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Paradise Alley
Paradise Alley (1978), also known as Hell's Kitchen, is Sylvester Stallone's directorial debut, a Universal drama about three Italian-American brothers in 1946 Hell's Kitchen who turn brother Victor into a wrestler; originally a boxing script tied to the Rocky lawsuit.
Pretty Baby (1978 film)
Pretty Baby is Louis Malle's 1978 Paramount drama set in 1917 Storyville, New Orleans, starring 12-year-old Brooke Shields as child prostitute Violet, with Susan Sarandon and Keith Carradine; controversial, Cannes Technical Grand Prize winner, Malle's American debut.
Providence (1977 film)
Providence (1977) is Alain Resnais's only English-language feature, written by David Mercer and starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, and Elaine Stritch; a dying novelist's drunken night of invention, it won seven Césars.
Quadrophenia (film)
Quadrophenia (1979) is Franc Roddam's debut British drama film, loosely adapted from The Who's 1973 rock opera album, starring Phil Daniels as mod teenager Jimmy Cooper amid the 1965 mods-versus-rockers clashes in Brighton, with Sting in his debut role.
Raise Ravens
Raise Ravens (Cría cuervos) is Carlos Saura's 1976 Spanish drama about orphaned Ana in Franco-era Madrid, starring Ana Torrent and Geraldine Chaplin; Cannes Special Jury Prize 1976.
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 John Badham drama starring John Travolta as Brooklyn disco dancer Tony Manero, based on Nik Cohn's fabricated New York magazine article, with a Bee Gees soundtrack that made disco mainstream.
Scum (film)
Scum is a 1979 British borstal drama by Alan Clarke, written by Roy Minton, starring Ray Winstone as Carlin; a remake of his banned 1977 BBC Play for Today, finally broadcast in 1991.
Story of O (film)
Story of O (French: Histoire d'O) is a 1975 French erotic drama film directed by Just Jaeckin, adapted from Pauline Réage's 1954 novel, starring Corinne Cléry as O.
Sunday Too Far Away
Sunday Too Far Away (1975) is an Australian drama directed by Ken Hannam, starring Jack Thompson as champion shearer Foley before the 1956 shearers' strike; the SAFC's first feature, screened at Cannes and an AFI Best Film winner.
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 ABC made-for-TV drama directed by Randal Kleiser, starring John Travolta as immune-deficient Tod Lubitch, loosely based on David Vetter and Ted DeVita, and winner of a posthumous Emmy for Diana Hyland.
The Champ (1979 film)
The Champ (1979) is a Franco Zeffirelli MGM drama, the first official remake of the 1931 King Vidor film, starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, and debutant Ricky Schroder as a boxer, his ex-wife, and his son; a critical failure but international box-office hit with an Oscar-nominated Dave Grusin score.
The Duellists
The Duellists (1977) is Ridley Scott's feature debut, adapted from Joseph Conrad's 'The Duel', starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel as Napoleonic officers locked in a fifteen-year series of duels; it won a best-first-film prize at Cannes 1977.
The Great Santini
The Great Santini (1979), also released as The Ace, is Lewis John Carlino's drama adapted from Pat Conroy's autobiographical 1976 novel, starring Robert Duvall as Marine pilot Bull Meechum; Oscar-nominated for Duvall and Michael O'Keefe.
The Green Room
The Green Room (La Chambre verte) is François Truffaut's 1978 French drama, adapted from Henry James stories, in which Truffaut plays widower Julien Davenne, who builds a candlelit chapel to the dead; with Nathalie Baye, shot by Néstor Almendros.
The Last Tycoon (1976 film)
The Last Tycoon (1976) is Elia Kazan's final film, a Paramount drama adapted by Harold Pinter from Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, starring Robert De Niro as Monroe Stahr, a producer based on Irving Thalberg; it flopped commercially but earned a Best Art Direction Oscar nomination.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum), a 1975 West German film by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta adapting Heinrich Böll's novella about a woman hounded by police and tabloid press after sheltering a suspected terrorist; the breakthrough of New German Cinema.
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun), Fassbinder's 1979 West German melodrama starring Hanna Schygulla, first of the BRD Trilogy, tracing a woman's postwar rise as an allegory of West Germany's reconstruction.
The Story of a Small Town (小城故事)
The Story of a Small Town (小城故事) is a 1979 Taiwanese drama by Li Hsing, produced by Ta Chung Motion Picture Company, set in Sanyi's woodcarving community, winner of four 1979 Golden Horse Awards and famous for Teresa Teng's theme song.
The Story of Adèle H.
The Story of Adèle H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) is François Truffaut's 1975 French drama starring Isabelle Adjani as Victor Hugo's daughter, based on Frances Vernor Guille's journal reconstruction, released 8 October 1975.
The Wishing Tree
The Wishing Tree (Natvris khe, ნატვრის ხე) is Tengiz Abuladze's 1976 Georgian drama, second in his trilogy, adapting Giorgi Leonidze's stories about Marita's forced marriage; Karlovy Vary 1978 Special Prize winner.
Valentino (1977 film)
Valentino (1977) is Ken Russell's biographical drama about silent star Rudolph Valentino, starring ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev in his American film debut, with Leslie Caron and Michelle Phillips; a $5 million United Artists production that flopped critically and commercially.