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Director: Blake Edwards. Also starred Robert Webber, Dee Wallace & Sam J. Jones. Plot: A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
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Director. Also starred Pat Heywood, Isobel Black & Miss Riley. Plot: After subletting his upstairs London flat to a mentally deficient young man named Timothy Evans (John Hurt) and his pregnant wife Beryl (Judy Geeson), John Christie (Richard Attenborough) announces to the impoverished Evans that he is an accomplished abortionist and agrees to perform the illegal operation on Beryl in order to help them out of their jam.
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Director: Robert Fuest. Also starred Terry-Thomas, Sean Bury & Susan Travers
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Director: Gianfranco Parolina. Also starred Nieves Navarro & Sal Borgese
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Director: Norman Cohen. Also starred Tony Selby, Geoffrey Hughes & Spike Milligan
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Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Director: Bruce Beresford. About an Australian 'yobbo' on his travels to the United Kingdom.
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Director: George Seaton. Also starred Jacqueline Bissett, George Kennedy & Helen Hayes. Plot: Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
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Director: Martin Scorsese. Also starred Billy Green Bush, Lelia Goldoni & Ola Moore. Plot: A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.Won Oscar
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Director: William Sterling. Also starred Michael Crawford, Davy Kaye & William Ellis
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Director: Ridley Scott
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Director: Alan J. Pakula. Also starred Martin Balsam, Holbrook & Jason Robards. Plot: Reporters Woodward (Redford) and Bernstein (Hoffman) uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation. Won 4 Oscars
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Director: Bob Fosse. Also starred Leland Palmer and Ann Reinking.
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Director: Floyd Mutrux. Also starred Leigh French, Noble Willingham & Martine Bartlett. Plot: Bobby (Le Mat) and Rose (Hull), two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassination.
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Director: Lionel Jeffries. Also starred Rosalyn Landor, Marc Granger & Diana Dors
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Director: Neal Israel. Also starred Chief Dan George, Richard Schaal & Peter Riegert. Plot: In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
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Director: George Lucas
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Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Also starred Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton & John Larch. Plot: Newlyweds move into a house where a murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.
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Director: Norman Jewison
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Director: Roy Ward Baker. Also starred Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy & Geoffrey Whitehead
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Director: John Landis. AKA "National Lampoon's Animal House".
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Director: Woody Allen. Also starred Carol Kane, Paul Simon & Shelley Duvall. Plot: Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer (Allen) falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall (Keaton). Won 4 Oscars
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Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Director: Norman Tokar. Also starred John McGiver, Bill Bixby & Don Knight. Plot: Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
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Director: Peter Newbrook. Also starred Alex Scott, Ralph Arliss & Fiona Walker
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Director: John Carpenter. Also starred martin West, Tony Burton & Charles Cyphers. Plot: The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
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Director: Roy Ward Baker. Also starred Patrick Magee, Barry Morse & Barbara Morse
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Director: Kevin Connor. Also starred Cy Grant, Godfrey James & Sean Lynch. Plot: A Victorian scientist and his young American backer set off in their new earth-boring machine with a short test on a Welsh mountain...
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Director: Val Guest. Also starred Me Me Lai, Nancie Wait & Joyce Heron
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Director: Corey Allen. Also starred Jeanette Nolan, Rick Moses & Steve Franken. Plot: The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
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Director: Harry Booth. Also starred Johnny Briggs, George Moon & Una Stubbs
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Director: Robert Benton. Also starred David Huddleston, John Savage & Jerry Houser. Plot: A group of naive boys find that life as desperadoes in the west is more serious that they understood...
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Director: Terrence Malick. Also starred Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint & Gary Littlejohn. Plot: Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
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Director: Woody Allen. Also starred Natividad Abascal, Jacobo Morales & Miguel Ángel Suárez. Plot: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
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Director: John D. Hancock. Also starred Phil Foster, Ann Wedgeworth & Heather MacRae. Plot: The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher.
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Director: Stanley Kubrick. Also starred Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff & Gay Hamilton
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Director: J. Lee Thompson. Also starred Severn Darden, Lew Ayres & Paul Williams. Plot: Ten years after conquering the Earth, ape leader Caesar wants the ruling apes and enslaves humans to live in peace. But warning factions of apes led by a militant gorilla general as well as various human groups threaten the stability.
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Director: Don Sharp. Also starred Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins & Lloyd Bridges
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Director: Peter Annett. Also starred Anton Diffring, Charles Gray & Ciaran Madden
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Director: Robert Stevenson. Also starred Sam Jaffe, John Ericson & Bruce Forsyth. Plot: An apprentice witch, 3 kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defence of Britain. Won Oscar
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Director: Don Siegel. Also starred Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr & Mae Mercer. Plot: While imprisoned in a Confederate girls boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts.
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Director: Hal Ashby
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Director: Larry Peerce. Also starred Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie & Robert Klein. Plot: Julie Harris in an adaptation of Plath's autobiographical novel, which details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine...
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Director: James Hill. Also starred Rachel Roberts, Heather Wright & Dennis Waterman
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Director: Phil Karlson. Also starred Rosemary Murphy, Meredith Baxter & Kaz Garas. Plot: A lonely boy, played by Lee H. Montgomery, becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats...
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Director: Ted Post. Also starred Linda Harrison, Paul Richards & Victor Buono. Plot: Astronaut Brent (Franciscus) is sent to rescue Taylor but crash lands on the Planet of the Apes, just like Taylor did in the original film...
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Director: Joe Camp. Also starred Peter Breck, Frances Bavier & Terry Carter. Plot: A stray dog saves two kidnapped children.
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Director: Daniel Petrie. Also starred Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander & Lesley-Anne Down. Plot: The aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car.
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Director: Russ Meyer. Also starred John Lazar, Michael Blodgett & David Gurian. Plot: Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.
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Director: John Milius. Also starred Reb Brown, Patti D'Arbanville, Steve Kanaly & Barbara Hale
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Director: Tom Laughlin. Also starred Victor Izay, Julie Webb & Debbie Schock. Plot: Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
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Director: Mel Brooks
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Director: Mike Leigh. Also starred Joolia Cappleman, Mike Bradwell & Liz Smith
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Director: Stanley Kramer. Also starred Darel Glaser, Bob Kramer & Marc Vahanian. Plot: A group of social misfits band together and run away from summer camp. Along the way, they take up a crusade to save penned in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.
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Director: Seth Holt. Also starred Hugh Burden, George Coulouris & Mark Edwards
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Director: Robert Vincent O'Neill. Also starred Reagan Wilson, Jacqueline Dalya & Leslie Simms. Plot: A sex-crazed nympho helps speed along her father's death so she can use the inheritance to help out her depraved boyfriend.
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Director: Paul Mazursky. Also starred Marsha Mason, Shelley Winters & Donald F. Muhich. Plot: Lawyer Stephen Blume (Segal), specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up...
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Director and Producer: Sydney Pollack
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Director: Hal Ashley. Also starred Gail Strickland, John Lehne & Ji-Tu Cumbuka. Plot: This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie (Carradine), one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering and strength of America's working class. Won 2 Oscars.
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Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Also starred Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen & Steve Guttenberg. Plot: A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Director: Michael Powell. Also starred Brian Worth, Esmond Knight & Laurence Carter
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Director: Al Adamson. Also starred Regina Carrol, Vicki Volants & Reed Hadley. Plot: Amir (Hadley), the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton (Trenton) transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line.
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Director: Peter Yates. Also starred Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie & Paul Dooley. Plot: A small-town teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.
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Director: Richard Attenborough. Also starred Sean Connery, Edward Fox & Elliott Gould
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Director: Daniel Haller. Also starred Pamela Hensley, Henry Silva & Felix Silla
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Director: Steve Rash. Also starred Conrad Janis, William Jordan & Maria Richwine
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Director: Vernon Sewell. Also starred Yootha Joyce, Françoise Pascal & Yutte Stensgaard
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Director: Daniel Petrie & Sidney Sheldon. Also starred Clifton James, Robert Englund & Jessie lee Fulton. Plot: Dimwitted but sweet high school girl of easy virtue and the most popular boy in the school share an improbable romance...
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Director: Milton Katselas. Also starred Paul Michael Glaser & Michael Warren. Plot: All Don Baker wants is a place of his own away from his over-protective mother. Don's been blind since birth... Won Oscar
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Director and Producer: Bob Fosse
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Director: Ken Osborne. Also starred Don Epperson, Adair Jameson & Darwin Joston. Plot: Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain (Brady) has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife...
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Director: Herbert Ross
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