | 1,972 | Semyon Raytburt | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 | 10 | Russian | Soviet Union | A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges. |
| Rocky | 1,976 | John G. Avildsen | Drama | 7.8 | 8,438 | English | United States of America | Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner! |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1,975 | Terry Gilliam | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.8 | 6,261 | English | United Kingdom | King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place". |
| Life of Brian | 1,979 | Terry Jones | Comedy | 7.8 | 4,811 | English | United Kingdom | Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs. |
| Dog Day Afternoon | 1,975 | Sidney Lumet | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 3,264 | English | United States of America | Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus. |
| Papillon | 1,973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Crime, Drama | 7.8 | 2,067 | English | United States of America | A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. |
| Network | 1,976 | Sidney Lumet | Drama | 7.8 | 1,955 | English | United States of America | When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings. |
| Solaris | 1,972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery | 7.8 | 1,781 | Russian | Soviet Union | A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions. |
| Fantozzi: White Collar Blues | 1,975 | Luciano Salce | Comedy | 7.8 | 865 | Italian | Italy | A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood. |
| 1900 | 1,976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Drama, History | 7.8 | 667 | Italian | France | The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides. |
| Day for Night | 1,973 | François Truffaut | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 | 642 | French | France | A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew. |
| A Woman Under the Influence | 1,974 | John Cassavetes | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 548 | English | United States of America | Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises. |
| The Working Class Goes to Heaven | 1,971 | Elio Petri | Drama | 7.8 | 369 | Italian | Italy | After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups. |
| Gentlemen of Fortune | 1,971 | Aleksandr Sery | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.8 | 254 | Russian | Soviet Union | Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care. |
| Afonya | 1,976 | Georgiy Daneliya | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.8 | 150 | Russian | Soviet Union | The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR. |
| The Chaos Class Failed the Class | 1,975 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy | 7.8 | 138 | Turkish | Turkey | A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school. |
| The Man Who Sleeps | 1,974 | Bernard Queysanne | Drama | 7.8 | 132 | French | France | A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. |
| The King of the Street Cleaners | 1,977 | Zeki Ökten | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.8 | 127 | Turkish | Turkey | Going through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with a charwoman. Unfortunately for him, so does his superior officer. |
| The Chaos Class Is Waking Up | 1,976 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy | 7.8 | 123 | Turkish | Turkey | A sincere and hardworking student joins the Chaos Class, but acceptance seems unlikely when he becomes the target of their pranks. |
| El profe | 1,971 | Miguel M. Delgado | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.8 | 113 | Spanish | Mexico | Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments. |
| El patrullero 777 | 1,978 | Miguel M. Delgado | Comedy | 7.8 | 112 | Spanish | Mexico | Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method. |
| Saban, Son of Saban | 1,977 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy | 7.8 | 110 | Turkish | Turkey | Clumsy soldiers Şaban and Ramazan fall for a singer-dancer and accidentally become secret policemen tracking down a missing diamond. |
| The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix | 1,975 | Ivo Caprino | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family | 7.8 | 101 | Norwegian | Norway | 100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion. |
| Canoa: A Shameful Memory | 1,976 | Felipe Cazals | History, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 82 | Spanish | Mexico | A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story. |
| Our Family | 1,975 | Ergin Orbey | Comedy, Family, Drama | 7.8 | 79 | Turkish | Turkey | A love story between a poor man and a rich girl. The rich girl's father tries to prevent their marriage and he declares a war against the poor boy's family. |
| Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too | 1,974 | John Lounsbery | Family, Animation | 7.8 | 60 | English | United States of America | Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up with an idea to get the bounce out of Tigger. Then, Tigger and little Roo go out for a bounce and get caught in a tree. |
| El Arracadas | 1,978 | Alberto Mariscal | Action, Adventure, Western | 7.8 | 57 | Spanish | Mexico | Mariano Landeros is sworn by his mother to look for the murderer of his father at all costs, the proof would bring that Doroteo Carrillo earring snatched his mother when it happened the asesinato.Mariano part unstoppably to find the murderer finding in the way love, hate and violence. |
| Chabelo y Pepito detectives | 1,974 | José Estrada | Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Drama, Comedy | 7.8 | 35 | Spanish | Mexico | A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and they controlled in turn by strangers with long hair and blue eyes. |
| Elvis - Aloha from Hawaii | 1,973 | Marty Pasetta | Music, Documentary | 7.8 | 34 | English | United States of America | A 1973 concert by Elvis Presley that was broadcast live via satellite on January 14, 1973. The concert took place at the Honolulu International Center in Honolulu and aired in over 40 countries across Asia and Europe. Viewing figures have been estimated at over 1 billion viewers world wide, and the show was the most expensive entertainment special at the time, costing $2.5 million. |
| Johnny Corncob | 1,973 | Marcell Jankovics | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy | 7.8 | 26 | Hungarian | Hungary | A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death. |
| The Magic Ring | 1,979 | Leonid Nosyrev | Animation, Fantasy | 7.8 | 24 | Russian | Soviet Union | Vanya has no money at all, and he gave away his last piece of clothing to save some poor animals. Now he has a cat, a dog, and a snake living in his house. But it turns out that the snake is the king's daughter, so she gave him a magic ring as a gift for saving her. Now Vanya can wish for anything he wants, and his wish will come true! |
| A Grin Without a Cat | 1,977 | Chris Marker | Documentary | 7.8 | 24 | French | France | Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s. Through archival footage and commentary, the film examines revolutionary movements in France, Latin America, and beyond, reflecting on the ideals, failures, and fading hopes of a generation. |
| Adventures of Mowgli: The Fight | 1,970 | Roman Davydov | Adventure, Animation, Family | 7.8 | 24 | Russian | Soviet Union | Episode 4. A terrible threat hanging over the wolf tribe and all living inhabit the jungle. On native places for Mowgli is approaching a huge flock of wild red dogs, destroying everything in its path. It seemed nothing to resist them, but Mowgli comes up with as they confront the red Horde. |
| Train in the Snow | 1,976 | Mate Relja | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.8 | 22 | SH | Yugoslavia | One class of school children from a small village make the trip to Zagreb. One of the boys gets sick and the class is forced to go home. During their journey the train gets stuck in a snowstorm. |
| Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea | 1,971 | Mircea Drăgan | Comedy | 7.8 | 22 | Romanian | Romania | Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way |
| The Concert for Bangladesh | 1,972 | Saul Swimmer | Music, Documentary | 7.8 | 21 | English | United Kingdom | A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide. |
| We Are the Bus People | 1,979 | Hussein Kamal | Drama | 7.8 | 20 | Arabic | Egypt | Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail. |
| Little House on the Prairie | 1,974 | Michael Landon | Western, Family, Drama, TV Movie | 7.8 | 18 | English | United States of America | The story of the Ingalls family who left their house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home. |
| The Last Samurai | 1,974 | Kenji Misumi | Drama, Action | 7.8 | 18 | Japanese | Japan | The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans. |
| Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness | 1,976 | Bruno Bozzetto | Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.8 | 14 | Italian | Germany | Where? Far from home,from work and his boss, far from city traffic and his alarm clock, far from the monotony of his life... The farthest away possible. Travelling against time, visiting places of other centuries. How? Thanks to a magic whistle given him by "Fairy Sicura" the most nutty, thoughtless, happy fairy still to be seen around. A golden whistle which can catapult him back into prehistory, or in ancient Rome, in Medieval time, on a desert island, in Fairy tale land, in ancient Egypt, in the far West or in the future.With whom? He travels with Gastone, his boss'dog, tiny,naive and a little bit spoiled : after many adventures he will realize how much more valuable a friend is rather than a cream pie. Will he find it? Yes, but not in the past, not in other centuries, full of incredible and miserable adventures for him. Happiness was much closer,at hand's reach. He only had to think about it... Isnt that right, Mr Rossi? |
| One Russian Summer | 1,973 | Antonio Calenda | History, Drama | 7.8 | 13 | English | Italy | Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father. |
| Diary of a Teacher | 1,973 | Vittorio De Seta | Drama | 7.8 | 13 | Italian | Germany | In a school on the extreme outskirts of Rome, a young teacher, instead of neglecting his half-empty classroom, decides to tackle the problem looking for the children who do not attend classes. |
| A Police Inspector Calls | 1,974 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.8 | 12 | Romanian | Romania | The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it ro... |
| Terror of Frankenstein | 1,977 | Calvin Floyd | Horror, Science Fiction | 7.8 | 10 | English | Ireland | Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family. |
| Breakfast | 1,974 | Patrick Bokanowski | Animation, Horror | 7.8 | 10 | French | France | Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty. |
| Jaws | 1,975 | Steven Spielberg | Horror, Thriller, Adventure | 7.7 | 11,313 | English | United States of America | When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again. |
| The Exorcist | 1,973 | William Friedkin | Horror | 7.7 | 8,481 | English | United States of America | When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life. |
| Annie Hall | 1,977 | Woody Allen | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 4,163 | English | United States of America | New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. |
| Manhattan | 1,979 | Woody Allen | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 2,566 | English | United States of America | Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. |
| The Warriors | 1,979 | Walter Hill | Action, Thriller | 7.7 | 2,315 | English | United States of America | Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail. |
| All the President's Men | 1,976 | Alan J. Pakula | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 | 2,011 | English | United States of America | During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post. |
| Deep Red | 1,975 | Dario Argento | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 | 1,567 | Italian | Italy | An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence. |
| Duck, You Sucker | 1,971 | Sergio Leone | Western | 7.7 | 1,153 | Italian | Spain | At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will. |
| The Conformist | 1,971 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Drama | 7.7 | 746 | Italian | Germany | A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. |
| Sleuth | 1,972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Thriller, Mystery, Crime | 7.7 | 686 | English | United Kingdom | A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results. |
| Fiddler on the Roof | 1,971 | Norman Jewison | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 617 | English | United States of America | In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows. |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1,974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Romance, Drama | 7.7 | 444 | German | Germany | Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future. |
| Alice in the Cities | 1,974 | Wim Wenders | Drama | 7.7 | 327 | German | Germany | 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. |
| I... For Icarus | 1,979 | Henri Verneuil | Thriller, Crime, Mystery | 7.7 | 163 | French | France | Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings. |
| The Story of Heidi | 1,979 | Isao Takahata | Animation, Family, Adventure | 7.7 | 135 | Japanese | Japan | Heidi is five years old when her aunt Dete, who has raised Heidi since her parents' deaths four years earlier, takes the orphaned Heidi to live with her formidable grandfather in the Swiss Alps. |
| Love and Anarchy | 1,973 | Lina Wertmüller | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 7.7 | 111 | Italian | France | Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini. |
| The Girl with the Red Scarf | 1,977 | Atıf Yılmaz | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 106 | Turkish | Turkey | Asya, a peasant girl, marries İlyas, a truck driver. The couple, who love each other very much, are separated when İlyas cheats on her, and their epic love story comes to an unexpected end. After that, Asya takes her son and wanders away, not knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly. |
| King of the Doormen | 1,977 | Zeki Ökten | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 102 | Turkish | Turkey | Seyit, a resourceful doorman of a middle class apartment in Istanbul, finds himself in a struggle for power when the new superintendent decides to crack down on his slack attitude. |
| Demons | 1,971 | Toshio Matsumoto | Horror, Drama | 7.7 | 85 | Japanese | Japan | Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband. |
| Powers of Ten | 1,977 | Charles Eames | Documentary | 7.7 | 81 | English | United States of America | A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of the one before. Starting from a view of the entire known universe, the camera gradually zooms in until we are viewing the subatomic particles on a man's hand. |
| Man - Woman Wanted | 1,973 | Stanisław Bareja | Comedy | 7.7 | 71 | Polish | Poland | Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters. |
| Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! | 1,976 | Oldřich Lipský | Comedy | 7.7 | 65 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed. |
| Nezha Conquers the Dragon King | 1,979 | Yan Dingxian | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Action | 7.7 | 58 | Chinese | China | In Chentang Pass, Nezha, the magical son of General Li Jing, makes enemies with Ao Guang, the Dragon King of East Sea. When he is reported to heaven's court and his home is threatened, Nezha takes it upon himself to destroy the palace and defeat the dragons. A retelling of the classic chapters from Investiture of The Gods. |
| Christopher's Christmas Mission | 1,975 | Per Åhlin | Animation, Family, TV Movie | 7.7 | 51 | Swedish | Sweden | "Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve. |
| The Battle of Chile: Part II | 1,976 | Patricio Guzmán | Documentary | 7.7 | 38 | Spanish | Chile | Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself. |
| Marjoe | 1,972 | Sarah Kernochan | Documentary | 7.7 | 32 | English | United States of America | Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion business", prior to the start of "televangelism". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005. |
| Trapito | 1,975 | Manuel García Ferré | Animation, Family, Adventure | 7.7 | 31 | Spanish | Argentina | On a stormy night, Trapito the scarecrow saves Salapin the sparrow's life. Salapin is very grateful and makes Trapito believe that he can move from his place. Together they go to the patriarch of birds who ascertains that Trapito has no fantasy. Therefore Salapin will be his fantasy. After that, they meet Largirucho, a clumsy farmer. They become friends and go to the city to sell cheese. From the money they're going to eat in a restaurant. When Largirucho discovers his money is stolen and can't pay, the cook keeps his pig. He must pay within 7 days or the cook will slaughter the pig. Their adventures start when they're finding a job. |
| Jimi Hendrix | 1,973 | Gary Weis | Documentary, Music | 7.7 | 25 | English | United States of America | Made shortly after his death, this documentary explores the brief life and remarkable legacy of guitarist Jimi Hendrix. After finding fame in the U.K., Hendrix brought his act back to the U.S., where his influential playing style left a blazing imprint on a whole generation of musicians. Employing interviews with family and contemporaries, such as Eric Clapton, as well as scorching live performances from Woodstock and Isle of Wight, the film paints an indelible portrait of a rock 'n' roll legend. |
| The Hunters | 1,977 | Theo Angelopoulos | Drama, History | 7.7 | 23 | Greek | Greece | During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding… |
| Kalimán in the Sinister World of Humanón | 1,976 | Alberto Mariscal | Adventure | 7.7 | 23 | Spanish | Mexico | Kalimán: Women want to be with him, men want to be him! That old adage fits this character. The superhero was huge in Mexico, the subject of comic books and a radio show that was as popular as the Shadow's was in the States. He's a very philosophical, peace loving man who uses his brains and heart as well as brawn in his capers. |
| Re - The God of Sun | 1,970 | Henryk Ryszka | Animation | 7.7 | 23 | Polish | Poland | A swarm of slaves in ancient Egypt moves massive boulders to erect a statue of Re, the god of the sun. Erecting impressive structures required knowledge and exact measurements. However, the statue's massive hand falls down and crushes the builders. The statue has been awe-inspiring for many centuries. Meditations on the religious nature of man. |
| Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula | 1,979 | Doru Năstase | History, Drama | 7.7 | 21 | Romanian | Romania | Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court. |
| My Girlfriend the… | 1,975 | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | Comedy | 7.7 | 19 | Spanish | Argentina | Laucha, a normal middle-aged guy who lives with his elderly mother and works in a factory, attends a show by the transvestite artist Dominique, for whom he develops an unexpected fixation. |
| Eight Deadly Shots | 1,972 | Mikko Niskanen | Drama | 7.7 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story. |
| Inspector Calzonzin | 1,974 | Alfonso Arau | Comedy | 7.7 | 18 | Spanish | Mexico | A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities. |
| Swallows and Amazons | 1,974 | Claude Whatham | Adventure, Family | 7.7 | 18 | English | United Kingdom | On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry. |
| Sandakan No. 8 | 1,974 | Kei Kumai | Drama, War, History | 7.7 | 17 | Japanese | Japan | A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8. |
| Tomka and His Friends | 1,977 | Xhanfise Keko | Drama, Family, War | 7.7 | 15 | SQ | Albania | Tomka is a boy who likes playing football with his friends. When the German army captures his town, the German soldiers establish their camp in the town stadium. Tomka with help from his friends and their parents organizes sabotage actions against the soldiers. |
| The Central Warmth | 1,978 | Vladimir Yanchev | Comedy | 7.7 | 14 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | A tenement house needs to have steam heating installed. The residents find the necessary workers to do it, sign the contract and pay them in advance. The workers show up and start their job, but disappear immediately. Panic-stricken, the residents set up to search for them, only to find the workers in jail. Totally desperate, their only chance is to come up with an ingenious plan how to bring the work to the end. |
| What Color is the Wind? | 1,973 | Servando González | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.7 | 12 | Spanish | Mexico | Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation. |
| The Beatles at Shea Stadium | 1,977 | Robert Precht | Music, Documentary | 7.7 | 11 | English | United Kingdom | The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour. |
| Ah Müjgân Ah | 1,970 | Mehmet Dinler | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 11 | Turkish | Turkey | In the suburbs of Istanbul, Hüsnü and Müjgan love each other and they are on the brink of getting married. However, the son of Müjgan’s boss sees her and proposes Müjgan’s mother to marry Müjgan. Müjgan’s mother wants her to marry this rich man. |
| Future Boy Conan | 1,979 | Hayao Miyazaki | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Animation, TV Movie | 7.7 | 10 | Japanese | Japan | In this 1979 condensed-for-film recut of Hayao Miyazaki's 1978 anime series, a young boy named Conan goes on a grand adventure. Conan lives in a world that is mostly oceans; the major land masses having been destroyed by the weapons of the great disaster of 2008. He meets a young girl named Lana, who is kidnapped by the technological city-state of Industria as they attempt to regain those weapons. Together with his friends, Conan sets out to rescue Lana and stop Industria from threatening the rest of the world. |
| Dearest Executioners | 1,977 | Basilio Martín Patino | Documentary | 7.7 | 10 | Spanish | Spain | This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as families of people executed by them. |
| The Crystal Cradle | 1,976 | Philippe Garrel | Drama | 7.7 | 10 | French | France | An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life. |
| Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475 | 1,975 | Mircea Drăgan | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.7 | 10 | Romanian | Romania | In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome. |
| Queen: A Night at the Odeon | 1,975 | Tom Corcoran | Music | 7.7 | 10 | English | United Kingdom | Queen’s legendary Hammersmith Odeon show on Christmas Eve 1975 is one of the best recorded and dynamic early shows available. It occurs a month after A Night At The Opera was released and soon after it hit number one and was video taped for The Old Grey Whistle Test hosted by Bob Harris for BBC television. Most of the show was taped, but the BBC cameras were turned off when Queen came back onstage after the “Jailhouse Rock” encore to play a few more songs. The cameramen couldn’t capture this part of the show so after thirty-five years it remains unseen. |
| The Scavengers | 1,972 | Ermanno Olmi | TV Movie, Drama | 7.7 | 10 | Italian | Italy | After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal. |
| The Immortals | 1,974 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | History, Action, War, Adventure, Thriller | 7.7 | 10 | Romanian | Romania | It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream". |
| Halloween | 1,978 | John Carpenter | Horror, Thriller | 7.6 | 6,060 | English | United States of America | Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again. |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | 1,979 | Robert Benton | Drama | 7.6 | 2,399 | English | United States of America | Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. |
| They Call Me Trinity | 1,970 | Enzo Barboni | Action, Comedy, Western | 7.6 | 1,415 | Italian | Italy | The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day. |
| The Tenant | 1,976 | Roman Polanski | Thriller, Mystery, Drama | 7.6 | 1,210 | French | France | A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. |
| Harold and Maude | 1,971 | Hal Ashby | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 1,177 | English | United States of America | A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest. |
| Being There | 1,979 | Hal Ashby | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 1,100 | English | United States of America | A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. |
| Fantastic Planet | 1,973 | René Laloux | Animation, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 1,074 | French | Czechoslovakia | On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin. |
| The Last Picture Show | 1,971 | Peter Bogdanovich | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 751 | English | United States of America | High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else. |
| Le Cercle Rouge | 1,970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | Crime, Thriller | 7.6 | 707 | French | France | When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him. |
| The Spirit of the Beehive | 1,973 | Víctor Erice | Drama, Fantasy | 7.6 | 387 | Spanish | Spain | In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn. |
| The Last Waltz | 1,978 | Martin Scorsese | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 298 | English | United States of America | Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with probing backstage interviews and featured performances by Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and other rock legends. |
| Opening Night | 1,977 | John Cassavetes | Drama | 7.6 | 253 | English | United States of America | Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on. |
| The Tree of Wooden Clogs | 1,978 | Ermanno Olmi | Drama | 7.6 | 232 | Italian | Italy | On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti--in an act of desperation--puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog. |
| A Touch of Zen | 1,970 | King Hu | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 7.6 | 220 | Chinese | Hong Kong | Gu Sheng-zhai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-zhen, a mysterious princess on the run. Yang brings Gu into her circle of protectors, including a nameless monk whose spiritual guidance transforms him into a valiant fighter. |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | 1,971 | Giuliano Montaldo | Drama, History | 7.6 | 206 | Italian | France | Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs. |
| Slap the Monster on Page One | 1,972 | Marco Bellocchio | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 | 182 | Italian | France | Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses. |
| One Way or Another | 1,976 | Elio Petri | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 7.6 | 169 | Italian | Italy | Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes. |
| 12 Chairs | 1,971 | Leonid Gaidai | Comedy, Adventure | 7.6 | 169 | Russian | Soviet Union | A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds. |
| Scooby Goes Hollywood | 1,979 | Ray Patterson | Animation, Comedy, TV Movie | 7.6 | 142 | English | United States of America | Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom. |
| Mimino | 1,977 | Georgiy Daneliya | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 121 | Russian | Soviet Union | Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to his family and friends. |
| The Chaos Class Is on Vacation | 1,977 | Ertem Eğilmez | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 116 | Turkish | Turkey | Lazy, uneducated male students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. Because of the financial crisis, the headmaster agrees to enroll female students. As the new students try to fit in, a struggle between both parties start, trying to prank the other part away. The prank war continues until PE-Teacher decides to take the class out on a trip for a becoming scouts. |
| Hearts and Minds | 1,974 | Peter Davis | Documentary, War | 7.6 | 93 | English | United States of America | Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality. |
| The Blue Bead | 1,974 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 88 | Turkish | Turkey | After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Emel Sayın for revenge. |
| Korkusuz Korkak | 1,979 | Natuk Baytan | Comedy | 7.6 | 82 | Turkish | Turkey | He is a civil servant in the bland state office. His whole life changes when his reports get mixed up in the hospital and he gets news that he's going to die very soon. |
| How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms | 1,970 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, Adventure, War | 7.6 | 75 | Polish | Poland | After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook. |
| La Ley Del Monte | 1,976 | Alberto Mariscal | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 68 | Spanish | Mexico | After etching their love on a stalk, a boy and girl reunite years later, reigniting their romance amidst the Mexican Revolution. |
| The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone | 1,979 | Ray Patterson | Animation, Family, Comedy, TV Movie | 7.6 | 63 | English | United States of America | The Flintstones and the Rubbles win a trip on "Make a Deal or Don't" to Count Rockula's castle in Rocksylvania, where they have an unpleasant meeting with the Count and his servant, Frankenstone. |
| How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape | 1,970 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, War, Adventure | 7.6 | 60 | Polish | Poland | On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe. |
| How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends | 1,970 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, Adventure, War | 7.6 | 41 | Polish | Poland | Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis. |
| Scenes with Beans | 1,976 | Ottó Foky | Animation, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 35 | Hungarian | Hungary | Watching from the stars, an all-seeing creature observes a society of sentient beans — the joys, triumphs, and tragedies of day-to-day life on their planet — until the busy inhabitants finally notice the watcher’s leering gaze. |
| Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven | 1,975 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.6 | 34 | German | Germany | Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide. |
| George Carlin: On Location at USC | 1,977 | Marty Callner | TV Movie, Comedy, Documentary | 7.6 | 33 | English | United States of America | George Carlin's first ever comedy special, filmed live at the University of Southern California. Here, he talks about monopoly, flying on planes, random thoughts, walking, and other things. |
| The Lost Letter | 1,972 | Borys Ivchenko | Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure | 7.6 | 33 | Ukrainian | Soviet Union | Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg. |
| Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | 1,972 | Kinji Fukasaku | Drama, Mystery, War | 7.6 | 28 | Japanese | Japan | A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth. |
| La Banda del Carro Rojo | 1,978 | Rubén Galindo | Crime, Drama | 7.6 | 26 | Spanish | Unknown | Drug dealers try to cross the US border. |
| Saint Bernard | 1,972 | Leon Hirszman | Drama | 7.6 | 20 | Portuguese | Brazil | The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways. |
| I Like Life a Lot | 1,977 | Kati Macskássy | Animation, Documentary | 7.6 | 19 | Hungarian | Hungary | The Komló settlement was a typical example of how Roma labour was exploited in the 1970s industrial mass production. This collaboration of Roma pupils and their teachers portrays the children’s everyday lives through their own drawings, often translating cruel facts into fairytales. |
| El moro de Cumpas | 1,977 | Mario Hernández | Comedy, Western | 7.6 | 19 | Spanish | Unknown | In the city of Aguaprieta, two horses are part of the largest event in the region. The unbeatable horse Moro from the city of Cumpas faces the imposing Zaino de Aguaprieta. Two in a decided race in just 450 rods. |
| Proof of the Man | 1,977 | Junya Satō | Drama, Crime, Mystery | 7.6 | 16 | Japanese | Japan | When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime. |
| The Glass Menagerie | 1,973 | Anthony Harvey | Drama, TV Movie | 7.6 | 16 | English | United States of America | Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a gentleman caller appears, things move to crisis point. |
| A Night at Karlstein | 1,974 | Zdeněk Podskalský | Comedy, History, Music | 7.6 | 16 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban. |
| Where Spring Comes Late | 1,970 | Yoji Yamada | Drama | 7.6 | 15 | Japanese | Japan | The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer. |
| Aggiungi un posto a tavola | 1,978 | Gino Landi | N/A | 7.6 | 14 | Italian | Italy | Father Silvestro receives a phone call from God telling him He intends to send the second flood to earth. The priest then decides to seek help from his compatriots to build a new Noah’s Ark. But to achieve their objectives they must overcome the obstacles that mayor Crispino puts in their way. |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps | 1,979 | Neil Young | Music, Documentary | 7.6 | 14 | English | United States of America | Concert film covering Neil Young's October 22 1978 concert performance at the Cow Palace with nearly 20 songs (including two versions of "Hey Hey, My My," his nod to the punk movement), acoustic and electric (with long-time companions Crazy Horse), dating back to his Buffalo Springfield days ("I Am a Child") and continuing through popular solo numbers like "Cinnamon Girl" and the extended "Like a Hurricane." |
| The Jade Tiger | 1,977 | Chor Yuen | Action, Adventure | 7.6 | 12 | Chinese | Hong Kong | Zhao Wuji, son of the leader of the Zhao Clan, embarks on a tragic adventure full of intrigue to avenge his father, who is beheaded by a traitor working for the rival Tang Clan. |
| 16 Vayathinile | 1,977 | Bharathiraja | Romance, Drama | 7.6 | 11 | Tamil | India | Sixteen-year-old Mayil is secretly loved by her handicapped cousin, Chappani, and the village rowdy, Parattai. But, she falls for a city doctor who takes advantage of her and deserts her. Gradually she realises how much Chappani loves her meanwhile, Parattai also eyeing for Mayil. |
| The United States of America | 1,975 | James Benning | Documentary | 7.6 | 10 | English | United States of America | A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and social changes from NY to Los Angeles. |
| … ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren… | 1,970 | José Antonio Sistiaga | Animation | 7.6 | 10 | Spanish | Spain | An experimental film: dozens of pictorial techniques applied directly on celluloid; a work of impressive aesthetics that recovers certain ideas of abstract expressionism: endless chromaticism, constant mutations, the music of the cosmos, mysticism, synesthesia… and an enigmatic title that, although it imitates the phonetics of the Basque language, means nothing. |
| Marriageable Girls | 1,972 | Janusz Kondratiuk | Comedy, Drama, TV Movie | 7.6 | 10 | Polish | Poland | Three naive girls from the provinces travel to the city to find the men of their dreams. |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1,971 | Mel Stuart | Family, Fantasy, Comedy | 7.5 | 3,868 | English | United States of America | When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner. |
| Suspiria | 1,977 | Dario Argento | Horror | 7.5 | 3,134 | Italian | Italy | An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders. |
| Escape from Alcatraz | 1,979 | Don Siegel | Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 3,065 | English | United States of America | San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan. |
| Dawn of the Dead | 1,978 | George A. Romero | Horror, Science Fiction | 7.5 | 2,245 | English | Italy | During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. |
| Serpico | 1,973 | Sidney Lumet | Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 2,130 | English | United States of America | New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. |
| The French Connection | 1,971 | William Friedkin | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.5 | 2,076 | English | United States of America | Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation. |
| The Conversation | 1,974 | Francis Ford Coppola | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 7.5 | 1,979 | English | United States of America | A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. |
| Badlands | 1,974 | Terrence Malick | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 1,306 | English | United States of America | An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | 1,972 | Werner Herzog | History, Adventure, Drama | 7.5 | 1,208 | German | Germany | A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death. |
| Patton | 1,970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | War, Drama, History | 7.5 | 1,182 | English | United States of America | "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination. |
| Days of Heaven | 1,978 | Terrence Malick | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 1,127 | English | United States of America | In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. |
| The Castle of Cagliostro | 1,979 | Hayao Miyazaki | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 7.5 | 1,113 | Japanese | Japan | After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there. |
| The Holy Mountain | 1,973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Drama | 7.5 | 996 | Spanish | United States of America | The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe. |
| Love and Death | 1,975 | Woody Allen | Comedy, History | 7.5 | 956 | English | United States of America | In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon. |
| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1,972 | Luis Buñuel | Comedy | 7.5 | 886 | French | France | In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. |
| Phantom of the Paradise | 1,974 | Brian De Palma | Music, Comedy, Horror | 7.5 | 729 | English | United States of America | Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise. |
| Little Big Man | 1,970 | Arthur Penn | Western, Comedy, Adventure | 7.5 | 698 | English | United States of America | Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer. |
| The Man Who Would Be King | 1,975 | John Huston | Adventure, Drama | 7.5 | 691 | English | United Kingdom | Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever. |
| The Day of the Jackal | 1,973 | Fred Zinnemann | Action, Thriller | 7.5 | 655 | English | France | An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail. |
| Play It Again, Sam | 1,972 | Herbert Ross | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 632 | English | United States of America | A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart. |
| The Second Tragic Fantozzi | 1,976 | Luciano Salce | Comedy | 7.5 | 618 | Italian | Italy | The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses. |
| All That Jazz | 1,979 | Bob Fosse | Drama | 7.5 | 574 | English | United States of America | Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going. |
| The 36th Chamber of Shaolin | 1,978 | Lau Kar-Leung | Action, Adventure | 7.5 | 480 | Chinese | Hong Kong | During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge. |
| The Devils | 1,971 | Ken Russell | Drama, History, Horror | 7.5 | 416 | English | United Kingdom | Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns and a respected reputation for protecting the city of Loudon from corruption. Grandier’s influence is then undermined following a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft. |
| Johnny Got His Gun | 1,971 | Dalton Trumbo | War, Drama | 7.5 | 409 | English | United States of America | A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point. |
| Lady Snowblood | 1,973 | Toshiya Fujita | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 403 | Japanese | Japan | Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge. |
| Three Wishes for Cinderella | 1,973 | Václav Vorlíček | Fantasy, Family, Romance | 7.5 | 377 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them. |
| Ugly, Dirty and Bad | 1,976 | Ettore Scola | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 339 | Italian | Italy | Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him. |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | 1,972 | Luigi Comencini | Fantasy, Drama, Family, Comedy | 7.5 | 322 | Italian | Germany | Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company. |
| Woodstock | 1,970 | Michael Wadleigh | Documentary, History, Music | 7.5 | 288 | English | United States of America | An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000. |
| Rabid Dogs | 1,974 | Mario Bava | Crime, Thriller | 7.5 | 282 | Italian | Italy | Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway. |
| The Old Gun | 1,975 | Robert Enrico | Drama, History | 7.5 | 280 | French | France | In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decides to meet them for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village. |
| Caliber 9 | 1,972 | Fernando Di Leo | Crime, Thriller | 7.5 | 269 | Italian | Italy | Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss. Caliber 9 is the first part in Di Leo's "Milieu" Trilogy of poliziotteschi films. It was followed by "The Italian Connection" (1972) and "The Boss" (1973). |
| Cria! | 1,976 | Carlos Saura | Drama | 7.5 | 264 | Spanish | Spain | Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother. |
| Camera Buff | 1,979 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama | 7.5 | 183 | Polish | Poland | Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas. |
| Sunflower | 1,970 | Vittorio De Sica | Drama, War | 7.5 | 174 | Italian | Italy | After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover? |
| Let It Be | 1,970 | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 164 | English | United Kingdom | A documentary chronicling the Beatles' rehearsal sessions in January 1969 for their proposed "back to basics" album, "Get Back," later re-envisioned and released as "Let It Be." |
| Serie Noire | 1,979 | Alain Corneau | Drama, Crime | 7.5 | 152 | French | France | In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a desperate door-to-door salesman crosses paths with a mysterious young woman trapped in a grim world. As his obsession deepens, his grip on reality begins to slip—and the line between escape and destruction starts to blur. |
| Vengeance Is Mine | 1,979 | Shōhei Imamura | Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 149 | Japanese | Japan | A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police. |
| Seven Beauties | 1,975 | Lina Wertmüller | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.5 | 148 | Italian | Italy | Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer. |
| Indian Summer | 1,972 | Valerio Zurlini | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 148 | Italian | France | In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend. |
| The Hourglass Sanatorium | 1,973 | Wojciech Has | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.5 | 129 | Polish | Poland | Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares. |
| Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day | 1,972 | Gennadiy Sokolskiy | Family, Animation | 7.5 | 126 | Russian | Soviet Union | Another Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh story. This time the donkey, known from the Pooh stories as Eeyore, is sad because he has no tail. Pooh goes in search of one and finds it attached to a bell that hangs from the treehouse of one Owl. |
| The Mattei Affair | 1,972 | Francesco Rosi | Drama, History | 7.5 | 112 | Italian | Italy | Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death. |
| Harlan County U.S.A. | 1,977 | Barbara Kopple | Documentary | 7.5 | 110 | English | United States of America | This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastover's refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004. |
| The New Land | 1,972 | Jan Troell | Drama, Western, History | 7.5 | 104 | Swedish | Sweden | A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California. |
| The Very Same Munchhausen | 1,979 | Mark Zakharov | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie | 7.5 | 87 | Russian | Soviet Union | A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue. |
| Salak Milyoner | 1,974 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy | 7.5 | 72 | Turkish | Turkey | The funny treasure hunt of 4 rural brothers in Istanbul, after the recent death of their father who left them a treasure map as heritage. |
| Witchhammer | 1,970 | Otakar Vávra | Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 68 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects. |
| Duro pero seguro | 1,978 | Fernando Cortés | Family, Comedy | 7.5 | 59 | Spanish | Mexico | Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out. |
| Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet | 1,978 | Oldřich Lipský | Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction | 7.5 | 58 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becom... |
| Sounder | 1,972 | Martin Ritt | Drama | 7.5 | 53 | English | United States of America | The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food. |
| The Herd | 1,979 | Zeki Ökten | Drama | 7.5 | 41 | Turkish | Turkey | Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill. |
| The Avenging Eagle | 1,978 | Sun Chung | Action, Adventure | 7.5 | 36 | Chinese | Hong Kong | Eagle Chief Yoh Xi-hung raises orphans to be his personal killers. One such is Chik Ming-sing who now wants to put his killer life behind him. When the Eagle Clan come after him, a stranger called Cheuk comes to his assistance It turns out that Cheuk is the son of a family who were robbed and murdered by the Eagles. Now they will team up to destroy the evil clan. |
| Rebellion in Patagonia | 1,974 | Héctor Olivera | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.5 | 36 | Spanish | Argentina | In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order. |
| Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey | 1,976 | Fernando Cortés | Horror, Comedy, Family | 7.5 | 32 | Spanish | Mexico | This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog. |
| How to Pull Out a Whale's Tooth | 1,977 | Marie Poledňáková | Comedy, Family | 7.5 | 31 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Vasek, 8 years old boy is desperate to find a new "father" for his mother. |
| La Choca | 1,974 | Emilio Fernández | Drama, Western | 7.5 | 23 | Spanish | Mexico | A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them. |
| Chhoti Si Baat | 1,976 | Basu Chatterjee | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 22 | Hindi | India | Arun is a timid accountant in Bombay who dreams of romancing Prabha, but is too shy to share his feelings. While Arun twiddles his thumbs, the suave Nagesh steps into the picture and turns on the heat, prompting Arun to take "love coaching" from "romance specialist" Julius Nagendranath to win Prabha back. |
| With Clean Hands | 1,972 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Thriller, Action, Crime | 7.5 | 18 | Romanian | Romania | A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters. |
| Notes Towards an African Orestes | 1,975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Documentary | 7.5 | 16 | Italian | Italy | The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia. |
| To Be Twenty in the Aures | 1,972 | René Vautier | Drama, War | 7.5 | 16 | French | France | A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day. |
| The Struggle | 1,977 | Marcell Jankovics | Animation | 7.5 | 15 | Hungarian | Hungary | Metaphor about art, about time, or how art uses the artist's life in his quest to create his work, in which he was pouring his talent, his vigor, and the best years of his life. |
| Liza with a Z | 1,972 | Bob Fosse | Music, TV Movie | 7.5 | 15 | English | United States of America | Liza Minnelli stars in a television concert directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. She performs her songs such as the title number and a medley of songs from the film Cabaret (1972). |
| The Missiles of October | 1,974 | Anthony Page | Drama, TV Movie | 7.5 | 14 | English | Unknown | Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| The Innocent | 1,972 | Rogelio A. González | Drama | 7.5 | 13 | Spanish | Mexico | The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim. |
| Janosik | 1,974 | Jerzy Passendorfer | TV Movie, Adventure | 7.5 | 13 | Polish | Poland | In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants. |
| Hello Monkey | 1,978 | Ivan Ufimtsev | Animation | 7.5 | 12 | Russian | Soviet Union | Boa is in great mood and wants to share it with Monkey. So he sends his best regard to her through Elephant. |
| The Battle of Okinawa | 1,971 | Kihachi Okamoto | War, History | 7.5 | 12 | Japanese | Japan | The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well. |
| Winstanley | 1,975 | Kevin Brownlow | Drama, History | 7.5 | 11 | English | United Kingdom | Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into conflict with both the state and the church. |
| The Execution Game | 1,979 | Tōru Murakawa | Thriller, Action, Drama | 7.5 | 10 | Japanese | Japan | The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran killer as good as him. |
| The Killing Game | 1,978 | Tōru Murakawa | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 10 | Japanese | Japan | The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again? |
| Corleone | 1,978 | Pasquale Squitieri | Crime, Thriller | 7.5 | 10 | Italian | Italy | Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow? |
| The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians | 1,978 | Mircea Veroiu | Action, Western | 7.5 | 10 | Romanian | Romania | The adventures of the three Brad brothers continues when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank. |
| Capulina vs. the Mummies | 1,973 | Alfredo Zacarías | Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror | 7.5 | 10 | Spanish | Mexico | A taxi driver winds up working as a butler for a scientist who is trying to revive mummies. |
| Enough Praying | 1,972 | Aldo Francia | Drama | 7.5 | 10 | Spanish | Chile | Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor. |
| Hubal | 1,973 | Bohdan Poręba | War, Drama, History | 7.5 | 10 | Polish | Poland | Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders. |
| Follow Me! | 1,972 | Carol Reed | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 10 | English | United Kingdom | A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him. |
| Grease | 1,978 | Randal Kleiser | Romance, Comedy | 7.4 | 7,572 | English | United States of America | Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends? |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1,977 | Steven Spielberg | Science Fiction, Drama | 7.4 | 4,540 | English | United Kingdom | After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1,975 | Jim Sharman | Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror | 7.4 | 3,073 | English | United Kingdom | After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr. Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man. |
| Dirty Harry | 1,971 | Don Siegel | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 | 2,668 | English | United States of America | When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. |
| The Omen | 1,976 | Richard Donner | Horror, Thriller | 7.4 | 2,333 | English | United States of America | Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. |
| Enter the Dragon | 1,973 | Robert Clouse | Action | 7.4 | 2,042 | English | Hong Kong | A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover. |
| Duel | 1,971 | Steven Spielberg | Action, Thriller, TV Movie | 7.4 | 2,015 | English | United States of America | Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life. |
| Midnight Express | 1,978 | Alan Parker | Drama, Crime | 7.4 | 1,849 | English | United Kingdom | Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express". |
| The Outlaw Josey Wales | 1,976 | Clint Eastwood | Western | 7.4 | 1,254 | English | United States of America | After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected. |
| The Way of the Dragon | 1,972 | Bruce Lee | Action, Crime | 7.4 | 1,243 | CN | Hong Kong | After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business. |
| Drunken Master | 1,978 | Yuen Woo-Ping | Action, Comedy | 7.4 | 1,068 | CN | Hong Kong | After getting into trouble, a mischievous young man is sent to train under a brutal, but slovenly old beggar, who teaches him the secret of the Drunken Fist. |
| The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | 1,973 | Gérard Oury | Comedy | 7.4 | 1,032 | French | France | In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob. |
| Trinity Is Still My Name | 1,971 | Enzo Barboni | Comedy, Western | 7.4 | 973 | Italian | Italy | The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws. |
| Cabaret | 1,972 | Bob Fosse | Music, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 949 | English | Germany | Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. |
| Watch Out, We're Mad | 1,974 | Marcello Fondato | Action, Comedy | 7.4 | 871 | Italian | Spain | After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back. |
| The Long Goodbye | 1,973 | Robert Altman | Mystery, Drama, Crime | 7.4 | 736 | English | United States of America | In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife. |
| Delusions of Grandeur | 1,971 | Gérard Oury | Comedy, History | 7.4 | 726 | French | France | Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery. |
| Sorcerer | 1,977 | William Friedkin | Thriller, Adventure, Drama | 7.4 | 635 | English | United States of America | Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain. |
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1,974 | Joseph Sargent | Crime, Thriller, Action | 7.4 | 604 | English | United States of America | In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away? |
| What's Up, Doc? | 1,972 | Peter Bogdanovich | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 7.4 | 438 | English | United States of America | The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations. |
| That Obscure Object of Desire | 1,977 | Luis Buñuel | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 433 | French | France | After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love. |
| Kes | 1,970 | Ken Loach | Drama | 7.4 | 429 | English | United Kingdom | Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence. |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1,976 | Chantal Akerman | Drama | 7.4 | 374 | French | Belgium | A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon. |
| F for Fake | 1,973 | Orson Welles | Documentary | 7.4 | 355 | French | France | Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others. |
| Belladonna of Sadness | 1,973 | Eiichi Yamamoto | Animation, Drama, Fantasy | 7.4 | 350 | Japanese | Japan | An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge. |
| Swept Away | 1,974 | Lina Wertmüller | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 332 | Italian | Italy | A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand become stranded alone on a desert island after venturing away from their cruise. |
| The Phantom of Liberty | 1,974 | Luis Buñuel | Comedy | 7.4 | 319 | French | France | This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers. |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1,979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.4 | 293 | German | Germany | Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone. |
| Charley Varrick | 1,973 | Don Siegel | Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action | 7.4 | 272 | English | United States of America | Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well. |
| Hedgehog in the Fog | 1,975 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Adventure, Mystery, Family | 7.4 | 258 | Russian | Soviet Union | A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying... |
| Scent of a Woman | 1,974 | Dino Risi | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 258 | Italian | Italy | An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. |
| Ecce Bombo | 1,978 | Nanni Moretti | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 252 | Italian | Italy | Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is her favorite, although he does not know what to do with the girl. |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance | 1,972 | Kenji Misumi | Drama, Action, Adventure | 7.4 | 245 | Japanese | Japan | Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro. |
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | 1,972 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 230 | German | Germany | Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in. |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie | 1,979 | Chuck Jones | Animation, Comedy, Family, Music, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 219 | English | United States of America | A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. This 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics "Robin Hood Daffy," "What's Opera, Doc?," "Bully for Bugs," and "Duck Amuck". The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc. |
| Ludwig | 1,973 | Luchino Visconti | Drama, History | 7.4 | 177 | English | Germany | Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness. |
| Kings of the Road | 1,976 | Wim Wenders | Drama | 7.4 | 143 | German | Germany | Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences. |
| Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting | 1,971 | Fyodor Khitruk | Animation, Family | 7.4 | 135 | Russian | Soviet Union | The second of the Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh series. This one had Pooh and Piglet visiting Rabbit for a meal with honey. |
| Richard Pryor: Live in Concert | 1,979 | Jeff Margolis | Comedy | 7.4 | 132 | English | United States of America | Richard Pryor delivers monologues on race, sex, family and his favorite target—himself, live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California. |
| The Emigrants | 1,971 | Jan Troell | Drama, History, Western | 7.4 | 122 | Swedish | Sweden | Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota. |
| The Cat | 1,971 | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Drama | 7.4 | 115 | French | France | Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger. |
| Pastoral: To Die in the Country | 1,974 | Shūji Terayama | Fantasy, Drama | 7.4 | 103 | Japanese | Japan | A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan. |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1,979 | Juraj Herz | Fantasy, Horror, Romance | 7.4 | 87 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her. |
| Rendezvous | 1,976 | Claude Lelouch | Action, Romance | 7.4 | 86 | French | France | A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris. |
| Hitler: A Career | 1,977 | Joachim Fest | Documentary, History | 7.4 | 83 | German | Germany | A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse. |
| You Are Not Alone | 1,978 | Ernst Johansen | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 79 | Danish | Denmark | Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in the headmaster's son Kim with whom he forms a bond of friendship... that slowly grows into something more. |
| Gol Maal | 1,979 | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Comedy | 7.4 | 79 | Hindi | India | A man's simple lie to secure his job escalates into more complex lies when his orthodox boss becomes suspicious. |
| Sakar Şakir | 1,977 | Natuk Baytan | Comedy | 7.4 | 78 | Turkish | Turkey | Shakir, who lives in Kayseri, has a great legacy from his uncle who died in Istanbul. His uncle sends a telegram to Kayseri and dies before seeing Shakir, but a relative who does not want to share the legacy begins to make plans to eliminate him. |
| Kaliman, the Incredible Man | 1,972 | Alberto Mariscal | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 78 | Spanish | Mexico | Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different motivations: from the mere archaeological find to the destruction of humanity. |
| 21 Up | 1,977 | Michael Apted | Documentary | 7.4 | 76 | English | United Kingdom | After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years. |
| Land of Silence and Darkness | 1,973 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.4 | 71 | German | Germany | Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated. |
| That's Entertainment! | 1,974 | Jack Haley Jr. | Documentary, Family, Music | 7.4 | 65 | English | United States of America | Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history. |
| 100 Numaralı Adam | 1,978 | Osman F. Seden | Comedy | 7.4 | 62 | Turkish | Unknown | A poor young man chosen by a advertising company, and they made him a public hero to make him advertise poor quality products that no one buys. |
| Holiday on the Buses | 1,973 | Bryan Izzard | Comedy | 7.4 | 60 | English | United Kingdom | Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard. |
| I Hate Mondays | 1,971 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy | 7.4 | 59 | Polish | Poland | An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American. |
| The Olsen Gang Sees Red | 1,976 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7.4 | 57 | Danish | Denmark | Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the vase with a cheap Hong Kong copy. One attempt is made during the barons hunting party, where Egon ends up being bricked up in the catacombs. In another attempt, the gang has to coordinate breaking through several walls at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen with the "Elverhøj" overture. |
| In Desert and Wilderness | 1,973 | Władysław Ślesicki | Adventure, Family, History | 7.4 | 57 | Polish | Poland | Fourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader. Then they manage to escape and try to return to their fathers. Children have a lot of dangerous adventures, meet two Black kids; Kali and Mea, who also help them, make a friendship with an elephant and help one Black's tribe. |
| Mutiny on the Buses | 1,972 | Harry Booth | Comedy | 7.4 | 55 | English | United Kingdom | Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park |
| Abigail's Party | 1,977 | Mike Leigh | Comedy, Drama, TV Movie | 7.4 | 45 | English | United Kingdom | Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose teenage daughter, Abigail, is having a party. Over drinks and small talk, class differences and relationship difficulties emerge. |
| Pilgrim's Progress | 1,978 | Ken Anderson | Adventure, Drama | 7.4 | 44 | English | Northern Ireland | Journey with Pilgrim to the Celestial City, as John Bunyan's famous allegory leaps from its pages into movie from. You'll experience the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty, Vanity Fair; Meet Pliable, Mr. Obstinate, Worldly Wiseman, Evangelist, Mr. Interpreter, and Pilgrim's constant foe, Apollyon. Follow Pilgrim to the Cross, where he finds real sanctification. A powerful visualization of the Christian life. |
| Legend of the Mountain | 1,979 | King Hu | Horror, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.4 | 41 | Chinese | Hong Kong | A traveling scholar, intent on translating a Buddhist sutra that is said to have power over the creatures of the afterlife. He slowly finds himself entangled in a mysterious plot involving witchcraft, demons, and a battle to preserve his own soul from the attacks of the supernatural underworld. |
| George Carlin: Again! | 1,978 | Marty Callner | TV Movie, Comedy, Documentary | 7.4 | 39 | English | United States of America | Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his 12 HBO specials. The show was originally planned as part of a concert/sketch movie, The Illustrated George Carlin, that never came to fruition.The routines include: Death, Kids & Parents, Newscast #2, Time and Al Sleet, the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman. -- From Amazon.com |
| The Vampires of Poverty | 1,978 | Luis Ospina | Comedy | 7.4 | 35 | Spanish | Colombia | Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these “vampire” filmmakers feeding off the misery of their marginal subjects. |
| The Battle of Chile: Part III | 1,979 | Patricio Guzmán | Documentary | 7.4 | 34 | Spanish | Chile | Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their toppled leader’s vision for a new Chile. |
| An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe | 1,970 | Kenneth Johnson | TV Movie, Horror, Mystery | 7.4 | 34 | English | United States of America | Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum. |
| International Velvet | 1,978 | Bryan Forbes | Drama, Family | 7.4 | 32 | English | United States of America | Sarah Brown is sent to England after her parents die in a car crash. There, she lives with her aunt Velvet who introduces Sarah to the world of equestrian competition and gives her the last foal of her own prize horse, The Pie. Under the watchful eye of her aunt and horse trainer Capt. Johnson, Sarah develops into a talented rider who might have a shot at the Olympics. |
| The Disenchantment | 1,976 | Jaime Chávarri | Drama, Documentary | 7.4 | 31 | Spanish | Spain | This film is a documentary about the poet Leopoldo Panero. His widow and his sons talk about death in general in this special case, and also about their own family problems. |
| Iracema | 1,976 | Jorge Bodanzky | Drama | 7.4 | 26 | Portuguese | Brazil | A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981. |
| The Bag Of Apples | 1,974 | Vitold Bordzilovskiy | Animation | 7.4 | 26 | Russian | Soviet Union | Hare carries bag of apples for 4 sonnies and lovely daughter. But along the way he gives all apples to forest dwellers leaving his children hungry. |
| Hotel Pacific | 1,975 | Janusz Majewski | Drama, History | 7.4 | 22 | Polish | Czechoslovakia | Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell. |
| Sparkle | 1,976 | Sam O'Steen | Drama, Music | 7.4 | 22 | English | United States of America | Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s. |
| Orders | 1,974 | Michel Brault | Drama, History | 7.4 | 22 | French | Canada | A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec. |
| The Truce | 1,974 | Sergio Renán | Romance, Drama | 7.4 | 20 | Spanish | Argentina | A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future. |
| The Wolves | 1,971 | Hideo Gosha | Crime, Drama | 7.4 | 20 | Japanese | Japan | After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? |
| Maridos en vacaciones | 1,975 | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | Comedy | 7.4 | 17 | Spanish | Argentina | Friends Alberto and Jorge, who work together in an insurance company and live in the same building, are married to two sisters (Elsa and Alicia). When they go on vacation to Mar del Plata, Alberto and Jorge decide to enjoy their "single life". In addition to this, they have to fulfill a duty entrusted by their boss: to find the revue theater entrepreneur Félix Sagastume, to sign an insurance contract. It is in a canteen where they go to look for him, and there they meet two aspiring vedettes (Zuzú and Bibí), who confuse them with important businessmen and see in them a possibility of achieving fame. |
| A Walk Through H | 1,978 | Peter Greenaway | Comedy | 7.4 | 17 | English | United Kingdom | An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo. |
| El televisor | 1,974 | Chicho Ibáñez Serrador | Drama, Horror, TV Movie | 7.4 | 16 | Spanish | Spain | Enrique buys a color television set just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction. |
| Without Family | 1,972 | Vittorio Gassman | Drama, Comedy | 7.4 | 15 | Italian | Italy | Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother. |
| A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 1) | 1,976 | Lev Atamanov | Animation | 7.4 | 14 | Russian | Soviet Union | The cartoon tells about the adventures of a kitten with the unusual name of Woof and his friend - the puppy of Sharik. Woof constantly gets into ridiculous situations and finds adventures as soon as he leaves the house. He is sure that it is necessary to go to meet the trouble, because the old cat told him: "You are waiting for some troubles!". He also knows how to properly share sausages, why a secret language is needed and why one should be afraid of thunderstorms together with a friend in the attic. |
| Blonde in Black Leather | 1,975 | Carlo Di Palma | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 14 | Italian | Italy | Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure. |
| Festival At The Poolroom | 1,975 | Boaz Davidson | Comedy | 7.4 | 14 | Hebrew | Israel | The story is about two twin brothers, Azriel and Gavriel. Azriel is a shy, religious Jew who works in a fruit shop in Jaffa. Gavriel is a hoodlum and a good-for-nothing hustler who runs a snooker bar. Gavriel and his friend Hanuka make easy money by swindling people into gambling on snooker games. One day Gavriel is forced to renew contact with his brother because he is in trouble with a gangster. |
| Marianela | 1,972 | Angelino Fons | Drama | 7.4 | 14 | Spanish | France | Marianela is a poor girl with a disfigured face who works as Pablo's guide, a blind young man from a wealthy family. Pablo falls in love with Marianela because of her spirit and vitality and imagines her as the most beautiful woman in the world. When Pablo has the chance to recover his sight, Marianela becomes very sad because she is sure that the young man will reject her when he can see her |
| Janis | 1,974 | Howard Alk | Documentary, Music | 7.4 | 14 | English | Canada | Released just a few years after her death, this forms a picture of who Janis was through interviews and performance clips. |
| Blaise Pascal | 1,972 | Roberto Rossellini | TV Movie, Drama, History | 7.4 | 13 | Italian | France | In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science. |
| The Choice | 1,971 | Youssef Chahine | Thriller, Drama, Crime | 7.4 | 12 | Arabic | Egypt | When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the writer seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...? |
| Weighed But Found Wanting | 1,974 | Lino Brocka | Drama | 7.4 | 12 | Filipino | Philippines | A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable homeless woman. |
| David Bowie: Cracked Actor | 1,975 | Alan Yentob | Documentary, Music | 7.4 | 11 | English | United Kingdom | The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of vérité sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert footage. Most of the concert footage was taken from a show at the Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre on 2 September 1974 (Also featured are excerpts from D.A. Pennebaker's concert film shot at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973). Cracked Actor is notable for being a source for footage of Bowie's ambitious Diamond Dogs tour, and also for showing Bowie's fragile mental state during this period. |
| The Flintstones: Little Big League | 1,978 | Chris Cuddington | Animation, Comedy, Family, TV Movie | 7.4 | 11 | English | United States of America | Fred manages a little league baseball team that seems absolutely hopeless, except for a player that he blindly refuses to recognize. |
| Jory | 1,973 | Jorge Fons | Western | 7.4 | 11 | English | Mexico | Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect. |
| Ragab on a Hot Tin | 1,979 | Ahmad Fouad | Family | 7.4 | 10 | Arabic | Egypt | The people of the town agree to buy a plow, they collect the money and task Rajab to go to Cairo to buy it. Once he arrives, he meets the professional pickpocket Bulbul who steals the money. Rajab tries to look for the thief and recover the money at all costs. |
| Death Is My Trade | 1,977 | Theodor Kotulla | War, Drama | 7.4 | 10 | German | Germany | A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss. |
| Kaala Patthar | 1,979 | Yash Chopra | Drama, Action, Thriller | 7.4 | 10 | Hindi | India | Vijay Singh is a disgraced former Merchant-Navy officer who is branded as a coward after he abandons his crew during an emergency. Guilt-ridden and trying to forget his past, he takes up work at a coal mine where he gets trapped with other miners after a flood hits them. |
| The Aristocats | 1,970 | Wolfgang Reitherman | Animation, Comedy, Family, Adventure | 7.3 | 5,299 | English | United States of America | When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue. |
| Rocky II | 1,979 | Sylvester Stallone | Drama | 7.3 | 4,702 | English | United States of America | After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable. |
| Robin Hood | 1,973 | Wolfgang Reitherman | Animation, Family, Adventure | 7.3 | 4,586 | English | United States of America | With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men. |
| Carrie | 1,976 | Brian De Palma | Horror, Thriller | 7.3 | 4,220 | English | United States of America | Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn. |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1,974 | Tobe Hooper | Horror | 7.3 | 3,707 | English | United States of America | Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. |
| Eraserhead | 1,977 | David Lynch | Horror, Science Fiction | 7.3 | 2,677 | English | United States of America | First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. |
| Deliverance | 1,972 | John Boorman | Drama, Adventure, Thriller | 7.3 | 1,751 | English | United States of America | Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. |
| The Wicker Man | 1,973 | Robin Hardy | Horror | 7.3 | 1,589 | English | United Kingdom | Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents. |
| Three Days of the Condor | 1,975 | Sydney Pollack | Thriller, Mystery | 7.3 | 1,328 | English | United States of America | When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust. |
| The Twelve Tasks of Asterix | 1,976 | René Goscinny | Family, Animation, Comedy, Adventure | 7.3 | 1,322 | French | France | Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human". |
| High Plains Drifter | 1,973 | Clint Eastwood | Western, Drama, Mystery | 7.3 | 1,302 | English | United States of America | A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way. |
| French Fried Vacation 2 | 1,979 | Patrice Leconte | Comedy | 7.3 | 1,247 | French | France | In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane. |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | 1,976 | John Carpenter | Thriller, Action, Crime | 7.3 | 1,178 | English | United States of America | A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang. |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1,979 | Werner Herzog | Drama, Horror | 7.3 | 1,055 | German | Germany | A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. |
| My Name Is Nobody | 1,973 | Tonino Valerii | Comedy, Western | 7.3 | 1,024 | Italian | France | Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history. |
| Kelly's Heroes | 1,970 | Brian G. Hutton | Adventure, Comedy, War | 7.3 | 786 | English | United States of America | A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines. |
| House | 1,977 | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 7.3 | 763 | Japanese | Japan | Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye. |
| Hair | 1,979 | Miloš Forman | Music, Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 719 | English | Germany | Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp. |
| Jeremiah Johnson | 1,972 | Sydney Pollack | Adventure, Western, Drama, Action | 7.3 | 673 | English | United States of America | A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier. |
| Walkabout | 1,971 | Nicolas Roeg | Adventure, Drama | 7.3 | 430 | English | United States of America | Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life. |
| Don't Torture a Duckling | 1,972 | Lucio Fulci | Horror | 7.3 | 403 | Italian | Italy | A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders. |
| Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? | 1,973 | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy, War | 7.3 | 377 | French | France | 1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops. |
| Horse Fever | 1,976 | Steno | Comedy | 7.3 | 376 | Italian | Italy | Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet. |
| The Front Page | 1,974 | Billy Wilder | Comedy | 7.3 | 376 | English | United States of America | Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement. |
| The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | 1,974 | Werner Herzog | Drama, History | 7.3 | 362 | German | Germany | The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him. |
| Snake in the Eagle's Shadow | 1,978 | Yuen Woo-Ping | Action, Comedy | 7.3 | 346 | CN | Hong Kong | Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the snake fist fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the eagle's claw style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan. |
| Malicious | 1,973 | Salvatore Samperi | Comedy | 7.3 | 344 | Italian | Italy | A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods. |
| The Seventh Company Has Been Found | 1,975 | Robert Lamoureux | Comedy, War | 7.3 | 305 | French | France | The second part of the Seventh Company adventures. |
| Lenny | 1,974 | Bob Fosse | Drama | 7.3 | 294 | English | United States of America | The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public. |
| Stroszek | 1,977 | Werner Herzog | Drama | 7.3 | 291 | German | Germany | Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. |
| A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving | 1,973 | Bill Melendez | Animation, Comedy, Family, TV Movie | 7.3 | 287 | English | United States of America | Turkey, cranberries, pumpkin pie... and the Peanuts gang to share them with. This is going to be the greatest Thanksgiving ever! The fun begins when Peppermint Patty invites herself and her pals to Charlie Brown's house for a REALLY big turkey party. Good grief! All our hero can cook is cold cereal and maybe toast. Is Charlie Brown doomed? Not when Linus, Snoopy and Woodstock chip in to save the (Thanksgiving) Day. With such good friends, Charlie Brown - and all of us - have so many reasons to be thankful. |
| Claire's Knee | 1,970 | Éric Rohmer | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 287 | French | France | On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee. |
| The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! | 1,975 | Eldar Ryazanov | TV Movie, Comedy, Romance | 7.3 | 256 | Russian | Soviet Union | A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of the... |
| Grey Gardens | 1,976 | Muffie Meyer | Documentary | 7.3 | 243 | English | United States of America | Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home. |
| 10 Rillington Place | 1,971 | Richard Fleischer | Crime, Thriller | 7.3 | 210 | English | United Kingdom | The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans. |
| Love in the Afternoon | 1,972 | Éric Rohmer | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 208 | French | France | Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma. |
| The Friends of Eddie Coyle | 1,973 | Peter Yates | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 198 | English | United States of America | An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums. |
| The Mother and the Whore | 1,973 | Jean Eustache | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 196 | French | France | Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness. |
| Punishment Park | 1,971 | Peter Watkins | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 196 | English | United States of America | In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim. |
| Blue Collar | 1,978 | Paul Schrader | Drama, Crime | 7.3 | 191 | English | United States of America | Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx | 1,972 | Kenji Misumi | Action, Drama, Adventure | 7.3 | 190 | Japanese | Japan | Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate. |
| Gimme Shelter | 1,970 | Albert Maysles | Documentary, Music | 7.3 | 189 | English | United States of America | A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, an event of historical significance, as it marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love suddenly became the generation of disillusionment. |
| A New Leaf | 1,971 | Elaine May | Comedy, Romance | 7.3 | 188 | English | United States of America | After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell. |
| Conversation Piece | 1,974 | Luchino Visconti | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 156 | Italian | France | A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn. |
| The Scopone Game | 1,972 | Luigi Comencini | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 149 | Italian | Italy | An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia. |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril | 1,972 | Buichi Saitō | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.3 | 149 | Japanese | Japan | Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei. |
| Tale of Tales | 1,979 | Yuri Norstein | Animation | 7.3 | 143 | Russian | Soviet Union | Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted. |
| Many Wars Ago | 1,970 | Francesco Rosi | Drama, War | 7.3 | 140 | Italian | Italy | Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie. |
| The Confession | 1,970 | Costa-Gavras | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 137 | French | France | In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. Unclear what his offense is, agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for these supposed crimes against the state. |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons | 1,973 | Kenji Misumi | Action, Crime, Thriller, Adventure | 7.3 | 131 | Japanese | Japan | Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment. |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity | 1,973 | Kinji Fukasaku | Drama, Crime | 7.3 | 116 | Japanese | Japan | In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. |
| Three from Prostokvashino | 1,978 | Vladimir Popov | Animation | 7.3 | 115 | Russian | Soviet Union | Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother's distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way. |
| Last Known Address | 1,970 | José Giovanni | Thriller, Crime | 7.3 | 110 | French | France | Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation. |
| The Garage | 1,979 | Eldar Ryazanov | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 95 | Russian | Soviet Union | An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to r... |
| El Chanfle | 1,979 | Enrique Segoviano | Comedy, Family, Drama | 7.3 | 93 | Spanish | Mexico | Although he always wanted to become a professional soccer player, El Chanfle has settled for being the props boy and water boy for Mexican soccer's Club América, whose coach they both have trouble getting along with because of the Chanfle's heightened sense of honesty and cleanliness on the court, something the rigid coach does not share. When he is asked to cheat during a game he refuses and is fired from his job, but his friend, the team doctor will try to get him back. At the same time, his wife Tere announces to be pregnant, and trying to sell a gun in order to make money for their future, unintentionally scares a old man, Chato, with it, who now seeks revenge. |
| Why | 1,971 | Nanni Loy | Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 90 | Italian | Italy | Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why? |
| Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | 1,970 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.3 | 90 | German | Germany | Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pressures him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old schoolmates drop by, as do neighbours. Some comment on his wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr R. run amok? |
| Castle of Purity | 1,973 | Arturo Ripstein | Drama | 7.3 | 86 | Spanish | Mexico | A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings. |
| 7 Plus Seven | 1,970 | Michael Apted | Documentary | 7.3 | 83 | English | United Kingdom | After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years. |
| Ordinary Miracle | 1,978 | Mark Zakharov | Drama, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy | 7.3 | 81 | Russian | Soviet Union | A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love? |
| The Promised Land | 1,975 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, History | 7.3 | 80 | Polish | Poland | In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town. |
| Edvard Munch | 1,974 | Peter Watkins | TV Movie, History, Drama | 7.3 | 75 | Norwegian | Norway | Edvard Munch's childhood is overshadowed by death: he suffers the loss of his sister and mother, while enduring serious illness himself, almost dying. At university, Munch discovers his talent as a painter. As he immerses himself in the art world, he becomes part of a cultural revolution led by the likes of nihilist Hans Jæger. |
| Ice Castles | 1,978 | Donald Wrye | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 72 | English | United States of America | Alexis is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to the world — and herself — that she still has the potential to realize her dreams. |
| It Can't Be! | 1,975 | Leonid Gaidai | Comedy | 7.3 | 72 | Russian | Soviet Union | The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality. |
| Fake Gangster | 1,976 | Natuk Baytan | Comedy | 7.3 | 71 | Turkish | Turkey | Kemal, unaware that his father is a mafia boss, sells cotton candy at train stations. After his father is killed, his inheritance is divided. Kemal begins visiting the establishments of Istanbul's most notorious thugs one by one to reclaim his father's inheritance, and gradually gains a reputation. |
| Picardía mexicana | 1,978 | Abel Salazar | N/A | 7.3 | 70 | Spanish | Mexico | An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language. |
| Mera Naam Joker | 1,970 | Raj Kapoor | Drama, Romance, Music | 7.3 | 70 | Hindi | India | Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on." |
| Manila in the Claws of Light | 1,975 | Lino Brocka | Drama, Mystery | 7.3 | 69 | Filipino | Philippines | Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one. |
| Heroes of the East | 1,978 | Lau Kar-Leung | Action, Comedy | 7.3 | 68 | Chinese | Hong Kong | When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife is forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful martial arts masters, each an expert in a different discipline, ranging from karate to samurai to ninjitsu. |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima | 1,973 | Kinji Fukasaku | Drama, Crime | 7.3 | 67 | Japanese | Japan | Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed. |
| El Tahur | 1,979 | Rogelio A. González | N/A | 7.3 | 64 | Spanish | Mexico | Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life. |
| The Place Without Limits | 1,978 | Arturo Ripstein | Drama | 7.3 | 61 | Spanish | Mexico | Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town. |
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | 1,972 | Paul Newman | Drama | 7.3 | 61 | English | United States of America | Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds. |
| Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets | 1,971 | Shūji Terayama | Drama | 7.3 | 60 | Japanese | Japan | An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise. |
| La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe | 1,977 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.3 | 58 | German | Germany | Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. |
| How the Cossacks Played Football | 1,970 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Adventure, Animation, Comedy | 7.3 | 58 | Ukrainian | Soviet Union | A group of cossacks travels around Europe, playing football against the teams of different countries, each of which has their very unique playing style. |
| The Flying Ship | 1,979 | Garri Bardin | Animation | 7.3 | 54 | Russian | Soviet Union | Poor chimney sweep Ivan and Princess Zabava fall in love with each other. They dream of their future happy life, but the difference in their social status and the treacherous Polkan, who dreams of marrying a royal daughter and becoming a ruler, stand in their way. To avoid marriage with the royal adviser, Zabava informs that she will marry only the one who can build a flying ship. Now Ivan has to solve this problem by all means. |
| Dirty Ho | 1,979 | Lau Kar-Leung | Action, Comedy | 7.3 | 53 | CN | Hong Kong | A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins. |
| Daguerréotypes | 1,978 | Agnès Varda | Documentary | 7.3 | 51 | French | France | An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years. |
| Ransom for a Dead Man | 1,972 | Richard Irving | Drama, Mystery, TV Movie, Crime | 7.3 | 51 | English | United States of America | A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo. |
| The Castle of Sand | 1,974 | Yoshitarō Nomura | Crime, Mystery, Drama | 7.3 | 51 | Japanese | Japan | Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard. |
| The Anonymous Venetian | 1,970 | Enrico Maria Salerno | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 49 | Italian | Italy | Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together. |
| Hope | 1,970 | Yılmaz Güney | Drama | 7.3 | 49 | Turkish | Turkey | After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure. |
| What Will You Do When You Catch Me? | 1,978 | Stanisław Bareja | Comedy | 7.3 | 46 | Polish | Poland | Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring. |
| The Sorcerer's Apprentice | 1,978 | Karel Zeman | Animation, Fantasy | 7.3 | 44 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical duel, where the boy never stands a chance because the master is the only person who is allowed to use a secret spell: The Koraktor. |
| This Transient Life | 1,970 | Akio Jissoji | Drama | 7.3 | 44 | Japanese | Japan | Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs. |
| Warriors Two | 1,978 | Sammo Hung Kam-Bo | Action, Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 41 | CN | Hong Kong | In an attempt to save his village from being taken over by brutes, Wah is beaten to a pulp and his mother brutally murdered. Determined to take revenge, Wah learns the art of Wing Chun and enters into a showdown with the nasty villains. |
| The Who: The Kids Are Alright | 1,979 | Jeff Stein | Documentary, Music | 7.3 | 41 | English | United Kingdom | Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us a comprehensive look at the British pioneer rock group, The Who. It captures their zany craziness and outrageous antics from the initial formation of the group in 1964 to 1978. It notably features the band's last performance with long-term drummer Keith Moon, filmed at Shepperton Studios in May 1978, three months before his death. |
| The Long Recess | 1,972 | Aleksei Korenev | Comedy, Romance | 7.3 | 40 | Russian | Soviet Union | A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school. |
| Bugs Bunny Superstar | 1,976 | Larry Jackson | Documentary, Animation | 7.3 | 37 | English | United States of America | Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and black-and-white home-movie-type footage shot at the time showing such animation greats as Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Also featured are nine complete Warner cartoons. |
| Chabelo and Pepito vs. the Monsters | 1,973 | José Estrada | Horror, Comedy, Family | 7.3 | 37 | Spanish | Mexico | An ordinary day's hike gets rough when two youngsters escape from the main group into the woods and, after finding a grotto, discover that there is more to it than just darkness. |
| The Man Who Stole the Sun | 1,979 | Kazuhiko Hasegawa | Crime, Thriller, Action | 7.3 | 35 | Japanese | Japan | A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment. |
| Frankenstein: The True Story | 1,974 | Jack Smight | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction | 7.3 | 34 | English | United States of America | Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori. |
| Five Shaolin Masters | 1,974 | Chang Cheh | Action, Drama | 7.3 | 30 | Chinese | Hong Kong | Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi, joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots. |
| Domestic Circumstances | 1,977 | Aleksei Korenev | Comedy, Romance, TV Movie | 7.3 | 29 | Russian | Soviet Union | Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother. |
| Rapine | 1,975 | Carlos Enrique Taboada | Drama, Crime, Horror | 7.3 | 28 | Spanish | Mexico | Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident. |
| The Year of the Hare | 1,977 | Risto Jarva | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 25 | Finnish | Finland | Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life |
| The Wedding | 1,973 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, Fantasy, History | 7.3 | 24 | Polish | Poland | Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. |
| National Mechanics | 1,972 | Luis Alcoriza | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 23 | Spanish | Mexico | A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person. |
| Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert | 1,971 | Mircea Drăgan | Comedy, Action | 7.3 | 23 | Romanian | Romania | The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s. |
| La Région Centrale | 1,971 | Michael Snow | Documentary | 7.3 | 23 | French | Canada | A 1971 experimental Canadian film directed by Michael Snow. Shot in the Canadian mountains over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm. |
| Chung Kuo: China | 1,972 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Documentary | 7.3 | 22 | Italian | Italy | A sweeping documentary explores China through its people, showcasing life in Beijing's old city and a bustling cotton factory, a collective farm in Henan, the historic city of Suzhou, and the industrial port of Shanghai, culminating in a vibrant acrobatic performance. |
| Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Mystery Of The Arcadia | 1,978 | Rintaro | Action, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction | 7.3 | 20 | Japanese | Japan | The story on Arcadia's mystery, on which the 13th television episode was based. |
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