HBO January 1976
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1. Children of Rage (1975)
PG | 106 min | Drama
Young Palestinian ends up in a hospital after the bomb he set to explode during a party for the Israelis explodes before he leaves. Sympathetic physician tries to convince him to give up on his destructive ways while he still can.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Helmut Griem, Olga Georges-Picot, Cyril Cusack, Simon Ward
Votes: 39
2. Paper Moon (1973)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Votes: 52,473 | Gross: $30.93M
3. Strange Holiday (1970)
75 min | Adventure, Family
Ten young boys are shipwrecked somewhere in Oceania.
Director: Mende Brown | Stars: Jaeme Hamilton, Mark Healey, Jaime Massang, Van Alexander
Votes: 85
4. The Conversation (1974)
PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 121,914 | Gross: $4.42M
5. The Groove Tube (1974)
R | 75 min | Comedy
A collection of skits that make fun of 1970s television, featuring early appearances by Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer.
Director: Ken Shapiro | Stars: Ken Shapiro, Richard Belzer, Chevy Chase, Buzzy Linhart
Votes: 2,342 | Gross: $20.45M
6. The Passenger (1975)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Votes: 26,186 | Gross: $0.62M
7. Young Frankenstein (1974)
PG | 106 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle
Votes: 168,930 | Gross: $86.30M
8. Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue (1974)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama
A young black student accidentally films a crooked cop committing a murder. He then follows the cop around, filming more of his illegal activities.
Director: Dennis McGuire | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Eric Laneuville, Paul Sorvino, Earl Hindman
Votes: 60
9. Love & Anarchy (1973)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Lina Polito, Eros Pagni
Votes: 3,530
10. The Devil's Rain (1975)
PG | 86 min | Horror
A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, William Shatner
Votes: 5,099
11. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
PG | 98 min | Comedy
A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.
Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson
Votes: 3,855
12. Visit to a Chief's Son (1974)
G | 85 min | Adventure, Drama
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Mulligan, Johnny Sekka, John Philip Hogdon, Jesse Kinaru
Votes: 120
13. Man on a Swing (1974)
PG | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only... See full summary »
Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson
Votes: 768
14. Lenny (1974)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck
Votes: 17,588 | Gross: $8.43M
15. At Long Last Love (1975)
G | 118 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Four socialite old friends unexpectedly clash, and switch partners during a party and attempt to make each other jealous.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete
Votes: 1,399 | Gross: $3.27M
16. The Terrorists (II) (1974)
PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In a Scandinavian country, national security chief Colonel Tahlvik is tasked to rescue the passengers of a hijacked British airliner while the British Ambassador is being held hostage at his residence by another terrorist team.
Director: Casper Wrede | Stars: Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffry Wickham, Isabel Dean
Votes: 2,506
17. Chibideka monogatari (1958)
51 min | Drama, Family
Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
Director: Jûkichi Uno | Stars: Yoshiro Kataoka, Tomoko Naraoka, Shunkoku Sha, Masami Shimojô
Votes: 154
18. Salty (1973)
G | 90 min | Family, Comedy, Drama
Two siblings, orphaned by a hurricane, are taken in by a Bahamas marina owner. They befriend a sea lion, have adventures.
Director: Ricou Browning | Stars: Mark Slade, Nina Foch, Julius Harris, Linda Scruggs
Votes: 96
19. Journey Into Fear (1975)
R | 100 min | Thriller
An American geologist accidentally discovers oil in Turkey. Several assassins are sent to eliminate him, but they all fail. He eventually boards a passenger boat to try to escape. However, one of the passengers is an undercover assassin.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Scott Marlowe
Votes: 299
20. The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Horror
Reporter having affair with president's daughter sent to Hungary, bitten by wolf then transferred back to Washington where bodies appear.
Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Katalin Kallay, Henry Ferrentino, Despo Diamantidou
Votes: 1,218
21. The Parallax View (1974)
R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn
Votes: 21,789 | Gross: $2.15M
22. The Asphyx (1972)
PG | 83 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
English country squire Sir Hugo Cunningham searches for immortality by literally 'bottling up' the Spirit of the Dead, or Asphyx.
Director: Peter Newbrook | Stars: Robert Powell, Robert Stephens, Jane Lapotaire, Alex Scott
Votes: 3,041
23. The Last Snow of Springtime (1973)
95 min | Drama
A recently divorced couple's son is diagnosed with leukemia.
Director: Raimondo Del Balzo | Stars: Bekim Fehmiu, Agostina Belli, Renato Cestiè, Nino Segurini
Votes: 260
24. Bootleggers (1974)
PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Details the lives of two feuding families of bootleggers, the Pruitts and the Woodalls, in rural 1920s and 1930s Arkansas.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Slim Pickens, Jaclyn Smith
Votes: 184
25. Mixed Company (1974)
PG | 109 min | Drama, Family
Joseph Bologna portrays a racially prejudiced basketball coach who is persuaded to adopt three (more!) kids of mixed ethnic backgrounds. Frustrated and angry at first, his feelings soon turn to love. In HD.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna, Tom Bosley, Lisa Gerritsen
Votes: 251
26. Beyond the Door (1974)
R | 108 min | Horror
Juliet Mills plays a young pregnant woman in San Francisco who is going to have the devil's baby during her strange possession. Richard Johnson shows up to help her... but what does he really want?
Directors: Ovidio G. Assonitis, Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli | Stars: Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Nino Segurini
Votes: 2,722 | Gross: $0.08M
27. Little Jungle Boy (1969)
78 min | Drama, Family
A boy who grew up in the Malayan jungle is brought into civilization by a husband-wife doctor team. The child finds his new surroundings disturbing and threatening.
Director: Mende Brown | Stars: Rahman Rahmin, Mike Dorsey, Niki Huen, Michael Pate
Votes: 19
28. Touch and Go (1971)
110 min | Comedy
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Michael York, Louis Velle
Votes: 172
29. The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, John Dehner
Votes: 3,529 | Gross: $2.30M
30. Return of the Street Fighter (1974)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Mercenary karate master Tsurugi gets mixed up in a plot by the American mafia to take over the karate dojos in Asia, aided by a corrupt dojo master.
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Claude Gagnon, Yôko Ichiji, Masashi Ishibashi
Votes: 2,291
31. The Speed Merchants (1972)
Documentary, Action, Sport
1972 Sports Car racing. From 24hrs of Le Mans to 24hrs at Daytona. Told by drivers Mario Andretti and Vic Elford.
Director: Michael Keyser | Stars: Mario Andretti, Vic Elford
Votes: 64
32. The Nickel Ride (1974)
PG | 99 min | Crime, Drama
In Los Angeles, a criminal begins to think that his accomplices want to get rid of him.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, Victor French, John Hillerman
Votes: 719
33. The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee
Votes: 2,280
34. Race with the Devil (1975)
PG | 88 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker
Votes: 7,339 | Gross: $12.64M
35. Mean Streets (1973)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic lover, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson
Votes: 119,695 | Gross: $3.13M
36. S*P*Y*S (1974)
PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy
Two spies end up being chased by the CIA, the KGB, and a group of anarchists after a botched mission invoked an unwritten "corpse for a corpse" pact.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou, Joss Ackland
Votes: 1,064 | Gross: $2.46M
37. The Day of the Locust (1975)
R | 144 min | Drama, Thriller
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton
Votes: 6,366 | Gross: $17.79M
38. Rosebud (1975)
PG | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Renowned producer-director Otto Preminger captures international terrorism in this film about five teenage girls who are kidnapped from a yacht by the P.L.O. Stars Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborough.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 1,011 | Gross: $0.55M
39. W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
W. Bright (Burt Reynolds) is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he hijacks a car, he meets an aspiring country band, the Dixie Dancekings, led by Dixie (Conny Van Dyke). The two sides eventually take a liking to one another, especially after the Dancekings realize the size of Bright's thefts. Trailed by ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Art Carney, Conny Van Dyke, Jerry Reed
Votes: 1,066 | Gross: $17.44M
40. The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
G | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Votes: 3,636 | Gross: $0.34M
41. Escape to Nowhere (1973)
PG | 117 min | Drama, Thriller
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon, Robert Hardy
Votes: 1,060
42. The Boxer (1972)
R | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When boxer Teddy Wilcox is framed for murdering his crooked manager Nick, he escapes police custody and goes after the real killer in order to clear his name.
Director: Francesco Prosperi | Stars: Robert Blake, Catherine Spaak, Ernest Borgnine, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 191
43. Cries & Whispers (1972)
R | 91 min | Drama
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Votes: 37,006 | Gross: $1.74M
44. An Adventure in the Bay of Gold (1955)
69 min | Family
Director: Bretislav Pojar | Stars: Ilja Cernohorsky, Vladimír Hlavatý, Jarina Rejskova, Ladislav H. Struna
Votes: 23
45. Heidi (1974)
30 min | Drama, Family
Left in the care of her gruff grandfather in the Swiss mountains, young Heidi wants to make the best of things.
Stars: Emma Blake, Hans Meyer, Flora Robson, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Votes: 97
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