201. 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.
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. 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
204. 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.
205. 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.
206. 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.
207. 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.
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.
