151. 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.
152. Rocky II
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Tony Burton
Plot: Rocky takes another shot at Apollo Creed, who will win this time?
153. 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.
154. 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.
155. 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
156. 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.
157. 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
158. 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.
159. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Cimino
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, Jack Dodson
Plot: Seven years ago, a group of thieves pulled off an audacious bank robbery
with the help of an anti-tank gun. Yet when the loot goes missing, the
crew gets back together to repeat the robbery.
160. 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.
