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Le Cercle Rouge
Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle) is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 French-Italian heist film starring Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand, and André Bourvil, named for a Buddhist epigraph about fated meetings.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Richard Brooks drama adapted from Judith Rossner's novel, starring Diane Keaton as teacher Theresa Dunn; based on the 1973 Roseann Quinn murder, with Tuesday Weld's Oscar-nominated supporting turn.
Magnum Force
Magnum Force (1973), also known by its working title Vigilance, is Ted Post's Dirty Harry sequel in which Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan hunts rogue SFPD motorcycle cops executing criminals; written by John Milius and Michael Cimino, it earned $39.8 million.
Marathon Man (film)
Marathon Man (1976) is a John Schlesinger thriller written by William Goldman from his novel, starring Dustin Hoffman as runner Babe Levy versus Nazi dentist Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier), famous for the 'Is it safe?' torture scene and Olivier's Oscar-nominated supporting role.
Mean Streets
Mean Streets (1973) is Martin Scorsese's semi-autobiographical crime drama set in New York's Little Italy, starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro; originally titled Season of the Witch, it premiered at the 1973 New York Film Festival and made Scorsese's reputation.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) is Sidney Lumet's film of Agatha Christie's 1934 Poirot novel, starring Albert Finney, with Ingrid Bergman winning a Supporting Actress Oscar; six nominations, 11th highest-grossing film of 1974.
Obsession (1976 film)
Obsession (1976) is Brian De Palma's psychological thriller, written with Paul Schrader, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, and John Lithgow, scored by Bernard Herrmann, and modeled on Hitchcock's Vertigo; released August 1, 1976 by Columbia.
Performance (film)
Performance (1970) is a British crime drama co-directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, starring James Fox and Mick Jagger. Shot in 1968, shelved by Warner Bros for two years, initially reviled, now a cult classic restored in 4K.
Peur sur la ville
Peur sur la ville (The Night Caller) is a 1975 French-Italian thriller by Henri Verneuil starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as commissaire Letellier hunting the serial killer Minos, famous for Belmondo's self-performed metro-roof stunts and Morricone's score.
Reconstruction
Reconstruction (Anaparastasi, Αναπαράσταση) is Theo Angelopoulos's 1970 Greek black-and-white feature debut about a magistrate reconstructing a migrant worker's murder by his wife and lover, a landmark of New Greek Cinema.
Report to the Commissioner
Report to the Commissioner is a 1975 American crime drama directed by Milton Katselas, adapted from James Mills's novel, starring Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, and Susan Blakely; it depicts an NYPD rookie's fatal shooting of an undercover officer and marked Richard Gere's film debut.
Rolling Thunder (film)
Rolling Thunder is a 1977 American revenge thriller, also released as Légitime Violence, directed by John Flynn and written by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould; William Devane plays a returned Vietnam POW on a revenge mission with Tommy Lee Jones.
Serpico
Serpico (1973) is Sidney Lumet's biographical crime drama starring Al Pacino as NYPD whistleblower Frank Serpico, adapted from Peter Maas's book; it earned two Oscar nominations, won Pacino a Golden Globe, and was shot entirely on New York City locations.
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Seventeen Moments of Spring (Семнадцать мгновений весны) is a 1973 Soviet 12-episode spy miniseries directed by Tatyana Lioznova from Yulian Semyonov's novel, starring Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Stierlitz, a Soviet mole in the SS thwarting separate peace talks in 1945.
Silver Streak (film)
Silver Streak (1976) is an Arthur Hiller comedy-thriller starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, the first Wilder-Pryor film, about a murder aboard a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train; a mid-1970s hit with one Oscar nomination.
Sitting Target
Sitting Target (1972) is a British crime thriller directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, and Ian McShane, based on Laurence Henderson's 1970 novel, about an escaped convict hunting his unfaithful pregnant wife; noted for an X rating for violence and Clapham Junction filming.
Sorcerer (film)
Sorcerer (1977) is William Friedkin's remake of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear, adapted from Georges Arnaud's novel, starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou hauling nitroglycerin; a costly 1977 flop later critically re-evaluated.
Straight Time
Straight Time (1978) is a Ulu Grosbard crime drama starring Dustin Hoffman as paroled burglar Max Dembo, adapted from Edward Bunker's novel No Beast So Fierce, with Bunker co-writing and acting.
Straw Dogs (1971 film)
Straw Dogs (1971) is Sam Peckinpah's controversial thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, adapted from Gordon Williams' The Siege of Trencher's Farm, set in Cornwall, banned from UK video from 1988 to 2002, and remade by Rod Lurie in 2011.
Super Fly (1972 film)
Super Fly (1972) is a blaxploitation crime drama directed by Gordon Parks Jr., starring Ron O'Neal as Harlem cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest, famous for Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack and its box-office and cultural controversy.
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese's Palme d'Or-winning drama written by Paul Schrader, stars Robert De Niro as alienated New York cabbie Travis Bickle; $1.8 million budget, four Oscar nominations, Bernard Herrmann's final score.
The Anderson Tapes
The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 Sidney Lumet heist film starring Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, and Martin Balsam, adapted from Lawrence Sanders's novel, about a robber whose building heist is unknowingly recorded by multiple surveillance agencies.
The Big Fix (1978 film)
The Big Fix (1978) is a Jeremy Kagan comedy-drama mystery starring Richard Dreyfuss as private eye Moses Wine, adapted by Roger L. Simon from his novel; Dreyfuss's first producing credit, released October 6, 1978 by Universal.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill (1974) is a Don Siegel spy thriller starring Michael Caine as agent John Tarrant, adapted from Clive Egleton's Seven Days to a Killing, about a kidnapped son held for a diamond ransom; a critical and commercial flop later reappraised.
The Castle of Sand (砂の器)
The Castle of Sand (砂の器, Suna no utsuwa) is a 1974 Shochiku mystery film directed by Yoshitaro Nomura from Seicho Matsumoto's novel, following two detectives whose rail-yard murder case leads to composer Eiryo Waga; Nomura's biggest hit, honored at Moscow.
The Conversation
The Conversation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 surveillance thriller starring Gene Hackman as wiretapper Harry Caul. It won the 1974 Palme d'Or, earned three Oscar nominations, and was restored in 4K for its 2024 50th anniversary.
The Day of the Jackal (film)
The Day of the Jackal (1973) is Fred Zinnemann's British-French political thriller, adapted from Frederick Forsyth's novel, starring Edward Fox as the assassin hired by the OAS to kill de Gaulle.
The Deer
The Deer (Gavaznha) is Masoud Kimiai's 1974 Iranian drama about a wounded robber and his heroin-addicted friend, starring Behrouz Vossoughi; censored until 1978 and screening during the Cinema Rex fire.
The Driver
The Driver (1978) is a Walter Hill neo-noir crime thriller starring Ryan O'Neal as a nameless getaway driver pursued by Bruce Dern's obsessive detective. A 1978 box-office failure later reappraised as a minimalist classic that influenced Drive and Baby Driver.
The Drowning Pool
The Drowning Pool (1975) is Stuart Rosenberg's crime drama sequel to Harper, with Paul Newman as private eye Lew Harper investigating blackmail in New Orleans opposite Joanne Woodward, based on Ross Macdonald's 1950 novel; distinct from the 2019 comedy of the same name.