Movie Releases by Genre
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The Great Santini
October 26, 1979
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated Marine pilot.
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French Postcards
October 26, 1979
The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love.
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...and justice for all.
October 19, 1979
A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.
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Meteor
October 19, 1979
The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.
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Vengeance Is Mine
October 17, 1979
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime tale, Vengeance Is Mine bares humanity’s snarling id. [The Criterion Channel]
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The Europeans
October 8, 1979
A pivotal film for Merchant Ivory, who demonstrate great intelligence and wit with their faithful adaptation of Henry James' story of an encounter between a family or pre-Civil War New Englanders and their European cousins, whose sophisticated ways dazzle and attract some family members and scandalize others. The fortune-hunting Baroness Eugenia Muenster (Lee Remick) arrives with her artistic and dashing brother Felix (Tim Woodward) for a transatlantic visit with their cousins, the Wentworths. Less calculating than his sister, the bohemian, happy-go-lucky Felix falls for Gertrude Wentworth (Lisa Eichhorn), who is already being courted (and bored) by the earnest Unitarian Minister suitor Mr. Brand (Norman Snow). Eugenia meanwhile sets her sights on the reserved and attractive Robert Acton (Robin Ellis), who is torn between his captivation with the Baroness and his distrust of her European worldliness. Delightful, elegant and superbly acted, this film inaugurated Merchant Ivory's long winning streak of period literary adaptations. [Cohen Media Group]
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
October 1, 1979
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
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Time After Time
September 28, 1979
H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.
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The Onion Field
September 19, 1979
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
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Yanks
September 19, 1979
Joining WWII, USA ships soldiers to UK. Matt and John arrive in 1942. Each see a local woman - married or to be engaged with soldiers serving faraway.
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Love and Bullets
September 14, 1979
Arizona cop is sent to Switzerland to bring in the girlfriend of a dangerous mobster so she can testify against him. The mobster sends someone too - assassins.
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Hanover Street
September 13, 1979
Margaret (Lesley-Anne Down) is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David (Harrison Ford), an American pilot.
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
August 17, 1979
A Senator leads opposition to a Supreme Court nominee, straining friendships and family ties while pursuing career advancement. His relationship with a researcher adds further complications.
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My Brilliant Career
August 17, 1979
A young independent woman who lives with her grandmother and aunt in the countryside rebels against being pressured into marriage and chooses to solely focus on having a career as a writer. Nevertheless, two suitors propose to her.
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Fast Company
August 17, 1979
After his sponsor replaces him with his arch rival, a race-car driver decides to steal the car and race it himself.
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The Concorde... Airport '79
August 17, 1979
A supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.
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Apocalypse Now
August 15, 1979
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
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More American Graffiti
August 3, 1979
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late 1960s.
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North Dallas Forty
August 3, 1979
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
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The Lady in Red
July 27, 1979
A naive farm girl's life turns upside down after being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
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Breaking Away
July 20, 1979
A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.
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The Frisco Kid
July 13, 1979
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.
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The Wanderers
July 4, 1979
Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons and "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n' Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Timeless.
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Escape from Alcatraz
June 22, 1979
Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.
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The Driller Killer
June 15, 1979
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
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Rocky II
June 15, 1979
After club fighter Rocky Balboa goes the distance with the world heavyweight champion, boxing fans clamor for a re-match. But Rocky, having sustained massive injuries in the bout, announces his retirement. Though he tries to make a new life for himself, Rocky realizes that he can't escape his true calling. The ring beckons once more, and the "Italian Stallion" must prepare for the fight of his life. [MGM]
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Game of Death
June 8, 1979
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
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A Force of One
May 18, 1979
When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.
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Over the Edge
May 18, 1979
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
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Winter Kills
May 11, 1979
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
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Jubilee
May 9, 1979
Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
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Saint Jack
April 27, 1979
Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early-1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to live a life of luxury.
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The Champ
April 4, 1979
A former boxer discovers that his biggest battle of all is going to be with his ex-wife, Annie, who returns after abandoning their young son seven years prior.
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The Silent Partner
March 16, 1979
A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.
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The China Syndrome
March 16, 1979
This thriller about the dangers of nuclear power arrived in theaters a mere thirteen days before the disaster at Three Mile Island. In it, a reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a California nuclear power plant.
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Hair
March 14, 1979
Claude (Savage), a midwestern boy who's been drafted for the Vietnam War, travels to New York City and meets a group of hippies.
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Manhattan
March 14, 1979
Manhattan is an extraordinary and funny film that explores the embattled life and loves of a successful New York comedy writer. [MGM]
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The Passage
March 9, 1979
During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being pursued by a sadistic German.
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The Promise
March 8, 1979
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
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Norma Rae
March 2, 1979
A young single mother and textile worker (Sally Field) agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
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The Great Train Robbery
February 2, 1979
Also known as "The First Great Train Robbery." In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
February 2, 1979
On Valentine's Day 1900, three school girls and a school teacher go missing under mysterious circumstances during a trip to Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia.
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Hardcore
January 1, 1979
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in California's porno pits.
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Ice Castles
December 31, 1978
A young girl 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.
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King of the Gypsies
December 20, 1978
In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.
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Force 10 from Navarone
December 8, 1978
During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
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The Deer Hunter
December 8, 1978
The Deer Hunter tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Robert De Niro gives an outstanding performance as Michael, the natural leader of the group. The Deer Hunter is a searing drama of friendship and courage - and what happens to these qualities under hardship. [Universal]
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The Brink's Job
December 8, 1978
A fictional retelling of the infamous Boston Brink's Company robbery on January 17th, 1950, of $2.7M, and cost the American taxpayers $29M to apprehend the culprits with only $58,000 recovered.
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Northern Lights
November 17, 1978
NORTHERN LIGHTS has the feel of an old black and white photograph discovered in an attic. The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in an political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks and the railroads, NORTHERN LIGHTS brings back a forgotten era of American history and evokes the austere beauty of the Northern Plains.
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Magic
November 8, 1978
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
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Watership Down
November 1, 1978
A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home.
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Comes a Horseman
October 25, 1978
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage, they eventually find love.
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The Boys from Brazil
October 6, 1978
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay (Laurence Olivier) discovers a bizarrely sinister plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Midnight Express
October 6, 1978
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
October 4, 1978
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.
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Death on the Nile
September 29, 1978
As Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?
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Bloodbrothers
September 28, 1978
A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.
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Paradise Alley
September 22, 1978
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
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Days of Heaven
September 13, 1978
One of the most critically acclaimed films of all time, Days Of Heaven is a moving story about two men who love the same woman. A fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby. Writer/director Malick's film is an extraordinary cinematic achievement of sight and sound. [Paramount Pictures]
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Interiors
August 2, 1978
Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.
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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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Convoy
June 28, 1978
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
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Jaws 2
June 16, 1978
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
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Capricorn One
June 2, 1978
A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret.
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Big Wednesday
May 26, 1978
The lives of some California surfers from the early 1960s to the 1970s.
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The Buddy Holly Story
May 18, 1978
The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.
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The End
May 10, 1978
Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.
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Martin
May 10, 1978
A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.
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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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Pretty Baby
April 5, 1978
A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
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Deathsport
April 1, 1978
Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
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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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House Calls
March 15, 1978
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife. He embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
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An Unmarried Woman
March 5, 1978
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.
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Coming Home
February 15, 1978
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
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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 Boys in Company C
February 2, 1978
In 1967, five young men undergo boot camp training before being shipped out to Vietnam. Once they get there, the experience proves worse than they could have imagined.
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Renaldo and Clara
January 25, 1978
Bob Dylan on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975; concert footage, documentary interviews and bizarre improvised character scenes.
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The Duellists
January 13, 1978
A small feud between two Napoleonic officers evolves into a decades-long series of duels.
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Coma
January 6, 1978
When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.
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Opening Night
December 25, 1977
An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
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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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Candleshoe
December 16, 1977
Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!
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Saturday Night Fever
December 16, 1977
John Travolta stars as a local disco kingpin at the peak of his popularity. Once a week, after six full days of work in a Brooklyn paint store, Tony (Travolta) douses himself with Brut cologne, dons a floral bodyshirt, gabardine pants and platform shoes - and ritualistically prepares himself for "Saturday Night Fever." Through the influence of Stephanie - his more sophisticated dance partner - and Tony's brother - a disillusioned priest - Tony begins to question the way his views life and the narrowness of his perspective. (Paramount Pictures)
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The Goodbye Girl
November 30, 1977
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
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The Turning Point
November 18, 1977
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
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Heroes
November 17, 1977
A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
November 16, 1977
Power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has an extraordinary encounter with a strange spacecraft while out on a call. Recurring visions of a mountain fuel an increasing obsession that drives him to an emotional breaking point. Desperate to understand what he has experienced, he finds an ally in Jillian (Melinda Dillon), a single mother who believes her son has been abducted by the aliens. Meanwhile an international group of scientists led by French expert Claude Lacombe (Francois Truffaut) search for a breakthrough in human-alien communication. Their collective quest culminates in a remote Wyoming rendezvous and an event of unequalled importance in all of human history. [Sony Pictures]
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1900
November 4, 1977
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
October 19, 1977
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
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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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Julia
October 2, 1977
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
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Bobby Deerfield
September 29, 1977
Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
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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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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
August 10, 1977
13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.
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Orca
July 22, 1977
A hunter squares off against a killer whale seeking vengeance for the death of its mate.
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Greased Lightning
July 1, 1977
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.
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Sorcerer
June 24, 1977
Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.
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Conversation Piece
June 23, 1977
A retired professor and art lover leads a solitary life in his abode in Rome. Countess Bianca Brumonti insists on renting a floor of his mansion. He agrees in exchange for a unique painting that he wants for his collection. The arrival of the countess’ eccentric family turns his quiet life upside down.
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New York, New York
June 21, 1977
An egotistical saxophonist and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long, up-hill climb.
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