Every Which Way but Loose (
1978) | IMDb:
6.3
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
The Big Fix (
1978) | IMDb:
6.4
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
Starring:
Richard Dreyfuss
,
Susan Anspach
,
Bonnie Bedelia
,
John Lithgow
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Ron Rifkin
High Anxiety (
1977) | IMDb:
6.6
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
MacArthur (
1977) | IMDb:
6.5
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
Family Plot (
1976) | IMDb:
6.8
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
The Sting (
1973) | IMDb:
8.3
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Starring:
Paul Newman
,
Robert Redford
,
Robert Shaw
,
Charles Durning
,
Ray Walston
,
Eileen Brennan
High Plains Drifter (
1973) | IMDb:
7.4
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood
,
Verna Bloom
,
Marianna Hill
,
Mitchell Ryan
,
Jack Ging
,
Stefan Gierasch
Slaughterhouse-Five (
1972) | IMDb:
6.8
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Sweet Charity (
1969) | IMDb:
6.9
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Starring:
Shirley MacLaine
,
John McMartin
,
Chita Rivera
,
Paula Kelly
,
Ricardo Montalban
,
Sammy Davis Jr.
To Kill a Mockingbird (
1962) | IMDb:
8.3
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Cape Fear (
1962) | IMDb:
7.7
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
,
Robert Mitchum
,
Polly Bergen
,
Lori Martin
,
Martin Balsam
,
Jack Kruschen