The Academy got it right.
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The Academy and the numbers agree.
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Dir. Miloš Forman · Jack Nicholson · Brad Dourif · Louise Fletcher · Danny DeVito
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
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Dir. Ertem Eğilmez · Münir Özkul · Tarık Akan · Kemal Sunal · Halit Akçatepe
A group of affluent private school slackers enjoy a prankster lifestyle until a tough new disciplinarian headmaster arrives.
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Dir. Terry Jones · Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Eric Idle · Terry Gilliam
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
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Dir. Steven Spielberg · Roy Scheider · Robert Shaw · Richard Dreyfuss · Lorraine Gary
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.
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Dir. Stanley Kubrick · Ryan O'Neal · Marisa Berenson · Patrick Magee · Hardy Krüger
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
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Dir. Sidney Lumet · Al Pacino · John Cazale · Charles Durning · Chris Sarandon
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
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Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky · Margarita Terekhova · Ignat Daniltsev · Larisa Tarkovskaya · Alla Demidova
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
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Dir. Akira Kurosawa · Yuriy Solomin · Maksim Munzuk · Mikhail Bychkov · B. Khorulev
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
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Dir. Ertem Eğilmez · Münir Özkul · Tarık Akan · Kemal Sunal · Adile Naşit
A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.
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Dir. Ramesh Sippy · Dharmendra · Amitabh Bachchan · Sanjeev Kumar · Amjad Khan
After his family is slain by notorious bandit Gabbar Singh, former Inspector Thakur Baldev Singh enlists low-level outlaws Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar and seek revenge.
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Dir. Jim Sharman · Tim Curry · Susan Sarandon · Barry Bostwick · Richard O'Brien
After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.
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Dir. John Huston · Sean Connery · Michael Caine · Christopher Plummer · Saeed Jaffrey
Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever.
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Dir. Ivo Caprino · Frank Robert · Kari Simonsen · Toralv Maurstad · Leif Juster
100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion.
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Dir. Woody Allen · Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Harold Gould · Olga Georges-Picot
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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Dir. Sydney Pollack · Robert Redford · Faye Dunaway · Cliff Robertson · Max von Sydow
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
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Dir. Robert Altman · David Arkin · Barbara Baxley · Ned Beatty · Karen Black
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Dir. Blake Edwards · Peter Sellers · Christopher Plummer · Catherine Schell · Herbert Lom
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.
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Dir. Ken Russell · Oliver Reed · Ann-Margret · Roger Daltrey · Elton John
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
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Dir. Norman Tokar · Don Knotts · Tim Conway · Harry Morgan · Bill Bixby
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
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Dir. Hal Ashby · Warren Beatty · Julie Christie · Goldie Hawn · Lee Grant
On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress Felicia Karpf, whose husband Lester is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Jackie.
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