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- DirectorBud YorkinStarsGene WilderDonald SutherlandHugh GriffithTwo mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsRobert De NiroAllen GarfieldLara ParkerA Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsJack LemmonSandy DennisSandy BaronAn Ohio sales executive accepts a higher position within the company and travels to New York City with his wife for his job interview but things go wrong from the start.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsAlan ArkinMartin BalsamRichard BenjaminA man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsRobert MorseStefanie PowersPhil SilversNewly assigned to duty in the coast guard at Newport Beach, a young ensign finds himself involved in romantic complications, as well as with jewel thieves, whose antics contribute to moments of hysteria and hilarity.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisJan MurrayJohn WoodBrendan Byers III is a wealthy playboy who wants to serve his country as a soldier, but he has been classified as 4-F (registrant not acceptable for military service). He recruits volunteers from among his employees for a privately funded mission in the Italian front of the war. Byers impersonates the German general Eric Kesselring, with a plan to order German troops to retreat and give way to advancing Allied forces. Unfortunately for Byers, the impersonation comes with complications. He has to deal with the real general's Italian mistress, while the German authorities are investigating Kesselring's involvement in the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsDustin HoffmanFaye DunawayChief Dan GeorgeJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenLouise LasserCarlos MontalbánWhen a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsBarbra StreisandRyan O'NealMadeline KahnThe accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsKurt RussellCesar RomeroJoe FlynnA chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsDean JonesNancy OlsonHarry MorganWhen John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves west to run it--only to find his "estate" in a state of total dilapidation.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsFred MacMurrayCloris LeachmanHarry MorganCharley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsRichard DreyfussRon HowardPaul Le MatA group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.
- DirectorBruce GellerStarsJames CoburnMichael SarrazinTrish Van DevereA would-be criminal is taken in by a professional in the game, who teaches him how pickpockets work in teams.
- DirectorOscar WilliamsStarsGodfrey CambridgeClarice TaylorLeonard JacksonIn contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsJack NicholsonRandy QuaidOtis YoungTwo Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsBob CraneKurt RussellBarbara RushA father tries to help his daughter meet better friends, only to find his meddling backfires after he finds out that his daughter's friends are the best thing for her.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsCleavon LittleGene WilderSlim PickensIn order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsKurt RussellJoe FlynnEve ArdenDexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength
- DirectorTerry GilliamTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric IdleKing Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsBill BixbySusan ClarkDon KnottsThree orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsPeter UstinovHelen HayesDerek NimmoA suspected Western spy steals a secret microfilm from China and hides it in the skeleton of a museum dinosaur, prompting a frantic search for it by various interested parties.
- DirectorJim SharmanStarsTim CurrySusan SarandonBarry BostwickA newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
- DirectorSidney PoitierStarsSidney PoitierBill CosbyCalvin LockhartTwo Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsDavid NivenDarren McGavinDon KnottsDuring school-break, two kids are to stay with their rich Grandpa but they would rather join their mother overseas, so, in need of plane-ticket cash, they convince two petty-criminals to fake-kidnap them for a ransom they could all share.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksMarty FeldmanDom DeLuiseA film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
- DirectorRobert MooreStarsPeter FalkAlec GuinnessPeter SellersFive famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsJoseph BolognaStockard ChanningJohn BeckA nuclear powered bus driving cross-country, from New York City to Colorado, is destined for disaster due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsEdward AsnerDon KnottsGary GrimesThe inept 'California Atoms,' floundering in the cellar of the National Football League, welcome the team's newest member - a mule capable of place kicking a football 100 yards with deadly accuracy.
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsRyan O'NealBurt ReynoldsTatum O'NealBuck and lawyer Leo accidentally get into movie production in the early days (1910).
- DirectorRon HowardStarsRon HowardNancy MorganElizabeth RogersA rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsEvan C. KimBong Soo HanBill BixbyThe daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.
- DirectorCarl ReinerStarsJohn DenverGeorge BurnsTeri GarrWhen God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsRichard PryorLonette McKeeMargaret AveryOrange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his wife Annie Mae and his sexually-obsessed father Rufus.
- DirectorGene WilderStarsGene WilderCarol KaneDom DeLuiseA neurotic baker travels to Hollywood to attend a talent search for an actor to rival the great Valentino. Although not an actor, through blind luck he succeeds, to a certain degree.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksMadeline KahnCloris LeachmanA psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
- DirectorJoan RiversStarsBilly CrystalAlex RoccoJoan PratherLionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
- DirectorBurt ReynoldsStarsBurt ReynoldsSally FieldDom DeLuiseSlapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsKen BerrySandy DuncanHarry MorganThree scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
- DirectorLou AdlerTommy ChongStarsCheech MarinTommy ChongStrother MartinTwo stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.
- DirectorBruce BilsonStarsEdward HerrmannBarbara HarrisSusan ClarkA new preacher in town joins forces with an unlikely group of crimefighters: six dedicated church ladies who are ready, but not necessarily equipped--to help.