1975 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1975

Notable Films Released in 1975

U.S.A. unless stated

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• 92 in the Shade, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Elizabeth Ashley, Margot Kidder

A

• Aaron Loves Angela, directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., starring Moses Gunn
• Adoption (Örökbefogadás), winner of Golden Bear - (Hungary)
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• The Adventures of the Wilderness Family, starring Robert Logan
• Afonya - (U.S.S.R.)
• Aloha, Bobby and Rose, starring Paul LeMat
• Apoorva Raagangal (Rare Melodies) - (India)
• Attilas '74, documentary - (Cyprus)
• The Apple Dumpling Gang, starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway
• At Long Last Love, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd
• Autobiography of a Princess, directed by James Ivory, starring James Mason and Madhur Jaffrey - (U.K.)

B

• Barry Lyndon, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• Bim - (Trinidad)
• Bite the Bullet, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson
• The Black Bird, starring George Segal
• Il Bestione (The Beast), starring Giancarlo Giannini - (France/Italy)
• A Boy and His Dog, starring Don Johnson
• Breakheart Pass, starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna
• Breakout, starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, a documentary film about the Great Depression - (U.K.)
• Bugs Bunny Superstar

C

• Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des Années de Braise) - (Algeria)
• Chupke Chupke (Hush Hush), starring Dharmendra - (India)
• The Claws of Light (Maynila... sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag) - (Philippines)
• Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, starring Tamara Dobson and Stella Stevens
• Cooley High, starring Glynn Turman
• Coonskin, an animated film by Ralph Bakshi
• Conduct Unbecoming, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
• Crazy Mama, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Cloris Leachman, Ann Sothern, Linda Purl
• The Cycle (Dayereh-ye Mina) - (Iran)

D

• The Day of the Locust, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Donald Sutherland, William Atherton, Karen Black
• Death Race 2000, directed by Paul Bartel, starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone
• Deep Red, directed by Dario Argento, starring David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi - (Italy)
• Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa - (U.S.S.R./Japan)
• Deewaar (The Wall), starring Shashi Kapoor - (India)
• Dialogues of Exiles (Diálogos de exiliados) - (Chile)
• Diamonds, starring Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey
• Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, starring Ron Ely
• Dog Day Afternoon, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Charles Durning
• The Drowning Pool, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Melanie Griffith

E

• The Eiger Sanction, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with George Kennedy and Jack Cassidy
• The Empress Dowager (Qing guo qing cheng), starring Lisa Lu - (Hong Kong)
• End of the Game, starring Maximilian Schell, Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw
• Escape to Witch Mountain, starring Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence

F

• Fantozzi (a.k.a. White Collar Blues) - (Italy)
• Farewell, My Lovely, starring Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles, John Ireland
• Flame, starring Slade - (U.K.)
• The Flower in His Mouth (Gente di rispetto), starring Jennifer O'Neill and Franco Nero - (Italy)
• The Fortune, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing
• Fox (Faustrecht der Freiheit), directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
• Framed, directed by Phil Karlson, starring Joe Don Baker
• French Connection II, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Leotard
• Funny Lady, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif
• Furtivos (Poachers) - (Spain)

G

• Galileo, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Topol, Edward Fox, John Gielgud - (U.K.)
• The Giant Spider Invasion, starring Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, Alan Hale, Jr.
• Give 'em Hell, Harry!, a biopic of Harry S. Truman starring James Whitmore
• God's Gun, starring Lee Van Cleef and Jack Palance - (Italy/Israel)
• Graveyard of Honor (Jingi no hakaba) - (Japan)
• Great, animated short - (U.K.)
• The Great Waldo Pepper, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Susan Sarandon
• Grey Gardens, a documentary film

H

• Hababam sinifi (Outrageous Class) - (Turkey)
• Hagiga B'Snuker (Party at the Snooker) - (Israel)
• Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (Anderusen Dōwa Ningyo hime) - (Japan)
• The Happy Hooker, starring Lynn Redgrave and Jean-Pierre Aumont
• Hard Times, directed by Walter Hill, starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn
• Hearts of the West, starring Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, Andy Griffith
• Hedda, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Peter Eyre and Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
• Hedgehog in the Fog (Yozhik v tumane) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Hello, I'm Your Aunt! (Zdravstvuyte, ya vasha tyotya!) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Hennessy, starring Rod Steiger and Lee Remick
• Hester Street, starring Carol Kane
• The Hiding Place, starring Julie Harris
• The Hindenburg, directed by Robert Wise, starring George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Gig Young
• The 'Human' Factor, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring George Kennedy, John Mills, Rita Tushingham
• Hustle, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson

I

• In Celebration, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Alan Bates and Brian Cox - (U.K.)
• Inserts, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins - (U.K.)
• The Irony of Fate (Ironiya sudby, ili S lyogkim parom!) - (U.S.S.R.)

J

• Jacob the Liar (Jakob, der Lügner) - (East Germany/Czechoslovakia)
• Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, starring Delphine Seyrig - (France/Belgium)
• Journey into Fear, starring Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux - (Canada)

K

• Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, documentary by Shōhei Imamura - (Japan)
• Kaddu Beykat (a.k.a. Letter from My Village) - (Senegal)
• Keetje Tippel (Katie Tippel), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Monique van de Ven and Rutger Hauer - (Netherlands)

L

• L'important c'est d'aimer (That Most Important Thing: Love), starring Romy Schneider - (France)
• The Land That Time Forgot, starring Doug McClure - (U.K.)
• Legend of the Lawman (a.k.a. Walking Tall Part 2), starring Bo Svenson
• Legend of the Werewolf, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
• Let Joy Reign Supreme (Que la Fete Commence), directed by Bertrand Tavernier - (France)
• Let's Do It Again, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier with Bill Cosby
• Lies My Father Told Me, directed by Jan Kadar - (Canada)
• The Lion Roars Again, documentary short
• Lisztomania, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas - (U.K.)
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta - (West Germany)
• Love and Death, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton
• Lucky Lady, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds

M

• The Magic Flute (Trollflöjten), a film version of the Mozart opera directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• Mahogany, directed by Berry Gordy, starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont
• La Maldicion de la Bestia (Horror of the Werewolf), starring Paul Naschy - (Spain)
• The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Maximilian Schell and Lois Nettleton
• The Man Who Would Be King, directed by John Huston, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Mandingo, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton, Perry King
• Milestones
• The Mirror (Zerkalo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
• Mitchell, starring Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, Martin Balsam, Merlin Olsen
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail, directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Gilliam and Jones - (U.K.)
• Moonrunners, starring James Mitchum
• Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
• Mr. Ricco, starring Dean Martin
• My Friends (Amici miei), directed by Mario Monicelli - (Italy)

N

• Nashville, directed by Robert Altman, starring Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black, Michael Murphy, Barbara Harris, Ned Beatty
• Night Moves, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren
• Nights and Days (Noce i dnie) - (Poland)
• Numéro deux (aka Number Two) directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• The Noah, starring Robert Strauss

O

• The Old Gun (Le vieux fusil), starring Philippe Noiret and Romy Schneider - (France)
• Once Is Not Enough, starring Kirk Douglas, David Janssen, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin, George Hamilton
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, directed by Milos Forman, starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito
• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, starring Peter Ustinov and Helen Hayes - (U.S.A./U.K.)
• Operation Daybreak, starring Timothy Bottoms, Anthony Andrews, Martin Shaw - (U.S./Czechoslovakia)
• Osadeni Dushi (Doomed Souls) - (Bulgaria)
• The Other Side of the Mountain, starring Marilyn Hassett and Beau Bridges
• Overlord, directed by Stuart Cooper - (U.K.)

P

• The Passenger, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff - (Italy/France)
• Peeper, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Michael Caine
• Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir, starring Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse - (Australia)
• Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (Flåklypa Grand Prix) - (Norway)
• Posse, directed by and starring Kirk Douglas
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft
• The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana), directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)

Q

• Queen of the Gypsies (Tabor ukhodit v nebo) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, starring Maureen Stapleton and Charles Durning

R

• Race with the Devil, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker
• Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, starring Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips
• Rancho Deluxe, starring Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens
• The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill
• The Return of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom - (U.K.)
• The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (Kaette kita onna hissatsu ken) - (Japan)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show, directed by Jim Sharman, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien, Barry Bostwick - (U.S./U.K.)
• Rollerball, directed by Norman Jewison, starring James Caan, John Houseman, John Beck, Maud Adams
• The Romantic Englishwoman, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger - (U.K.)
• Rooster Cogburn, starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn
• Royal Flash, directed by Richard Lester, starring Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates - (U.K.)

S

• Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy/France)
• Le Sauvage (a.k.a. Lovers Like Us), starring Catherine Deneuve and Yves Montand - (France)
• The Sensuous Nurse (L'Infermiera), starring Ursula Andress, Luciana Paluzzi, Jack Palance - (Italy)
• Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), directed by Lina Wertmüller - (Italy)
• Shampoo, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher
• Shamus, starring Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon
• Shivers (a.k.a. They Came from Within) - (Canada)
• Sholay, the highest grossing Bollywood film of all time - (India)
• Smile, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon
• Special Section (Section spéciale), directed by Costa Gavras - (France)
• The Stepford Wives, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Tina Louise
• The Story of Adele H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.), directed by François Truffaut, starring Isabelle Adjani and Bruce Robinson - (France)
• The Strongest Man in the World, starring Kurt Russell
• Sunday Too Far Away, starring Jack Thompson - (Australia)
• The Sunshine Boys, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
• Supervixens, cult adult film directed by Russ Meyer
• Switchblade Sisters (a.k.a. The Jezebels), directed by Jack Hill

T

• Terror of Mechagodzilla (Mekagojira no gyakushu), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• They Fought for Their Country (Они сражались за Родину), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)
• Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
• Tommy, directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Jack Nicholson, Roger Daltrey - (U.K.)
• The Travelling Players (Ο Θίασος; O Thiassos), directed by Theo Angelopoulos - (Greece)

U

• The Ultimate Warrior, starring Yul Brynner

V

• Villa Zone (Vilna Zona), directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Katya Paskaleva, Naum Shopov - (Bulgaria)

W

• W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Burt Reynolds and Art Carney
• White Line Fever, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz
• The Wilby Conspiracy, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine - (U.K.)
• The Wild Party, directed by James Ivory, starring Raquel Welch, James Coco, Perry King
• The Wind and the Lion, directed by John Milius, starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen
• A Woman's Decision (Bilans kwartalny) - (Poland)
• The Wrong Move, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Rudiger Vogler and Hanna Schygulla - (West Germany)

XYZ

• Zaklęte rewiry (a.k.a. Hotel Pacific) - (Poland)
• Xala, directed by Ousmane Sembène - (Senegal)
• The Yakuza, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura - (U.S./Japan)