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10 (1979 film)
10 is Blake Edwards' 1979 Orion romantic comedy starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, and Bo Derek, in which composer George Webber pursues a woman he rates a perfect 10; it grossed about $75 million and earned two Oscar nominations.
1941 (film)
1941 is a 1979 Steven Spielberg comedy about Los Angeles invasion panic after Pearl Harbor, written by Zemeckis, Gale, and Milius, starring Belushi and Aykroyd, with three Oscar nominations and a $90 million worldwide gross.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a 1973 CBS animated Peanuts special, the tenth in the series, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman with a Vince Guaraldi score; now streaming exclusively on Apple TV+ through 2030.
A Touch of Class (1973 film)
A Touch of Class is a 1973 romantic comedy directed by Melvin Frank, starring George Segal and Glenda Jackson as clandestine lovers in a London-Spain affair; Jackson won her second Best Actress Oscar.
Amici miei
Amici miei (My Friends), 1975 Italian comedy by Mario Monicelli, completed after Pietro Germi's death; five Florentine friends stage pranks (zingarate); source of the word supercazzola; David di Donatello 1976 winner.
An Unmarried Woman
An Unmarried Woman is Paul Mazursky's 1978 American comedy-drama starring Jill Clayburgh as Erica Benton, a divorced Manhattan woman seeking independence; Oscar-nominated, Cannes Best Actress winner, distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
And Now for Something Completely Different
And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) is Monty Python's first film, an anthology of re-filmed Flying Circus sketches directed by Ian MacNaughton, made to introduce the troupe to US audiences.
Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) is a John Landis comedy starring John Belushi, the first National Lampoon film, about the Delta fraternity versus Dean Wormer at Faber College in 1962; a $3.5 million film that grossed over $90 million and entered the National Film Registry in 2001.
Annie Hall
Annie Hall (1977), also briefly titled Anhedonia, is Woody Allen's romantic comedy starring Diane Keaton as his ex-girlfriend character; it won four Oscars including Best Picture and ranks #35 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 American comedy-horror film spoofing 1950s creature features, directed by John De Bello on a budget under $100,000.
Autumn Marathon (Осенний марафон)
Autumn Marathon (Осенний марафон), a 1979 Mosfilm "sad comedy" by Georgiy Daneliya from Aleksandr Volodin's script, stars Oleg Basilashvili as indecisive Leningrad translator Buzykin torn between wife and mistress; Golden Shell winner, San Sebastián 1979.
Bananas
Bananas (1971) is Woody Allen's second film as director, a political farce in which product tester Fielding Mellish joins and leads a revolution in the fictional republic of San Marcos, co-starring Louise Lasser and Carlos Montalbán.
Bat Pussy
Bat Pussy is a roughly 50-minute American adult film of unknown authorship, likely shot around 1970 in the South and often called the first porn parody ever made.
Being There
Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 satirical comedy-drama, also known by its hero's alias Chauncey Gardiner, adapted from Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novel. Peter Sellers plays Chance, a TV-educated gardener mistaken for a sage; Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas co-star; released December 20, 1979.
Between the Lines
Between the Lines (1977) is Joan Micklin Silver's ensemble comedy-drama about the staff of a fictional Boston alt-weekly, the Back Bay Mainline, facing a corporate buyout; starring John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, and Jeff Goldblum, Golden Bear-nominated at Berlin.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) is a Russ Meyer satire, scripted by Roger Ebert, about the rock band the Carrie Nations in Hollywood; an X-rated Fox hit, not a sequel to Valley of the Dolls.
Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles (1974) is Mel Brooks's Warner Bros. satirical comedy Western starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, written with Richard Pryor and Andrew Bergman from Bergman's Tex X; a National Film Registry entry and AFI's funniest film of all time.
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is Robert Altman's 1970 MGM fantasy comedy, also known by the working title Brewster McCloud's (Sexy) Flying Machine, in which Bud Cort's recluse builds wings under the Houston Astrodome; Shelley Duvall's film debut.
Butterflies Are Free
Butterflies Are Free: 1972 Columbia comedy-drama film by Milton Katselas from Leonard Gershe's Broadway play; blind Don Baker (Edward Albert) and Goldie Hawn; Eileen Heckart won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
California Suite
California Suite is Neil Simon's 1976 four-playlet comedy set in rooms 203-204 of the Beverly Hills Hotel, following Plaza Suite; it ran 445 performances on Broadway and became Herbert Ross's 1978 all-star film, which won Maggie Smith a supporting-actress Oscar.
Car Wash (film)
Car Wash is a 1976 American ensemble comedy directed by Michael Schultz, written by Joel Schumacher, about one day at Los Angeles's Dee-Luxe Car Wash, starring Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and the Pointer Sisters, with a Rose Royce soundtrack and Cannes 1977 prizes.
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Céline and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau) is Jacques Rivette's 1974, 192-minute French comedy-fantasy about a magician and librarian entangled in a repeating haunted-house melodrama, ranked =78 in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll.
Chapter Two (film)
Chapter Two (1979) is Robert Moore's film of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical Broadway comedy, starring James Caan and Marsha Mason as newlyweds; 857-performance stage hit, Mason Oscar-nominated, Columbia/Rastar release.
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Chilly Scenes of Winter, released as Head Over Heels in 1979, is Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Ann Beattie's debut novel about an obsessed civil servant in Salt Lake City; re-released in 1982 with a darker ending and now a Criterion cult film.
Corvette Summer
Corvette Summer is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins, starring Mark Hamill as a graduate tracking his shop class's stolen custom Corvette.
Debbie Does Dallas
Debbie Does Dallas (1978) is a Golden Age pornographic film directed by Jim Clark, starring Bambi Woods, famous for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders trademark suit and its 1987 public-domain status.
Deep Throat (film)
Deep Throat (1972) is an American hardcore pornographic feature directed by Gerard Damiano, starring Linda Lovelace, that launched porno chic, grossed a debated $600 million, was banned in 23 states, and gave the Watergate informant his codename.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos), Bruno Barreto's 1976 Brazilian comedy-fantasy from Jorge Amado's 1966 novel, starring Sônia Braga; Brazil's highest-grossing film for about 35 years.
El Puente
El puente (1977) is a Spanish road movie comedy-drama by Juan Antonio Bardem starring Alfredo Landa as a Madrid mechanic riding to Torremolinos; it won the 1977 Moscow Film Festival Grand Prize.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film)
1972 Woody Allen comedy, also called Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, adapting David Reuben's sex manual as seven genre-parody vignettes for United Artists.