The Academy got it right.
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The Academy and the numbers agree.
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Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · Al Pacino · Robert Duvall · Diane Keaton · Robert De Niro
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Dir. Roman Polanski · Jack Nicholson · Faye Dunaway · John Huston · Perry Lopez
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
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Dir. Mel Brooks · Gene Wilder · Peter Boyle · Marty Feldman · Madeline Kahn
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
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Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · Gene Hackman · John Cazale · Allen Garfield · Frederic Forrest
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Dir. Mel Brooks · Cleavon Little · Gene Wilder · Slim Pickens · Harvey Korman
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
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Dir. John Cassavetes · Gena Rowlands · Peter Falk · Fred Draper · Lady Rowlands
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
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Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Brigitte Mira · El Hedi ben Salem · Irm Hermann · Barbara Valentin
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
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Dir. Tobe Hooper · Marilyn Burns · Allen Danziger · Paul A. Partain · William Vail
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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Dir. Ertem Eğilmez · Kemal Sunal · Zeki Alasya · Metin Akpınar · Halit Akçatepe
After they find buried treasure, four hapless brothers from the countryside discover that changing their fortunes will take more than gold.
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Dir. Joseph Sargent · Walter Matthau · Robert Shaw · Martin Balsam · Héctor Elizondo
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers while the authorities question about the method of their escape.
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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Bibi Andersson · Jan Malmsjö
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
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Dir. Luis Buñuel · Adriana Asti · Milena Vukotić · Jean-Claude Brialy · Monica Vitti
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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Dir. Sidney Lumet · Albert Finney · Lauren Bacall · Martin Balsam · Ingrid Bergman
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Dir. Werner Herzog · Bruno S. · Walter Ladengast · Brigitte Mira · Willy Semmelrogge
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
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Dir. Bob Fosse · Dustin Hoffman · Valerie Perrine · Jan Miner · Stanley Beck
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.
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Dir. Bob Clark · Olivia Hussey · Keir Dullea · Margot Kidder · John Saxon
As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
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Dir. John Guillermin · Steve McQueen · Paul Newman · William Holden · Faye Dunaway
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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Dir. Michael Winner · Charles Bronson · Hope Lange · Vincent Gardenia · Steven Keats
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
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Dir. Robert Aldrich · Burt Reynolds · Eddie Albert · Ed Lauter · Michael Conrad
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
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Dir. Guy Hamilton · Roger Moore · Christopher Lee · Britt Ekland · Maud Adams
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
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Dir. H.B. Halicki · H.B. Halicki · Marion Busia · Jerry Daugirda · James McIntyre
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.
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Dir. Mark Robson · Charlton Heston · Ava Gardner · George Kennedy · Lorne Greene
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
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Dir. Jack Smight · Charlton Heston · Karen Black · George Kennedy · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
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