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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre/Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Harrowhouse | Aram Avakian | Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason | Comedy | |
| 99 and 44/100% Dead | John Frankenheimer | Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors | Crime | |
| Abby | William Girdler | Carol Speed, Juanita Moore | Horror | |
| Airport 1975 | Jack Smight | Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Gloria Swanson, George Kennedy, Susan Clark, Linda Blair, Myrna Loy, | Disaster film | |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Martin Scorsese | Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd | Drama | |
| The Arena | Steve Carver | Pam Grier, Margaret Markov | Action | |
| Bank Shot | Gower Champion | George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy | Crime, Comedy | |
| Benji | Joe Camp | Patsy Garrett | Family | |
| Beyond the Door | Ovidio G. Assonitis | Juliet Mills | Horror | |
| Big Bad Mama | Steve Carver | Angie Dickinson, William Shatner | Action | |
| Black Belt Jones | Robert Clouse | Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry | Action | |
| The Black Godfather | John Evans | Rod Perry | Crime drama | |
| Black Samson | Charles Bail | Carol Speed | Action | |
| Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks | Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras | Comedy, Western | |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young | Thriller | |
| Caged Heat | Jonathan Demme | Erica Gavin, Juanita Brown | Action | |
| California Split | Robert Altman | Elliott Gould, George Segal | Comedy, Drama | |
| The Castaway Cowboy | Vincent McEveety | James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp | Family | |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston | Mystery | |
| Claudine | John Berry | Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones | Drama | |
| Cockfighter | Monte Hellman | Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton | Drama | |
| Conrack | Martin Ritt | Jon Voight, Paul Winfield | Drama | |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, Teri Garr | Mystery | |
| The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder | Arthur Hiller | Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Hershey, George Marshall | Comedy Drama | |
| Daisy Miller | Peter Bogdanovich | Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman | Drama | |
| Dark Star | John Carpenter | Dan O'Bannon, Brian Narelle | Sci-Fi Comedy | |
| Death Wish | Michael Winner | Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, Hope Lange | Thriller | |
| Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry | John Hough | Susan George, Peter Fonda, Vic Morrow | Action | |
| The Dove | Charles Jarrott | Joseph Bottoms, Dabney Coleman | Drama | |
| Down and Dirty Duck | Charles Swenson | Voices of Robert Ridgely | Animation | |
| Earthquake | Mark Robson | Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Richard Roundtree, George Kennedy, Geneviève Bujold, Lorne Greene, Victoria Principal | Disaster film | |
| Exploratorium | Jon Boorstin | Documentary | ||
| F for Fake | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten | Documentary | |
| Female Trouble | John Waters | Divine | Comedy | |
| Flesh Gordon | Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm | Jason Williams, Candy Samples | Comedy, Adult | |
| For Pete's Sake | Peter Yates | Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin | Comedy | |
| Foxy Brown | Jack Hill | Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas | Crime | |
| Freebie and the Bean | Richard Rush | Alan Arkin, James Caan | Crime, Comedy | |
| The Front Page | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Carol Burnett | Comedy | |
| The Gambler | Karel Reisz | James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Paul Sorvino | Drama | |
| 'Gator Bait | Beverly Sebastion | Claudia Jennings | Thriller | |
| Ginger in the Morning | Gordon Wiles | Fred Ward, Sissy Spacek, Monte Markham | Romance | |
| The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Lee Strasberg, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Bruno Kirby, Michael V. Gazzo, G.D. Spradlin, Morgana King, Richard Bright | Crime drama | |
| Gone in 60 Seconds | H. B. Halicki | H. B. Halicki, Ronald Halicki | Action | |
| The Great Gatsby | Jack Clayton | Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern | Drama | |
| The Groove Tube | Ken Shapiro | Chevy Chase, Richard Belzer | Comedy | |
| Harry and Tonto | Paul Mazursky | Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Larry Hagman | Comedy, Drama | |
| Herbie Rides Again | Robert Stevenson | Helen Hayes, Ken Berry | Family | |
| The House on Skull Mountain | Ron Honthaner | Victor French | Horror | |
| Huckleberry Finn | J. Lee Thompson | Paul Winfield, Harvey Korman | Musical | |
| Invasion from Inner Earth | Bill Rebane | Nick Holt | Science fiction | |
| The Island at the Top of the World | Robert Stevenson | David Hartman, Mako | Adventure | |
| It's Alive | Larry Cohen | John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell | Horror | |
| Journey Back to Oz | Hal Sutherland | Milton Berle, Herschel Bernardi, Margaret Hamilton | Animation | |
| The Klansman | Terence Young | Lee Marvin, Richard Burton | Drama | |
| Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones | Rollin Binzer | The Rolling Stones | Documentary | |
| Lenny | Bob Fosse | Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine | Biopic | |
| The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | Richard Friedenberg | Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle | Adventure | |
| The Longest Yard | Robert Aldrich | Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter | Comedy | |
| The Lords of Flatbush | Martin Davidson, Stephen F. Verona | Henry Winkler, Sylvester Stallone | Drama | |
| Lovin' Molly | Sidney Lumet | Blythe Danner, Anthony Perkins | Drama | |
| Macon County Line | Richard Compton | Jesse Vint, Alan Vint | Drama | |
| Mame | Gene Saks | Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, Robert Preston | Musical | |
| McQ | John Sturges | John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Al Lettieri | Crime drama | |
| The Missiles of October | Anthony Page | William Devane, Martin Sheen, Ralph Bellamy | Drama, Biopic | |
| Mixed Company | Melville Shavelson | Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna | Comedy | |
| Mr. Majestyk | Richard Fleischer | Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal | Action | |
| The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat | Robert Taylor | Skip Hinnant | Adult Animation | |
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn | Thriller | |
| Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma | Paul Williams, Jessica Harper | Musical | |
| Phase IV | Saul Bass | Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport | Science fiction | |
| Report to the Commissioner | Milton Katselas | Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely | Crime | |
| S*P*Y*S | Irvin Kershner | Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou | Comedy | |
| Seizure | Oliver Stone | Jonathan Frid, Herve Villechaize | Horror | |
| Space Is the Place | John Coney | Sun Ra | Science fiction | |
| Sugar Hill | Paul Maslansky | Robert Quarry, Richard Lawson | Horror | |
| The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Ben Johnson | Crime drama | |
| The Super Cops | Gordon Parks | Ron Leibman, David Selby | Crime drama | |
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Jerry Stiller | Crime drama | |
| The Tamarind Seed | Blake Edwards | Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle | Drama | |
| The Terminal Man | Mike Hodges | George Segal, Joan Hackett | Sci-Fi | |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe Hooper | Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns | Horror | |
| That's Entertainment! | Jack Haley, Jr. | Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Liza Minnelli, James Stewart, Bing Crosby | Documentary, Musical | |
| Thieves Like Us | Robert Altman | Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall | Drama | |
| Thomasine & Bushrod | Gordon Parks, Jr. | Max Julien, Vonetta McGee | Western | |
| Three the Hard Way | Gordon Parks, Jr. | Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Jim Brown | Action | |
| Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Michael Cimino | Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy | Crime drama | |
| The Towering Inferno | John Guillermin, Irwin Allen | Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, Richard Chamberlain, O.J. Simpson, Robert Wagner, Robert Vaughn | Disaster film | |
| The Trial of Billy Jack | Tom Laughlin | Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor | Drama | |
| Truck Turner | Jonathan Kaplan | Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto | Action | |
| UFO: Target Earth | Michael A. DeGaetano | Nick Plakias, Cynthia Cline | Sci-Fi | |
| The Ultimate Thrill | Robert Butler | Barry Brown, Britt Ekland | Thriller | |
| Uptown Saturday Night | Sidney Poitier | Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor | Comedy | |
| A Very Natural Thing | Christopher Larkin | Robert McLane | Drama | |
| W | Richard Quine | Twiggy, John Vernon, Dirk Benedict | Mystery | |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | William A. Graham | Jan Smithers, Harry Dean Stanton | Family | |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Norman Tokar | James Whitmore | Family | |
| Willie Dynamite | Gilbert Moses | Roscoe Orman, Eddie Rivers | Crime | |
| A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands | Drama | |
| The Wrestler | James A. Westman | Ed Asner | Action | |
| Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks | Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Gene Hackman, Kenneth Mars | Comedy |
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