141. The Bad News Bears
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Ritchie
Actors: Walter Matthau, Chris Barnes, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Jackie Earle Haley, Erin Blunt
Plot: A funny look at little league baseball in Southern California. Former minor player Morris Buttermaker is a lazy drunk who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of misfit kids who have virtually no talent. Coach Buttermaker brings a girl pitcher Amanda Whurlizer, the daughter of a former girlfriend and a punk kid who happens to be the best player around.
142. 1900 ( Novecento )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Laura Betti, Sterling Hayden
Plot: The lives of two Italian men - one a bastard born to a peasant, the other to a land-owner from 1900 - 1945 - the rise of Fascism and Communism and how the two men are shaped by the social and political times.
143. Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The ( Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Walter Ladengast, Bruno S., Brigitte Mira, Michael Kroecher, Gloria Doer, Willy Semmelrogge
Plot: Based on the true story of Kaspar Hauser, a man who appeared in 1828 in Nuremberg - with scant ability to speak or walk - with a note attached claiming he had spent his life in a dungeon of a sort and was recently released for unknown reasons. A benefactor attempts to reintegrate him into society with startling results.
144. Kings of the Road ( Im Lauf der Zeit )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler, Marquard Bohm, Hans Dieter Trayer
Plot: A Western German man travels along the East-West border as a projection-equipment repairman, fixing up run-down theaters. One day he meets a young, broken-hearted man and the two decide to travel together.
145. Slaughterhouse-Five
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Kevin Conway
Plot: The story of Billie Pilgrim and how he became unstuck in time: surviving a 1945 Dresden firebombing only to find himself living in three distinct periods of time: in the past as an American POW, the future as zoo resident by the aliens of Tralfamadore and in the present as a middle-aged optometrist in New York.
146. The Poseidon Adventure
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Gene Hackman, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Fred Sadoff, Roddy McDowall, Ernest Borgnine
Plot: A sinking ship full of vacationers try to survive with no way out as they crawl through an upside down ship.
147. Slap Shot
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Jerry Houser, Jennifer Warren
Plot: An aging coach for lousy minor league hockey team needs his team to win or watch it fold. Turning to dirty tactics and bloody fights, plus the rough Hanson brothers, the team just may be able to save themselves.
148. Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lou Adler
Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin, Edie Adams, Richard Novo, Arthur Roberts
Plot: Two hippie potheads compete in a battle of the bands contest together.
149. Marriage of Maria Braun, The ( Ehe der Maria Braun, Die )
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Ivan Desny, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Klaus Löwitsch, Gisela Uhlen
150. Murder on the Orient Express
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Plot: Famed detective Hercule Poirot finds himself on the Orient Express when a passenger requests his protection. Declining the offer, Poirot then finds himself investigating a murder when the passenger is found dead the next day. While the train is stopped due to snow, Poirot has a few hours to figure out the passengers true identity, interview many passengers and figure out why it all seems to lead back to a 5-year-old kidnapping case.
