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| 1 |  | Godfather, The (1972) |  3.9812 89 reviews | R | Drama, Crime |
$7.18
| War veteran Michael Corlone returns home to find himself becoming increasingly involved with the ...more about Godfather starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino |
| 2 |  | Jaws (1975) | 3.9366 201 reviews | PG | Adventure, Thriller, Horror |
$7.17
| After a teenager and a child are attacked by a Great White shark in a quiet beach community, the ...more about Jaws starring Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw |
| 3 |  | Star Wars (1977) | 3.9039 237 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
$8.26
| Part IV in George Lucas' epic, "Star Wars: A New Hope" follows Luke Skywalker, a orphaned farm boy, ...more about Star Wars starring Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford |
| 4 |  | Godfather: Part II, The (1974) | 3.8894 65 reviews | R | Drama, Crime |
$8.97
| The second installment in the Godfather trilogy follows Michael and his position of "Don" in the ...more about Godfather: Part II starring Al Pacino and Robert Duvall |
| 5 |  | Chinatown (1974) | 3.8626 83 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$6.40
| When smooth P.I. Jake Gittes is tricked into taking a case tailing an unfaithful husband he finds ...more about Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway |
| 6 |  | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | 3.8136 100 reviews | R | Drama |
$5.20
| In order to avoid jail McMurphy convinces a judge he is insane and belongs in a hospital not prison. ...more about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher |
| 7 |  | Taxi Driver (1976) | 3.8124 134 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$8.95
| A New York City cab driver becomes increasingly disgusted with the scum and low lives of the city. ...more about Taxi Driver starring Robert De Niro and Cybill Shepherd |
| 8 |  | Superman (1978) | 3.7628 112 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
$5.99
| An alien child is sent to Earth from his dying home planet to help preserve his people. When Clark ...more about Superman starring Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman |
| 9 |  | French Connection, The (1971) |  3.7459 39 reviews | R | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$9.27
| Two NYC narcotics cops are trying to trace a heroin connection from France to the U.S. On a tip, ...more about French Connection starring Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey |
| 10 |  | Spirit of the Beehive (1973) | 3.7171 31 reviews | NA | Drama |
$24.99
| Eight year old Ana (Ana Torrent) is convinced that Frankenstein still exists after seeing the film ...more about Spirit of the Beehive starring Fernando Fernan Gomez and Teresa Gimpera |
| 11 |  | Alien (1979) | 3.6601 312 reviews | R | Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$7.50
| Space vehicle Nostromo discovers a strange pod. The creature in the pod infects a member of the ...more about Alien starring Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver |
| 12 |  | Annie Hall (1977) | 3.6413 82 reviews | PG | Romance, Comedy |
$9.99
| Romantic adventures of neurotic New Yorkers Alvy Singer and his girlfriend Annie Hall. The film ...more about Annie Hall starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton |
| 13 |  | Exorcist, The (1973) | 3.6087 162 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$5.24
| The Exorcist is based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty and considered one of the scariest ...more about Exorcist starring Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow |
| 14 |  | Manhattan (1979) | 3.5666 56 reviews | R | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$5.69
| This movie focuses on the life of 42-year-old Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) who is going through a ...more about Manhattan starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton |
| 15 |  | Amarcord (1973) | 3.5077 32 reviews | R | Drama, Comedy |
$24.99
| In this movie Fellini portrays his home town of Rimini as he remembered it in '30s, during his ...more about Amarcord starring Pupella Maggio and Armando Brancia |
| 16 |  | Conversation, The (1974) | 3.5006 72 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$6.13
| Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired to tail a young couple. As he listens to their ...more about Conversation starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale |
| 17 |  | Straw Dogs (1971) | 3.4996 70 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller |
$7.59
| To avoid the Vietnam-era chaos, mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his wife, Amy ...more about Straw Dogs starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George |
| 18 |  | Halloween (1978) | 3.4886 195 reviews | R | Thriller, Horror |
$9.10
| From the age of six Michael Myers was institutionalized for killing his older sister. After 15 ...more about Halloween starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis |
| 19 |  | Apocalypse Now (1979) | 3.4773 316 reviews | R | Action, Adventure, Drama, War |
$10.30
| During the height of the Vietnam War, Special Forces Captain Willard is given the assignment to ...more about Apocalypse Now starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen |
| 20 |  | Dirty Harry (1971) | 3.4307 69 reviews | R | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$19.99
| A renegade police officer, Harry, is assigned by the mayor to take down and bring in Scorpio, a ...more about Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood and Harry Guardino |
| 21 |  | Serpico (1973) | 3.3766 49 reviews | R | Drama, Crime |
$6.30
| Serpico is a cop in the early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money ...more about Serpico starring Al Pacino and John Randolph |
| 22 |  | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) | 3.3506 60 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Biography, Crime |
$5.36
| A desperate and half-crazed man attempts to rob a bank to help pay for his lover's sex change ...more about Dog Day Afternoon starring Al Pacino and John Cazale |
| 23 |  | F for Fake (1974) | 3.3504 26 reviews | NA | Documentary |
$23.99
| The last documentary film by Orson Welles called “F for Fake” is about the trickery, fraud and ...more about F for Fake starring Orson Welles and Oja Kodar |
| 24 |  | Clockwork Orange, A (1971) | 3.3399 129 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Crime |
$14.96
| A British gang member is imprisoned and treated for his psychological deficiencies with "aversion ...more about Clockwork Orange starring Malcolm McDowell and Patrick Magee |
| 25 |  | Sting, The (1973) | 3.3253 52 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Comedy |
$8.09
| Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) is a small time con artist during a big sting mistakenly steals from ...more about Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford |
| 26 |  | Last Picture Show, The (1971) | 3.3242 41 reviews | R | Drama |
$9.66
| Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) are two young boys trying to find ...more about Last Picture Show starring Timothy Bottoms and Jeff Bridges |
| 27 |  | Muppet Movie, The (1979) | 3.3201 51 reviews | G | Adventure, Musical, Comedy, Family, Disney |
$13.99
| Convinced by a big time Hollywood agent named Dom DeLuise that he belongs on the big screen ...more about Muppet Movie starring Jim Henson and Frank Oz |
| 28 |  | Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The (1977) | 3.3195 16 reviews | G | Musical, Animation, Family/Kids, Disney |
$17.59
| Winnie The Pooh, Disney’s animated adaptation of A.A Milne’s class children’s books, is back ...more about Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh starring Sebastian Cabot and Sterling Holloway |
| 29 |  | Eraserhead (1977) | 3.2961 81 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Horror |
$16.55
| Henry is forced into a live-in relationship with his girlfriend when they discover she is pregnant. ...more about Eraserhead starring Jack Nance and Charlotte Stewart |
| 30 |  | Warriors, The (1979) | 3.2899 85 reviews | R | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Teen |
$7.96
| The Warriors are wrongly accused of killing a rival gang leader in NYC during an "all gang meeting" ...more about Warriors starring Michael Beck and James Remar |
| 31 |  | Badlands (1973) | 3.2672 58 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$13.79
| Kit Carruthers, a young garbage collector and his girlfriend Holly Sargis from Fort Dupree, South ...more about Badlands starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek |
| 32 |  | Grease (1978) | 3.2578 111 reviews | PG | Musical, Romance, Comedy, Teen |
$8.26
| After a world wind summer fling, bad boy Greaser, Danny, spends his senior year trying to impress ...more about Grease starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John |
| 33 |  | Harold and Maude (1971) | 3.2572 39 reviews | PG | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$7.18
| Harold is a depressed, death-obsessed 20-year-old man-child who spends his free time attending ...more about Harold and Maude starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort |
| 34 |  | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | 3.2520 83 reviews | PG | Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| When several locals witness a strange alien encounter, they are all mysteriously drawn to a remote ...more about Close Encounters of the Third Kind starring Richard Dreyfuss and Franois Truffaut |
| 35 |  | Young Frankenstein (1974) |  3.2497 80 reviews | PG | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$6.86
| Dr. Frederick Frankenstein denounces his relationship to his famous grandfather, but he is lured by ...more about Young Frankenstein starring Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle |
| 36 |  | Dawn of the Dead (1978) | 3.2429 187 reviews | R | Action, Drama, Horror |
$5.07
| A group of four people are forced to live in an abandoned shopping mall after leagues of zombies ...more about Dawn of the Dead starring David Emge and Ken Foree |
| 37 |  | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | 3.2351 149 reviews | PG | Adventure, Comedy |
$11.99
| King Arthur sets on his quest for the Holy Grail. Along the way, he meets gallant and not so ...more about Monty Python and the Holy Grail starring Graham Chapman and John Cleese |
| 38 |  | Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) | 3.2343 115 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Crime |
$5.54
| Police ambush and kill several gang members in Los Angeles. Gang members make a pact of blood to ...more about Assault on Precinct 13 starring Austin Stoker and Darwin Joston |
| 39 |  | Frenzy (1972) | 3.2329 38 reviews | R | Thriller, Crime |
$9.41
| London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie murderer. Following the brutal ...more about Frenzy starring Jon Finch and Alec McCowen |
| 40 |  | McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) | 3.2297 53 reviews | NA | Drama, Western |
$13.79
| A young and charismatic gambler teams up with a business savvy madam to open a bar and brothel. ...more about McCabe & Mrs. Miller starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie |
| 41 |  | Sounder (1972) | 3.2267 13 reviews | G | Drama |
$3.99
| The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious ...more about Sounder starring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield |
| 42 |  | Deer Hunter, The (1978) | 3.2260 83 reviews | R | Drama, War |
$7.35
| Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who get drafted to fight in ...more about Deer Hunter starring Robert De Niro and John Cazale |
| 43 |  | MASH (1970) | 3.2245 31 reviews | R | Drama, War, Comedy |
$7.49
| Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. That's where two young surgeons, Duke and Hawkeye end up during the ...more about MASH starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould |
| 44 |  | Walkabout (1971) | 3.2192 37 reviews | R | Drama |
$18.49
| Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They ...more about Walkabout starring Jenny Agutter |
| 45 |  | Patton (1970) | 3.2187 83 reviews | PG | Drama, War, Biography |
$8.26
| The story of WWII General George S. Patton. His unconventional tactics, tough as nails exterior and ...more about Patton starring George C. Scott and Karl Malden |
| 46 |  | Life of Brian (1979) | 3.2139 109 reviews | R | Comedy |
$14.99
| Brian was born in a manger the same night as the man who would be Christ. For the rest of his life ...more about Life of Brian starring Graham Chapman and John Cleese |
| 47 |  | Animal House (1978) | 3.2014 80 reviews | R | Comedy, Teen |
$4.81
| This year Dean Wormer promises to expel a group of ragtag fraternity misfits that insists on ...more about Animal House starring John Belushi and Tim Matheson |
| 48 |  | Don't Look Now (1973) | 3.1976 45 reviews | R | Thriller |
$4.94
| John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom ...more about Don't Look Now starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland |
| 49 |  | American Graffiti (1973) | 3.1893 54 reviews | PG | Drama, Comedy, Teen |
$5.61
| It's the end of summer and a group of teenagers each have very different paths to take in the ...more about American Graffiti starring Richard Dreyfuss and Paul Le Mat |
| 50 |  | Cabaret (1972) | 3.1875 44 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical |
$6.46
| An American cabaret singer and a British writer are in Germany during the rise of the Nazi ...more about Cabaret starring Liza Minnelli and Michael York |
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