71. Day for Night ( nuit américaine, La )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion
Plot: Truffaut's seriocomic, strangely documentarian, and always affectionate look at the trials and travails of filmmaking.
72. Conformist, The ( conformista, Il )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Fosco Giachetti, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gastone Moschin, Pierre Clémenti, Enzo Tarascio
Plot: An Italian fascist with a complicated past is tasked with hunting down his old professor, who has fled Italy and is not considered an anti-fascist threat.
73. Escape from Alcatraz
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Fred Ward, Bruce M. Fischer, Paul Benjamin, Roberts Blossom , Frank Ronzio
Plot: A group of incarcerated men discover a way to escape from the unescapeable Alcatraz Prison in which they try to dig and decoy their way out.
74. Grease
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Randal Kleiser
Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Michael Tucci, Didi Conn
Plot: Greaser Danny met Sandy over the summer break, but when she joins his highschool, can they find love again?
75. Cross of Iron
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna
Plot: During WWII, battle-hardened Rolf Steiner leads many successful missions but when a new Prussian commander is assigned, the man wants only one thing - an Iron Cross to maintain his families honor. The two men cannot coexist as honor and arrogance collide.
76. Stroszek
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg, Burkhard Driest, Clayton Szalpinski
Plot: In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
77. Autumn Sonata ( Höstsonaten )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen
Plot: After being absent, a world-famous pianist returns home to her daughter.
When she arrives, she is surprised to discover that Eva has also taken in
her mentally-disabled sister, Helena from the institutions where she had
been left years before. After a tense number of days, a late-night
conversation will release everything that has been kept unsaid throughout
the years.
78. Don't Look Now
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa
Plot: The parents of a drowned child go to Venice and experience strange occurrences, including the arrival of what appears to be their dead little girl.
79. Au hasard Balthazar
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Bresson
Actors: Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut, Walter Green, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Plot: We follow the life of Balthazar, a donkey and his owner - who share a parallel life with his owner - from a loving childhood to being downtrodden and beaten later in life. But Balthazar may still end life well, as a miller believes he is the reincarnation of a saint.
80. Tenant, The ( locataire, Le )
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova
Plot: A man searching for the apartment finds the perfect place. One day he
starts becoming like the former tenant, even though he had no previous
knowledge of him.
