1975 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1975, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Directed by: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Country: United States of America
Outline: A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Sholay
Directed by: Ramesh Sippy
Starring: Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan
Country: United States of America
Outline: After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.
Jaws
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Country: United States of America
Outline: A local sheriff, a marine biologist and an old seafarer team up to hunt down a great white shark wrecking havoc in a beach resort.
Dog Day Afternoon
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar
Country: United States of America
Outline: A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Three Days of the Condor
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow
Country: United States of America
Outline: A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Directed by: Jim Sharman
Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien
Country: United States of America
Outline: A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
The Return of the Pink Panther
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom
Country: United States of America
Outline: Inspector Clouseau is put on the case when the Pink Panther diamond is stolen, with the Phantom's trademark glove the only clue.
Tommy
Directed by: Ken Russell
Starring: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John
Country: United States of America
Outline: A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.
Funny Lady
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Starring: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall
Outline: Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.
Shampoo
Directed by: Hal Ashby
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant
Country: United States of America
Outline: Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968.
Chupke Chupke
Directed by: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Starring: Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri
Outline: A newly wedded husband plays a practical joke on his wife's family with full support from his wife and friends.
Chhoti Si Baat
Directed by: Basu Chatterjee
Starring: Ashok Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Amol Palekar, Asrani
Outline: Arun (Amol Palekar) is a shy accountant in Bombay who dreams of romancing Prabha (Vidya Sinha), but never gets past following her around without managing to actually speak up. While Arun ...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Directed by: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam
Country: United States of America
Outline: King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Dersu Uzala
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulev
Country: United States of America
Outline: The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.
Barry Lyndon
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger
Country: United States of America
Outline: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Afonya
Directed by: Georgiy Daneliya
Starring: Leonid Kuravlyov, Evgeniya Simonova, Evgeniy Leonov, Saveliy Kramarov
Outline: The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character Borshev A.N. is a Plumber who spends his free time, as well as working hours, drinking...
The Man Who Would Be King
Directed by: John Huston
Starring: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
Love and Death
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu
Country: United States of America
Outline: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Nashville
Directed by: Robert Altman
Starring: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall
Country: United States of America
Outline: Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.
Fox and His Friends
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven
Outline: A young West German working-class man wins the lottery and initiates a relationship with a man above his social standing.
Deep Red
Directed by: Dario Argento
Starring: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril
Country: United States of America
Outline: After witnessing the murder of a famous psychic, a musician teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen assailant bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
The Passenger
Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Country: United States of America
Outline: A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Directed by: Peter Weir
Starring: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Country: United States of America
Outline: During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
The Hiding Place
Directed by: James F. Collier
Starring: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Rietty
Outline: Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...
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