Moonraker (1979)
[5] Heavily influenced by the success of Star Wars a few years prior, James Bond (Roger Moore) blasts into outer space to foil a bad guy's scheme to eradicate all human life on Earth. While Moonraker made a lot of…
Mad Max (1979)
[8] Mel Gibson achieved global recognition with this Australian action-thriller set in the near dystopian future from writer/director George Miller (The Witches of Eastwick, Babe). Gibson plays Max Rockatansky, a policeman who inadvertently starts war with a violent motorcycle gang…
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
[6] James Bond (Roger Moore) is paired with a Russian agent (Barbara Bach) to stop a mad man (Curd Jurgens) from firing stolen nuclear missiles across the world. Along the way, the two agents fall in love. But when Bach's…
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
[6] The stakes are lower than usual and the action in short supply, but Roger Moore's second outing as James Bond makes up for it in character. This time around, Bond has been targeted by a mysterious, reclusive assassin named…
The Omega Man (1971)
[7] Charlton Heston stars as the last uninfected man on Earth in the second of three adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. Vincent Price previously starred in 1964's The Last Man on Earth, and Will Smith would later…
Live and Let Die (1973)
[6] Roger Moore makes his debut as James Bond in Live and Let Die, a weird blend of voodoo magic and blaxploitation that stands apart from any other entry in the Bond oeuvre. The script by Tom Mankiewicz has Bond…
Diamonds are Forever (1971)
[6] Sean Connery returns one more time (not counting his appearance in 1983's unofficial entry, Never Say Never Again) in what is easily the silliest of his Bond films. Charles Gray becomes the third actor to play archvillain Blofeld, who…
Inserts (1975)
[6] Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, The Goodbye Girl) stars as 'Boy Wonder', a washed up filmmaker making silent pornos in his secluded mansion in the early 1930s. Inserts is a 'day in the life' film that takes place in real time,…
Islands in the Stream (1977)
[7] George C. Scott stars as a twice-divorced artist living single in the Bahamas right before America is pulled into World War II. He's visited by his three sons who spend the summer with him, and later by his first…
Sorcerer (1977)
[7] I have a theory about why many of William Friedkin's films, including this one, are gaining newfound appreciation decades after their initial releases. I think it might be because Friedkin likes deeply flawed characters -- unlikable characters that we…