81. Love and Death
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu, Edmond Ardisson, Féodor Atkine
Plot: A bumbling young man, in love with his beautiful cousin, sets off to fight
for Mother Russia against the invading troops of Napoleon. Eventually,
the couple hatches a madcap scheme to assassinate the warmongering leader,
with hilarious, if not altogether successful, results.
82. M*A*S*H
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Roger Bowen
Plot: A group of Medical Officers in Korea during the Korean War try to maintain
sanity by doing things that are of a typical American.
83. Red Circle, The ( cercle rouge, Le )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet, Paul Amiot
Plot: An aristocratic just-paroled thief, an escaped murderer and an alcoholic ex-police sharpshooter form an unlikely trio bent on pulling off a daring jewel heist. Standing in their way is a vengeful mob boss, a persistent police superintendent. In this world, no on is innocent.
84. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The ( Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le )
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Fernando Rey, Bulle Ogier, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau
Plot: A group of six six middle-class people come together for a nice dinner - only to have the meal constantly interrupted in this surreal journey.
85. 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.
86. The Shootist
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian
Plot: J.B. Books is one of the baddest outlaws in the land; But he's dying of cancer.
87. 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.
88. Watership Down
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Rosen
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Simon Cadell
Plot: Much like Richard Adams's wonderful novel, this animated tale of wandering rabbits is not meant for small children. It is, however, rich storytelling, populated with very real individuals inhabiting a very real world. The animation is problematic, sometimes appearing out of proportion or just subpar; but it seems to stem from an attempt at realism, something distinguishing the film's characters from previous, cutesy, animated animals. A band of rabbits illegally leave their warren after a prophecy of doom from a runt named Fiver (Richard Briers). In search of a place safe from humans and predators, they face all kinds of dangers, including a warren that has made a sick bargain with humankind, and a warren that is basically a fascist state.
89. Frenzy
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen, Billie Whitelaw
Plot: A temperamental London man is mistaken for the Necktie Killer, a serial
rapist/murderer stalking London women. Hitchock's last great film
contains the director's trademark pitch-black humor, as well as
uncharacteristically graphic violence.
90. All That Jazz
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking, Cliff Gorman
Plot: Bob Fosse wrote and directed this somewhat biopic - replacing himself with Joe Gideon, a chain-smoking, drug-abusing, womanizing and struggling father - whose lifestyles is literally putting him in an early grave.
