71. The Omen
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton
Plot: A diplomat secretly exchanges his wife's stillborn child with an orphaned boy. As he grows up, disturbing signs and events lead him to believe this boy is the antichrist and needs to be killed.
72. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco, Steven Keats, Joe Santos
Plot: Eddie Coyle is a small-time hood looking at a long sentence for repeat offenses. In order to avoid jail time he decides to turn on his "friends" providing information to the feds. But he is still supplying guns to his bank-robbing buddies - and he may not be the only one turning snitch.
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. 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.
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. 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.
