221. Time After Time
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Kent Williams, Patti D'Arbanville
Plot: H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper from the past to the future via a time machine.
222. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? ( Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Actors: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Franz Maron, Harry Baer, Peter Moland
Plot: A man is happy living a normal life - a dependable job as a technical draftsman, a loving marriage and caring father. But people push him - his colleges, his socially-mobile wife, parents, friends and neighbors alike - in many directions. A promotion is coming up - but as the pressure continues to build for Herr R. it may ultimately break him.
223. Fat City
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Huston
Actors: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto, Art Aragon
224. California Split
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Edward Walsh, Jeff Goldblum
Plot: Two gamblers who have run into a string of bad luck decide to head to Reno
and change their fortune there.
225. The Duellists
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Keith Carradine, Albert Finney, Harvey Keitel, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens
Plot: Two officers in Napoleon's army become entangled in a feud that lasts several decades an involves repeated -- increasingly violent -- duels in order to settle a matter of honor.
226. Butterflies Are Free
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Milton Katselas
Actors: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser, Michael Warren
Plot: Don Baker was born blind - and that means he has always been at the mercy of his mother. Finally working up the courage to move out, he sets himself up in a San Francisco apartment, where he makes quick friends with free-spirited neighbor Jill, who teaches him all kinds of new things - while he teaches her what it really means to be free.
227. The Parallax View
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Kenneth Mars, Kelly Thordsen
228. My Night at Maud's ( Ma nuit chez Maud )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Rohmer
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Guy Léger
Plot: A man wants a Catholic blonde, so he spends the night with a rowdy brunette.
229. Vengeance is Mine ( Fukushû suruwa wareniari )
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shohei Imamura
Actors: Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Chocho Miyako
Plot: Iwao Enokizu is, for an intents and purposes, a normal middle-aged Japanese man. But he harbors a dark secret - he's a sociopath with an inexplicable urge to murder. Though the police finally track him down, he eludes pursuit, eventually finding himself in a relationship with a brothel owner. But his cannot suppress his urges, not even for love.
230. The Song Remains the Same
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot
Actors: John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Peter Grant, Richard Cole
