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  • 1
    Bob Rafelson
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    1970-09-11
    Jack Nicholson,Karen Black,Billy Green Bush,Fannie Flagg,Sally Struthers,Lorna Thayer,Susan Anspach
    Bob Rafelson,Carole Eastman
    Robert Daley
    Drama
    László Kovács
    United States
    Bobby Eroica Dupea,Waitress
  • 2
    Robert Altman
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    1970
    Donald Sutherland,Elliott Gould,Tom Skerritt,Robert Duvall,Sally Kellerman,Roger Bowen,Gary Burghoff,Rene Auberjonois,Fred Williamson,Indus Arthur,Bud Cort,David Arkin,Jo Ann Pflug
    H. Richard Hornberger,Ring Lardner Jr.,Richard Hooker
    Ingo Preminger
    Black comedy
    Danford B. Greene
    Harold E. Stine
    United States
    Johnny Mandel
    M*A*S*H
    Korean War
    20th Century Fox
  • 3
    Franklin Schaffner
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    1970-02-04,1970
    George C. Scott,Karl Malden,Michael Bates,Karl Michael Vogler
    Edmund H. North,Francis Ford Coppola,Ladislas Farago,Omar Bradley
    Frank McCarthy
    Biographical
    Fred J. Koenekamp
    United States
    Jerry Goldsmith
    Patton
    The Last Days of Patton
    World War II
    General George S. Patton, Jr.
  • 4
    Stanley Kubrick
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    1971-12-19
    Malcolm McDowell,David Prowse,Aubrey Morris,Patrick Magee,Warren Clarke
    Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick
    Black comedy,Dystopia,Satire,Science fiction,Crime
    Bill Butler
    John Alcott
    United Kingdom
    Rachel Elkind-Tourre,Wendy Carlos
    A Clockwork Orange
    Vinyl
    Brainwashing
    Warner Bros.
    Anthony Burgess
    Alex,Julian,Mr. P. R. Deltoid,Mr. Alexander
  • 5
    William Friedkin
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    1971-10-07
    Gene Hackman,Fernando Rey,Roy Scheider,Tony Lo Bianco
    Ernest Tidyman,Robin Moore
    Philip D'Antoni
    Film noir,Thriller,Crime,Action
    Gerald B. Greenberg
    Owen Roizman
    Don Ellis
    The French Connection
    French Connection II
    20th Century Fox
    Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle,Alain Charnier,Det. Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo,Salvatore 'Sal' Boca
  • 6
    Peter Bogdanovich
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    1971-10-03
    Timothy Bottoms,Jeff Bridges,Cybill Shepherd,Ben Johnson,Cloris Leachman,Ellen Burstyn,Randy Quaid,Peter Bogdanovich,John Hillerman,Eileen Brennan,Sam Bottoms
    Larry McMurtry,Peter Bogdanovich
    Stephen J. Friedman
    Black-and-white,Coming of age
    Robert Surtees
    United States
    Texasville
    Columbia Pictures
    Ruth Popper,Billy
  • 7
    Robert Altman
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    1971-06-24
    Warren Beatty,Julie Christie,Rene Auberjonois
    Brian McKay,Edmund Naughton,Robert Altman
    David Foster,Mitchell Brower
    Western
    Vilmos Zsigmond
    United States
    Warner Bros.
    Mrs. Constance Miller
  • 8
    Bob Fosse
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    1972-10
    Liza Minnelli,Michael York,Joel Grey,Helen Vita
    Christopher Isherwood,John William Van Druten
    Bob Fosse,Cy Feuer
    Musical
    David Bretherton
    Geoffrey Unsworth
    United States
    John Kander
    Cabaret
    Sally Bowles
  • 9
    John Boorman
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    1972-07-30
    Jon Voight,Burt Reynolds,Ned Beatty,Ronny Cox,James Dickey,Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward
    James Dickey
    John Boorman
    Drama
    Tom Priestley
    Vilmos Zsigmond
    United States
    Warner Bros.
    Ed Gentry,Lonnie
  • 10
    Francis Ford Coppola
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    1972-03-15
    Marlon Brando,Al Pacino,James Caan,John Cazale,Robert Duvall,Diane Keaton,Talia Shire,Richard S. Castellano,Abe Vigoda,Al Lettieri,Gianni Russo,Sterling Hayden,Lenny Montana,Richard Conte,Al Martino,John Marley,Alex Rocco,Morgana King,John Martino,Victor Rendina,Simonetta Stefanelli,Sofia Coppola,Louis Guss,Tom Rosqui,Joe Spinell,Gabriele T
    Francis Ford Coppola,Mario Puzo
    Albert Ruddy
    Drama,Gangster
    Peter Zinner,William H. Reynolds
    Gordon Willis
    United States
    Carmine Coppola,Nino Rota
    The Godfather
    R (USA)
    The Godfather Part II
    Mafia
    Paramount Pictures
    Mario Puzo
    Vito Corleone,Michael Corleone,Sonny Corleone,Fredo Corleone,Tom Hagen,Kay Adams,Connie Corleone,Pete Clemenza,Salvatore Tessio,Virgil Sollozzo,Carlo Rizzi,Captain Mark McCluskey,Luca Brasi,Emilio Barzini,Johnny Fontane,Jack Woltz,Moe Greene,Carmella Corleone,Paulie Gatto,Philip Tattaglia,Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone,Michael Francis Rizzi,Joe
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  • 11
    Bernardo Bertolucci
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    1973-02-07
    Marlon Brando,Maria Schneider,Jean-Pierre Léaud
    Agnès Varda,Bernardo Bertolucci,Franco Arcalli
    Alberto Grimaldi
    Drama,Erotica,Romance film
    Vittorio Storaro
    France,Italy
    Gato Barbieri
    Last Tango in Paris
    Paul
  • 12
    George Lucas
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    1973-08-11
    Richard Dreyfuss,Ron Howard,Paul Le Mat,Charles Martin Smith,Candy Clark,Mackenzie Phillips,Cindy Williams,Wolfman Jack,Harrison Ford,Kathleen Quinlan,Bo Hopkins,Suzanne Somers
    George Lucas,Gloria Katz,Willard Huyck
    Francis Ford Coppola,Gary Kurtz
    Comedy,Coming of age,Drama
    Verna Fields,Marcia Lucas
    United States
    American Graffiti
    More American Graffiti
    Chevrolet Corvette
    Lucasfilm,Universal Studios
    Bob Falfa
  • 13
    Terrence Malick
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    1973-10-15
    Martin Sheen,Sissy Spacek,Warren Oates
    Terrence Malick
    Terrence Malick
    Drama
    Robert Estrin
    Tak Fujimoto,Steven Larner,Brian Probyn
    United States
    James Taylor
    Warner Bros.
    Charles Starkweather,Caril Ann Fugate
  • 14
    Nicolas Roeg
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    1973-12-09
    Julie Christie,Donald Sutherland
    Allan Scott,Chris Bryant,Daphne du Maurier
    Peter Katz
    Erotica,Thriller
    Italy,United Kingdom
    Pino Donaggio
  • 15
    Robert Clouse
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    1973-07-26
    Bruce Lee,John Saxon,Ahna Capri,Angela Mao,Robert Wall,Bolo Yeung,Shih Kien,Jim Kelly
    Michael Allin
    Paul Heller,Fred Weintraub
    Martial arts,Thriller
    Lalo Schifrin
    Enter the Dragon
    Way of the Dragon
  • 16
    William Friedkin
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    1973-12-26
    Ellen Burstyn,Max von Sydow,Jason Miller,Lee J. Cobb,Kitty Winn,Linda Blair,Mercedes McCambridge,Barton Heyman,Jack MacGowran,William O'Malley
    William Peter Blatty
    William Peter Blatty
    Horror,Supernatural
    Norman Gay
    Owen Roizman
    United States
    Mike Oldfield,Jack Nitzsche
    The Exorcist
    R (USA)
    Exorcist II: The Heretic
    Exorcist: The Beginning
    Warner Bros.
    Chris MacNeil,Father Merrin,Father Karras,Lt. Kinderman,Sharon,Regan,Dr. Klein,Burke Dennings,Father Dyer
  • 17
    Martin Scorsese
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    1973-10-02
    Harvey Keitel,Robert De Niro,Amy Robinson,David Proval,Richard Romanus,Cesare Danova,Robert Carradine,Verna Bloom
    Mardik Martin,Martin Scorsese
    Jonathan T. Taplin,Martin Scorsese
    Sidney Levin
    Kent L. Wakefield
    United States
    Mafia
    Warner Bros.
  • 18
    Woody Allen
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    1973-12-17
    Woody Allen,Diane Keaton,Maria Small,Susan Miller,John Beck,Douglas Rain
    Marshall Brickman,Woody Allen
    Jack Grossberg
    Comedy,Dystopia,Science fiction
    H. G. Wells
  • 19
    Roman Polański
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    1974-06-20
    Jack Nicholson,Faye Dunaway,John Huston,Bruce Glover,John Hillerman,Diane Ladd
    Robert Towne,Roman Polański
    Robert Evans
    Film noir,Mystery,Crime,Neo-noir
    John A. Alonzo
    United States
    Jerry Goldsmith
    Chinatown
    The Two Jakes
    Paramount Pictures
    J. J. Gittes,Evelyn Cross Mulwray
  • 20
    Francis Ford Coppola
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    1974-04-07
    Gene Hackman,John Cazale,Allen Garfield,Cindy Williams,Frederic Forrest,Harrison Ford,Teri Garr
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Mystery,Thriller
    Walter Murch
    Bill Butler
    David Shire
    The Conversation
    Paramount Pictures
    Stan
  • 21
    Francis Ford Coppola
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    1974-12-12
    Al Pacino,Robert Duvall,Diane Keaton,Robert De Niro,John Cazale,Talia Shire,Lee Strasberg,Michael V. Gazzo,G. D. Spradlin,Richard Bright,Dominic Chianese,James Caan,Giuseppe Sillato,Joe Spinell,Tom Rosqui,Peter Donat
    Francis Ford Coppola,Mario Puzo
    Francis Ford Coppola,Fred Roos,Gray Frederickson
    Drama,Gangster
    Richard Marks,Peter Zinner,Barry Malkin
    Gordon Willis
    United States
    Carmine Coppola,Nino Rota
    The Godfather Part II
    The Godfather Part III
    The Godfather
    Mafia
    Paramount Pictures
    Michael Corleone,Tom Hagen,Kay Adams,Vito Corleone,Fredo Corleone,Connie Corleone,Hyman Roth,Frank Pentangeli,Pat Geary,Al Neri,Johnny Ola,Sonny Corleone,Don Ciccio,Willie Cicci,Rocco Lampone
  • 22
    Mel Brooks
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    1974-12-15
    Gene Wilder,Teri Garr,Cloris Leachman,Marty Feldman,Peter Boyle,Madeline Kahn,Kenneth Mars,Gene Hackman,Danny Goldman
    Gene Wilder,Mel Brooks
    Michael Gruskoff
    Black-and-white,Comedy,Horror,Parody,Science fiction
    United States
    John Morris
    Young Frankenstein
    20th Century Fox
    Frau Blücher
  • 23
    Steven Spielberg
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    1975-06-20
    Roy Scheider,Robert Shaw,Richard Dreyfuss,Lorraine Gary,Murray Hamilton,Susan Backlinie,Jonathan Filley,Carl Gottlieb,Ted Grossman,Jeffrey Kramer
    Carl Gottlieb,Howard Sackler,John Milius,Peter Benchley,Robert Shaw
    David Brown,Richard D. Zanuck
    Horror
    Verna Fields
    Bill Butler
    United States
    John Williams
    Jaws
    Jaws 2
    Universal Studios
    Peter Benchley
    Martin Brody,Quint,Matt Hooper,Ellen Brody
  • 24
    John Huston
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    1975-12-17
    Sean Connery,Michael Caine,Christopher Plummer,Saeed Jaffrey
    John Huston,Rudyard Kipling
    John Foreman
    Maurice Jarre
    The Man Who Would Be King
  • 25
    Terry Gilliam,Terry Jones
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    1975-04-03
    Graham Chapman,John Cleese,Terry Gilliam,Eric Idle,Terry Jones,Michael Palin,Carol Cleveland,John Young,Connie Booth
    Eric Idle,Graham Chapman,John Cleese,Michael Palin,Terry Gilliam,Terry Jones
    Mark Forstater,Michael White
    Comedy,Humour
    John Hackney
    Terry Bedford
    United Kingdom
    The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Executive Edition
    PG (USA)
    Life of Brian
    And Now For Something Completely Different
    Columbia Pictures
    King Arthur,Lancelot,Patsy,Sir Robin,Bedivere,Sir Galahad,Zoot,God,Historian,Dennis,Dead Collector,Dingo,Bridgekeeper,Dennis' Mother,King of Swamp Castle,Witch,Taunting French Guard,Leader of The Knights who say NI!,Concorde
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  • 26
    Robert Altman
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    1975-06-11
    Ned Beatty,Keith Carradine,Geraldine Chaplin,Scott Glenn,Shelley Duvall,Lily Tomlin,Barbara Harris,Robert DoQui,David Arkin,Henry Gibson,Michael Murphy,Ronee Blakley
    Joan Tewkesbury
    Robert Altman
    Drama,Musical
    United States
    Nashville
    Paramount Pictures
  • 27
    Miloš Forman
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    1975-11-19
    Jack Nicholson,Louise Fletcher,Brad Dourif,William Redfield,Will Sampson,Scatman Crothers,Christopher Lloyd,Danny DeVito,Sidney Lassick,Vincent Schiavelli
    Bo Goldman,Ken Kesey
    Michael Douglas,Saul Zaentz
    Drama,Indie,Comedy
    Sheldon Kahn,Lynzee Klingman
    Haskell Wexler
    United States
    Jack Nitzsche
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    R (USA)
    Psychiatry
    Randle Patrick McMurphy,Nurse Ratched,Billy Bibbit,Dale Harding,Chief Bromden,Turkle,Taber,Martini,Charley Cheswick,Fredrickson
  • 28
    Jim Sharman
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    1975-08-14
    Richard O'Brien,Tim Curry,Susan Sarandon,Barry Bostwick,Peter Hinwood,Jonathan Adams,Patricia Quinn,Nell Campbell,Charles Gray,Meat Loaf,Hilary Labow,Christopher Biggins,Gaye Brown,Perry Bedden,Jeremy Newson
    Jim Sharman,Richard O'Brien
    Lou Adler,Michael White
    Comedy,Horror,Musical,Cult
    Peter Suschitzky
    United Kingdom,United States
    Richard Hartley,Richard O'Brien
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    Shock Treatment
    20th Century Fox
    Richard O'Brien
    Riff Raff - A Handyman,Frank N. Furter,Janet Weiss,Brad Majors,Rocky Horror - A Creation,Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist,Magenta - A Domestic,Columbia - A Groupie,The Criminologist,Eddie Ex - Delivery Boy,Betty Munroe Hapschatt,Ralph Hapschatt
  • 29
    Sidney Lumet
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    1976-11-27
    Faye Dunaway,William Holden,Peter Finch,Robert Duvall,Ned Beatty,Wesley Addy,Jordan Charney,Beatrice Straight
    Paddy Chayefsky
    Howard Gottfried
    Satire
    Owen Roizman
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Diana Christensen,Max Schumacher,Howard Beale
  • 30
    John G. Avildsen
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    1976-11-21
    Sylvester Stallone,Talia Shire,Burt Young,Carl Weathers,Burgess Meredith,Tony Burton
    Sylvester Stallone
    Irwin Winkler,Robert Chartoff
    Boxing
    Scott Conrad,Richard Halsey
    Bill Conti
    Rocky
    Rocky II
    Boxing
    Rocky Balboa,Adrian,Paulie,Apollo Creed,Mickey,Adrian Pennino
  • 31
    Martin Scorsese
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    1976-02-08
    Robert De Niro,Jodie Foster,Harvey Keitel,Cybill Shepherd,Peter Boyle,Albert Brooks,Leonard Harris
    Paul Schrader
    Julia Phillips
    Drama
    Tom Rolf,Melvin Shapiro
    Michael Chapman
    United States
    Bernard Herrmann
    American Gigolo
    Columbia Pictures
    Travis Bickle
  • 32
    Woody Allen
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    1977-04-20
    Woody Allen,Diane Keaton,Tony Roberts,Christopher Walken,Carol Kane,Paul Simon,John Glover,Shelley Hack,Shelley Duvall
    Marshall Brickman,Woody Allen
    Charles H Joffe,Jack Rollins,Steve Rollins
    Romantic comedy
    Ralph Rosenblum,Wendy Greene Bricmont
    Gordon Willis
    United States
    Seems Like Old Times,It Had to Be You,Christmas Medley,A Hard Way To Go
    New York,Los Angeles
    Romantic comedy,Romance,Comedy
    Alvy Singer,Annie Hall,Rob,Duane Hall,Allison Portchnik
  • 33
    Steven Spielberg
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    1977-11-16
    Richard Dreyfuss,François Truffaut,Melinda Dillon,Lance Henriksen,Teri Garr,Matthew Robbins,Justin Dreyfuss,Adrienne Campbell,J. Patrick McNamara,Bob Balaban,Roberts Blossom,Warren J. Kemmerling,Shawn Bishop,Cary Guffey
    Steven Spielberg
    Clark L. Paylow,Julia Phillips,Michael Phillips
    Science fiction
    Michael Kahn
    Douglas Slocombe,Vilmos Zsigmond
    United Kingdom,United States
    John Williams
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Night Skies
    Alien Visitation,Extraterrestrial life
    Columbia Pictures
    Roy Neary,Claude Lacombe,Gillian Guiler,Robert,Ronnie Neary,Returnee #3 Flt. 19,Toby Neary,Sylvia Neary,Project Leader,David Laughlin,Farmer,Wild Bill,Brad Neary,Barry Guiler
  • 34
    John Badham
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    1977-12-14
    John Travolta,Karen Lynn Gorney
    Nik Cohn,Norman Wexler
    Robert Stigwood
    Coming of age,Drama,Musical
    United States
    Barry Gibb,David Shire,Maurice Gibb,Robin Gibb
    Saturday Night Fever
    Staying Alive
    Paramount Pictures
    Tony Manero
  • 35
    George Lucas,Irvin Kershner,Richard Marquand
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    Gary Kurtz,George Lucas,Rick McCallum
    Ben Burtt
  • 36
    Terrence Malick
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    1978-09-13
    Richard Gere,Brooke Adams,Sam Shepard,Linda Manz
    Terrence Malick
    Bert Schneider,Harold Schneider
    Drama
    Billy Weber
    Néstor Almendros,Haskell Wexler
    United States
    Ennio Morricone
    Paramount Pictures
  • 37
    Michael Cimino
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    1978-12-08
    Robert De Niro,Christopher Walken,John Cazale,Meryl Streep,John Savage,George Dzundza,Amy Wright,Rutanya Alda,Shirley Stoler,Joe Grifasi
    Deric Washburn
    Barry Spikings,John Peverall,Michael Cimino,Michael Deeley
    Drama
    Vilmos Zsigmond
    United States
    Stanley Myers
    The Deer Hunter
    Vietnam War
    Universal Studios
    Michael,Stanley
  • 38
    Rob Zombie
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    2007-08-31
    Daryl Karolat,Brad Dourif,Scout Taylor-Compton,Malcolm McDowell,Hanna R. Hall,Danny Trejo,Daryl Sabara,Sid Haig,Sybil Danning,William Forsythe,Udo Kier,Leslie Easterbrook,Dee Wallace-Stone,Ken Foree,Bill Moseley,Danielle Harris,Sheri Moon
    Bob Weinstein,Harvey Weinstein
    Horror,Slasher
    United States
    Tyler Bates
    Halloween
    R (USA)
    H2
    Halloween Resurrection
    Dimension Films,Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Super 35 mm film
  • 39
    Ridley Scott
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    1979-05-25
    Sigourney Weaver,Tom Skerritt,Veronica Cartwright,Harry Dean Stanton,John Hurt,Ian Holm,Yaphet Kotto
    Dan O'Bannon,Ronald Shusett
    David Giler,Gordon Carroll,Walter Hill
    Horror,Science fiction
    United Kingdom,United States
    Jerry Goldsmith
    Alien
    Aliens
    Extraterrestrial life
    20th Century Fox
    Ellen Ripley,Dallas,Lambert,Brett
  • 40
    Francis Ford Coppola
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    1979-05-10
    Marlon Brando,Robert Duvall,Martin Sheen,Laurence Fishburne,Dennis Hopper,Harrison Ford,Frederic Forrest,Albert Hall,Sam Bottoms,Charlie Sheen,Bill Graham,Henry Strzalkowski,R. Lee Ermey,Don Gordon Bell,Scott Glenn,Francis Ford Coppola,Nick Nicholson,Linn Phillips,Vittorio Storaro,Evan A. Lottman,Jim Gaines,Bo Byers,Glenn Walken,Colleen Cam
    Francis Ford Coppola,John Milius,Joseph Conrad,Michael Herr
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Cult,War
    Walter Murch,Lisa Fruchtman,Gerald B. Greenberg
    Vittorio Storaro
    United States
    Carmine Coppola,Francis Ford Coppola
    War,Vietnam War
    Paramount Pictures
    Colonel Walter E. Kurtz,Lt. Colonel William Kilgore,Captain Willard,Tyrone 'Clean' Miller,American Photojournalist,Col. Lucas,Agent,Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot,Director of TV Crew,TV Photographer,General Corman
  • 41
    Hal Ashby
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    1979-12-19
    Shirley MacLaine,Melvyn Douglas,Jack Warden,Richard Dysart,Richard Basehart,Peter Sellers
    Jerzy Kosiński,Robert C. Jones
    Andrew Braunsberg
    Comedy
    United States
    Johnny Mandel
    Chauncey Gardiner
  • 42
    Woody Allen
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    1979-03-14
    Woody Allen,Diane Keaton,Michael Murphy,Mariel Hemingway,Meryl Streep,Anne Byrne
    Marshall Brickman,Woody Allen
    Charles H Joffe,Charles H. Joffe
    Black-and-white,Comedy,Romantic comedy
    Susan E. Morse
    Gordon Willis
    United States
    George Gershwin
    Manhattan
    Isaac Davis,Mary Wilkie,Tracy,Jill

 

 

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