1970s

Malcolm McDowell as Alex, a Beethoven loving hoodlum, is conditioned by the state out of choosing evil, and the cure becomes its o...

The Corleone family saga turned pulp into opera. Marlon Brando mutters, Al Pacino darkens across three hours from war hero to don,...

A twelve year old girl is possessed and two priests fight for her soul. Practical effects still terrify: head spins, levitation, a...

Jack Nicholson with a nose bandage and a water scandal based on Los Angeles history. Robert Towne script, famous for its last line...

The sequel that surpassed its original: Pacino as Michael consolidating the family in cold blood, Robert De Niro as young Vito bui...

A shark shuts down a beach town summer. Mechanical failures forced Spielberg to hide the shark, inventing the blockbuster: suggest...

King Arthur quests on a shoestring: coconut hooves, a killer rabbit, knights who say ni, and an anarcho syndicalist peasant. Funde...

Travis Bickle drives nights through steam and rain and hates what he sees. De Niro gaunt journal, the mirror monologue improvised,...

A farm boy, a princess, a smuggler, and a Death Star. Lucas recycled serials, Kurosawa, and myth into one of the highest grossing ...

Alvy Singer deconstructs his failed romance with Diane Keaton menswear charm, splitting the screen, addressing the camera, and sub...

Michael Myers escapes an asylum on Halloween and stalks babysitters in Haddonfield. Carpenter shot it in twenty days for three hun...

In space no one can hear you scream, and a towing crew meets a perfect organism. The H.R. Giger biomechanical design, the chestbur...

Vietnam via Conrad: a captain travels upriver to terminate the command of a rogue colonel gone divine. Production hell became lege...

McMurphy fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a ward and collides with Nurse Ratched, who runs therapy like a sentence of her o...

A news anchor announces he will kill himself on air, ratings soar, and the network gives him a pulpit for rage. Chayefskys script ...

A Bethlehem neighbor is mistaken for the messiah and spends the film telling everyone to stop following him. Banned in several cou...