161. Death Wish
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Winner
Actors: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William Redfield, Stuart Margolin
Plot: While New York City architect Paul Kersey is away from home, drug addicts break into his house and brutally murder his wife and rape his daughter until she's comatose. Once wary of guns, Kersey takes matters into his own hands, seeking vigilante justice against not only the culprits, but other wrongdoers as well.
162. Milky Way, The ( voie lactée, La )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley, Michel Piccoli
163. The Longest Yard
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Bernadette Peters
Plot: A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.
164. Duck, You Sucker ( Giù la testa )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: James Coburn, Rod Steiger, Antoine Saint-John, Franco Graziosi, Giulio Battiferri, Romolo Valli
Plot: An IRA member meets up with a Mexican bandit during the Mexican Revolution as they blow things up and cause havoc.
165. Blue Collar
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, Lane Smith
166. Playtime
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tati
Actors: Jacques Tati, Yves Barsacq, Georges Montant, Billy Kearns, John Abbey, Rita Maiden
167. Fox and His Friends ( Faustrecht der Freiheit )
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Baer
Plot: Explores the class struggle and homosexual undertones of when a former circus performer and working class man, Franz "Fox" Biberkopf wins the lottery and looks to improve his lot in life. But money comes at a cost, and his new upper middle-class friends take advantage of him.
168. Black Christmas aka Silent Night, Evil Night
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bob Clark
Actors: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon, Marian Waldman, Andrea Martin
Plot: A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
169. Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer ( Ningen no joken III )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu, Taketoshi Naitô, Kyôko Kishida, Reiko Hitomi
Plot: The final part in the trilogy: Kaji and his remaining men flee following a Russian defeat as he plans to lead his men back home. But behind enemy lines, he faces new dangers and, ultimately, winds up as a POW - prisoner of the Russians whose communist ideals he once held are far different than what he ever expected.
170. The Last Wave
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray, Nandjiwarra Amagula
Plot: A Sydney lawyer is called on to defend five Aboriginals in court over a ritualized murder. Determined to break their silence, he is drawn deeper into a prophesy that portends an Armageddon where all shall drown.
