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He Never Gives Up (汪洋中的一条船)
He Never Gives Up (汪洋中的一條船) is Lee Hsing's 1978 Central Pictures biographical drama adapted from Zheng Fengxi's autobiography, starring Chin Han and Joan Lin; it won five 1978 Golden Horse Awards including Best Picture.
Heavenly Homecoming to the Stars
Heavenly Homecoming to the Stars (별들의 고향) is Lee Jang-ho's 1974 debut film, adapted from Choi In-ho's serialized novel, about Gyeong-a, a woman ruined in Seoul; it set a Korean box-office record with about 465,000 admissions.
Hester Street
Hester Street (1975), Joan Micklin Silver's directorial debut, adapts Abraham Cahan's novella Yekl about Jewish immigrant assimilation on the 1896 Lower East Side; Carol Kane earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination, and the film joined the National Film Registry in 2011.
Jacob the Liar
Jacob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) is Frank Beyer's 1974 DEFA film adapted from Jurek Becker's novel, about a Jew in a 1944 Polish ghetto who invents a radio; the only East German film nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Killer of Sheep
Killer of Sheep (1977) is Charles Burnett's UCLA thesis film, a black-and-white 16mm drama about slaughterhouse worker Stan in Watts, Los Angeles; a National Film Registry title (1990) released commercially only in 2007 after music rights were cleared.
Kings of the Road
Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit) is Wim Wenders' 1976 West German black-and-white road film starring Rüdiger Vogler and Hanns Zischler, the final entry in his Road Trilogy, FIPRESCI winner at Cannes 1976.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Robert Benton's Columbia Pictures drama from Avery Corman's novel, stars Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in a divorce custody battle; it won five Oscars including Best Picture.
Le Mans (film)
Le Mans (film) is a 1971 American sports drama directed by Lee H. Katzin, starring Steve McQueen, focusing on the 24 Hours of Le Mans with minimal dialogue.
Love Story (1970 film)
Love Story (1970 film), also known by its tagline "Love means never having to say you're sorry," is an Arthur Hiller romantic drama starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, adapted from Erich Segal's bestseller; it was 1970's top-grossing film and won an Oscar for Francis Lai's score.
Lovin' Molly
Lovin' Molly (1974) is a Sidney Lumet drama-romance adapted by Stephen J. Friedman from Larry McMurtry's novel Leaving Cheyenne, starring Blythe Danner, Anthony Perkins, and Beau Bridges in a forty-year Texas love triangle; shot in Bastrop, Texas, released by Columbia, and poorly received.
Maladolescenza
Maladolescenza (Spielen wir Liebe, Playing with Love) is a 1977 Italian–West German drama by Pier Giuseppe Murgia starring Martin Loeb, Lara Wendel, and Eva Ionesco; notorious for underage nudity, it was cut, banned, and outlawed in Germany since 2006 under §184b StGB.
Man of Marble
Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru) is Andrzej Wajda's 1976 Polish drama, premiered 25 February 1977, in which student filmmaker Agnieszka investigates Stalinist model worker Mateusz Birkut; it won Cannes FIPRESCI 1978 and prefigured Solidarity.
Midnight Express (film)
Midnight Express is a 1978 Alan Parker prison drama, scripted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes's book, about an American jailed in Turkey for hash smuggling; it won Oscars for Stone's screenplay and Giorgio Moroder's score and remains controversial in Turkey.
Network (1976 film)
Network (1976) is Sidney Lumet's satire, written by Paddy Chayefsky, about a TV network exploiting anchor Howard Beale's breakdown; it won four Oscars, including Peter Finch's first posthumous acting Oscar.
Newsfront
Newsfront (1978) is Phillip Noyce's feature debut, an Australian drama about rival newsreel cameramen brothers Len and Frank Maguire as television ends the newsreel era; it won a then-record 8 AFI awards.
Norma Rae
Norma Rae: 1979 American drama directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sally Field as a textile worker who unionizes her mill; based on Crystal Lee Sutton and the J.P. Stevens campaign; won Best Actress and Best Original Song Oscars.
North Dallas Forty
North Dallas Forty: 1979 American sports comedy-drama directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Nick Nolte, based on Peter Gent's semi-autobiographical 1973 novel about the Dallas Cowboys; the NFL refused cooperation with the film.
Ode to Billy Joe (film)
Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 American drama film directed by Max Baer Jr., adapted from Bobbie Gentry's 1967 song, starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Miloš Forman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, swept the five major 1976 Oscars and was the second-highest-grossing film of 1975.
Out 1
Out 1 is a 1971 French drama directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, following a Paris street performer chasing a secret society of thirteen.
Over the Edge (film)
Over the Edge is a 1979 American teen drama directed by Jonathan Kaplan, written by Charles S. Haas and Tim Hunter, based on Foster City incidents, starring Matt Dillon in his debut; limited release, later a cult classic.
Papillon (1973 film)
Papillon (1973) is Franklin J. Schaffner's prison drama starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, adapted from Henri Charrière's memoir of the French Guiana penal colony; a box-office hit with an Oscar-nominated Jerry Goldsmith score.
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.
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (田園に死す)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (田園に死す, Den'en ni shisu) is Shūji Terayama's 1974 autobiographical avant-garde film, his second feature, adapted from his own tanka collection, produced by ATG, and entered at Cannes.
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.
Ryan's Daughter
Ryan's Daughter is David Lean's 1970 MGM romantic drama, scripted by Robert Bolt and loosely based on Madame Bovary, about an Irishwoman's affair with a British officer in 1916; filmed in Kerry, it was panned, won two Oscars, and drove Lean into a 14-year hiatus.
Sambizanga
Sambizanga is Sarah Maldoror's 1972 Angola/France feature, adapted from José Luandino Vieira's novel A Vida Verdadeira de Domingos Xavier, about Maria searching for her MPLA activist husband arrested by Portuguese police; banned in colonial Angola, it won the 1972 Carthage Tanit d'Or and was restored in 2021.