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Director: Robert Scheerer    More Info
Starring: Michael Douglas, Lee Purcell, Joe Don Baker, Charles Aidman, Marge Redmond, Louise Latham, Dana Elcar, Meg Foster, Anne Gwynne

 Adam Gaines (Michael Douglas) is not happy with his life as a California college professor. Searching for inner-peace, he takes a summer hiatus laboring in the Missouri countryside.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder    More Info
Starring: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm, Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Kurt Raab, Marius Aicher, Gustl Datz, Marquard Bohm, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

 In this tribute to U.S. gangster films, Ricky (Karl Scheydt), an American Vietnam vet originally from Munich, is hired by crooked cops to eliminate criminals they have not been able to catch. Things don't go as the cops planned, as Ricky plays the bad guys against the "good" guys.

Director: George C. Scott    More Info
Starring: William Shatner, Cameron Mitchell, Richard Basehart, Jack Cassidy, Martin Sheen, Buddy Ebsen, Albert Salmi, Ray Stricklyn

 Based on MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer-prize winning novel, this film excels as a reenactment of the post-war trial of Confederates who ran the Civil War prison at Andersonville, Georgia, in which 14,000 Union soldiers died.

Director: Jan Kadar    More Info
Starring: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster, Barbara Ann Teer, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Stephen Strimpell, Sam Raskyn

 An old Jewish man has lost faith in God due to the setbacks he and his family have suffered over the years. Then along comes an Angel-in-training (Harry Belafonte) whose task is to convince the man to change his outlook.

Director: James Bridges    More Info
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Collin Wilcox-Horne, Sam Groom, Scott Glenn, Jeannie Berlin, Lili Valenty, Helena Kallianiotes, Madge Kennedy, Phyllis Coates, Paul Linke

 The childless Wilcox family–Suzanne (Collin Wilcox-Horne) and Jay (Sam Groom)–convinces a hippie, Tish Gray (Barbara Hershey), to be the surrogate mother for their much-wanted infant. This was filmed BEFORE the idea of surrogate mothers had entered the culture.

Director: Anthony Friedman    More Info
Starring: Paul Scofield, John McEnery, Thorley Walters, Colin Jeavons, Raymond Mason, Charles Kinross, Neville Barber, Robin Askwith, Hope Jackman, John Watson

 Based on a story by Herman Melville, this is the tale of Bartleby (John McEnery) who withdraws from society, preferring to live in his solitary world. He takes a job with an accountant (Paul Scofield) but is fired after he is unable to perform his tasks. Even then, Bartleby shows up for work daily until he enters a hospital and it is learned that he suffers from several ailments. The accountant is at first happy to be rid of Bartleby but later suffers over Bartleby's death. Plodding.

Director: Russ Meyer    More Info
Starring: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams, Charles Napier, Erica Gavin, Harrison Page

 A female rock trio tries to make it big in Hollywood in this film featuring all the decadence that could get by the censors.

Director: Roger Corman    More Info
Starring: Shelley Winters, Don Stroud, Pat Hingle, Robert De Niro, Robert Walden, Diane Varsi, Bruce Dern, Clint Kimbrough, Alex Nicol, Michael Fox

 Ma Barker (Shelley Winters) leads her gang on a crime spree only to be brought down by the law in this psychodrama of one of America's notorious criminals.

Director: William Friedkin    More Info
Starring: Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Reuben Greene, Laurence Luckinbill, Peter White, Keith Prentice, Robert La Tourneaux, Maud Adams

 Based on Matt Crowley's Broadway play concerning the subject of homosexuality, this is the story of Harold's (Leonard Frey) birthday party at Michael's (Kenneth Nelson) apartment. All of the party attendees are gay. But, just before the party begins, Michael's old college friend Alan (Peter White) appears for a visit. Alan is straight, and Michael warns the others to mind their manners. The alcohol drinking begins, the group celebrates, and the games get out of hand as the guests reveal previously unspoken revelations about themselves.

Director: Buzz Kulik    More Info
Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, James Caan, Judy Pace, Shelley Fabares, Bernie Casey, David Huddleston, Ji-Tu Cumbuka

 This made-for-TV film is based on Chicago Bears football player Brian Piccolo's losing bout with cancer. His friendship with teammate Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) is highlighted as well as the effect Piccolo's tragedy has on his entire team.

Director: Seymour Robbie    More Info
Starring: Joe Namath, Ann - Margret, William Smith, Jennifer Billingsley, Don Chastain, Teda Bracci, Mike Battle, Greg Mullavy, Sid Haig, Bruce Glover

 When a biker gang comes upon Ann (Ann-Margret), whose car had broken down, they harass and attempt to rape her. But C.C. Ryder (Joe Namath), a new member of the gang, comes to her rescue, and romance blooms between C.C. and Ann. The film starts weak and goes downhill from there.

Director: George McCowan    More Info
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver, Roosevelt Grier, Moses Gunn, Richard Pryor, Glynn Turman, Billy Dee Williams, Paul Stewart, Bobby Johnson

 Captain Beau Carter (Stephen Boyd) is ordered to lead an all-Black unit on a suicide mission to take a bridge under Nazi control. An even bigger problem than taking the bridge is that Carter is a redneck and has been given only two days to train his men for the mission. Will he succeed?

Director: Mike Nichols    More Info
Starring: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Orson Welles, Martin Sheen, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Paula Prentiss

 Based on Joseph Heller's novel, this is a good anti-war film. It is the story of a World War I bomber group whose fatalities are mounting. One member, Captain Yossarian (Alan Arkin), tries to be diagnosed as insane to escape further bombing missions.

Director: William A. Graham    More Info
Starring: Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Jane Elliot, Regis Toomey, Richard Carlson, Edward Asner

 This film features some real errors in casting as Elvis Presley takes on the role of Dr. John Carpenter and Mary Tyler Moore plays Sister Michelle. The weak plot involves nuns who become nurses for Dr. Carpenter.

Director: Akira Kurosawa    More Info
Starring: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Junzaburo Ban, Kiyoko Tange, Michiko Hino, Imari Tsuji, Keiji Furuyama, Hisashi Igawa, Hideko Okiyama, Kunie Tanaka

 Kurosawa tells of life in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo through the lives of several of its inhabitants, covering the range of emotion from tragedy to humor. The title refers to the sounds that a mentally challenged, young man makes as he goes around the slums in his pretend trolley. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Director: Terence Young    More Info
Starring: Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Michel Constantin, Gabriele Ferzetti, Jean Topart, Luigi Pistilli, Yannick Delulle, Paul Bonifas

 Based on Richard Matheson's "Ride the Nightmare," this action film finds an American, Joe (Charles Bronson), living a peaceful life in France with his wife Fabienne (Liv Ullmann) and stepdaughter Michelle (Yannick Delulle). All goes well–until gang members Captain Ross (James Mason), Katnaga (Jean Topart), Whitey (Michel Constantin), and Faustountil (Luigi Pistilli) reappear in Joe's life and kidnap his family. Their purpose is to force Joe into drug smuggling. In turn, Joe kidnaps Ross' mistress (Jill Ireland), and battles ensue.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci    More Info
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, Jose Quaglio, Yvonne Sanson, Giuseppe Addobbati

 Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) represses his homosexual tendencies in an attempt to conform to the 1930s' middle-class Italian society. He even marries Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli). But on his way to Paris for their honeymoon, Marcello's fascist bosses give him a gun and orders to assassinate his old teacher, a political dissident. Doubts now begin to plague Marcello, and he is not sure that he is up to the task at hand.

Director: Don Murray    More Info
Starring: Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, Jackelyn Giroux, Jo-Ann Robinson, Dino DePillippi, Don Blakely, Gil Frazier, Don Lamond, Sam Capuano, Alex Colon

 David Wilkerson (Pat Boone) is a small-town minister who takes on a mission to stop violence in the ghettos of New York City. Through Little Bo (Jo-Ann Robinson), Wilkerson meets and works with gang leader Nicky Cruz (Erik Estrada) and turns around the lives of many angry, drug-crazed youths.

Director: Blake Edwards    More Info
Starring: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Michael Witney, Lance Percival, Jacques Marin, Andre Maranne, Niall MacGinnis, Vernon Dobtcheff, Gloria Paul

 This story about World War I espionage features Julie Andrews in the role of Lili. Posing as a British music hall singer, Lili is really a German spy whose assignment is to uncover enemy plans. Her mission is jeopardized when she falls in love with handsome American pilot, Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), and, as a result, she puts both of their lives in danger when William realizes her secret but does not tell the authorities.

Director: Delbert Mann    More Info
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Wendy Hiller, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Robin Phillips, Ralph Richardson, Emlyn Williams

 Based on Charles Dickens' story, Robin Phillips stars in the title role of a poor boy who grew up to be a successful man in London society.

Director: Frank Perry    More Info
Starring: Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress, Lorraine Cullen, Frannie Michel, Lee Addams, Peter Dohanos, Peter Boyle

 A bored housewife (Carrie Snodgress) begins an affair to relieve her stagnant existence only to find that her own happiness must come through responsibility for her life. Carrie Snodgress was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress.

Director: Aram Avakian    More Info
Starring: Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones, Harris Yulin, Dorothy Tristan, Grayson Hall, Ray Brock, M. Emmet Walsh, James Coco

 Jake (Stacy Keach) is a university professor who finds his recent stay in a mental hospital was a better place than the real world in which he lives.

Director: Jesus Franco    More Info
Starring: Marie Liljedahl, Maria Rohm, Jack Taylor, Nino Korda, Herbert Fux, Paul Muller, Christopher Lee, Anney Kablan, Maria Luisa Ponte, Colette Giacobine

 Teenager Eugenie (Marie Liljedahl) becomes the center of physical and moral abuse in this version of Marquis de Sade's "Philosophy in the Boudoir." Eugenie's father's (Paul Muller) lover, Madame de St. Ange (Maria Rohm), will have sex with him only if he allows Eugenie to come to the Madame's island mansion. Once there, Eugenie encounters sex games and drugs that totally corrupt her.

Director: Werner Herzog    More Info
Starring: Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Marianne Saar, Gertrud Piccini, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner, Gerard Maerz, Erna Gschwendtner, Pepi Hermine

 Institutionalized dwarfs are fed up with the conditions in their compound and rebel in violent fashion against their keepers. A parable on man's inhumanity to man.

Director: Bob Rafelson    More Info
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Susan Anspach, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Sally Struthers, John P. Ryan, Marlena MacGuire

 After an extended separation from his wealthy family, California oil rigger Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) returns to Puget Sound to visit his ailing father Nicholas (William Challee) with his pregnant girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) in tow. Bobby cannot stand the atmosphere in his family's upper-class mansion and seduces his uptight brother Carl's (Ralph Waite) fiancee Catherine (Susan Anspach). Now pulled between Rayette and Catherine and his family, Bobby cannot decide which way to go and simply runs away from it all. Several Oscar nominations were received including Best Picture, Actor (Nicholson), and Supporting Actress (Black).