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The Ear
The Ear (Ucho) is a 1970 Czechoslovak political thriller by Karel Kachyňa and Jan Procházka about a bugged deputy minister's night of panic; banned until 1990, later Cannes-competition and 4K-restored.
The French Connection (film)
The French Connection (1971) is William Friedkin's Oscar-winning crime thriller starring Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle, based on Robin Moore's book about the real Egan-Grosso heroin case, famous for its Brooklyn car chase and five Academy Awards.
The Gambler (1974 film)
The Gambler (1974) is an American drama directed by Karel Reisz, written by James Toback, starring James Caan as compulsive gambler Axel Freed, a literature professor in debt to the mob; inspired by Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel.
The Getaway (1972 film)
The Getaway (French title Guet-apens) is a 1972 American action crime film directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw as a couple fleeing after a Texas bank job.
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a 1972 film by Wim Wenders, adapted from Peter Handke's novel about a goalkeeper who murders a cinema cashier.
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II (1974) is Francis Ford Coppola's sequel intercutting young Vito Corleone's rise (Robert De Niro) with Michael Corleone's decline (Al Pacino); it won six Oscars including Best Picture, the first sequel to do so.
The Hot Rock
The Hot Rock (1972) is a Peter Yates comedy caper, scripted by William Goldman from Donald E. Westlake's Dortmunder novel, starring Robert Redford and George Segal as thieves repeatedly re-stealing a Brooklyn Museum diamond; Oscar-nominated for film editing.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is John Cassavetes's 1976 neo-noir crime drama starring Ben Gazzara as strip-club owner Cosmo Vitelli, forced by gangsters to kill a Chinese bookie; it exists as a 135-minute 1976 cut and a 108-minute 1978 re-edit.
The Last of Sheila
The Last of Sheila is a 1973 American whodunit directed by Herbert Ross, written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, in which producer James Coburn's Riviera yacht mystery game turns deadly.
The Last Wave
The Last Wave is Peter Weir's 1977 Australian mystery film in which Richard Chamberlain's Sydney lawyer defends Aboriginal men for a ritual killing and is drawn into apocalyptic flood prophecy, with David Gulpilil and advisor Nandjiwarra Amagula.
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane: 1976 Canadian-French psychological thriller by Nicolas Gessner, from Laird Koenig's 1974 novel, starring Jodie Foster as Rynn Jacobs hiding her father's death; Saturn Award winner.
The Long Goodbye (film)
The Long Goodbye (1973) is Robert Altman's neo-noir comedy-drama adapting Raymond Chandler's 1953 Marlowe novel, with Elliott Gould as an anachronistic Philip Marlowe in 1970s Los Angeles, Leigh Brackett's screenplay, Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography, and a recurring John Williams-Johnny Mercer title song.
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (Место встречи изменить нельзя) is a 1979 five-episode Soviet TV detective film by Stanislav Govorukhin, based on the Vainer brothers' novel Era of Mercy, starring Vladimir Vysotsky as Zheglov hunting the Black Cat gang in postwar Moscow.
The Odessa File
The Odessa File (1974), Ronald Neame's film of Frederick Forsyth's novel, stars Jon Voight as journalist Peter Miller infiltrating the SS group Odessa to hunt Eduard Roschmann, the Butcher of Riga, with Simon Wiesenthal as advisor.
The Organization
The Organization is a 1971 American crime thriller directed by Don Medford, starring Sidney Poitier in his third and final film as detective Virgil Tibbs, investigating revolutionaries who steal heroin from a San Francisco drug front.
The Outfit (1973 film)
The Outfit (1973 film), John Flynn neo-noir crime film adapted from Richard Stark's 1963 Parker novel, starring Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker, Karen Black, and Robert Ryan; distinct from the 2022 Mark Rylance film of the same name.
The Parallax View
The Parallax View (1974) is Alan J. Pakula's conspiracy thriller starring Warren Beatty as reporter Joe Frady, adapted from Loren Singer's 1970 novel, shot by Gordon Willis, the middle film of Pakula's paranoia trilogy.
The Serpent's Egg
The Serpent's Egg (Das Schlangenei, Ormens ägg) is Ingmar Bergman's 1977 English-language drama, his first film made outside Sweden, produced by Dino De Laurentiis in Munich exile, set in 1923 Weimar Berlin amid the rise of Nazism.
The Spider's Stratagem
The Spider's Stratagem (Strategia del ragno) is Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 RAI television film, freely adapted from Borges's "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero", in which a son investigating his anti-fascist father's 1936 murder finds the hero staged his own assassination.
The Squeeze
The Squeeze is a 1977 British-Australian crime thriller directed by Michael Apted, starring Stacy Keach, Edward Fox, David Hemmings, and Carol White.
The Sting
The Sting (1973) is a George Roy Hill comedy-drama written by David S. Ward, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw as 1930s Chicago con men. It won 7 of 10 Oscars including Best Picture and was the second and last Newman-Redford teaming.
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express is Steven Spielberg's 1974 theatrical debut, a Texas chase comedy-drama starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton as a couple who kidnap a trooper to reclaim their son, based on a 1969 true incident, Cannes Best Screenplay winner.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) is Joseph Sargent's subway-hijacking thriller with Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, adapted from John Godey's novel; the color-coded hijackers, $1 million ransom, and 1998 and 2009 remakes distinguish it.
Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor (1975), Sydney Pollack's political thriller starring Robert Redford as CIA researcher Joe Turner, adapted from James Grady's novel Six Days of the Condor, with Faye Dunaway and Max von Sydow; post-Watergate paranoia classic.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot: 1974 American crime-heist film, Michael Cimino's directorial debut, starring Clint Eastwood as robber Thunderbolt and Jeff Bridges as drifter Lightfoot; Bridges earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
Un Flic
Un Flic (A Cop) is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1972 French-Italian crime film, his 13th and final feature, starring Alain Delon as commissaire Coleman, with Richard Crenna and Catherine Deneuve; distinct from the 2007 French TV series of the same name.
Vengeance Is Mine (復讐するは我にあり)
Vengeance Is Mine (復讐するは我にあり, Fukushū suru wa ware ni ari) is Shohei Imamura's 1979 Japanese crime drama, based on Ryūzō Saki's Naoki Prize novel about serial killer Akira Nishiguchi, starring Ken Ogata as Iwao Enokizu during a 78-day, five-victim killing spree; it won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Picture.
Villain (1971 film)
Villain (1971) is a British gangster film directed by Michael Tuchner, starring Richard Burton as Ronnie Kray-inspired East End crime boss Vic Dakin, adapted from James Barlow's novel The Burden of Proof, released May 1971 in New York and August 1971 in the UK.
When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)
When a Stranger Calls is a 1979 American psychological horror film directed by Fred Walton, in which a babysitter is terrorized by calls from inside the house.