| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Candleshoe |
Norman Tokar |
David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster |
Family |
final film for Hayes |
| The Car |
Elliot Silverstein |
James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, Ronny Cox |
Mystery |
Universal |
| The Choirboys |
Robert Aldrich |
Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Don Stroud, Burt Young, Barbara Rhoades, Phyllis Davis |
Crime drama, comedy] |
based on novel by Joseph Wambaugh |
| Cinderella |
Michael Pataki |
Cheryl Smith, Sy Richardson |
Erotic Musical |
|
| Citizen's Band |
Jonathan Demme |
Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Roberts Blossom |
Comedy |
|
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
Steven Spielberg |
Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon |
Science fiction |
9 Oscar nominations |
| The Confessions of Amans |
Gregory Nava |
William Bryan |
Drama |
|
| Contract on Cherry Street |
William Goldwyn |
Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam |
Crime drama |
made for TV |
| Cross of Iron |
Sam Peckinpah |
James Coburn, James Mason, Maximilian Schell |
War, Action |
from Willi Heinrich book |
| Crossed Swords |
Richard Fleischer |
Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester |
Adventure |
|
| Damnation Alley |
Jack Smight |
George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent |
Science fiction |
from Roger Zelazny novel |
| The Day of the Animals |
William Girdler |
Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George |
Science fiction |
from Edward Montoro story |
| Death Bed: The Bed That Eats |
George Barry |
William Russ |
Comedy |
|
| The Deep |
Peter Yates |
Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte |
Thriller |
from Peter Benchley novel |
| Demon Seed |
Donald Cammell |
Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Robert Vaughn |
Horror |
from Dean Koontz novel |
| Desperate Living |
John Waters |
Liz Renay, Mink Stole |
Comedy |
|
| The Domino Principle |
Stanley Kramer |
Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Eli Wallach, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert |
Thriller |
from Adam Kennedy novel |
| Eaten Alive |
Tobe Hooper |
Carolyn Jones, Michael Berryman |
Horror |
|
| Empire of the Ants |
Bert I. Gordon |
Joan Collins, Albert Salmi |
Horror |
from H. G. Wells novel |
| Equus |
Sidney Lumet |
Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright |
Drama |
|
| Eraserhead |
David Lynch |
Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart |
Horror, Fantasy |
first film directed by Lynch |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic |
John Boorman |
Linda Blair, Richard Burton |
Horror |
sequel to The Exorcist |
| Fight for Your Life |
Richard A. Enderson |
Robert Judd, William Sanderson |
Thriller |
|
| First Love |
Joan Darling |
William Katt, Susan Dey, Beverly D'Angelo |
Drama |
|
| For the Love of Benji |
Joe Camp |
Patsy Garrett, Ed Nelson |
Family |
|
| Fun with Dick and Jane |
Ted Kotcheff |
George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon |
Comedy |
remade in 2005 |
| The Gauntlet |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Pat Hingle, Sondra Locke |
Thriller |
|
| The Goodbye Girl |
Herbert Ross |
Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings |
Comedy, Drama |
Oscar for Dreyfuss |
| Grand Theft Auto |
Ron Howard |
Ron Howard, Marion Ross |
Action, Comedy |
Howard's directorial debut |
| The Grateful Dead Movie |
Leon Gast |
Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia |
Documentary |
|
| Greased Lightning |
Michael Schultz |
Richard Pryor, Pam Grier, Cleavon Little |
Biography |
on auto racer Wendell Scott |
| The Greatest |
Tom Gries, Monte Hellman |
Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine |
Biography |
Ali as himself |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo |
Vincent McEveety |
Dean Jones, Don Knotts |
Family |
sequel to The Love Bug |
| Heroes |
Jeremy Kagan |
Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford |
Comedy, Drama |
Universal |
| High Anxiety |
Mel Brooks |
Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman |
Comedy |
spoof of Hitchcock films |
| The Hills Have Eyes |
Wes Craven |
Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman, Dee Wallace |
Horror |
|
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
Anthony Page |
Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson |
Drama |
from Joanne Greenberg novel |
| The Incredible Melting Man |
William Sachs |
Myron Healey, Janus Blythe |
Science fiction |
|
| The Island of Dr. Moreau |
Don Taylor |
Burt Lancaster, Michael York |
Science fiction |
from H.G. Wells novel |
| Islands in the Stream |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland |
Drama |
|
| Julia |
Fred Zinnemann |
Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Meryl Streep, Rosemary Murphy, John Glover, Hal Holbrook |
Drama |
from Lillian Hellman book; 11 Oscar nominations |
| The Kentucky Fried Movie |
John Landis |
Donald Sutherland, Henry Gibson, Uschi Digard |
Comedy |
Landis's 2nd film |
| Killer of Sheep |
Charles Burnett |
Henry G. Sanders |
Drama |
|
| Kingdom of the Spiders |
John Cardos |
William Shatner, Woody Strode, Tiffany Bolling |
Science fiction |
|
| Last House on Dead End Street |
Roger Watkins |
Roger Watkins, Ken Fisher |
Horror |
|
| The Last Remake of Beau Geste |
Marty Feldman |
Marty Feldman, Michael York, Ann-Margret |
Comedy |
|
| The Late Show |
Robert Benton |
Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Eugene Roche |
Comedy |
|
| The Lincoln Conspiracy |
James L. Conway |
Bradford Dillman |
Drama |
Abe Lincoln assassination |
| A Little Night Music |
Harold Prince |
Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou |
Musical |
|
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
Richard Brooks |
Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere |
Drama |
from Judith Rossner novel |
| MacArthur |
Joseph Sargent |
Gregory Peck, G. D. Spradlin |
War, Biography |
General Douglas MacArthur |
| The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh |
Wolfgang Reitherman |
Sterling Holloway, John Fiedler, Paul Winchell |
Animation |
|
| March or Die |
Dick Richards |
Gene Hackman, Catherine Deneuve |
War |
French Foreign Legion |
| Martin |
George A. Romero |
John Amplas, Christine Forrest, Tom Savini |
Horror |
|
| The Mouse and His Child |
Chris Swenson |
Voices of Cloris Leachman, Peter Ustinov, Andy Devine |
Animated, Family |
USA/Japan production |
| Mr. Billion |
Jonathan Kaplan |
Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason |
Action |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| New York, New York |
Martin Scorsese |
Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro |
Musical |
United Artists |
| Oh, God! |
Carl Reiner |
George Burns, John Denver, Paul Sorvino, Teri Garr |
Comedy |
from Avery Corman novel |
| One on One |
Lamont Johnson |
Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G. D. Spradlin |
Drama |
co-written by Benson |
| Opening Night |
John Cassavetes |
Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes |
Drama |
|
| Orca |
Michael Anderson |
Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Bo Derek |
Adventure |
Dino De Laurentiis production |
| The Other Side of Midnight |
Charles Jarrott |
Marie-France Pisier, Susan Sarandon, John Beck, Clu Gulager |
Drama |
from Sidney Sheldon novel |
| Outlaw Blues |
Richard T. Heffron |
Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford |
Drama |
|
| The People That Time Forgot |
Kevin Connor |
Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas |
Science fiction |
|
| Pete's Dragon |
Don Chaffey |
Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Shelley Winters |
Animated |
Walt Disney |
| A Piece of the Action |
Sidney Poitier |
Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones |
Comedy |
3rd Cosby-Poitier pairing |
| Portrait of a Hitman |
Allan A. Buckhantz |
Rod Steiger, Jack Palance, Bo Svenson |
Crime |
|
| Pumping Iron |
George Butler |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno |
Documentary |
Mr. Olympia contest |
| Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown |
Phil Roman |
|
Animation |
|
| Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure |
Richard Williams |
|
Animation |
|
| Raid on Entebbe |
Irvin Kershner |
Peter Finch, Martin Balsam, Yaphet Kotto, Charles Bronson |
Drama |
made for TV |
| The Rescuers |
John Lounsbery |
Voices of Eva Gabor, Bob Newhart, Geraldine Page |
Animated |
Walt Disney |
| Rollercoaster |
James Goldstone |
George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda |
Thriller |
Universal |
| Rolling Thunder |
John Flynn |
William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, James Best |
Drama |
American International |
| Roots |
Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, Gilbert Moses |
LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson, Georg Stanford Brown, Richard Roundtree, O. J. Simpson |
Drama |
from the book by Alex Haley; 36 Emmy nominations |
| Roseland |
James Ivory |
Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Walken |
Romance |
3 stories |
| Ruby |
Curtis Harrington |
Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman |
Horror |
|
| Run for the Roses |
Henry Levin |
Vera Miles, Stuart Whitman, Lisa Eilbacher |
Drama |
horse-racing saga |
| Satan's Cheerleaders |
Greydon Clark |
Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland |
Comedy |
|
| Saturday Night Fever |
John Badham |
John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow |
Drama |
4 Golden Globe nominations |
| Scott Joplin |
Jeremy Kagan |
Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery |
Biopic |
|
| Semi-Tough |
Michael Ritchie |
Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston |
Comedy |
from Dan Jenkins novel |
| The Sentinel |
Michael Winner |
Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner |
Horror |
from Jeffrey Konvitz novel |
| September 30, 1955 |
James Bridges |
Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrell |
Drama |
|
| The Serpent's Egg |
Ingmar Bergman |
Liv Ullmann, David Carradine |
Drama |
Bergman's only Hollywood film |
| Short Eyes |
Robert M. Young |
Bruce Davison, Jose Perez |
Crime drama |
|
| Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger |
Sam Wanamaker |
Jane Seymour, Patrick Wayne |
Action |
|
| Slap Shot |
George Roy Hill |
Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse |
Comedy |
Universal |
| Smokey and the Bandit |
Hal Needham |
Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Jerry Reed |
Comedy |
2nd to Star Wars at box office |
| Sorcerer |
William Friedkin |
Roy Scheider, Francisco Rabal, Bruno Cremer |
Thriller |
The Wages of Fear remake |
| Speedtrap |
Earl Bellamy |
Joe Don Baker, Tyne Daly, Richard Jaeckel |
Action |
|
| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope aka Star Wars |
George Lucas |
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness |
Science fiction |
first Star Wars film released; won 6 Academy Awards |