108 articles
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.
Savage Messiah
Savage Messiah is Ken Russell's 1972 British biographical drama of sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Sophie Brzeska, written by Christopher Logue from H.S. Ede's 1931 biography, starring Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, and Helen Mirren.
Save the Tiger
Save the Tiger (1973) is an American drama directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Steve Shagan, starring Jack Lemmon as garment maker Harry Stoner, who commits arson for insurance; Lemmon won the Best Actor Oscar.
Scarecrow (1973 film)
Scarecrow (1973) is a Jerry Schatzberg road drama starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino as drifters heading east, written by Garry Michael White. It shared the 1973 Cannes Palme d'Or with The Hireling, was shot on location in fall 1972, and underperformed at the US box office despite admiring later reviews.
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.
Sounder (film)
Sounder (1972) is Martin Ritt's drama, adapted by Lonne Elder III from William H. Armstrong's Newbery-winning novella, about a Louisiana sharecropper family; starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks, it earned four Oscar nominations and joined the National Film Registry in 2021.
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 Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 West German drama, adapted from his 1971 play: an all-female chamber piece in which fashion designer Petra (Margit Carstensen) loves and loses Karin (Hanna Schygulla), shot by Michael Ballhaus in one apartment.
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 Candidate (1972 film)
The Candidate is a 1972 American political satire directed by Michael Ritchie, written by Eugene McCarthy speechwriter Jeremy Larner, and starring Robert Redford as Bill McKay, an idealistic lawyer running a long-shot California US Senate campaign who wins after compromising his ideals.
The Ceremony (儀式)
The Ceremony (儀式, Gishiki) is Nagisa Oshima's 1971 Japanese drama, an ATG tenth-anniversary film telling postwar Japan's history through the Sakurada clan's weddings and funerals; it won Kinema Junpo Best Film.
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 Conformist (1970 film)
The Conformist (Il conformista) is Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 adaptation of Alberto Moravia's novel, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as fascist agent Marcello Clerici, shot by Vittorio Storaro, with Berlin and David di Donatello awards and a 1972 Oscar nomination.
The Day the Clown Cried
The Day the Clown Cried (El día que el payaso lloró) is Jerry Lewis's unfinished, unreleased 1972 Holocaust drama about a clown leading children to the gas chambers; suppressed by Lewis, its footage opened for research at the Library of Congress in 2024.
The Devil in Miss Jones
The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) is a Gerard Damiano hardcore adult film starring Georgina Spelvin and Harry Reems, a porno chic landmark inspired by Sartre's No Exit and the subject of nationwide obscenity litigation.
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 Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) is Werner Herzog's 1974 West German film about the foundling Kaspar Hauser, starring non-actor Bruno S., which won the 1975 Cannes Special Jury Prize.
The Goat Horn
The Goat Horn (Козият рог, Koziyat rog) is a 1972 Bulgarian film directed by Metodi Andonov, based on Nikolay Haytov's short story, and widely ranked among the country's best films.
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 Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams: 1974 Sunn Classic film and 1977-78 NBC series starring Dan Haggerty as a fugitive mountain man befriending the grizzly Ben, loosely based on John Capen Adams (1812-1860).
The Longest Yard (1974 film)
The Longest Yard (1974) is a Robert Aldrich prison football comedy-drama starring Burt Reynolds as quarterback Paul Crewe, with Eddie Albert as Warden Hazen; filmed at Georgia State Prison, remade in 2005.
The Lords of Flatbush
The Lords of Flatbush is a 1974 American coming-of-age drama directed by Stephen F. Verona and Martin Davidson, set in 1958 Brooklyn, starring Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Perry King, and Paul Mace as a teenage gang; Richard Gere was fired from the Chico role after clashing with Stallone.
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 Mother and the Whore
The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la putain) is Jean Eustache's 1973 French black-and-white drama, about 217 minutes long, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, and Françoise Lebrun in a post-May 1968 Parisian love triangle; it won the 1973 Cannes Grand Prix Spécial du Jury.
The Panic in Needle Park
The Panic in Needle Park is Jerry Schatzberg's 1971 drama starring Al Pacino and Kitty Winn as addicts around Sherman Square, Manhattan, from James Mills's novel, scripted by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne; Winn won Best Actress at Cannes 1971.
The Paper Chase (film)
The Paper Chase (1973) is a James Bridges comedy-drama, adapted from John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and Oscar-winning John Houseman as Professor Kingsfield at Harvard Law School.