The Andromeda Strain 1971  G, 130 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien, Eric Christmas, Mark Jenkins, Carl Reindel
A U.S. Army satellite carrying a virus from outer space has crashed on Earth. It has landed in a remote village in the Southwest and has killed everyone, except a crying baby and a wino. Top scientists gather at the site to figure out what is happening. After intense examinations, they isolate the organism–Andromeda Strain–that has caused the deaths. Now the race against time begins as the scientists attempt to find a cure before more people die.
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Badlands 1973  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller / Romance
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn, John Carter, Terrence Malick, Bryan Montgomery, Gail Threlkeld, Dona Baldwin, John Womack Jr., Ben Bravo, Charles Fitzpatrick, Howard Ragsdale
Based on the true story of a murderous odyssey, Sissy Spacek narrates this strange tale of a series of murders in the 1950s when schoolgirl Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek) joins garbage collector Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen) after he kills her father (Warren Oates). Bounty hunters find their hiding place, and Kit and Holly set off on a trail of violence through Montana as Holly witnesses Kit's senseless crimes and wonders just what her future will hold.
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Brother John 1971 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd, Paul Winfield, Ramon Bieri, Warren J. Kemmerling, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Richard Ward, Lois Smith
John Kane (Sidney Poitier) returns to his small Southern town where he appears as a Messiah, stirs up the gentry, and is an enigma to his old friends.
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A Christmas Without Snow 1980 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: John Korty
Cast: Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, Ruth Nelson, Valerie Curtin, James Cromwell, David Knell, Calvin Levels, Beah Richards, Barbara Tarbuck, William Swetland, Ed Bogas, Daisietta Kim, Joy Carlin, Anne Lawder
After her divorce, Zoe Jensen (Michael Learned) relocates to San Francisco to start a new life. She joins the church choir but has conflicts with tough, old choirmaster Ephraim Adams (John Houseman). Pressures rise as the choir practices for the big Christmas show, and the problems of other choir members– including Ephraim–are revealed.
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The Conversation 1974  PG, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth MacRae, Mark Wheeler, Robert Shields, Phoebe Alexander, Richard Hackman, Ramon Bieri
Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is a wiretap expert who hires himself out to anyone willing to pay his prices. He has been hired by a man known only as the "Director" (Robert Duvall). While working on the case, he listens to the recorded voices of Ann (Cindy Williams) and Mark (Frederic Forrest) and hears something that makes him think that Ann–who is the wife of his client–is having an affair with Mark. Now Harry is suspicious of his client's motives for wanting the tapes, and he worries about the consequences. Could he be helping with a murder plot?
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The Frisco Kid 1979  PG, 122 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, William Smith, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George DiCenzo, Leo Fuchs, Penny Peyser
A rabbi (Gene Wilder), on his way to a congregation in San Francisco, teams up with a cowboy (Harrison Ford) of dubious character in this Comedy/Western flick.
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R.P.M. 1970  R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Ann - Margret, Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield, Graham Jarvis, Alan Hewitt, Ramon Bieri, John McLiam, Don Keefer, Donald Moffat
Perez (Anthony Quinn) is a popular professor who deals with a group of student radicals.
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Sorcerer 1977 PG, 121 min.
Genre: Adventure / Thriller
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell, Joe Spinell, Karl John, Friedrich von Ledebur, Jacques Francois
This remake of "The Wages of Fear" is a suspenseful thriller about four outcasts who are given a second chance by trucking nitroglycerine through the South American jungle.
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| 1. The Andromeda Strain (1971)
2. Badlands (1973)
3. Brother John (1971)
4. A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
5. The Conversation (1974)
6. The Frisco Kid (1979)
7. R.P.M. (1970)
8. Sorcerer (1977)
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