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Female Trouble
Female Trouble is John Waters's 1974 Baltimore cult film starring Divine as Dawn Davenport, a delinquent whose "crime is beauty" pursuit of fame leads to the electric chair; restored by Criterion in 2018.
Flesh Gordon
Flesh Gordon (1974) is an American erotic sci-fi comedy parody of the Flash Gordon serials, directed by Michael Benveniste and Howard Ziehm; hardcore footage was seized by police, and the trimmed R-rated cut runs 78 minutes.
Foul Play (1978 film)
Foul Play (1978) is a Colin Higgins comedy-thriller starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase as a librarian and detective facing a plot to assassinate the Pope in San Francisco; a Hitchcock homage that ranked among 1978's top-grossing films.
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs) is Bertrand Blier's 1978 French-Belgian comedy-drama starring Depardieu, Dewaere, and Carole Laure; it won the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude: 1971 Hal Ashby black comedy (Paramount) about death-obsessed 20-year-old Harold (Bud Cort) and 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon); Colin Higgins script, Cat Stevens songs, box office failure turned cult classic, National Film Registry 1997.
High Anxiety
High Anxiety is Mel Brooks's 1977 Twentieth Century-Fox comedy spoofing Alfred Hitchcock films such as Spellbound, Psycho, and Vertigo, starring Brooks as an acrophobic psychiatrist, with Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, and Harvey Korman.
Ice Castles
Ice Castles is a 1978 American romantic drama directed by Donald Wrye, starring skater Lynn-Holly Johnson as a partly blinded figure skater aiming for the Olympics.
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Иван Васильевич меняет профессию)
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Иван Васильевич меняет профессию) is Leonid Gaidai's 1973 Mosfilm comedy based on Bulgakov's play, in which Shurik's time machine swaps Ivan the Terrible with his lookalike housing manager Bunsha; seen by 60.7 million Soviet viewers.
Jabberwocky (1977 film)
Jabberwocky (1977), also released in the US as Monty Python's Jabberwocky, is Terry Gilliam's first solo-directed feature, a British medieval comedy fantasy starring Michael Palin as reluctant hero Dennis Cooper, loosely based on Lewis Carroll's poem.
L'Aile ou la Cuisse
L'Aile ou la Cuisse (The Wing or the Thigh), 1976 French comedy by Claude Zidi starring Louis de Funès and Coluche, their only film together; gastronomic critic Duchemin battles industrial-food magnate Tricatel; about 6 million admissions, second at the 1976 French box office.
La Cage aux Folles (film)
La Cage aux Folles (Il vizietto) is a 1978 French-Italian comedy by Édouard Molinaro, adapted from Jean Poiret's 1973 play, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault as a Saint-Tropez gay couple; it earned three Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe, and record foreign-language U.S. box office.
La Zizanie
La Zizanie is a 1978 French comedy by Claude Zidi starring Louis de Funès and Annie Girardot: an anti-pollution-machine manufacturer's home expansion drives his wife to run against him for mayor.
Le Jouet
Le Jouet (The Toy) is Francis Veber's 1976 French comedy-drama starring Pierre Richard as journalist François Perrin, chosen as a living toy by billionaire Michel Bouquet's son; 1,249,452 French admissions, remade in 1982.
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy by Gérard Oury starring Louis de Funès as a racist industrialist disguised as a rabbi; top French box-office hit of 1973 with over 7 million admissions.
Les Bronzés
Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation), 1978 French comedy by Patrice Leconte adapting the Splendid troupe's play Amour, coquillages et crustacés; filmed in Côte d'Ivoire, drew about 2.3-2.5 million admissions and spawned a 1979 ski sequel.
Love and Anarchy
Love and Anarchy (Film d'amore e d'anarchia) is Lina Wertmüller's 1973 Italian-French tragicomedy starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato, about a peasant anarchist plotting to assassinate Mussolini from a Roman brothel; Giannini won Best Actor at Cannes 1973.
Love and Death
Love and Death is a 1975 American comedy film written, directed by, and starring Woody Allen with Diane Keaton, a parody of Russian literature set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Love on the Run
Love on the Run (L'Amour en fuite) is François Truffaut's 1979 French comedy-drama, the fifth and final Antoine Doinel film starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, following Doinel's divorce, new romance, and flashbacks to earlier films.
Lucky Lady
Lucky Lady is a 1975 American comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, and Burt Reynolds as rum runners during Prohibition.
Malicious (1973 film)
Malizia (released as Malicious), 1973 Italian erotic comedy by Salvatore Samperi with Laura Antonelli, Turi Ferro, Alessandro Momo; Sicilian widower's housekeeper plot, 5-billion-lire hit, Berlin Golden Bear nominee.
Manhattan (1979 film)
Manhattan (1979) is Woody Allen's black-and-white romantic comedy-drama about TV writer Isaac Davis, co-written with Marshall Brickman, shot by Gordon Willis, scored with Gershwin, and released 25 April 1979.
March of Fools (바보들의 행진)
March of Fools (바보들의 행진) is Ha Gil-jong's 1975 Korean youth comedy-drama adapted from Choi In-ho's novel, following two philosophy students under the Yushin dictatorship; heavily censored, it tied for first in KOFA's 2013 top-100 poll.
Meatballs (film)
Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian summer camp comedy directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray in his first lead film role as head counselor Tripper Harrison.
Mimino (Мимино)
Mimino (Мимино, Georgian მიმინო, "falcon") is a 1977 Mosfilm comedy by Georgiy Daneliya starring Vakhtang Kikabidze and Frunzik Mkrtchyan; 24.4 million viewers, Golden Prize at the 1977 Moscow film festival.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) is a British comedy film directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam, parodying King Arthur's quest for the Grail; funded by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, filmed in Scotland, and later adapted into Spamalot.
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), Terry Jones-directed British satire starring Graham Chapman as a man mistaken for the Messiah; financed by George Harrison's HandMade Films, banned in Ireland and Norway, home of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Москва слезам не верит)
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Москва слезам не верит) is a 1979 Mosfilm melodrama directed by Vladimir Menshov from Valentin Chernykh's script, starring Vera Alentova; it drew about 85 million Soviet viewers and won the 1981 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Murder by Death
Murder by Death (1976) is a Neil Simon-written, Robert Moore-directed parody in which five famous fictional detectives, spoofing Sam Spade, the Charlestons, Poirot, Chan, and Marple, compete for $1 million.
My Friends (1975 film)
My Friends (Amici miei) is a 1975 Italian comedy by Mario Monicelli, completed from Pietro Germi's project, about five Florentine friends and their pranks; it topped the 1975-76 Italian box office and spawned two sequels.
Myra Breckinridge (film)
Myra Breckinridge is a 1970 American comedy directed by Michael Sarne for Twentieth Century-Fox, starring Raquel Welch and Mae West and adapted from Gore Vidal's satirical 1968 novel.