List of American films of 1975
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A list of American films released in 1975.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The highest-grossing film of 1975 was Jaws.
A–B[]
Title | Director | Cast | Genre/Note | |
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92 in the Shade | Thomas McGuane | Peter Fonda, Margot Kidder, Warren Oates, Elizabeth Ashley | Drama | United Artists. From novel by McGuane |
Aaron Loves Angela | Gordon Parks Jr. | Moses Gunn, Irene Cara, Kevin Hooks | Drama | Columbia |
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother | Gene Wilder | Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Leo McKern, Dom DeLuise | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family | Stewart Raffill | Robert Logan, Susan Damante-Shaw, George Buck Flower | Family | Independent |
Against a Crooked Sky | Earl Bellamy | Richard Boone, Henry Wilcoxon, Clint Ritchie | Western | Independent |
Aloha, Bobby and Rose | Floyd Mutrux | Paul Le Mat, Tim McIntire, Leigh French | Drama | Columbia |
The Apple Dumpling Gang | Norman Tokar | Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Harry Morgan | Family, Comedy | Disney |
At Long Last Love | Peter Bogdanovich | Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, Eileen Brennan, John Hillerman | Musical comedy | 20th Century Fox |
Best Friends | Noel Nosseck | Richard Hatch, Susanne Benton | Drama | Crown International Pictures |
Bite the Bullet | Richard Brooks | Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ian Bannen, Dabney Coleman | Western | Columbia |
The Black Bird | David Giler | George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Elisha Cook Jr. | Comedy | Columbia |
Black Fist | Richard Kaye | Richard Lawson, Dabney Coleman, Philip Michael Thomas | Action | Independent |
Blazing Stewardesses | Al Adamson | Yvonne De Carlo, Regina Carrol, Robert Livingston | Comedy | Independent |
Boss Nigger | Jack Arnold | Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin | Western | Dimension |
A Boy and His Dog | L. Q. Jones | Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Jason Robards | Science fiction | Independent. Harlan Ellison story |
Breakheart Pass | Tom Gries | Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Jill Ireland, Richard Crenna, Charles Durning | Western | United Artists. Alistair MacLean story |
Breakout | Tom Gries | Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, John Huston | Action | Columbia |
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Philippe Mora | W. C. Fields, Clark Gable, Herbert Hoover | Documentary | |
Bucktown | Arthur Marks | Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala | Action | AIP |
Bug | Jeannot Szwarc | Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland | Horror | Paramount |
Bugs Bunny: Superstar | Larry Jackson | Orson Welles | Animation | Anthology |
C–G[]
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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The Candy Tangerine Man | Matt Cimber | John Daniels, George Buck Flower, Eli Haines | Action | Independent. Blaxploitation film |
Capone | Steve Carver | Ben Gazzara, Susan Blakely, John Cassavetes, Sylvester Stallone | Crime drama | 20th Century Fox. Story of Al Capone |
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold | Charles Bail | Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Norman Fell | Action | Warner Bros. Cleopatra Jones sequel |
Cooley High | Michael Schultz | Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Glynn Turman, Garrett Morris | Comedy | AIP |
Coonskin | Ralph Bakshi | Voices of Philip Michael Thomas, Barry White, Scatman Crothers, Charles Gordone | Animated | Independent |
Cornbread, Earl and Me | Joseph Manduke | Laurence Fishburne, Jamaal Wilkes, Moses Gunn | Crime | AIP |
Cover Girl Models | Cirio H. Santiago | Pat Anderson, Lindsay Bloom, Tara Strohmeier | Thriller | New World |
Crazy Mama | Jonathan Demme | Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Donny Most, Linda Purl | Action comedy | New World Pictures |
Darktown Strutters | William Witney | Trina Parks, Shirley Washington, Roger E. Mosley | Action | New World Pictures |
The Day of the Locust | John Schlesinger | Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Burgess Meredith | Drama | Paramount Pictures. |
Deadly Hero | Ivan Nagy | Don Murray, Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones | Crime Thriller | Avco Embassy |
Death Race 2000 | Paul Bartel | David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth | Action | New World Pictures |
The Devil's Rain | Robert Fuest | Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino, William Shatner | Horror | Bryanston Pictures |
Diamonds | Menahem Golan | Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree, Shelley Winters, Barbara Hershey | Crime | Avco Embassy |
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze | Michael Anderson | Ron Ely, Paul Gleason, William Lucking | Adventure | Warner Bros. |
Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick | Crime drama | Warner Bros.; 6 Oscar nominations |
Dolemite | D'Urville Martin | Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Hy Pyke | Crime comedy | Dimension |
The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Melanie Griffith | Mystery | Warner Bros. Sequel to Harper |
Dr. Minx | Hikmet Avedis | Edy Williams, Randy Boone, Marlene Schmidt | Comedy | Independent |
The Eiger Sanction | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy, Vonetta McGee, Gregory Walcott | Thriller | Universal. From novel by Trevanian |
Escape to Witch Mountain | John Hough | Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Eddie Albert | Family | Disney |
Farewell, My Lovely | Dick Richards | Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Harry Dean Stanton | Mystery | Avco Embassy. From Raymond Chandler novel |
Beverly Sebastian | Roger Davis, Joan Shawlee, Richard Kiel | Action | Independent | |
Fore Play | John G. Avildsen | Zero Mostel, Estelle Parsons | Comedy | Troma |
The Fortune | Mike Nichols | Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Stockard Channing | Comedy | Columbia |
The Four Deuces | William H. Bushnell | Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Warren Berlinger | Comedy | Embassy |
Framed | Phil Karlson | Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, John Marley | Crime Drama | Paramount; Remake of 1940 film |
French Connection II | John Frankenheimer | Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Ed Lauter | Crime drama | 20th Century Fox. The French Connection sequel |
Friday Foster | Arthur Marks | Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt | Action | AIP; based on the comic strip |
Friendly Persuasion | Joseph Sargent | Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight | Drama | Made for TV |
Funny Lady | Herbert Ross | Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Roddy McDowall | Musical | Columbia. Funny Girl sequel |
Matt Cimber | Marta Kristen, Anne Seymour, Victoria Carroll | Drama | Independent | |
The Giant Spider Invasion | Bill Rebane | Steve Brodie, Alan Hale Jr., Leslie Parrish | Sci-fi | Independent |
Give 'em Hell, Harry! | Steve Binder | James Whitmore | Biography | 1-man show on Harry Truman; Whitmore Oscar-nominated |
Gone with the West | Bernard Girard | James Caan, Stefanie Powers | Western | |
The Great Waldo Pepper | George Roy Hill | Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Margot Kidder | Drama | Universal |
Grey Gardens | Albert Maysles | Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier | Documentary | inspired 2009 film |
H–M[]
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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The Happy Hooker | Nicholas Sgarro | Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Conrad Janis | Comedy | Cannon Films. Xaviera Hollander story |
Hard Times | Walter Hill | Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland | Drama | Columbia. Hill's first film |
Hearts of the West | Howard Zieff | Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence | Comedy | MGM |
Hester Street | Joan Micklin Silver | Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Doris Roberts | Drama | Independent. Kane Oscar-nominated |
The Hiding Place | James F. Collier | Julie Harris, Eileen Heckart, Arthur O'Connell | Drama | Independent |
The Hindenburg | Robert Wise | George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, Roy Thinnes, Charles Durning, Gig Young | Thriller | Universal; based on 1937 air disaster; 2 Special Achievement Oscars |
Hustle | Robert Aldrich | Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson | Crime drama | Paramount |
The Intruder | Chris Robinson | Chris Robinson, Mickey Rooney, Yvonne De Carlo | Horror | Independent |
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? | Steven Hilliard Stern | Bill Dana, Joanna Barnes Bob Dishy | Comedy | Independent |
Jaws | Steven Spielberg | Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss | Thriller, Adventure | Universal. Based on Peter Benchley novel; top-grossing film of 1975; won 3 Oscars |
Johnny Firecloud | William Allen Castleman | Victor Mohica, Ralph Meeker, Christina Hart | Drama | Independent |
The Killer Elite | Sam Peckinpah | James Caan, Robert Duvall, Burt Young, Mako | Crime drama | United Artists |
Lady Cocoa | Matt Cimber | Lola Falana, Millie Perkins, Alex Dreier | Crime | Independent |
Las Vegas Lady | Noel Nosseck | Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo | Crime | Crown International Pictures |
Lepke | Menahem Golan | Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan | Crime drama | Warner Bros. |
Let's Do It Again | Sidney Poitier | Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Ossie Davis | Comedy | Warner Bros. |3rd Poitier-Cosby pairing; Remake of 1953 film |
Love and Death | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Olga Georges-Picot | Comedy | United Artists |
Lucky Lady | Stanley Donen | Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Gene Hackman | Crime comedy | 20th Century Fox |
Mackintosh and T.J. | Marvin J. Chomsky | Roy Rogers, Joan Hackett, Andrew Robinson | Family | Independent. Rogers' final film |
Mahogany | Berry Gordy, Tony Richardson | Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins | Drama, Romance | Paramount |
Man Friday | Jack Gold | Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier | Adventure | Avco Embassy. Based on Robinson Crusoe |
The Man in the Glass Booth | Arthur Hiller | Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman | Drama, Biography | Independent. Schell Oscar-nominated |
The Man Who Would Be King | John Huston | Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer | Adventure | Columbia. Rudyard Kipling story; 4 Oscar nominations |
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery | Dean Hargrove | Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Jackie Coogan | Comedy | United Artists |
Mandingo | Richard Fleischer | James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton | Drama | Paramount. From Kyle Onstott novel |
The Master Gunfighter | Frank Laughlin | Tom Laughlin, Ron O'Neal, Barbara Carrera | Western | Warner Bros. |
Mitchell | Andrew V. McLaglen | Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, Linda Evans | Crime drama | Allied Artists |
Moonrunners | Gy Waldron | James Mitchum, Waylon Jennings, Joan Blackman | Action | United Artists |
Mr. Ricco | Paul Bogart | Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Denise Nicholas | Crime drama | MGM. Martin's last starring role |
Mr. Sycamore | Jason Robards, Sandy Dennis, Jean Simmons | Comedy drama | Independent | |
Murph the Surf | Marvin J. Chomsky | Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, Donna Mills | Crime comedy | AIP |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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Naked Came the Stranger | Radley Metzger | Alan Marlow, Darby Lloyd Rains, David Savage | Adult film | VCA Pictures |
Nashville | Robert Altman | Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Lily Tomlin, Barbara Harris, Gwen Welles | Drama, Musical | Paramount. 5 Oscar nominations; won for Best Song |
Night Moves | Arthur Penn | Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Jennifer Warren, Harris Yulin | Mystery | Warner Bros. |
Once Is Not Enough | Guy Green | Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, Deborah Raffin, Brenda Vaccaro, George Hamilton | Drama | Paramount. Based on a novel by Jacqueline Susann |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Will Sampson | Drama | United Artists. Based on a novel by Ken Kesey; won 5 Oscars |
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | Robert Stevenson | Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Derek Nimmo | Family | Disney |
Operation Daybreak | Lewis Gilbert | Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland | Thriller | Warner Bros. |
The Other Side of the Mountain | Larry Peerce | Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges, Belinda Montgomery | Biography | Universal. Story of Jill Kinmont |
Peeper | Peter Hyams | Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
Permission to Kill | Cyril Frankel | Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton | Thriller | Avco Embassy |
Poor Pretty Eddie | David Worth | Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian | Thriller | Independent |
Posse | Kirk Douglas | Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins | Western | Paramount |
The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Melvin Frank | Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks | Drama | Warner Bros. Based on Neil Simon play |
Psychic Killer | Ray Danton | Jim Hutton, Julie Adams, Paul Burke | Horror | Avco Embassy |
Race with the Devil | Jack Starrett | Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit | Horror | 20th Century Fox |
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins | Dick Richards | Sally Kellerman, Alan Arkin, Mackenzie Phillips | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
Rancho Deluxe | Frank Perry | Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Harry Dean Stanton, | Comedy western | United Artists. Written by Thomas McGuane |
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud | J. Lee Thompson | Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill | Horror | AIP |
Return to Macon County | Richard Compton | Nick Nolte, Don Johnson, Robin Mattson | Drama | AIP. Macon County Line sequel |
Rollerball | Norman Jewison | James Caan, John Beck, John Houseman | Sci-fi, Action | United Artists. Remade in 2002 |
Rooster Cogburn | Stuart Millar | John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan | Western | Universal. Sequel to True Grit |
Rosebud | Otto Preminger | Peter O'Toole, Peter Lawford, Richard Attenborough | Suspense | United Artists |
Shampoo | Hal Ashby | Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden, Lee Grant, Carrie Fisher, Tony Bill | Drama | Columbia. Oscar for Grant; 4 nominations |
Sharks' Treasure | Cornel Wilde | Cornel Wilde, Yaphet Kotto, Cliff Osmond | Adventure | United Artists |
Sheba, Baby | William Girdler | Pam Grier, D'Urville Martin, Austin Stoker | Action | AIP |
Sixpack Annie | Graydon F. David | Lindsay Bloom, Larry Mahan, Raymond Danton | Comedy | AIP |
Smile | Michael Ritchie | Barbara Feldon, Bruce Dern | Comedy | United Artists |
Smoke in the Wind | Joseph Kane | John Ashley, Walter Brennan, Myron Healey | Western | Independent |
The Specialist | Howard Avedis | Adam West, John Anderson, Ahna Capri | Thriller | Crown International Pictures |
The Stepford Wives | Bryan Forbes | Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Tina Louise | Science-fiction, Thriller | Columbia. Based on Ira Levin novel; remade in 2004 |
The Strongest Man in the World | Vincent McEveety | Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Phil Silvers | Family | Disney |
The Sunshine Boys | Herbert Ross | Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin | Comedy | MGM. Oscar for Burns; based on play by Neil Simon |
Supervixens | Russ Meyer | Charles Napier, Shari Eubank, Uschi Digard | Sexploitation | Independent |
Switchblade Sisters | Jack Hill | Asher Brauner, Don Stark, Marlene Clark | Action | Independent |
T–Z[]
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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Take a Hard Ride | Antonio Margheriti | Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson | Western | 20th Century Fox |
That's the Way of the World | Sig Shore | Harvey Keitel, Ed Nelson, Bert Parks | Musical | United Artists |
Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson | Thriller | Paramount; based on James Grady novel |
Thundercrack! | Curt McDowell | Marion Eaton, George Kuchar | Adult, Horror | Independent |
The Timber Tramps | Tay Garnett | Claude Akins, Leon Ames, Eve Brent | Adventure | Independent |
Trucker's Woman | Will Zens | Michael Hawkins, Mary Cannon, Doodles Weaver | Action | Independent |
Tubby the Tuba | Alexander Schure | Voices of Dick Van Dyke, Jack Gilford | Animated | Avco Embassy |
The Ultimate Warrior | Robert Clouse | Yul Brynner, Max von Sydow, Joanna Miles | Sci-fi | Warner Bros. |
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | John G. Avildsen | Burt Reynolds, Conny Van Dyke, Ned Beatty, Jerry Reed, Art Carney | Action comedy | 20th Century Fox |
Walking Tall Part 2 | Earl Bellamy | Bo Svenson, Luke Askew, John Davis Chandler | Action | AIP. Sequel to 1973 film |
Whiffs | Ted Post | Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Harry Guardino, Jennifer O'Neill | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
White Line Fever | Jonathan Kaplan | Jan-Michael Vincent, Slim Pickens, L. Q. Jones | Action | Columbia |
The Wild McCullochs | Max Baer | Forrest Tucker, Julie Adams, Don Grady | Drama | AIP |
The Wild Party | James Ivory | Raquel Welch, James Coco, Perry King | Drama | AIP |
The Wind and the Lion | John Milius | Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis, Brian Keith | Adventure | MGM; 2 Oscar nominations |
See also[]
External links[]
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