201. 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.
202. State of Siege ( État de siège )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau, Maurice Teynac
Plot: Uruguay in the early 70s - the government fights a group of leftist Tupamaro guerrillas. Against this backdrop an American agent working for a group that is a front for counterinsurgency is kidnapped by the guerrillas and interrogated.
203. Burn! ( Queimada )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Actors: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Norman Hill, Thomas Lyons, Renato Salvatore, Valeria Ferran Wanani
Plot: A British secret agent arrives in the Caribbean to take control of a sugar cane plantation. Exposed to the struggles of the locals, he insights a revolution, which spirals out of control.
204. Heart of Glass ( Herz aus Glas )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba
205. F for Fake ( Vérités et mensonges )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Cotten, François Reichenbach, Richard Wilson
Plot: Orson Welles directs this documentary about fakes and forgeries while focusing on his own history and maybe fooling the audience as well.
206. Sleeper
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Don Keefer, John Beck, Mary Gregory, John McLiam
Plot: A man from 1973 wakes from suspended animation 200 years in the future
where everything is nothing as he remembers.
207. The Towering Inferno
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
Actors: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
Plot: At the gala premiere opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, architect Doug Roberts discovers builders have installed shoddy wiring. Sure enough, a fire breaks out during the celebration and the world's tallest building becomes the world's tallest death trap.
208. 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.
209. The Stepford Wives
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bryan Forbes
Actors: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Carol Eve Rossen
Plot: Bobbie and Joanna move to the suburb of Stepford, Connecticut - a place where the men are content and the women seem oddly submissive. Soon enough, Bobbie learns the truth - the women are actually robots, and he wants in on the action.
210. Marathon Man
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Schlesinger
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Plot: A series of events leads a regular man to become embroiled in the machinations of a Nazi war criminal and his plan to walk away with a fortune in stolen diamonds.
