Year
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Description
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Movie
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1979
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Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.
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Kramer vs. Kramer
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1979
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Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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All That Jazz
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1979
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A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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Apocalypse Now
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1979
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An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
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The Deer Hunter
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1979
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After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
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Alien
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1977
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Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
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Annie Hall
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1977
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Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
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1976
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A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
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Rocky
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1976
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A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute.
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Taxi Driver
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1975
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A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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1975
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When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
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Jaws
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1975
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King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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1974
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A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
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Chinatown
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1973
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A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
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American Graffiti
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1973
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Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
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The Sting
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1972
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The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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The Godfather
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1971
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A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
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The French Connection
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1971
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In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
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A Clockwork Orange
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1971
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In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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Fiddler on the Roof
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1970
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The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
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Patton
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