111. Breaking Away
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley
Plot: Four friends have just graduated high school in the college town of Bloomington, IN. The wealthier college crowd refers to them as "cutters" - the local middle-class townies and generally look down upon them. Yet one of their group, Dave, is obsessed with Italian cycling, to the point where he acts Italian - much to the consternation of his friends and parents. Getting involved with a college girl causes trouble - but when he learns the Italian cycling team is coming to town - he will stop at nothing to race his idols.
112. Brian's Song
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Buzz Kulik
Actors: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Bernie Casey, Shelley Fabares, David Huddleston
113. Suspiria
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Stefania Casini, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi, Udo Kier, Eva Axén, Jessica Harper
Plot: An American ballet student joins a new academy. Her arrival is overshadowed by the recent killing of a former ballet student. As she tries to fit in she realizes that the faculty are very strange and when she begins to investigate things are really out of hand.
114. Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Actors: Duncan Watson, Greg Felton, Stuart Brotman, Gail Davis, Liam Martin, Melanie Kohn
Plot: The peanuts gang attends summer camp with the culmination of the stay being a river rafting race. The bullies from a rival camp plan to cheat their way to the finish - but Charlie Brown and crew may pull off the impossible and actually win.
115. Amarcord
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi
Plot: A year in the life of a small Italian town is during the 1930s is recast through Fellini's fantastical mind's eye, giving a carnivalesque slant to this charming coming of age story.
116. A Woman Under the Influence
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Cassavetes
Actors: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Laborteaux
Plot: One of American cinema's most treasured masterworks about a suburban
housewife's descent into alcoholic oblivion.
117. Spirit of the Beehive, The ( espíritu de la colmena, El )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Víctor Erice
Actors: Teresa Gimpera, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ketty de la Cámara, Ana Torrent, Juan Margallo
Plot: Visually beautiful film about a young girl in fascist Spain who, after
seeing a traveling exhibition of James Whale's classic "Frankenstein,"
believes the monster is hiding out in an abandoned barn.
118. Drunken Master ( Jui kuen )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woo-ping Yuen
Actors: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Ging Man Fung, Shun-Yee Yuen, Hsia Hsu
Plot: An undisciplined boy must learn Drunken Fist Kung Fu in order to stop an assassin.
119. Cabaret
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper
Plot: An entertainer in Germany during WW II entertains a couple of men while the Nazi party begins to come to fruition.
120. Three Days of the Condor
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman, Addison Powell
Plot: A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
