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The Academy and the numbers agree.
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Dir. Michael Cimino · Robert De Niro · Christopher Walken · John Cazale · John Savage
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
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Dir. John Carpenter · Donald Pleasence · Jamie Lee Curtis · Nancy Kyes · P. J. Soles
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Ingrid Bergman · Liv Ullmann · Lena Nyman · Halvar Björk
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
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Dir. George A. Romero · David Emge · Ken Foree · Scott H. Reiniger · Gaylen Ross
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
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Dir. Atıf Yılmaz · Kemal Sunal · Şener Şen · İlyas Salman · Adile Naşit
To bid for his beloved's hand in marriage, poor villager Feyzo must come up with an enormous dowry to appease her father.
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Dir. Orhan Aksoy · Münir Özkul · Adile Naşit · Şener Şen · Mürüvvet Sim Caymaz
Years after a divorce divides their family in half, six siblings encounter each other by chance and try to get their parents back together.
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Dir. Terrence Malick · Richard Gere · Brooke Adams · Sam Shepard · Linda Manz
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
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Dir. Alan Parker · Brad Davis · Irene Miracle · Bo Hopkins · Paolo Bonacelli
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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Dir. Richard Donner · Christopher Reeve · Margot Kidder · Gene Hackman · Marlon Brando
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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Dir. Randal Kleiser · Olivia Newton-John · John Travolta · Stockard Channing · Jeff Conaway
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
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Dir. Philip Kaufman · Donald Sutherland · Brooke Adams · Leonard Nimoy · Jeff Goldblum
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
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Dir. John Landis · John Belushi · Karen Allen · Tom Hulce · Stephen Furst
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
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Dir. Yuen Woo-ping · Jackie Chan · Simon Yuen Siu-Tien · Hwang Jang-Lee · Dean Shek Tin
After getting into trouble, a mischievous young man is sent to train under a brutal, but slovenly old beggar, who teaches him the secret of the Drunken Fist.
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Dir. Martin Rosen · John Hurt · Richard Briers · Michael Graham Cox · John Bennett
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
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Dir. John Guillermin · Peter Ustinov · Jane Birkin · Lois Chiles · Bette Davis
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.
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Dir. Hal Ashby · Jane Fonda · Jon Voight · Bruce Dern · Penelope Milford
In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
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Dir. Buck Henry · Warren Beatty · Julie Christie · James Mason · Jack Warden
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
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Dir. Paul Mazursky · Jill Clayburgh · Alan Bates · Michael Murphy · Cliff Gorman
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
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Dir. Hal Needham · Burt Reynolds · Jan-Michael Vincent · Sally Field · Brian Keith
Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
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Dir. James Fargo · Clint Eastwood · Sondra Locke · Geoffrey Lewis · Manis
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.
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Dir. Robert Clouse · Bruce Lee · Gig Young · Dean Jagger · Hugh O'Brian
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
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Dir. Jeannot Szwarc · Roy Scheider · Lorraine Gary · Murray Hamilton · Joseph Mascolo
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
How scoring works: films are ranked by a composite of a weighted (Bayesian) IMDb rating — the same method as the IMDb Top 250, so a high score from few voters can't outrank a strong score from many — blended with TMDB. Box office is a tiebreaker and a badge, never part of the score. Raw IMDb ratings and vote counts are shown on each card.