Movies

Over time, we have collected a number of titles on DVD, blu-ray, online services, other digital media (and a few odd titles on VHS).

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Titles with an asterisk (*) are DVDs that belong to Jason.

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Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (in The Abominable Dr. Phibes set)
1971 - PG-13 - Comedy, Horror - 94 min - United Kingdom - English, Hebrew
Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.

Directed by: Robert Fuest
Written by: James Whiton, William Goldstein
Starring: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith
1 win & 2 nominations
IMDB # 66740
Alien (in Alien Anthology set)
1979 - R - Horror, Sci-Fi - 117 min - United Kingdom, United States - English
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.

Directed by: Ridley Scott
Written by: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Won 1 Oscar. 18 wins & 22 nominations total
IMDB # 78748
All the President's Men
1976 - PG - Drama, History, Thriller - 138 min - United States - English, Spanish
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Written by: Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, William Goldman
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden
Won 4 Oscars. 17 wins & 21 nominations total
IMDB # 74119
Andromeda Strain, The
1971 - G - Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller - 131 min - United States - English
A team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.

Directed by: Robert Wise
Written by: Michael Crichton, Nelson Gidding
Starring: James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 nominations total
IMDB # 66769
Animal House
1978 - R - Comedy - 109 min - United States - English, Italian
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Directed by: John Landis
Written by: Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller
Starring: John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce
2 wins & 1 nomination
IMDB # 77975
Apocalypse Now (in Apocalypse Now 40th Anniversary Edition set)
1979 - R - Drama, Mystery, War - 147 min - United States - English, French, Vietnamese
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Written by: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Won 2 Oscars. 21 wins & 33 nominations total
IMDB # 78788
Barry Lyndon
1975 - PG - Adventure, Drama, War - 185 min - United Kingdom, United States - English, German, French
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Written by: Stanley Kubrick, William Makepeace Thackeray
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Won 4 Oscars. 19 wins & 15 nominations total
IMDB # 72684
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (in Planet of the Apes Legacy Collection)
1973 - G - Action, Sci-Fi - 93 min - United States - English
Ten years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Written by: Pierre Boulle, Paul Dehn, John William Corrington
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy
2 nominations
IMDB # 69768
Battlestar Galactica (Theatrical Version)
1978 - PG - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 148 min - United States - English
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.

Directed by: Richard A. Colla, Alan J. Levi
Written by: Glen A. Larson
Starring: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene
1 nomination
IMDB # 77215
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)
1978 - TV-PG - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 60 min - United States - English
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.

Directed by: N/A
Written by: Glen A. Larson
Starring: Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict
Won 2 Primetime Emmys. 3 wins & 8 nominations total
IMDB # 76984
Being There
1979 - PG - Comedy, Drama - 130 min - United States - English, Russian, Italian
After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.

Directed by: Hal Ashby
Written by: Jerzy Kosinski, Robert C. Jones
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
Won 1 Oscar. 14 wins & 15 nominations total
IMDB # 78841
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (in Planet of the Apes Legacy Collection)
1970 - G - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 95 min - United States - English
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.

Directed by: Ted Post
Written by: Paul Dehn, Mort Abrahams, Pierre Boulle
Starring: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
1 nomination
IMDB # 65462
Bionic Woman, The (TV Series)
1976 - TV-PG - Action, Adventure, Drama - 60 min - United States - English
After fully recovering from her nearly fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.

Directed by: N/A
Written by: Kenneth Johnson
Starring: Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks
Won 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 wins & 5 nominations total
IMDB # 73965
Black Hole, The
1979 - PG - Action, Sci-Fi - 98 min - United States - English
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.

Directed by: Gary Nelson
Written by: Jeb Rosebrook, Bob Barbash, Richard H. Landau
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 8 nominations total
IMDB # 78869
Blazing Saddles
1974 - R - Comedy, Western - 93 min - United States - English, Yiddish, German
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

Directed by: Mel Brooks
Written by: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 3 wins & 6 nominations total
IMDB # 71230
Blood for Dracula
1974 - R - Horror - 106 min - Italy, France, United States - English
An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.

Directed by: Paul Morrissey
Written by: Paul Morrissey, Pat Hackett, Bram Stoker
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica
1 nomination
IMDB # 71233
Boy and His Dog, A
1975 - R - Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi - 91 min - United States - English
A young man and his telepathic dog wander a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Directed by: L.Q. Jones
Written by: L.Q. Jones, Harlan Ellison, Wayne Cruseturner
Starring: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton
2 wins & 2 nominations
IMDB # 72730
Boys in the Band, The
1970 - R - Drama - 118 min - United States - English
Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

Directed by: William Friedkin
Written by: Mart Crowley
Starring: Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey
3 nominations
IMDB # 65488
Cabaret
1972 - PG - Drama, Music, Musical - 124 min - United States - English, German, Hebrew, French
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Directed by: Bob Fosse
Written by: Joe Masteroff, John Van Druten, Christopher Isherwood
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Won 8 Oscars. 39 wins & 18 nominations total
IMDB # 68327
Caligula
1979 - Unrated - Drama, History - 156 min - Italy, United States - English
A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.

Directed by: Tinto Brass
Written by: Gore Vidal, Malcolm McDowell, Masolino D'Amico
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren
2 nominations
IMDB # 80491
Catch 22
1970 - R - Comedy, Drama, War - 122 min - United States - English, Italian
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.

Directed by: Mike Nichols
Written by: Joseph Heller, Buck Henry
Starring: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin
Nominated for 2 BAFTA 5 nominations total
IMDB # 65528
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, A (TV Special, in Peanuts Holiday Collection)
1973 - TV-G - Animation, Comedy, Family - 25 min - United States - English
Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner.

Directed by: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Written by: Charles M. Schulz
Starring: Todd Barbee, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea
Won 1 Primetime Emmy. 1 win & 1 nomination total
IMDB # 68359
China Syndrome, The
1979 - PG - Drama, Thriller - 122 min - United States - English
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Directed by: James Bridges
Written by: Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 8 wins & 16 nominations total
IMDB # 78966
Chinatown
1974 - R - Drama, Mystery, Thriller - 130 min - United States - English, Cantonese, Spanish
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Directed by: Roman Polanski
Written by: Robert Towne, Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Won 1 Oscar. 22 wins & 25 nominations total
IMDB # 71315
Clockwork Orange, A
1971 - X - Crime, Sci-Fi - 136 min - United Kingdom, United States - English
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 12 wins & 24 nominations total
IMDB # 66921
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Original Theatrical Cut, Special Edition Cut, Director's Cut)
1977 - PG - Drama, Sci-Fi - 138 min - United States, United Kingdom - English, French, Spanish, Hindi
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood, Jerry Belson
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
Won 1 Oscar. 15 wins & 39 nominations total
IMDB # 75860
Connections (TV Mini-Series)
1978 - N/A - Documentary, History - 50 min - United Kingdom - English
Follow James Burke through the history of science and technology in this collection of 10 1-hour episodes, starting with "The Trigger Effect."

Directed by: N/A
Written by: N/A
Starring: James Burke, Kenneth Kendall, Bruce Boa
N/A
IMDB # 78588
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (in Planet of the Apes Legacy Collection)
1972 - PG - Action, Sci-Fi - 88 min - United States - English
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Written by: Paul Dehn, Pierre Boulle
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban
1 nomination
IMDB # 68408
Dark Star
1974 - G - Comedy, Sci-Fi - 83 min - United States - English
In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.

Directed by: John Carpenter
Written by: John Carpenter, Dan O'Bannon
Starring: Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle
1 win & 2 nominations
IMDB # 69945
Deliverance*
1972 - R - Adventure, Drama, Thriller - 109 min - United States - English
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Directed by: John Boorman
Written by: James Dickey, John Boorman
Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 3 wins & 15 nominations total
IMDB # 68473
Diamonds are Forever (in The James Bond Collection, filed under "Bond, James")
1971 - GP - Action, Adventure, Thriller - 120 min - United Kingdom - English, German
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.

Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Written by: Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz, Ian Fleming
Starring: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 4 nominations total
IMDB # 66995
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death (TV Show Episode)
1977 - N/A - Documentary - 170 min - UK - English
Tom Baker watches clips of all the serials in which he acted as 'Doctor Who', and provides ad lib anecdotes and reminiscences.

Directed by: John Nathan-Turner
Written by: John Nathan-Turner, Sydney Newman (creator)
Starring: Tom Baker, Janet Fielding, Louise Jameson, John Leeson
N/A
IMDB # 217370
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors (TV Special)
1972 - N/A - Documentary - 88 min - UK - English
Jon Pertwee presents a look at his own era of Doctor Who. Featuring episodes from the stories "Inferno", "Frontier in Space" and "The Dæmons".

Directed by: N/A
Written by: John Nathan-Turner
Starring: Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Nicholas Courtney, Peter Davison
N/A
IMDB # 297086
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (in The Abominable Dr. Phibes set)
1972 - PG - Comedy, Horror - 89 min - United Kingdom - English
The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.

Directed by: Robert Fuest
Written by: Robert Fuest, Robert Blees, James Whiton
Starring: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp
1 win & 2 nominations
IMDB # 68503
El Topo
1970 - Not Rated - Drama, Western - 125 min - Mexico - Spanish
A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.

Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Written by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta
4 wins & 3 nominations
IMDB # 67866
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
1977 - Not Rated - Comedy, Drama, Family - 48 min - United States, Canada - English
A poor otter family risks everything for the chance to win the cash prize of a talent contest for Christmas.

Directed by: Jim Henson
Written by: Lillian Hoban, Russell Hoban, Jerry Juhl
Starring: Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Marilyn Sokol
Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys. 1 win & 4 nominations total
IMDB # 75988
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (in Planet of the Apes Legacy Collection)
1971 - G - Action, Sci-Fi - 98 min - United States - English
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.

Directed by: Don Taylor
Written by: Paul Dehn, Pierre Boulle
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman
1 nomination
IMDB # 67065
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
1972 - R - Comedy - 88 min - United States - English, Italian
Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.

Directed by: Woody Allen
Written by: David Reuben, Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, Louise Lasser
1 win & 1 nomination
IMDB # 68555
Exorcist, The (Extended Director's Cut)
1973 - R - Horror - 122 min - United States - English, Latin, Greek, French, German, Arabic, Kurdish
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

Directed by: William Friedkin
Written by: William Peter Blatty
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair
Won 2 Oscars. 17 wins & 17 nominations total
IMDB # 70047
Five Easy Pieces
1970 - R - Drama - 98 min - United States - English
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Written by: Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 10 wins & 21 nominations total
IMDB # 65724
Godfather, The (in The Godfather Trilogy 50th Anniversary set)
1972 - R - Crime, Drama - 175 min - United States - English, Italian, Latin
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Written by: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Won 3 Oscars. 32 wins & 31 nominations total
IMDB # 68646
Godfather: Part II, The (in The Godfather Trilogy 50th Anniversary set)
1974 - R - Crime, Drama - 202 min - United States - English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Sicilian
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Written by: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
Won 6 Oscars. 17 wins & 22 nominations total
IMDB # 71562
Going in Style
1979 - PG - Comedy, Crime, Drama - 97 min - United States - English
Three friends living on the dole decide to rob a bank.

Directed by: Martin Brest
Written by: Martin Brest, Edward Cannon
Starring: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg
1 win & 1 nomination
IMDB # 79219
Halloween
1978 - R - Horror, Thriller - 91 min - United States - English
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.

Directed by: John Carpenter
Written by: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran
7 wins & 3 nominations
IMDB # 77651
Harold and Maude
1971 - PG - Comedy, Drama, Romance - 91 min - United States - English
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Directed by: Hal Ashby
Written by: Colin Higgins
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 3 nominations total
IMDB # 67185
Holy Mountain, The
1973 - R - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy - 114 min - Mexico - Spanish, English
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Written by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders
1 win & 1 nomination
IMDB # 71615
Horton Hears a Who! (TV Special)
1970 - Not Rated - Animation, Adventure, Comedy - 26 min - United States - English
Horton The Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbours who refuse to believe it exists.

Directed by: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam
Written by: Dr. Seuss
Starring: Hans Conried, June Foray, Chuck Jones
N/A
IMDB # 198545
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 - PG - Horror, Sci-Fi - 115 min - United States - English, French
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.

Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Written by: W.D. Richter, Jack Finney
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum
3 wins & 10 nominations
IMDB # 77745
Jaws
1975 - PG - Adventure, Mystery, Thriller - 124 min - United States - English
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Won 3 Oscars. 15 wins & 20 nominations total
IMDB # 73195
Jerk, The
1979 - R - Comedy - 94 min - United States - English
A simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy.

Directed by: Carl Reiner
Written by: Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias
Starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams
1 nomination
IMDB # 79367
La Cage aux Folles
1978 - R - Comedy - 97 min - France, Italy - French
The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.

Directed by: Édouard Molinaro
Written by: Jean Poiret, Francis Veber, Édouard Molinaro
Starring: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 5 wins & 5 nominations total
IMDB # 77288
Live and Let Die (in The James Bond Collection, filed under "Bond, James")
1973 - PG - Action, Adventure, Thriller - 121 min - United Kingdom, United States - Italian, English, Hungarian
James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.

Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Written by: Tom Mankiewicz, Ian Fleming
Starring: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 3 nominations total
IMDB # 70328
Logan's Run
1976 - PG - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 119 min - United States - English
A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.

Directed by: Michael Anderson
Written by: David Zelag Goodman, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson
Starring: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 4 nominations total
IMDB # 74812
Lorax, The
1972 - Not Rated - Animation, Drama, Family - 25 min - United States - English
A ruined industrialist tells his tale of his environmentally self-destructive greed despite the warnings of an old forest creature.

Directed by: Hawley Pratt
Written by: Dr. Seuss
Starring: Eddie Albert, Bob Holt, Athena Lorde
N/A
IMDB # 213065
M*A*S*H
1970 - R - Comedy, Drama, War - 116 min - United States - Latin, English, Japanese, Korean
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Directed by: Robert Altman
Written by: Richard Hooker, Ring Lardner Jr.
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
Won 1 Oscar. 14 wins & 24 nominations total
IMDB # 66026
Mad Max (in Mad Max High-Octane Collection)
1979 - R - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 88 min - Australia - English
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

Directed by: George Miller
Written by: James McCausland, George Miller, Byron Kennedy
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne
5 wins & 8 nominations
IMDB # 79501
Man Who Fell to Earth, The
1976 - R - Drama, Sci-Fi - 139 min - United Kingdom - English
An alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.

Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Written by: Paul Mayersberg, Walter Tevis
Starring: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark
1 win & 4 nominations
IMDB # 74851
Man with the Golden Gun, The (in The James Bond Collection, filed under "Bond, James")
1974 - PG - Action, Adventure, Thriller - 125 min - United Kingdom - English, Thai, Cantonese
James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Written by: Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz, Ian Fleming
Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland
2 wins & 1 nomination
IMDB # 71807
Midnight Express
1978 - R - Biography, Crime, Drama - 121 min - United Kingdom, United States - English, Maltese, French, Turkish
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Directed by: Alan Parker
Written by: Oliver Stone, Billy Hayes, William Hoffer
Starring: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins
Won 2 Oscars. 17 wins & 14 nominations total
IMDB # 77928
Mirror
1975 - Not Rated - Biography, Drama - 107 min - Soviet Union - Russian, Spanish
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Written by: Aleksandr Misharin, Arseniy Tarkovskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev
1 nomination
IMDB # 72443
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 - PG - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy - 91 min - United Kingdom - English, French, Latin, Swedish
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.

Directed by: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Written by: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
3 wins & 3 nominations
IMDB # 71853
Monty Python's Life of Brian
1979 - R - Comedy - 94 min - United Kingdom - English, Latin
Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Directed by: Terry Jones
Written by: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin
N/A
IMDB # 79470
Moonraker (in The James Bond Collection, filed under "Bond, James")
1979 - PG - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 126 min - United Kingdom, France, United States - English, Italian, Portuguese
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Written by: Christopher Wood, Ian Fleming, Gerry Anderson
Starring: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 6 nominations total
IMDB # 79574
Muppet Movie, The
1979 - G - Adventure, Comedy, Family - 95 min - United Kingdom, United States - English
Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.

Directed by: James Frawley
Written by: Jerry Juhl, Jack Burns
Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 11 nominations total
IMDB # 79588
Muppet Show, The (TV Series, Seasons 1-3)
1976 - TV-G - Comedy, Family, Music - 30 min - United States, United Kingdom - English
Kermit the Frog and his fellow Muppets put on a vaudeville show at their theatre, bringing in a famous celebrity to help out for each episode.

Directed by: N/A
Written by: Jim Henson, Jack Burns
Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt
Won 4 Primetime Emmys. 12 wins & 25 nominations total
IMDB # 74028
Murder by Death
1976 - PG - Comedy, Crime, Mystery - 95 min - United States - English
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

Directed by: Robert Moore
Written by: Neil Simon
Starring: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers
2 nominations
IMDB # 74937
Network
1976 - R - Drama - 121 min - United States - English
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Written by: Paddy Chayefsky
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Won 4 Oscars. 20 wins & 26 nominations total
IMDB # 74958
O Lucky Man!
1973 - R - Comedy, Drama, Fantasy - 178 min - United Kingdom, United States - English
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.

Directed by: Lindsay Anderson
Written by: David Sherwin, Malcolm McDowell
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts
Won 2 BAFTA 3 wins & 2 nominations total
IMDB # 70464
Omega Man, The
1971 - PG - Action, Drama, Sci-Fi - 98 min - United States - English
Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies.

Directed by: Boris Sagal
Written by: John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, Richard Matheson
Starring: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
1 nomination
IMDB # 67525
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 - R - Drama - 133 min - United States - English
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.

Directed by: Milos Forman
Written by: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman
Won 5 Oscars. 40 wins & 16 nominations total
IMDB # 73486
Phantasm
1979 - R - Horror, Sci-Fi - 89 min - United States - English
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

Directed by: Don Coscarelli
Written by: Don Coscarelli
Starring: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
2 wins & 2 nominations
IMDB # 79714
Pink Flamingos
1972 - NC-17 - Comedy, Crime - 93 min - United States - English
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".

Directed by: John Waters
Written by: John Waters
Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
1 win
IMDB # 69089
Quadrophenia
1979 - R - Drama, Music - 120 min - United Kingdom - English
Jimmy Cooper loathes his job and his parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.

Directed by: Franc Roddam
Written by: Dave Humphries, Martin Stellman, Franc Roddam
Starring: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis
N/A
IMDB # 79766
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (in Peanuts 4-Movie Collection)
1977 - G - Animation, Adventure, Comedy - 76 min - United States - English
The Peanuts gang goes to summer camp, and they participate in a river-raft race against some cheating bullies.

Directed by: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Written by: Charles M. Schulz
Starring: Duncan Watson, Greg Felton, Stuart Brotman
N/A
IMDB # 76591
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
1975 - R - Comedy, Horror, Musical - 100 min - United Kingdom, United States - English
A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.

Directed by: Jim Sharman
Written by: Richard O'Brien, Jim Sharman
Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick
4 wins & 5 nominations
IMDB # 73629
Silent Running
1972 - G - Drama, Sci-Fi - 89 min - United States - English
In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

Directed by: Douglas Trumbull
Written by: Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Steven Bochco
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin
2 nominations
IMDB # 67756
Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 - R - Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi - 104 min - United States - Russian, English, German
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.

Directed by: George Roy Hill
Written by: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stephen Geller
Starring: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche
3 wins & 4 nominations
IMDB # 69280
Sleeper
1973 - PG - Comedy, Sci-Fi - 89 min - United States - English, Yiddish
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.

Directed by: Woody Allen
Written by: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck
2 wins & 2 nominations
IMDB # 70707
Smokey and the Bandit
1977 - PG - Action, Adventure, Comedy - 96 min - United States - English
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

Directed by: Hal Needham
Written by: Hal Needham, Robert L. Levy, James Lee Barrett
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 nominations total
IMDB # 76729
Snoopy Come Home (in Peanuts 4-Movie Collection)
1972 - G - Animation, Adventure, Comedy - 81 min - United States - English
When Snoopy receives a letter from a girl named Lila, who's in a hospital, he goes on a journey with Woodstock to see her.

Directed by: Bill Melendez
Written by: Charles M. Schulz
Starring: Chad Webber, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea
1 win
IMDB # 69289
Solaris
1972 - PG - Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi - 167 min - Soviet Union - Russian, German
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Written by: Stanislaw Lem, Fridrikh Gorenshteyn, Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet
5 wins & 4 nominations
IMDB # 69293
Soylent Green
1973 - PG - Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi - 97 min - United States - English, Spanish, Hebrew
A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.

Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Written by: Stanley R. Greenberg, Harry Harrison
Starring: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young
3 wins & 1 nomination
IMDB # 70723
Spy Who Loved Me, The (in The James Bond Collection, filed under "Bond, James")
1977 - PG - Action, Adventure, Thriller - 125 min - United Kingdom - English, Italian, Arabic
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.

Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Written by: Christopher Wood, Richard Maibaum, Ian Fleming
Starring: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 4 wins & 12 nominations total
IMDB # 76752
Stalker
1979 - Not Rated - Drama, Sci-Fi - 162 min - Soviet Union - Russian
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Written by: Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
2 wins & 2 nominations
IMDB # 79944
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Director's Cut)
1979 - G - Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi - 143 min - United States - English, Klingon
When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

Directed by: Robert Wise
Written by: Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston, Alan Dean Foster
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 4 wins & 20 nominations total
IMDB # 79945
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (in Star Trek 10-Movie Collection)
1979 - G - Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi - 143 min - United States - English, Klingon
When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

Directed by: Robert Wise
Written by: Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston, Alan Dean Foster
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 4 wins & 20 nominations total
IMDB # 79945
Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope
1977 - PG - Action, Adventure, Fantasy - 121 min - United States - English
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth ...

Directed by: George Lucas
Written by: George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Won 6 Oscars. 65 wins & 31 nominations total
IMDB # 76759
Superman
1978 - PG - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 143 min - United States, United Kingdom, Canada - English
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

Directed by: Richard Donner
Written by: Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Mario Puzo
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 17 wins & 23 nominations total
IMDB # 78346
Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The
1974 - R - Action, Crime, Thriller - 104 min - United States - English, Spanish
Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Written by: John Godey, Peter Stone
Starring: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
Nominated for 2 BAFTA 3 nominations total
IMDB # 72251
Taxi Driver
1976 - R - Crime, Drama - 114 min - United States - English, Spanish
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.

Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Written by: Paul Schrader
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 22 wins & 21 nominations total
IMDB # 75314
Teens in the Universe (Oтроки во вселенной / Otroki vo vselennoy)
1975 - N/A - Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi - 84 min - Soviet Union - Russian
Continuation of the film "Moscow-Cassiopea": cosmonauts-schoolchildren fly to an extraterrestrial civilization in distress.

Directed by: Richard Viktorov
Written by: Isai Kuznetsov, Avenir Zak
Starring: Misha Yershov, Aleksandr Grigoryev, Vladimir Savin
N/A
IMDB # 71957
Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The
1974 - R - Horror - 83 min - United States - English
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.

Directed by: Tobe Hooper
Written by: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
Starring: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger
2 wins & 2 nominations
IMDB # 72271
Three Days of the Condor
1975 - R - Crime, Mystery, Thriller - 117 min - United States - English, French
A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Written by: James Grady, Lorenzo Semple Jr., David Rayfiel
Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 4 nominations total
IMDB # 73802
THX 1138 (Director's Cut)
1971 - GP - Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller - 86 min - United States - English
In the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly-controlled society.

Directed by: George Lucas
Written by: George Lucas, Walter Murch
Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
2 wins & 3 nominations
IMDB # 66434
THX 1138 (Original Cut)
1971 - GP - Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller - 86 min - United States - English
In the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly-controlled society.

Directed by: George Lucas
Written by: George Lucas, Walter Murch
Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
2 wins & 3 nominations
IMDB # 66434
Warriors, The
1979 - R - Action, Crime, Thriller - 93 min - United States - English
A street gang known as The Warriors must fight their way from the Bronx to their home turf on Coney Island when they are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.

Directed by: Walter Hill
Written by: Sol Yurick, David Shaber, Walter Hill
Starring: Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright
N/A
IMDB # 80120
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971 - G - Family, Fantasy, Musical - 100 min - United States - English, French, German, Italian
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

Directed by: Mel Stuart
Written by: Roald Dahl, David Seltzer
Starring: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 3 nominations total
IMDB # 67992
Wiz, The
1978 - G - Adventure, Family, Fantasy - 134 min - United States - English
An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.

Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Written by: L. Frank Baum, William F. Brown, Joel Schumacher
Starring: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 2 wins & 11 nominations total
IMDB # 78504
WKRP in Cincinnati (TV Series, Complete)
1978 - TV-PG - Comedy - 30 min - United States - English
The misadventures of the staff of a struggling Top 40 rock radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Directed by: N/A
Written by: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Gary Sandy, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson
Won 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 wins & 16 nominations total
IMDB # 77097
Woodstock (Documentary, 40th Anniversary Director's Cut)
1970 - R - Documentary, History, Music - 184 min - United States - English
Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.

Directed by: Michael Wadleigh
Written by: N/A
Starring: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey
Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 2 nominations total
IMDB # 66580
Young Frankenstein
1974 - PG - Comedy - 106 min - United States - English, German
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

Directed by: Mel Brooks
Written by: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Mary Shelley
Starring: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 11 wins & 8 nominations total
IMDB # 72431
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