Holy cow. It is hard to believe these movies are now over 40 years old and still very memorable. This was a great year for film. Check these out.
Taxi Driver (1976)
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An unstable Vietnam veteran named Travis Bickle works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City....
Neo-noir Psychological thriller Vigilante
All the President's Men (1976)
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Journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigate the Watergate hotel break-in. Through dogged...
Carrie (1976)
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Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother,...
Carrie Stephen King Brian De Palma Sissy Spacek Piper Laurie
Rocky (1976)
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Rocky Balboa is a working-class boxer with a heart of gold, who reluctantly works as a debt...
Boxing Rocky
Logan's Run (1976)
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In a futuristic society, one man decides to challenge the systematic execution of human beings at...
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Great hostage movies
Certainly not in real life, but there is something about a hostage movie filled with tension and suspense that makes for great storytelling. Keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Split (2016)
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Though a man named Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher,...
Split Psychological thriller
Fargo (1996)
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North Dakota - A botched crime, funny accents, a pregnant policewoman, a wood-chipper. Very cold.
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
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When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in...
Misery (1990)
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Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The...
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee, tracks down serial killer Buffalo Bill with help from an...
Serial killing Transsexual Moth
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The last year of the 20th century produced some great classic films (including my all-time fave). Which is your favorite?
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
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Imaginatively evoking the inner landscape of human beings longing to connect, to love and feel...
X-Men (2000)
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They are children of the atom, homo superior, the next link in the chain of evolution. Each was born...
Gladiator (2000)
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A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain the freedom of his...
Almost Famous (2000)
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Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming of age of 15-year-old William, an...
Memento (2000)
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Leonard, a man with short-term memory and the inability to create new memories, is searching for the...
Thriller
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Not necessarily just "feel-good" films, these movies just always seem to put me in a good mood and bring a smile to my face.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
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Willy Wonka, the eccentric owner of a magnificent and mysterious chocolate factory, places five...
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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When a tornado sweeps through a farm in Kansas, Dorothy Gale finds herself in the magical land of...
Groundhog Day (1993)
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An egocentric weatherman named Phil Connors visits Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual...
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The Karate Kid (1984)
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A fatherless teenager faces his moment of truth in THE KARATE KID. Daniel (Ralph Macchio) arrives in...
Back to the Future (1985)
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When teenager Marty McFly is sent back in time thirty years to 1955 in Doc Brown's time-travelling...
Time travel Paradox Flux capacitor
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My opinion on what the best action movies are. Some new, some old...all great!
Dredd (2012)
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Mega City One is a vast, violent metropolis where felons rule the streets. The only law lies with...
John Wick (2014)
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John Wick is a feared ex-hitman and an expert assassin who receives a beagle puppy as a final gift...
John Wick Keanu Reeves Action Revenge
The Raid (2011)
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In a high-rise building, a rookie S.W.A.T. team member named Rama and the rest of his elite squad...
Martial arts Pencak Silat Redemption
Die Hard (1988)
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During his estranged wife's Christmas party in a Los Angeles skyscraper, NYPD cop John McClane faces...
Aliens (1986)
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James Cameron's sequel to the highly successful 'Alien'. Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole...
Alien Xenomorph
Wow, going through this list is a lot of fun. So many great films released in one year. We certainly don't have years like this any more. Which is your favorite?
The Blues Brothers (1980)
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The Blues Brothers Unrated Version stars comic icons John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the...
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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After the rebels are overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker...
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The Shining (1980)
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The winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel brings his wife and child—the latter of whom...
Friday the 13th (1980)
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A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a...
Camp Slasher
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Thought I would do a more recent one of these since all my old lists make me feel like an old man. Lots of good films too.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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In German-occupied France during the Second World War, a team of Jewish-American soldiers and a...
Moon (2009)
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Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint...
Avatar (2009)
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A hybrid human-alien called an Avatar is created to facilitate communication with the indigenous...
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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
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After being destroyed by the FBI, murderer Jason Voorhees returns from the dead and possesses the...
Slasher Hockey mask Supernatural Possession
The Skeleton Key (2005)
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A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...
Sinister (2012)
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A true-crime author named Ellison Oswalt moves with his family to a house where another family was...
Supernatural Ghost Horror
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When you look at this list, it's hard to believe all these great movies came out the same year. There sure aren't years like this any more. Time to revisit one of these classics!
Ladyhawke (1985)
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In medieval times, a youthful pickpocket befriends a strange knight who is on a mysterious quest....
Brazil (1985)
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Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through...
Spies Like Us (1985)
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Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd star in this Cold War farce as two complete misfits who aspire to spy...
Brewster's Millions (1985)
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Richard Pryor is Montgomery Brewster, a minor league baseball pitcher who discovers he has to blow...
A View to a Kill (1985)
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James Bond is sent to Siberia, where he finds 003 buried by an avalanche and recovers a microchip...
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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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After the rebels are overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker...
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Halloween (1978)
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On Halloween night, 1963, a young boy named Michael Myers murdered his older sister with a kitchen...
Slasher
Aliens (1986)
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James Cameron's sequel to the highly successful 'Alien'. Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole...
Alien Xenomorph
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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In future Britain, Alex DeLarge, a charismatic and psychopath delinquent, who likes to practice...
Blade Runner (1982)
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In a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, an ex-Blade Runner named Rick Deckard is called back on the...
Cyberpunk Tech noir Neo-noir