191. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Isela Vega, Warren Oates, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Donnie Fritts, Robert Webber
Plot: A wealthy Mexican rancher puts a $1 million bounty for the head of Alfredo
Garcia. With every bounty hunter on the trail, a piano-player is
questioned and, doing his own investigations, learns his girlfriend knows
the whereabouts of Garcia's place of burial. Striking out together, with
dreams of untold wealth - the two have no idea the misery they will
encounter.
192. Cooley High
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Schultz
Actors: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers, Maurice Leon Havis
Plot: In the mid-1960's, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest.
193. Chinese Roulette ( Chinesisches Roulette )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Alexander Allerson, Volker Spengler
194. Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The ( Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann, Die )
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
Actors: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger
Plot: Katharina Blum is a young, German maid who meets Ludwig and finds herself falling in love at first site. Yet one night of passion leads to a nightmare morning - as police break in - Ludwig is a terrorist. Katharina is subject to humiliation and threats - from both police and press - even as she proclaims her innocence.
195. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, Peter Whitney
Plot: Left for dead in the desert, Hogue stumbles upon a spring that not only saves his life, but proves lucrative as it is the perfect way station for local stagecoaches. A local whore moves in with him and all seems well... until the advent of the automobile changes everything.
196. Phantom of Liberty, The ( fantôme de la liberté, Le )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale
Plot: Bunuel's enchanting surrealist film casts his usual jaundiced eye on the players and institutions of Western society through a series of loosely interconnected episodes.
197. Play It Again, Sam
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy, Susan Anspach, Jennifer Salt
Plot: A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed.
His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his
movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice.
With the encouragement of his two married friends, he actually tries
dating again, with less than satisfactory results, until he relaxes.
198. A Bridge Too Far
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Attenborough
Actors: James Caan, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Elliott Gould, Anthony Hopkins
Plot: World War II's Operation Market Garden rendered in all of its floundering
glory. Neither Allied command nor German generals come across as
particularly competent.
199. Murmur of the Heart ( souffle au coeur, Le )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen
Plot: This darkly comic coming-of-age film follows 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier and his dysfunctional family through the summer of 1954.
200. A New Leaf
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Elaine May
Actors: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose, James Coco, Doris Roberts
Plot: Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one
day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to
avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman
and ... murder her.
