Grey Gardens (1975)

Grey Gardens (1975)

[8] Documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) bring us inside the isolated world of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' eccentric aunt and first cousin, 'Big' Edie and 'Little' Edie Beale. The women, 79 and 57 respectively, live in squalor at…
Watership Down (1978)

Watership Down (1978)

[7] Martin Rosen brings to life Richard Adams' novel about a group of rabbits who leave their burrows and face a series of deadly hardships in search of a new home. Watership Down is one of the more serious animated…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

[7] After the success of Star Wars two years earlier, Paramount was quick to launch their own cinematic foray into outer space with the first Star Trek feature film. Star Trek: The Motion Picture reunites the crew from the TV…
Class of ’44 (1973)

Class of ’44 (1973)

[5] Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser reprise their roles from the emotionally charged Summer of '42 in this lackluster, somewhat pointless follow-up. Whereas Summer of '42 was very much about a young man's sexual awakening with an older woman, Class…
Zardoz (1974)

Zardoz (1974)

[7] If you can get past the ghastly sight of swarthy Sean Connery running around in a red diaper for two hours, you might enjoy this heady sci-fi flick from writer/director John Boorman (Excalibur, Deliverance). It's the year 2293 and…
Mame (1974)

Mame (1974)

[4] Patrick Dennis' 1955 best-selling novel Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade was first adapted into a stage play, then a film starring Rosalind Russell, and then a stage musical, and then into Mame, a film musical starring Lucille Ball. All…
The China Syndrome (1978)

The China Syndrome (1978)

[8] Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas play a news reporter and cameraman who try to report on a near-disaster at a nuclear power plant where safety measures aren't being met. While the plant's owners and the TV station hold them…
Nightmare Honeymoon (1974)

Nightmare Honeymoon (1974)

[6] Dack Rambo and Rebecca Dianna Smith star as a young couple who playfully escape their wedding party and retreat to a hotel in the Louisiana bayou where they accidentally witness a murder and become the killers' next targets. After…
McQ (1974)

McQ (1974)

[5] John Wayne gave up the lead in 1971's Dirty Harry and came to regret it. McQ is his attempt to get in on the vigilante cop craze, playing a cop who starts out investigating the murder of a friend…
Big Jake (1971)

Big Jake (1971)

[6] John Wayne stars as a crotchety loner cowboy who goes in search of the gang who kidnapped his grandson. Big Jake is not a serious western. It's more of a nostalgic love letter to old big-studio westerns. Sometimes that…