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8.2
8.4
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Story: During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
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The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974)
Log Lady's rating:
157
7.5
7.3
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone
Story: An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Log Lady's rating:
704
7.8
7.8
Days of Heaven (1978)
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz
Story: A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
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Badlands (1973)
Log Lady's rating:
1740
8
8
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon
Story: A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Log Lady's rating:
1838
7.5
7.4
Eraserhead (1977)
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates
Story: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Log Lady's rating:
203
7.3
7.3
The Front Page (1974)
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia
Story: Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans.
Log Lady's rating:
464
8.2
7.9
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand
Story: Corey is a cool, aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel, a murderer, escapes from the custody of the patient Mattei, a cat-loving police superintendent. Corey robs Rico, his mob boss, then enlists Vogel and an ex-police sharpshooter, Jansen, in a jewel heist.
Log Lady's rating:
108
7.5
7.5
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Romy Schneider
Story: Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him; in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her; tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Log Lady's rating:
1686
7.9
7.9
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway
Story: A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead.
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Annie Hall (1977)
Log Lady's rating:
4461
8.5
8.7
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif
Story: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.
Log Lady's rating:
1410
8.4
8.1
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Alisa Frejndlikh
Story: A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
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Solaris (1972)
Log Lady's rating:
1230
7.8
7.3
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Story: A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the staff of the school are actually a coven of witches bent on chaos and destruction.
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Deep Red (1975)
Log Lady's rating:
4888
8.2
8.2
Taxi Driver (1976)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.
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Mean Streets (1973)
Log Lady's rating:
666
7.9
7.6
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Story: In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge and the tough landlord establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors.
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Chinatown (1974)
Log Lady's rating:
1936
7.4
7.5
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, Gunnar Hansen
Story: Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
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