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1. Saturday Night Live (1975– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Music
A famous guest host stars in parodies and sketches created by the cast of this witty show.
Stars: The Saturday Night Live Band, Don Pardo, Darrell Hammond, Kenan Thompson
Votes: 52,771
2. Ordinary People (1980)
R | 124 min | Drama
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton
Votes: 56,720 | Gross: $54.80M
3. Talking Film (1978–1984)
Documentary series on the golden age of Hollywood including interviews with Lee Garmes, Robert Altman, Henry King, George Cukor, King Vidor, Henry Hathaway, Phillip Dunne, Nunnally Johnson and Frank Capra.
Stars: Elwy Yost, Roger Corman, John Milius, Henry King
Votes: 29
4. Straight Time (1978)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
The difficulties of a career burglar to reinsert himself after being released on parole.
Directors: Ulu Grosbard, Dustin Hoffman | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton
Votes: 10,171 | Gross: $9.90M
5. Slap Shot (1977)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren
Votes: 41,267 | Gross: $28.00M
6. Coming Home (1978)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford
Votes: 14,814 | Gross: $32.65M
7. North Dallas Forty (1979)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family are bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Nick Nolte, Charles Durning, Mac Davis, Dayle Haddon
Votes: 5,995 | Gross: $26.08M
8. Let It Ride (1989)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Action
A nosy cab driver gets a hot tip on a race horse and wins big, but he can't seem to stop gambling. Will he go broke or walk home with a pretty penny?
Director: Joe Pytka | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, David Johansen, Jennifer Tilly
Votes: 6,884 | Gross: $4.97M
9. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.
Director: Lou Adler | Stars: Peter Donat, Diane Lane, Marin Kanter, Laura Dern
Votes: 3,050
10. White Nights (1985)
PG-13 | 136 min | Drama, Music
A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren
Votes: 8,225 | Gross: $42.16M
11. Cloak & Dagger (1984)
PG | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra
Votes: 8,379 | Gross: $9.72M
12. Making of 'Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains' (2004 TV Short)
12 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary look at the 'making of' and cult success of the troubled Lou Adler directed film "Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains" starring Diane Lane.
Director: Sarah Jacobson | Stars: Diane Lane, Laura Dern, Ray Winstone, Paul Cook
Votes: 50
13. Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary (1971)
80 min | Documentary
Documentary about former Black Panther.
Director: Yolande DuLuart | Stars: Angela Davis, Jane Fonda, George Jackson
Votes: 25
14. FTA (1972)
R | 103 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
Available for the first time since it mysteriously disappeared in 1972 after only one week in theaters, this raucous film is a riveting slice of the Vietnam anti-war movement.
Director: Francine Parker | Stars: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Pamela Donegan, Len Chandler
Votes: 474
15.
Saturday Night Live (1975– )
Episode:
Elliott Gould/Kid Creole & the Coconuts
(1980)
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Music
The host for the episode is Elliott Gould (his sixth appearance), and the musical guest is Kid Creole & The Coconuts. The skits for this episode are as follows: Elliott Gould wakes up in ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Wilson, Jonathan Demme, Randal Kleiser, Walter Williams | Stars: Elliott Gould, Denny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthius
Votes: 107
16. Swing Shift (1984)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance, War
A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward
Votes: 5,408 | Gross: $6.65M
17. Love (1982)
105 min | Drama
A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.
Directors: Annette Cohen, Nancy Dowd, Liv Ullmann, Mai Zetterling | Stars: Maureen Fitzgerald, Gordon Thomson, Joni Mitchell, Winston Rekert
Votes: 42
18. Split Screen (1997–2000)
Reality-TV, Talk-Show
Split Screen is an irreverent, sly, magazine format show which looks at the tremendous diversity within the world of independent filmmaking in the United States. Created, written and hosted... See full summary »
Stars: John Pierson, Brian Flemming, Kevin Smith, Keythe Farley
Votes: 66
19.
Saturday Night Live (1975– )
Episode:
Malcolm McDowell/Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
(1980)
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Music
The host for the episode is Malcolm McDowell, and the musical guest is Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band. The skits for this episode are as follows: mother nags at her son to sit up ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Wilson, Ken Friedman | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Denny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthius
Votes: 99
20. 90 Minutes Live (1976– )
90 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Peter Gzowski, John Harvard, Danny Finkleman, John Kastner
Votes: 21
21. Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002 Video)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Sport
25 years after the events of the first film, the Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in Pennsylvania.
Director: Steve Boyum | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Jessica Steen, Gary Busey, David Hemmings
Votes: 2,691
22. Slap Shot 3: The Junior League (2008 Video)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Sport
The Hanson Brothers are back, and who better to whip a ragtag youth team into shape for the upcoming championships than the most unpredictable trio ever to strap on skates?
Director: Richard Martin | Stars: Greyston Holt, Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson, David Hanson
Votes: 1,069
23.
Talking Film (1978–1984)
Episode:
Writing techniques
(1984)
Director: Bruce Pittman | Stars: Elwy Yost, Nancy Dowd, Harriet Frank Jr., Joan Tewkesbury
24.
Split Screen (1997–2000)
Episode:
Civil War Redux
(1999)
Reality-TV, Talk-Show
Stars: Lou Adler, Paul Cook, Nancy Dowd, Steve Jones
25.
90 Minutes Live (1976– )
Episode:
Episode dated 21 March 1977
(1977)
Talk-Show
Stars: Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Beatles, Blossom Dearie, Nancy Dowd