The Academy got it right.
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The Academy and the numbers agree.
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Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner · George C. Scott · Karl Malden · Stephen Young · Michael Strong
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Stefania Sandrelli · Gastone Moschin · Dominique Sanda
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · Alain Delon · Bourvil · Gian Maria Volonté · Yves Montand
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
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Dir. Elio Petri · Gian Maria Volonté · Florinda Bolkan · Gianni Santuccio · Orazio Orlando
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
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Dir. Brian G. Hutton · Clint Eastwood · Telly Savalas · Donald Sutherland · Don Rickles
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
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Dir. Michael Wadleigh · Richie Havens · Joan Baez · Roger Daltrey · John Entwistle
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.
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Dir. Arthur Penn · Dustin Hoffman · Faye Dunaway · Chief Dan George · Martin Balsam
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
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Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman · Phil Harris · Eva Gabor · Sterling Holloway · Scatman Crothers
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
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Dir. Toshio Masuda · Martin Balsam · So Yamamura · Jason Robards · Joseph Cotten
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
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Dir. Enzo Barboni · Terence Hill · Bud Spencer · Steffen Zacharias · Dan Sturkie
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
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Dir. Robert Altman · Donald Sutherland · Elliott Gould · Tom Skerritt · Sally Kellerman
One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.
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Dir. Bob Rafelson · Jack Nicholson · Karen Black · Susan Anspach · Lois Smith
Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.
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Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky · Alejandro Jodorowsky · Brontis Jodorowsky · Mara Lorenzio · David Silva
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
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Dir. Dario Argento · Tony Musante · Suzy Kendall · Enrico Maria Salerno · Eva Renzi
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
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Dir. Don Siegel · Shirley MacLaine · Clint Eastwood · Manolo Fábregas · Alberto Morin
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
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Dir. David Lean · Robert Mitchum · Trevor Howard · Christopher Jones · John Mills
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
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Dir. Arthur Hiller · Ali MacGraw · Ryan O'Neal · John Marley · Ray Milland
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.
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Dir. Mike Nichols · Alan Arkin · Martin Balsam · Richard Benjamin · Art Garfunkel
A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
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Dir. George Seaton · Burt Lancaster · Dana Wynter · Dean Martin · Barbara Hale
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.
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