The Academy got it right.
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The Academy and the numbers agree.
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Dir. George Roy Hill · Paul Newman · Robert Redford · Robert Shaw · Charles Durning
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.
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Dir. William Friedkin · Ellen Burstyn · Linda Blair · Jason Miller · Max von Sydow
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
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Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner · Steve McQueen · Dustin Hoffman · Victor Jory · Don Gordon
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · Tatum O'Neal · Ryan O'Neal · Madeline Kahn · John Hillerman
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
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Dir. Sidney Lumet · Al Pacino · John Randolph · Jack Kehoe · Biff McGuire
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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Dir. Federico Fellini · Pupella Maggio · Armando Brancia · Magali Noël · Ciccio Ingrassia
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Liv Ullmann · Ingrid Thulin · Kari Sylwan · Harriet Andersson
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
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Dir. Terrence Malick · Martin Sheen · Sissy Spacek · Warren Oates · Ramon Bieri
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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Dir. Robert Clouse · Bruce Lee · John Saxon · Jim Kelly · Sek Kin
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
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Dir. Fred Zinnemann · Edward Fox · Terence Alexander · Michel Auclair · Alan Badel
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Dir. François Truffaut · Jacqueline Bisset · Valentina Cortese · Dani · Alexandra Stewart
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman · Brian Bedford · Phil Harris · Andy Devine · Monica Evans
With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
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Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky · Alejandro Jodorowsky · Horacio Salinas · Zamira Saunders · Juan Ferrara
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
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Dir. Robin Hardy · Edward Woodward · Christopher Lee · Britt Ekland · Diane Cilento
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.
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Dir. Clint Eastwood · Clint Eastwood · Verna Bloom · Marianna Hill · Mitchell Ryan
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.
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Dir. George Lucas · Richard Dreyfuss · Ron Howard · Paul Le Mat · Charles Martin Smith
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
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Dir. Ted Post · Clint Eastwood · Hal Holbrook · Mitchell Ryan · David Soul
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.
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Dir. Gérard Oury · Louis de Funès · Suzy Delair · Marcel Dalio · Claude Giraud
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
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Dir. Sydney Pollack · Barbra Streisand · Robert Redford · Bradford Dillman · Lois Chiles
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
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Dir. Guy Hamilton · Roger Moore · Yaphet Kotto · Jane Seymour · Clifton James
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
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Dir. Phil Karlson · Joe Don Baker · Elizabeth Hartman · Gene Evans · Noah Beery Jr.
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
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Dir. Melvin Frank · George Segal · Glenda Jackson · Paul Sorvino · K Callan
Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.
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