Movie Releases by Genre
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Who'll Stop the Rain
August 2, 1978
Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.
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The Driver
July 28, 1978
A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
July 19, 1978
To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Clouseau. Once news of his "death" has been announced, Clouseau tries to take advantage of it and goes undercover with Cato to find out who tried to kill him.
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F.I.S.T.
April 28, 1978
A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.
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Straight Time
March 17, 1978
After being released on parole, a career burglar assaults his former probation officer, returns to a life of crime, and goes on the run.
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Blue Collar
February 10, 1978
Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night, when they steal away from their wives to have some fun, they get the idea to rob the local union's bureau safe. First they think it is a flop, because they get only six hundred dollars out of it, but then Zeke realizes that they also have gotten some "hot" material. They decide to blackmail their union. The best reason for that is the union itself. All three are provoked by the fact that the union claims to have lost ten thousand dollars by their robbery.
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The Choirboys
December 23, 1977
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after hours debauchery.
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The Gauntlet
December 21, 1977
A hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from Las Vegas to Phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. But a lot of people are literally betting that they won't make it into town alive.
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Rolling Thunder
October 14, 1977
A returning war veteran loses his family to a violent home invasion and decides to seek and retaliate against those responsible.
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The American Friend
September 24, 1977
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
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Black Sunday
March 11, 1977
Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
December 24, 1976
In 1946, a hooded serial killer terrorizes the residents of a small Arkansas town.
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The Enforcer
December 22, 1976
Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with.
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Mikey and Nicky
December 21, 1976
In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who's on his trail.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
December 15, 1976
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Silver Streak
December 3, 1976
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
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Two-Minute Warning
November 12, 1976
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
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Assault on Precinct 13
November 5, 1976
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
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God Told Me To
October 22, 1976
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
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Marathon Man
October 8, 1976
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
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Bugsy Malone
September 15, 1976
A gangster movie in which all the gangsters are played by children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".
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Gator
August 20, 1976
Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.
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Cannonball!
July 6, 1976
This is another story of the secret Coast to Coast auto race across America The only rule is, the first to finish is the winner. Naturally, anyone driving 55 isn't going to win. They'll need to drive a little faster than that. Well actually, they will need to drive a LOT faster that 55.
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Murder by Death
June 23, 1976
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
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Family Plot
April 9, 1976
A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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Lipstick
April 2, 1976
A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.
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Not a Pretty Picture
March 31, 1976
Mixing narrative and documentary filming in a unique way, the story is autobiographical and is about a date rape, dissecting the characters and circumstances around it. By following the effects of the incident on the main character we grow to understand the tremendous impact of what many people don't consider to be rape.
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
February 15, 1976
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
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Taxi Driver
February 7, 1976
Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece is the all-too-real story of a psychotic New York cabby who is driven to violence in an attempt to rescue a teenage prostitute. [Sony]
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Hustle
December 25, 1975
At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.
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Dog Day Afternoon
December 25, 1975
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
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The Killer Elite
December 19, 1975
Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.
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Hard Times
October 8, 1975
The adventures of a drifter turned illegal prize-fighter during the Depression Era in New Orleans.
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Farewell, My Lovely
August 8, 1975
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
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The Drowning Pool
July 18, 1975
A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.
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The Return of the Pink Panther
May 21, 1975
Inspector Clouseau is put on the case when the Pink Panther diamond is stolen, with the Phantom's trademark glove the only clue.
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French Connection II
May 21, 1975
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.
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The Eiger Sanction
May 21, 1975
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
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The Fortune
May 20, 1975
Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
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Dolemite
April 26, 1975
After he is released from jail, a pimp takes on the criminals and corrupt police officers who framed him in the first place.
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Brannigan
March 26, 1975
Chicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the U.K. to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the U.S., but Larkin's hitmen prepare an ambush for Brannigan.
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Night Moves
March 18, 1975
Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.
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The Godfather: Part II
December 12, 1974
The sequel to "The Godfather" continues the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito, played with uncanny ability by Robert De Niro, and the ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. [Paramount Pictures]
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Murder on the Orient Express
November 24, 1974
In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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The Gambler
October 2, 1974
Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.
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Big Bad Mama
September 19, 1974
A tough single mother and her two daughters are forced by circumstances into a life of crime, and quickly become outlaws on the run, picking up partners along the way, and traveling to different states, pursued by the law.
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The Longest Yard
August 30, 1974
A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
August 7, 1974
An American bar room pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
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Gone in 60 Seconds
July 28, 1974
When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one is in the bag - thereby, the police precipitate in a desperate car chase against Pace and his Eleanor across Southern California.
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Death Wish
July 24, 1974
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.
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Mr. Majestyk
July 17, 1974
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
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Chinatown
June 20, 1974
Jack Nicholson is private-eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extramarital 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 for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown. (Paramount)
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
May 24, 1974
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.
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The Black Windmill
May 17, 1974
A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
May 17, 1974
Larry Rayder is an aspiring NASCAR driver, Deke Sommers is mechanic. As they feel they collectively are the best, the only thing that is holding them back is money to build the best vehicle possible. As such, they decide to rob a supermarket's office of the money in its safe to pursue their dream. On the most part, their robbery is successful, although their plan breaks down in its end phase, which doesn't allow them as much getaway time as they wanted. Another problem they face is an unexpected third person in their getaway, Larry's one night stand Mary Coombs, who doesn't like the fact that Larry ran off on her, although she eventually also says that she doesn't want any of the money. With a police scanner and two-way radio in their souped up Dodge Charger, they try to outrun the police, who have an identification of their vehicle, and a general description of the three. The police pursuit is led by the tenacious Sheriff Everett Franklin, who knows he and his team can catch them, but also knows that the three may be able to get out of the state to "freedom" through a grove of walnut trees, which Larry, Deke and Mary may or may not know. At every literal and figurative turn, Larry needs to show his superiority as a driver, while trying to ditch Mary, who is a little more resourceful in staying with them than he anticipates.
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Foxy Brown
April 5, 1974
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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The Sugarland Express
April 5, 1974
Based on a true story, a desperate mother (Goldie Hawn) attempts to reunite her family by any means necessary including helping her husband escape prison, kidnapping a Texas state trooper and leading the police on a wild chase across the state in an effort to save her son from adoption. Winning the hearts of many fans that followed her story on the news, this film conveys the true story of a girl who took on all of Texas... and almost won. [Universal Pictures]
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Thieves Like Us
February 11, 1974
When two men break out of prison, they join up with another and restart their criminal ways, robbing banks across the South.
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Magnum Force
December 25, 1973
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.
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The Sting
December 25, 1973
In Chicago of September 1936, a young con man seeks revenge for his murdered by teaming up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.
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The Laughing Policeman
December 20, 1973
In San Francisco, California, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.
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Papillon
December 16, 1973
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.
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Serpico
December 5, 1973
Sidney Lumet's 1973 film stars Al Pacino as New York cop Frank Serpico.
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Charley Varrick
October 19, 1973
A man, his wife and their friend stage a bloody bank robbery without realizing they are stealing from the Mob.
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Badlands
October 15, 1973
Loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, Terrence Malick's debut features follows outlaws Kit and Holly from Fort Dupre, South Dakota to the badlands of Montana.
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Mean Streets
October 14, 1973
Charlie (Harvey Keitel) is working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Teresa (Amy Robinson) is the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro) is a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks. This is a story Martin Scorsese lived, a semi-biographical tale of the first-generation sons and daughters of New York's Little Italy. [Warner Bros.]
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Enter the Dragon
August 19, 1973
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
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White Lightning
August 8, 1973
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
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The Day of the Jackal
July 30, 1973
A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
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Cleopatra Jones
July 13, 1973
During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
June 27, 1973
After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.
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Dillinger
June 19, 1973
John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.
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The Offence
May 11, 1973
A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.
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Paper Moon
May 9, 1973
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.
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Soylent Green
May 9, 1973
In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.
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Coffy
May 1, 1973
A sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.
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The Mack
April 4, 1973
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
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The Long Goodbye
March 7, 1973
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam then gets implicated in his wife's murder.
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Walking Tall
February 22, 1973
Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.
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The Harder They Come
February 8, 1973
Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to the city of Kingston in search of fame and fortune. Pushed to desperate circumstances by shady record producers and corrupt cops, he finally achieves notoriety—as a murderous outlaw. Boasting some of the greatest music ever produced in Jamaica, The Harder They Come brought the catchy and subversive rhythms of the Rastas to the U.S. in the early 1970s. [The Criterion Collection]
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Black Mama White Mama
January 19, 1973
A black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison and are pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the army.
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The Getaway
December 13, 1972
A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
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The Mechanic
November 17, 1972
An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.
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The Way of the Dragon
August 14, 1972
Lee pays a visit to family members who own a restaurant in Italy. But mobsters who want the land the eatery is built upon harass the owners, forcing Lee to defend his family as only he can. Lee, for the sake of his loved ones, must battle a U.S. karate expert in a Roman coliseum.
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Super Fly
August 4, 1972
The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
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Le Samouraï
July 12, 1972
Jef Costello (Alain Delon) is a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
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Hannie Caulder
July 1, 1972
After she is raped and her husband murdered, a woman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can get her revenge on the three outlaws responsible.
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Boxcar Bertha
June 14, 1972
During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.
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The Godfather
March 24, 1972
Francis Ford Coppola's epic features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972. [Paramount Pictures]
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Pink Flamingos
March 17, 1972
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
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The Hot Rock
January 26, 1972
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
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Dirty Harry
December 23, 1971
When an individual known as 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan (Eastwoood) is assigned to track down and deal with the psychopath. "Iknowwhatyou're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've only got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"
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Straw Dogs
December 22, 1971
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
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A Clockwork Orange
December 20, 1971
Kubrick makes of Anthony Burgess' celebrated novel a savage and satiric morality play centering on Alex (McDowell), who fights, robs, rapes and kills like any concsienceless predator. Captured and imprisoned, he undergoes treatment to condition him "safe", a "clockwork orange" healthy and whole on the outside - but crippled within by reflex mechanisms beyond his control. (Warner Bros.)
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Born to Win
December 1, 1971
A smart-mouthed junkie and loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
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The French Connection
October 7, 1971
New York narcotics officer "Popeye" Doyle and his partner take on an international drug ring shipping heroin into the United States.
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The Murder of Fred Hampton
October 4, 1971
Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.
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Black God, White Devil
September 25, 1971
After killing his employer when said employer tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.
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Shaft
July 2, 1971
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Klute
June 25, 1971
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.
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