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60. MASH
Director – Robert Altman
Cast – Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 85%
Release Date – 25 January 1970
Box Office – $81.6 million
Genre – Comedy, War
Awards – Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Plot – A Unit of army in Korean war uses comedy as a way to run away from the horrors of war.
59. Sleuth
Director – Joseph Mankiewicz
Cast – Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 96%
Release Date – 10 December 1972
Box Office – $5.7 Million
Genre – Mystery, Thriller
Awards – Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Actor, Best Director, Best Music and Best Score
Plot – When a Man find out about his wife’s affair he decide to play a deadly game with him.
58. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Director – Mel Stuart
Cast – Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 91%
Release Date – 30 June 1971
Box Office – $4 Million
Genre – Fantasy, Musical
Awards – Nominated for Original Score
Plot – Willy Wonka is a mysterious man who invited 5 young children to take a tour of his chocolate factory.
57. Midnight Express
Director – Alan Parker
Cast – Brad Davis, John Hurt
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 96%
Release Date – 6 October 1978
Box Office – $35 Million
Genre – Biography, Crime
Awards – Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Best Score
Plot – A Young student who is imprisioned in Turkey due to drug trafficking plans his escape.
56. Harold and Maude
Director – Hal Ashby
Cast – Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 84%
Release Date – 20 December 1971
Box Office – $1.2 million
Genre – Romance, Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – A Man in his twenties who is obsessed with death falls in love with a 79 year old woman who he met at a funeral.
55. Stalker
Director – Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast – Alexander Kaidanovsky
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 19 May 1979
Box Office – $1 Million
Genre – Sci Fi, Drama
Awards – None
Plot – Two Men are lured by a mysterious figure to enter into an area simply known as Zone to find a room that grant wishes.
54. Eraserhead
Director – David Lynch
Cast – Jack nance
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 91%
Release Date – 19 March 1977
Box Office – $7 Million
Genre – Horror
Awards – None
Plot – A Guess IMDB page of this film describe its plot in the best possible way.
53. Live and Let Die
Director – Guy Hamilton
Cast – Roger Moore, Jane Seymour
IMDB Rating – 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 67%
Release Date – 27 June 1973
Box Office – $161.8 Million
Genre – Action, Adventure
Awards – Nominated for Best Original Song
Plot – James Bond is given a mission to catch a drug dealer who is also a psychic card reader.
52. The Man With the Golden Gun
Director – Guy Hamilton
Cast – Roger Moore, Christopher Lee
IMDB Rating – 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 44%
Release Date – 19 December 1974
Box Office – $97.6 Million
Genre – Action, Adventure
Awards – None
Plot – James Bond has to stop a crime syndicate that is hellbent to destroy the world with its solar cell technology.
51. Diamonds are Forever
Director – Guy Hamilton
Cast – Sean Connery
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 64%
Release Date – 14 December 1971
Box Office – $116 Million
Genre – Action, Adventure
Awards – Nominated for Academy Award for Best Sound
Plot – James Bond finds a new rival in a rich businessman who is running casinos in las vegas.
50. The Spy who loved me
Director – Lewis Gilbert
Cast – Roger Moore, Barbara Bach
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 80%
Release Date – 7 July 1977
Box Office – $185.4 Million
Genre – Action, Thriller
Awards – Nomianted for Oscar for Best Art Direction, Best Score, Best Song
Plot – James Bond joins hand with a russian spy in order to save world from Nuclear war.
49. All the President’s Men
Director – Alan Pakula
Cast – Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 9 April 1976
Box Office – $70.6 Million
Genre – Biography, History
Awards – 4 Oscars for Best Art Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress
Plot – Based on the famous Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of US president Nixon.
48. The Conversation
Director – Francis Ford Coppola
Cast – Gene Hackman, John Cazale
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
Release Date – 7 April 1974
Box Office – $4.4 Million
Genre – Mystery, Thriller
Awards – Nominated for 3 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Sound
Plot – A Surveillance expert becomes delusional about the life of a couple.
47. Moonraker
Director – Lewis Gilbert
Cast – Roger Moore, Lois Chilles
IMDB Rating – 6.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 63%
Release Date – 26 June 1979
Box Office – $210 Million
Genre – Action, Sci Fi
Awards – Nominated for Best Visual Effects
Plot – James Bond once again saves the world, this time from Space.
46. Papillon
Director – Franklin Schaffner
Cast – Steve Mcqueen, Dustin Hoffman
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 16 December 1973
Box Office – $53.2 Million
Genre – Biography, Crime
Awards – Nominated for Best Score
Plot – A Man who claims to be wrongfully imprisioned plans escape with another prisoner who he befriended in the prison.
45. Deliverance
Director – John Boorman
Cast – Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 30 July 1972
Box Office – $46.1 Million
Genre – Adventure, Thriller
Awards – Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing
Plot – Four Friends decide to go canoiening into remote wilderness.
44. Blazing Saddles
Director – Mel Brooks
Cast – Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 91%
Release Date – 7 February 1974
Box Office – $119.6 Million
Genre – Western, Comedy
Awards – Nomination for Best Film Editing, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress
Plot – A Black man is appointed as the new sherrif of a remote western town.
43. Patton
Director – Franklin Schaffner
Cast – George C Scott, Karl Malden
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 96%
Release Date – 4 February 1970
Box Office – $61.8 Million
Genre – Biography, War
Awards – Won 7 Academy Awards Including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best DIrector, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Art Direction
Plot – The Life of George S Patton During World War 2.
42. The Omen
Director – Richard Donner
Cast – Gregory Peck, Lee Remick
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 6 June 1976
Box Office – $60.9 Million
Genre – Horror
Awards – Oscar for Best Original Score
Plot – An American Ambassador is made believed that his son is an antichrist.
41. The Warrior
Director – Walter Hill
Cast – Michael Beck
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 9 February 1979
Box Office – $22.5 Million
Genre – Action, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot – Set in Future, the film follows life of a gang that tries to overtake New York but become the arch enemy of every other gang.
