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...And Justice for All (film)
And Justice for All (film) is a 1979 comedy-drama directed by Norman Jewison. It stars Al Pacino as a defense attorney who challenges a corrupt legal system in Baltimore.
3 Women
3 Women (1977) is Robert Altman's dream-inspired drama starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule, in which identities blur and merge in a California desert town; Duvall won Best Actress at Cannes 1977.
A Special Day
A Special Day (Una giornata particolare) is Ettore Scola's 1977 Italian-Canadian drama starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni as two outsiders who meet in Rome on the day of Hitler's 1938 visit; Cannes competitor, Golden Globe and Cesar winner, double Oscar nominee.
A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) is John Cassavetes's independent drama starring Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk as Mabel and Nick Longhetti; self-financed, self-distributed, and nominated for two Academy Awards.
Alexandria... Why?
Alexandria... Why? (Iskandariyya lih?, إسكندرية .. ليه؟) is Youssef Chahine's 1978 semi-autobiographical Egyptian drama set in 1942 wartime Alexandria; it won the 1979 Berlin Silver Bear and opened his autobiographical quartet.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1974 West German melodrama about Emmi, a 60-year-old Munich cleaning woman, and Ali, a younger Moroccan guest worker, shot in 14 days, modeled on Sirk's All That Heaven Allows.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 Warner Bros. drama directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Robert Getchell, starring Ellen Burstyn as widowed singer-aspirant Alice Hyatt; it won Burstyn the 1975 Best Actress Oscar and spawned the CBS sitcom Alice.
Alice in the Cities
Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten) is Wim Wenders's 1974 black-and-white West German road movie, first of his Road Trilogy, starring Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer as a journalist and a girl searching the Ruhr for her grandmother.
Ana y los Lobos
Ana y los lobos (Anna and the Wolves) is a 1973 Spanish drama by Carlos Saura, written with Rafael Azcona and produced by Elías Querejeta, starring Geraldine Chaplin as an English governess in an allegorical household of the late Franco regime; it competed at Cannes 1973.
Autumn Sonata
Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten) is Ingmar Bergman's 1978 chamber drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann, shot in Norway during his Swedish exile, about a concert pianist's reunion with her neglected daughter.
Bang the Drum Slowly
Bang the Drum Slowly: 1973 Paramount sports drama directed by John D. Hancock, adapted by Mark Harris from his 1956 novel, starring Robert De Niro as dying catcher Bruce Pearson and Michael Moriarty as pitcher Henry Wiggen of the fictional New York Mammoths; Vincent Gardenia earned a Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
Behind the Green Door
Behind the Green Door is a 1972 hard-core feature by the Mitchell brothers, starring former Ivory Snow model Marilyn Chambers; the first widely distributed US pornographic film, it grossed $25–50 million and triggered obscenity cases reaching the Supreme Court.
Bleak Moments
Bleak Moments (1971) is Mike Leigh's debut feature film, adapted from his 1970 stage play, about secretary Sylvia caring for her disabled sister in South London; made for about £18,000 on 35mm.
Bound for Glory (1976 film)
Bound for Glory (1976) is Hal Ashby's biopic of folk singer Woody Guthrie, starring David Carradine, from Guthrie's 1943 autobiography. First feature to use the Steadicam; Haskell Wexler won the cinematography Oscar among six nominations and two wins.
Camera Buff
Camera Buff (Amator, 1979) is Krzysztof Kieślowski's Polish drama about factory clerk Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr), whose 8 mm camera obsession costs him his family; a key cinema of moral concern film with Gdańsk, Moscow, Berlin, and Chicago awards.
Carnal Knowledge (film)
Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 Mike Nichols comedy-drama written by Jules Feiffer, starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen, and Ann-Margret; it traces two college friends' sexual lives over decades and survived a US Supreme Court obscenity case.
Confessions Among Actresses
Confessions Among Actresses (告白的女優論, Kokuhakuteki joyuron) is a 1971 Japanese drama by Yoshishige Yoshida, produced by Gendai Eigasha and distributed by Japan ATG, starring Ruriko Asaoka, Mariko Okada, and Ineko Arima as actresses facing private traumas two days before filming a movie of the same title.
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), also released as Hit the Open Man, is a Joe Manduke drama adapted from Ronald Fair's novel Hog Butcher, in which police mistakenly shoot a star basketball player; it marked Laurence Fishburne's film debut.
Cries and Whispers
Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop), Ingmar Bergman's 1972 Swedish drama about sisters keeping vigil for the dying Agnes, famous for its red interiors, Sven Nykvist's Oscar-winning cinematography, and Cannes Technical Grand Prize.
Day for Night (1973 film)
Day for Night (La nuit américaine) is François Truffaut's 1973 France/Italy comedy-drama about making a film, starring Truffaut as director Ferrand; it won the 1973 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Days of Heaven
Days of Heaven is Terrence Malick's 1978 drama about Chicago lovers Bill and Abby and Linda Manz on a Texas wheat farm, starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, and Sam Shepard, shot in Alberta with Oscar-winning cinematography by Néstor Almendros.
Dersu Uzala (1975 film)
Dersu Uzala (Дерсу Узала, デルス・ウザーラ), 1975 Mosfilm Soviet-Japanese drama directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Arsenyev's 1923 memoirs, starring Maksim Munzuk and Yuriy Solomin; his only non-Japanese-language film, 70mm, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 1976.
Dodes'ka-den (どですかでん)
Dodes'ka-den (どですかでん, Dodesukaden) is Akira Kurosawa's 1970 first color film, a vignette portrait of slum dwellers on a Tokyo dump, made by the Yonki-no-kai collective, Oscar-nominated, and a box-office failure followed by Kurosawa's suicide attempt.
Escape from Alcatraz (film)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979) is Don Siegel's prison drama starring Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris, dramatizing the real 1962 Alcatraz breakout by Morris and the Anglin brothers; Siegel and Eastwood's fifth and final collaboration, filmed on location.
F.I.S.T. (film)
F.I.S.T. is a 1978 Norman Jewison drama starring Sylvester Stallone as Johnny Kovak, a labor leader of the fictional Federation of Interstate Truckers, loosely based on Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters; budget $8.1 million, domestic gross $20,388,920.
Face to Face (1976 film)
Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte) is a 1976 Swedish psychological drama written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann as a psychiatrist suffering a breakdown.
Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces (1970) is Bob Rafelson's New Hollywood drama starring Jack Nicholson as pianist-turned-oil-rigger Bobby Dupea, with Karen Black; four Oscar nominations, NYFCC Best Film, National Film Registry 2000.
Fox and His Friends
Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1975 West German melodrama in which an unemployed fairground worker, played by Fassbinder, wins the lottery and is exploited by middle-class gay friends.
Fruit of Paradise
Fruit of Paradise (Ovoce stromů rajských jíme) is Věra Chytilová's 1970 Czechoslovak-Belgian allegorical film retelling Adam and Eve as a detective parable in a health spa, her last film before a seven-year normalization-era ban.
Harlan County, USA
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) is Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary about the 13-month Brookside coal miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, against Duke Power's Eastover Mining Company for UMWA recognition; National Film Registry 1990.