1. The Godfather
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Richard S. Castellano, Sterling Hayden
Plot: An organized crime leader gives up control of his "family" to his youngest son, Michael. The leader barely survives a battle between mobs, which leads Michael to begin a mob war against Sollozzo and tears the Corleone family apart.
2. The Godfather: Part II
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire
Plot: The sequel to "The Godfather," we are taken back to the begining of the Corleone family, and how it all began back in the early 1900's.
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Milos Forman
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Berryman
Plot: A man who may not really be insane is admitted to an institution. He plays tricks on the nurse and rounds up the other trouble patients for a healthy dose of fun.
4. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Lucas
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, James Earl Jones
Plot: A kid named Luke Skywalker, flees his home after his family is murdered, goes into outer space to face Tie Fighters and the evil Darth Vador, while making friends with Han and Princess Leia.
5. Alien
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Veronica Cartwright
Plot: A space mining ship investigates an SOS on a distant planet. The crew explores and finds a creature?s hive colony and when one of the eggs is hatched the crew has to fend for their lives. The movie stars Sigourney Weaver.
6. Taxi Driver
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks
Plot: A Vietnam vet is a taxi driver who obsesses over a woman, while at the same time he tries to save a young prostitute. His mental instability makes him go to the extreme in certain situations.
7. Apocalypse Now
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Plot: Special ops Army captain Ben Willard is sent into the dark heart of the Vietnam War on a classified mission to assassinate rogue colonel Walter Kurtz. His journey includes some of the most iconic war scenes put to film, from surf-loving Lt Col Kilgore, and the famous helicopter attack on a Viet Cong village (to the strains of Wagner), the surreal USO jungle show by Playboy Playmates, to the Do Lung Bridge, the US' last outpost, where soldiers are abandoned to their fate and the only sound, besides explosions, is the yelling of the damned for salvation. Like Dante, every mile brings Willard further into hell with a growing suspicion that Kurtz may not be as crazy as the brass need to believe.
8. Jaws
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb
Plot: A killer great white terrorizes a small community in New England.
9. A Clockwork Orange
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering
Plot: In a futuristic British society Alex and his Droogs enjoy the finer things
in life: sex and violence. When Alex is arrested, he volunteers for a new
"aversion therapy" with the end result that violence and sex now make him
physically ill. Back in society he finds that things are much different.
10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Plot: King Arthur is on a quest for the holy grail. Little do they know that they will encounter many stupid obsticles, and must complete the tasks at hands to find it. Join Gallahead, Robin, and the Knights of the Round Table as they follow their king on this quest.
