Movie Releases by Genre
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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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Fingers
March 2, 1978
A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother.
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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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Ceddo
June 18, 1977
In protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo (outsiders) kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage.
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A Bridge Too Far
June 15, 1977
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
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For the Love of Benji
June 10, 1977
Benji sniffs out a bogus CIA agent in Athens, Greece.
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Equinox Flower
June 1, 1977
A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.
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Cross of Iron
May 20, 1977
German commander Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) refuses to lie for him.
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Citizens Band
May 18, 1977
This movie interlaces the stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio. Paul LeMat is the local CB coordinator who has time for little else in his life. His father, Roberts Blossom is a sour old man who is nice on the radio. Charles Napier is a trucker hospitalized after an accident, with hilarious consequences.
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Annie Hall
April 20, 1977
Woody Allen portrays a neurotic, highly insecure and indecisive comedy writer who falls head over heels in love with a naive small-town girl who aspires to be a singer. The opening rounds of their relationship involve every romantic cliche. And despite having moved in together, his insecurities get the best of him as he interprets her every move as rejection. While her self-confidence grows, his progressively fades. Can this oddball romance survive?
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The Eagle Has Landed
April 2, 1977
A German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
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Airport '77
March 11, 1977
Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.
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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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Slap Shot
February 25, 1977
A failing ice hockey team finds success using constant fighting and violence during games.
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The Cassandra Crossing
February 9, 1977
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
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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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Voyage of the Damned
December 22, 1976
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
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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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A Star Is Born
December 17, 1976
A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.
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Bound for Glory
December 5, 1976
The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.
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Rocky
December 3, 1976
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) 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! [MGM]
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The Last Tycoon
November 19, 1976
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
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Network
November 14, 1976
A devastating commentary on a world of ratings-driving commercial TV that is getting more on target every day, Network introduces us to Howard Beale (Finch), dean of newscasters at the United Broadcasting Systems (UBS). Having heard that he will soon be dumped by the UBS for "skewing too old," Beal announces to his viewers that he will commit suicide on his next and final program. Eyeing ratings gold with this news, an ambitious programming executive convinces the powers that be not to fire Beal on the spot. The tables turn, however, when instead of going through the act, Beal launches into rhetoric about the state of the world and concludes his tirade with "I'm mad as Hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" [MGM]
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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
November 12, 1976
The girl next door makes a teen born with immune deficiencies want to leave his germ-free bubble.
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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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The Marquise of O
October 24, 1976
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
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Car Wash
October 22, 1976
A comedic take on the daily life of a car wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams and tribulations. And meeting a few eccentric costumers along the way.
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Solaris (1972)
October 6, 1976
Based on Stanislaw Lem's novel, this 1972 allegory takes place on a space station near a mysterious planet.
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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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The Shootist
August 20, 1976
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
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Obsession
August 1, 1976
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
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Lifeguard
July 23, 1976
Rick is in his 30s, but still works full-time as a lifeguard on the beaches of Los Angeles, California. He enjoys the fun of it, but even more, the silent moments. However, when he meets his divorced high school girlfriend and her five-year-old son at their fifteen year class reunion, he considers switching to a more "serious" job.
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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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The Tenant
June 25, 1976
A quiet and inconspicuous man (Roman Polanski) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide.
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Midway
June 18, 1976
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
May 28, 1976
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life. Rock legend David Bowie, in his acting debut, completely embodies the title role, while Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn turn in pitch-perfect supporting performances. The film’s hallucinatory vision was obscured in the American theatrical release, which deleted nearly twenty minutes of crucial scenes and details. [The Criterion Collection]
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The Missouri Breaks
May 22, 1976
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
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Stay Hungry
April 23, 1976
A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and falls in love with Joe's friend Mary Tate.
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All the President's Men
April 9, 1976
In the Watergate Building on June 17, 1972, lights go on and four burglars are caught breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Headquarters. That night triggered revelations that would eventually drive a U.S. President from office. Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) grabbed the initial break-in story and stayed with it through doubts, denials and discouragement. [Warner Bros.]
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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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The Bad News Bears
April 7, 1976
An aging, drunk, ex-minor leaguer (Matthau) reluctantly agrees to coach a team of misfit kids in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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Face to Face
April 5, 1976
A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
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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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Robin and Marian
March 12, 1976
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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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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Barry Lyndon
December 18, 1975
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
November 19, 1975
A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward. (Warner Bros.)
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A Boy and His Dog
November 14, 1975
A young man and his telepathic dog wander a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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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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Xala
October 1, 1975
A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
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Grey Gardens
September 27, 1975
An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy, live their eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton.
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Swept Away
September 17, 1975
A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
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Cooley High
June 25, 1975
In 1964, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and get falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through the end of high school and the dramatic end to their school year.
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Bite the Bullet
June 25, 1975
A pair of ex-Rough Riders, a former prostitute, a gunfighter, an aging cowboy and an English gentleman enter a 700-mile horse race through the Southwest desert in 1908.
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Nashville
June 11, 1975
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.
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Lancelot of the Lake
June 9, 1975
From renowned French director Robert Bresson comes this spare and haunting version of the legend of Camelot. The story begins as the Knights of the Round Table return to Camelot after their futile search for the blessed Holy Grail. Lancelot (Luc Simon), the leader of the quest, is reunited with Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas), who begs him to become her lover. Convinced that his impure thoughts are the reason for his recent misfortune, Lancelot assures Guinevere that he will neither cease his search nor become her lover. However, when the jealousy of another knight, Mordred (Patrick Bernard), spurs rebellion in the land, Lancelot decides to remain in Camelot and fight until death for King Arthur (Vladimir Antolek-Oresek). Along the way, he accidentally murders his best friend, Gawain (Humbert Balsan), giving Mordred an added edge in their battle. [New Yorker Films]
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The Wind and the Lion
May 22, 1975
In early twentieth century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.
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Breakout
May 22, 1975
A bush pilot is hired for fifty thousand dollars to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
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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 Day of the Locust
May 7, 1975
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
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Tommy
March 19, 1975
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.
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The Great Waldo Pepper
March 13, 1975
After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights.
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