| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
| 11 Harrowhouse |
Aram Avakian |
Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard |
Drama |
Fox
|
| 99 and 44/100% Dead |
John Frankenheimer |
Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman, Chuck Connors |
Crime |
Fox
|
| Abby |
William Girdler |
Carol Speed, Juanita Moore |
Horror |
|
| Airport 1975 |
Jack Smight |
Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Gloria Swanson, George Kennedy, Susan Clark, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Linda Blair, Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy |
Disaster film |
Airport sequel
|
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
Martin Scorsese |
Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Curtin, Vic Tayback, Alfred Lutter, Jodie Foster |
Drama |
Oscar for Burstyn
|
| All the Kind Strangers |
Burt Kennedy |
Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, John Savage |
Drama |
|
| And Then There Were None |
Peter Collinson |
Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Herbert Lom, Charles Aznavour, Gert Frobe |
Mystery |
Agatha Christie
|
| The Arena |
Steve Carver |
Pam Grier, Margaret Markov |
Action |
|
| Bank Shot |
Gower Champion |
George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy |
Crime comedy |
United Artists
|
| Benji |
Joe Camp |
Patsy Garrett |
Family |
1st of series
|
| Beyond the Door |
Ovidio G. Assonitis |
Juliet Mills |
Horror |
|
| Big Bad Mama |
Steve Carver |
Angie Dickinson, William Shatner |
Action |
New World
|
| Billy Two Hats |
Ted Kotcheff |
Gregory Peck, Desi Arnaz Jr. |
Western |
|
| Black Belt Jones |
Robert Clouse |
Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry |
Action |
Warner Bros.
|
| Black Eye |
Jack Arnold |
Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth |
Action |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Black Godfather |
John Evans |
Rod Perry |
Crime drama |
|
| Black Samson |
Charles Bail |
Carol Speed |
Action |
|
| The Black Windmill |
Don Siegel |
Michael Caine, John Vernon |
Crime |
|
| Blazing Saddles |
Mel Brooks |
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras |
Western comedy |
3 Oscar nominations
|
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia |
Sam Peckinpah |
Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Helmut Dantine, Robert Webber, Gig Young |
Thriller |
United Artists
|
| Buster and Billie |
Daniel Petrie |
Jan-Michael Vincent, Pamela Sue Martin, Joan Goodfellow |
Crime drama |
Columbia
|
| Busting |
Peter Hyams |
Elliott Gould, Robert Blake |
Crime comedy |
United Artists
|
| Caged Heat |
Jonathan Demme |
Erica Gavin, Juanita Brown |
Action |
|
| California Split |
Robert Altman |
Elliott Gould, George Segal |
Comedy, Drama |
Columbia
|
| The Castaway Cowboy |
Vincent McEveety |
James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp |
Family |
|
| Chinatown |
Roman Polanski |
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Diane Ladd, Burt Young |
Mystery |
11 Oscar nominations
|
| Chosen Survivors |
Sutton Roley |
Diana Muldaur, Bradford Dillman |
Sci-fi |
|
| Claudine |
John Berry |
Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones |
Drama |
Fox
|
| Cockfighter |
Monte Hellman |
Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton |
Drama |
|
| Conrack |
Martin Ritt |
Jon Voight, Paul Winfield |
Drama |
from Pat Conroy book
|
| The Conversation |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall |
Mystery |
3 Oscar nominations
|
| Crazy Joe |
Carlo Lizzani |
Peter Boyle, Paula Prentiss, Fred Williamson, Eli Wallach, Rip Torn |
Crime drama |
Columbia
|
| The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder |
Arthur Hiller |
Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Hershey, Albert Salmi, George Marshall |
Comedy, Drama |
|
| Daisy Miller |
Peter Bogdanovich |
Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman |
Drama |
Paramount
|
| Dark Star |
John Carpenter |
Dan O'Bannon |
Sci-fi comedy |
|
| Death Wish |
Michael Winner |
Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, Hope Lange, Stuart Margolin |
Thriller |
1st of series
|
| Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry |
John Hough |
Susan George, Peter Fonda, Vic Morrow |
Action |
Fox
|
| The Dove |
Charles Jarrott |
Joseph Bottoms, Dabney Coleman |
Drama |
|
| Down and Dirty Duck |
Charles Swenson |
Voices of Robert Ridgely |
Animation |
|
| Earthquake |
Mark Robson |
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Richard Roundtree, George Kennedy, Geneviève Bujold, Lorne Greene, Marjoe Gortner, Victoria Principal |
Disaster film |
4 Oscar nominations
|
| Exploratorium |
Jon Boorstin |
|
Documentary |
|
| F for Fake |
Orson Welles |
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten |
Documentary |
|
| Female Trouble |
John Waters |
Divine |
Comedy |
|
| Flesh Gordon |
Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm |
Jason Williams, Candy Samples |
Adult comedy |
|
| For Pete's Sake |
Peter Yates |
Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
| Foxy Brown |
Jack Hill |
Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas |
Crime |
|
| Freebie and the Bean |
Richard Rush |
Alan Arkin, James Caan |
Crime comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Front Page |
Billy Wilder |
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Carol Burnett |
Comedy |
from Ben Hecht play
|
| The Gambler |
Karel Reisz |
James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Paul Sorvino |
Drama |
remade in 2014
|
| 'Gator Bait |
Beverly Sebastion |
Claudia Jennings |
Thriller |
|
| Ginger in the Morning |
Gordon Wiles |
Fred Ward, Sissy Spacek, Monte Markham |
Romance |
|
| The Girl from Petrovka |
Robert Ellis Miller |
Goldie Hawn, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins |
Comedy |
Universal
|
| The Godfather Part II |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Lee Strasberg, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, G. D. Spradlin, Bruno Kirby, Michael V. Gazzo, James Caan |
Crime drama |
sequel; won 6 Oscars
|
| Golden Needles |
Robert Clouse |
Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Ashley |
Adventure |
A.I.P.
|
| Gone in 60 Seconds |
H. B. Halicki |
H. B. Halicki, Ronald Halicki |
Action |
|
| The Gravy Train |
Jack Starrett |
Stacy Keach, Margot Kidder |
Drama |
|
| The Great Gatsby |
Jack Clayton |
Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Lois Chiles |
Drama |
based on the book
|
| The Groove Tube |
Ken Shapiro |
Chevy Chase, Richard Belzer |
Comedy |
|
| Hangup |
Henry Hathaway |
William Elliott, Cliff Potts |
Action |
|
| Harry and Tonto |
Paul Mazursky |
Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Larry Hagman |
Comedy, Drama |
Oscar for Carney
|
| Hearts and Minds |
Peter Davis |
|
Documentary |
won Oscar
|
| Herbie Rides Again |
Robert Stevenson |
Helen Hayes, Ken Berry |
Family |
The Love Bug sequel
|
| The House on Skull Mountain |
Ron Honthaner |
Victor French |
Horror |
|
| Huckleberry Finn |
J. Lee Thompson |
Jeff East, Paul Winfield, David Wayne, Arthur O'Connell, Harvey Korman |
Musical |
from Mark Twain book
|
| Invasion from Inner Earth |
Bill Rebane |
Nick Holt |
Sci-fi |
|
| The Island at the Top of the World |
Robert Stevenson |
David Hartman, Mako |
Adventure |
Disney
|
| It's Alive |
Larry Cohen |
John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell |
Horror |
|
| The Klansman |
Terence Young |
Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, Linda Evans, O.J. Simpson |
Drama |
Paramount
|
| Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones |
Rollin Binzer |
The Rolling Stones |
Documentary |
Concert
|
| Lenny |
Bob Fosse |
Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine |
Biography |
6 Oscar nominations
|
| The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams |
Richard Friedenberg |
Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle |
Adventure |
became TV series
|
| The Longest Yard |
Robert Aldrich |
Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter |
Comedy |
remade in 2005
|
| The Lords of Flatbush |
Martin Davidson, Stephen F. Verona |
Henry Winkler, Sylvester Stallone |
Drama |
Columbia
|
| Lost in the Stars |
Daniel Mann |
Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Clifton Davis |
Drama |
|
| Lovin' Molly |
Sidney Lumet |
Blythe Danner, Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges |
Drama |
Columbia
|
| Macon County Line |
Richard Compton |
Max Baer Jr., Alan Vint |
Crime drama |
A.I.P.
|
| Mame |
Gene Saks |
Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, Robert Preston, Bruce Davison, Jane Connell, Don Porter |
Musical |
based on the play
|
| McQ |
John Sturges |
John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Al Lettieri |
Crime drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Midnight Man |
Burt Lancaster |
Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark |
Crime drama |
|
| The Missiles of October |
Anthony Page |
William Devane, Martin Sheen, Ralph Bellamy, Howard Da Silva |
Drama, Biography |
made for TV
|
| Mixed Company |
Melville Shavelson |
Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna |
Comedy |
|
| Mr. Majestyk |
Richard Fleischer |
Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal |
Action |
United Artists
|
| Newman's Law |
Richard T. Heffron |
George Peppard, Roger Robinson |
Crime |
|
| The Nickel Ride |
Robert Mulligan |
Jason Miller, Linda Haynes |
Crime |
Fox
|
| Nightmare Honeymoon |
Elliot Silverstein |
Dack Rambo, John Beck |
Thriller |
MGM
|
| The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat |
Robert Taylor |
Skip Hinnant |
Adult Animation |
|
| Once Upon a Scoundrel |
George Schaefer |
Zero Mostel, Katy Jurado |
Comedy |
|
| Open Season |
Peter Collinson |
Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law |
Drama |
Columbia
|
| The Parallax View |
Alan J. Pakula |
Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels |
Thriller |
Paramount
|
| Phantom of the Paradise |
Brian De Palma |
Paul Williams, Jessica Harper |
Musical |
Fox
|
| Phase IV |
Saul Bass |
Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport |
Sci-fi |
|
| The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann |
Radley Metzger |
Eric Edwards, Georgina Spelvin, Jamie Gillis |
Adult film |
Hudson Valley Films
|
| Report to the Commissioner |
Milton Katselas |
Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely |
Crime drama |
United Artists
|
| Rhinoceros |
Tom O'Horgan |
Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Karen Black |
Comedy |
A.F.T.
|
| Road Movie |
Joseph Strick |
|
Drama |
|
| S*P*Y*S |
Irvin Kershner |
Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou |
Comedy |
Fox
|
| The Savage Is Loose |
George C. Scott |
George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere |
Drama |
|
| Score |
Radley Metzger |
Casey Donovan, Claire Wilbur, Lynn Lowry |
Adult film |
|
| Seizure |
Oliver Stone |
Jonathan Frid, Herve Villechaize |
Horror |
Stone debut
|
| Space Is the Place |
John Coney |
Sun Ra |
Sci-fi |
|
| The Spikes Gang |
Richard Fleischer |
Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard |
Western |
United Artists
|
| Sugar Hill |
Paul Maslansky |
Robert Quarry, Richard Lawson |
Horror |
|
| The Sugarland Express |
Steven Spielberg |
Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Ben Johnson |
Crime drama |
Universal
|
| The Super Cops |
Gordon Parks |
Ron Leibman, David Selby |
Crime drama |
|
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three |
Joseph Sargent |
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Jerry Stiller |
Crime drama |
remade in 2009
|
| The Tamarind Seed |
Blake Edwards |
Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif |
Drama |
Embassy
|
| The Terminal Man |
Mike Hodges |
George Segal, Joan Hackett |
Sci-fi |
|
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre |
Tobe Hooper |
Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns |
Horror |
1st in series
|
| That's Entertainment! |
Jack Haley Jr. |
Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Liza Minnelli, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Bing Crosby |
Documentary, Musical |
MGM; 2 sequels
|
| Thieves Like Us |
Robert Altman |
Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall |
Drama |
United Artists
|
| Thomasine & Bushrod |
Gordon Parks Jr. |
Max Julien, Vonetta McGee |
Western |
|
| Three the Hard Way |
Gordon Parks Jr. |
Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Jim Brown |
Action |
Allied Artists
|
| Three Tough Guys |
Duccio Tessari |
Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson |
Crime |
|
| Thunderbolt and Lightfoot |
Michael Cimino |
Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis |
Crime drama |
United Artists
|
| The Towering Inferno |
John Guillermin, Irwin Allen |
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, Richard Chamberlain, O. J. Simpson, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Robert Vaughn |
Disaster film |
won 3 Oscars
|
| The Trial of Billy Jack |
Tom Laughlin |
Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor |
Drama |
sequel to Billy Jack
|
| Truck Turner |
Jonathan Kaplan |
Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto |
Action |
A.I.P.
|
| UFO: Target Earth |
Michael A. DeGaetano |
Nick Plakias, Cynthia Cline |
Sci-fi |
|
| The Ultimate Thrill |
Robert Butler |
Barry Brown, Britt Ekland |
Thriller |
|
| Uptown Saturday Night |
Sidney Poitier |
Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor |
Comedy |
First Artists
|
| A Very Natural Thing |
Christopher Larkin |
Robert McLane |
Drama |
|
| The Voyage |
Vittorio De Sica |
Sophia Loren, Richard Burton |
Drama |
final film for De Sica
|
| W |
Richard Quine |
Twiggy, John Vernon, Dirk Benedict |
Mystery |
|
| Where the Lilies Bloom |
William A. Graham |
Jan Smithers, Harry Dean Stanton |
Family |
|
| Where the Red Fern Grows |
Norman Tokar |
James Whitmore, Beverly Garland |
Family |
Crown
|
| The White Dawn |
Philip Kaufman |
Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms |
Adventure |
Paramount
|
| Willie Dynamite |
Gilbert Moses |
Roscoe Orman, Eddie Rivers |
Crime |
|
| A Woman Under the Influence |
John Cassavetes |
Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands |
Drama |
Golden Globe for Rowlands
|
| The Wrestler |
James A. Westman |
Ed Asner |
Action |
|
| The Yakuza |
Sydney Pollack |
Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura |
Crime drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| Young Frankenstein |
Mel Brooks |
Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, Gene Hackman |
Comedy |
5 Saturn Awards
|
| Zandy's Bride |
Jan Troell |
Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann |
Western |
|
