1975 in film

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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films

North America

The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1975
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	Jaws	Universal	$133,400,000[1]
2	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	United Artists	$59,200,000[1]
3	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	20th Century	$50,420,000[2]
4	Shampoo	Columbia	$23,822,000[2]
5	Dog Day Afternoon	Warner Bros.	$22,500,000[1]
6	The Return of the Pink Panther	United Artists	$20,017,000[2]
7	Three Days of the Condor	Paramount	$20,014,000[2]
8	Funny Lady	Columbia	$19,313,000[2]
9	The Other Side of the Mountain	Universal	$18,012,000[2]
10	Tommy	Columbia	$17,793,000[2]

International

The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America.

International market	Film	Admissions	Revenue		Production country	Ref
International market	Film	Admissions	Local currency	US$	Production country	Ref
Brazil	The Towering Inferno	10,377,230	Unknown	Unknown	United States	[3]
France	The Towering Inferno	4,466,376	Unknown	Unknown	United States	[4]
Germany	Jaws	7,000,000	Unknown	Unknown	United States	[5]
India	Sholay	150,000,000+	₹350,000,000	$41,790,000	India	[6][n 1]
Italy	My Friends	10,467,254	Unknown	Unknown	Italy	[9]
Japan	The Towering Inferno	Unknown	¥3,640,000,000	Unknown	United States	[10]
Soviet Union	Bobby	62,600,000	15,650,000 Rbls	$21,440,000	India	[n 2]
Spain	Jaws	5,918,754	Unknown	Unknown	United States	[15]
United Kingdom	Jaws	16,200,000	£11,800,000	$26,000,000	United States	[16][17]
United States & Canada	Jaws	128,078,800	$260,000,000	$260,000,000	United States	[18]

Worldwide gross

The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.

Title	Admissions (est.)	Revenue	Country
Jaws	242,800,000[19]	$470,653,000[18]	United States
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	78,706,404[n 3]	Unknown	United States
The Rocky Horror Picture Show	58,431,570[n 4]	$140,846,387[n 5]	United Kingdom United States
Sholay	250,000,000[29]	$70,000,000[n 6]	India
Dog Day Afternoon	24,861,525[n 7]	Unknown	United States

Events

March 26: The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.
May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
June 20: Jaws is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatrical rentals,[32] setting the standard for future blockbusters.
August 14: The cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London.
November 2: Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini is brutally murdered in Ostia (Rome).
November 23: Sneak Previews, the first American film review show, premieres and launches the careers of critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. They will remain a team, and a staple among film critics, through various programs for the next twenty-four years.
December: Warner Bros. reorganize following John Calley's decision to step down as president-COO. Frank Wells becomes president again and shares CEO duties with Ted Ashley who also returns as chairman.[32]

Awards

Awards ceremonies

Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise)
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): Adoption (Örökbefogadás)

Notable awards

Category/Organization	Golden Globe Awards January 24, 1976		BAFTA Awards February 29, 1976	Academy Awards March 29, 1976
Category/Organization	Comedy or Musical	Drama	BAFTA Awards February 29, 1976	Academy Awards March 29, 1976
Best Film	The Sunshine Boys	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Director	Miloš Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		Stanley Kubrick Barry Lyndon	Miloš Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actor	Walter Matthau The Sunshine Boys	Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon / The Godfather Part II	Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress	Ann-Margret Tommy	Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Supporting Actor	Richard Benjamin The Sunshine Boys		Fred Astaire The Towering Inferno	George Burns The Sunshine Boys
Best Supporting Actress	Brenda Vaccaro Once Is Not Enough		Diane Ladd Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Lee Grant Shampoo
Best Screenplay, Adapted	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman		Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Robert Getchell	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
Best Screenplay, Original			Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Robert Getchell	Dog Day Afternoon Frank Pierson
Best Original Score	John Williams Jaws		John Williams Jaws The Towering Inferno	John Williams Jaws Leonard Rosenman Barry Lyndon
Best Original Song	"I'm Easy" Nashville		N/A	"I'm Easy" Nashville
Best Foreign Language Film	Lies My Father Told Me		N/A	Dersu Uzala

Films released 1975

Note: US releases unless stated.

January–March


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	1	Teenage Seductress	Vineager Syndrome	Chris Warfield (director/screenplay); George Buck Flower, John F. Goff (screenplay); Sondra Currie, Chris Warfield, Elizabeth Saxon, John Trujillo, Sonny Cooper, Gwen Van Dam, Michelle D'Agostin, Claudia Smillie	Drama	Live Action
	6	Slade in Flame	Goodtimes Enterprises	Richard Loncraine (director); Andrew Birkin, Dave Humphries (screenplay); Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Jim Lea, Tom Conti, Alan Lake, Johnny Shannon, Kenneth Colley, Anthony Allen, Sara Clee	Drama, Musical	Live Action
	9	The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man	Appalshop	Mimi Pickering (director)	Documentary	Live Action
	27	Galileo	American Film Theatre	Joseph Losey (director/screenplay); Barbara Bray (screenplay); Topol, Georgia Brown, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Tom Conti, Patrick Magee, John McEnery, Michael Lonsdale, Clive Revill, Job Stewart	Biography, Drama	Live Action
	29	Mr. Ricco	United Artists / Cinema International Corporation	Paul Bogart (director); Robert Hoban, Ed Harvey (screenplay); Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Thalmus Rasulala, Denise Nicholas, Cindy Williams, Geraldine Brooks, Philip Michael Thomas, George Tyne	Crime, Drama	Live Action
	31	And Then There Were None	Variety Distribution / Corona Filmproduktion / Talía Films / COMECI	Peter Collinson (director); Harry Alan Towers (screenplay); Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Stéphane Audran, Herbert Lom, Gert Fröbe, Maria Rohm, Adolfo Celi, Alberto de Mendoza, Charles Aznavour, Orson Welles, Naser Malek Motiei	Crime, Mystery, Thriller	Live Action
F E B R U A R Y	1	Footprints on the Moon (Italy)	Cineriz / Cinemarte S.R.L.	Luigi Bazzoni (director/screenplay); Mario Fenelli (screenplay); Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Klaus Kinski, Lila Kedrova, Nicoletta Elmi, Caterina Boratto, Evelyn Stewart, John Karlsen, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Rosita Torosh	Mystery, Thriller	Live Action
	2	Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins	Warner Bros.	Dick Richards (director); John Kaye (screenplay); Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Alex Rocco, Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton, John McLiam, Richard Hale, Louis Prima, Lauren Stocks, Earl W. Smith	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	5	Report to the Commissioner	United Artists / Frankovich Productions	Milton Katselas (director); Abby Mann, Ernest Tidyman (screenplay); Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Héctor Elizondo, Tony King, Michael McGuire, Edward Grover, Dana Elcar, Bob Balaban, William Devane, Stephen Elliott, Richard Gere, Vic Tayback, Albert Seedman, Mark Margolis, Noelle North	Crime, Drama	Live Action
	6	The Strongest Man in the World	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	Vincent McEveety (director); Joseph L. McEveety, Herman Groves (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Patten, Harold Gould, Michael McGreevey, Richard Bakalyan, William Schallert, Benson Fong, James Gregory, Paul Linke, John Debney, David R. Ellis, Larry Franco, Roy Roberts, Fritz Feld, Ronnie Schell, Raymond Bailey, John Myhers, Roger Price, Jack Bailey, Larry Gelman, Jonathan Daly, Kathleen Freeman, Iggie Wolfington, Ned Wertimer, Milton Frome, Laurie Main, Mary Treen, Eddie Quillan, Henry Slate, Burt Mustin, Arthur Space, Bill Zuckert, Larry J. Blake, William Bakewell, Art Metrano, Peter Renaday, Lennie Weinrib, Danny Wells	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live Action
	11	Shampoo	Columbia Pictures / Rubeeker Films	Hal Ashby (director); Robert Towne, Warren Beatty (screenplay); Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, Jay Robinson, George Furth, Susanna Moore, Carrie Fisher, Luana Anders, Mike Olton, Kathleen Miller, Brad Dexter, William Castle, Howard Hesseman, Michelle Phillips, Susan Blakely, Cynthia Wood, Randy Scheer, Richard E. Kalk	Romance, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	12	The Stepford Wives	Columbia Pictures / Palomar Pictures	Bryan Forbes (director); William Goldman (screenplay); Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Patrick O'Neal, William Prince, Carole Mallory, Judith Baldwin, George Coe, Franklin Cover, Robert Fields, Michael Higgins, Josef Sommer, Remak Ramsay, Mary Stuart Masterson, Tom Spratley, Carol Rossen, Toni Reid, Barbara Rucker, Ronny Sullivan	Horror	Live Action
	24	Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris	American Film Theatre	Denis Héroux (director); Eric Blau (screenplay); Mort Shuman, Elly Stone, Jacques Brel, Joe Masiell, Annick Berger, Moni Yakim, Bernard Lafontaine, France Lombard, Sophie Héroux, Nico Sirakos, Jean Schianno, René Quivrin, Paule Tanneur, Martial	Musical	Live Action
	24	Mahler	Goodtimes Enterprises	Ken Russell (director/screenplay); Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin, Rosalie Crutchley, Richard Morant, Angela Down, Ronald Pickup, Peter Eyre, Dana Gillespie, George Coulouris, David Collings, Arnold Yarrow, Elaine Delmar, Benny Lee, Andrew Faulds, Kenneth Colley, Oliver Reed, Antonia Ellis, David Trevena, Otto Diamant, Michael Southgate, Sarah McClellan, Claire McClellan, Gary Rich	Biography, Drama, Music	Live Action
	26	Boss Nigger	Dimension Pictures	Jack Arnold (director); Fred Williamson (screenplay); Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, R.G. Armstrong, William Smith	Blaxploitation, Western	Live Action
M A R C H	1	At Long Last Love	20th Century Fox	Peter Bogdanovich (director/screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, Eileen Brennan, John Hillerman, Mildred Natwick, Quinn Redeker, J. Edward McKinley, John Stephenson, William Paterson, Lester Dorr, Liam Dunn, M. Emmet Walsh, Burton Gilliam, Ned Wertimer, Arthur Peterson, Roger Price, Morgan Farley, Gene LeBell, Artie Butler, Basil Hoffman, Jeffrey Byron, Christa Lang, Tucker Smith	Musical, Comedy	Live Action
	5	Man Friday (United Kingdom)	AVCO Embassy Pictures / ABC Entertainment / ITC Entertainment / Keep Films	Jack Gold (director); Adrian Mitchell (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier, Joel Fluellen, Stanley Bennett Clay, Christopher Cabot, Sam Seabrook	Adventure	Live Action
	7	Deep Red (Italy)	Cineriz / Rizzoli Film / Seda Spettacoli	Dario Argento (director/screenplay); Bernardino Zapponi (screenplay); David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Clara Calamai, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra, Glauco Mauri, Liana Del Balzo, Nicoletta Elmi, Furio Meniconi, Fulvio Mingozzi, Piero Mazzinghi, Geraldine Hooper, Jacopo Mariani	Horror, Mystery, Thriller	Live Action
	7	Mirror (USSR)	Mosfilm	Andrei Tarkovsky (director/screenplay); Aleksandr Misharin (screenplay); Margarita Terekhova, Larisa Tarkovskaya, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Oleg Yankovsky, Nikolai Grinko, Yuriy Nazarov, Arseny Tarkovsky, Filipp Yankovsky, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Ignat Daniltsev, Maria Vishnyakova, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Olga Kizilova	Drama	Live Action
	12	Funny Lady	Columbia Pictures / Rastar	Herbert Ross (director); Jay Presson Allen, Arnold Schulman (screenplay); Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen, Carole Wells, Omar Sharif, Larry Gates, Royce Wallace, Lilyan Chauvin, Joshua Shelley, Cliff Norton, Corey Fischer, Garrett Lewis, Ken Sansom, Colleen Camp, Alana Stewart, Gary Menteer, Dick Winslow, Jack Angel, Eugene Troobnick, Heidi O'Rourke, Samantha C. Kirkeby, Matt Emery, Jackie Stoloff	Biography, Musical, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	13	The Great Waldo Pepper	Universal Pictures	George Roy Hill (director/screenplay); William Goldman (screenplay); Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Susan Sarandon, Margot Kidder, Bo Brundin, Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Herrmann, Philip Bruns, Roderick Cook, Scott Newman, John Reilly, Kelly Jean Peters, James S. Appleby, Patrick W. Henderson, James N. Harrell, Elma Aicklen, Deborah Knapp, John A. Zee, Jack Manning, Joe Billings, Robert W. Winn, Lawrence P. Casey, Greg Martin, Frank Price	Drama	Live Action
	14	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Warner Bros.	Melvin Frank (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley, Maxine Stuart, Ed Peck, Ivor Francis, Stack Pierce, Patricia Marshall, Ketty Lester, M. Emmet Walsh, Sylvester Stallone, F. Murray Abraham, Lonnie Burr, Gary Owens, John Ritter, Joe Turkel, Ed Peck, Gene Blakely, Dee Carroll, James McCallion, Alan DeWitt, Cosmo Sardo, Norman Stevans	Black Comedy	Live Action
	14	Rancho Deluxe	United Artists / Elliott Kastner Productions	Frank Perry (director); Thomas McGuane (screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens, Charlene Dallas, Richard Bright, Patti D'Arbanville, Joe Spinell, Doria Cook-Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Sandy Kenyon, Thomas McGuane, Warren Oates, John Quade, Maggie Wellman, Bert Conway, Jim Melin, Dwight Riley, Tim Schaeffer	Western, Comedy	Live Action
	15	Terror of Mechagodzilla (Japan)	Toho	Ishirō Honda (director); Yukiko Takayama (screenplay); Katsuhiko Sasaki, Akihiko Hirata, Katsumasa Uchida, Gorō Mutsumi, Toru Kawai, Kenji Sahara, Tatsumi Fuyamoto, Tomoko Ai, Tadao Nakamaru, Toru Ibuki, Kazunari Mori, Akinori Umezu	Action, Adventure, Family	Live Action
	17	In Celebration	American Film Theatre	Lindsay Anderson (director); David Storey (screenplay); Alan Bates, Bill Owen, Brian Cox, James Bolam, Constance Chapman, Gabrielle Daye	Drama	Live Action
	19	Tommy (United Kingdom)	Columbia Pictures / Robert Stigwood Organization Ltd. / Hemdale Film Corporation	Ken Russell (director/screenplay); Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Eric Clapton, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Paul Nicholas, Jack Nicholson, Victoria Russell, Robert Powell, Arthur Brown, Pete Townshend, Tina Turner, Ben Aris, Imogen Claire, Simon Townshend, Ken Russell	Musical, Fantasy, Drama	Live Action
	19	The Yakuza	Warner Bros.	Sydney Pollack (director); Paul Schrader, Robert Towne (screenplay); Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan, Keiko Kishi, Eiji Okada, James Shigeta, Kyosuke Machida, Christina Kokubo, Eiji Go, William Ross, Lee Chirillo, M. Hisaka, Akiyama, Harada	Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama	Live Action
	21	Escape to Witch Mountain	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	John Hough (director); Robert Malcolm Young (screenplay); Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Walt Barnes, Reta Shaw, Denver Pyle, Alfred Ryder, Lawrence Montaigne, Terry Wilson, George Chandler, Dermott Downs, Don Brodie, Paul Sorensen, Harry Holcombe, Sam Edwards, Dan Seymour, Eugene Daniels, Shepherd Sanders, Kyle Richards	Fantasy, Sci-Fi	Live Action
	24	Rosebud	United Artists	Otto Preminger (director); Erik Lee Preminger (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin, John V. Lindsay, Peter Lawford, Raf Vallone, Adrienne Corri, Isabelle Huppert, Brigitte Ariel, Lalla Ward, Kim Cattrall, Debra Berger, Mark Burns, Amidou, Klaus Löwitsch, Yosef Shiloach, Françoise Brion, Maria Machado, Serge Marquand, Jean Martin	Action, Thriller	Live Action
	26	Brannigan	United Artists	Douglas Hickox (director); Christopher Trumbo, Michael Butler, William P. McGivern, William W. Norton (screenplay); John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon, Ralph Meeker, Daniel Pilon, Lesley-Anne Down, Barry Dennen, John Stride, James Booth, Arthur Batanides, Pauline Delaney, Del Henney, Brian Glover, Don Henderson, Tony Robinson, Anthony Booth	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Visual Programme Systems Ltd. / Dimension Pictures	Philippe Mora (director/screenplay); The Andrews Sisters, Fred Astaire, Warner Baxter, Jack Benny, Busby Berkeley, Willie Best, Humphrey Bogart, George Burns, James Cagney, Cab Calloway, Eddie Cantor, Hobart Cavanaugh, George Chandler, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Betty Compson, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Frankie Darro, Cecil B. DeMille, Marlene Dietrich, John Dillinger, Walt Disney, James Dunn, Cliff Edwards, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Elliot, Madge Evans, Stepin Fetchit, W.C. Fields, Dick Foran, Gerald Ford, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Cary Grant, Woody Guthrie, Gabby Hayes, Billie Holiday, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Paul Robeson, Shirley Temple	Documentary	Live Action
		The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery	United Artists / Strathmore Productions	Dean Hargrove (director/screenplay); Gabriel Dell (screenplay); Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Jackie Coogan, Joyce Van Patten, Barbara Harris, Will Geer, Anjanette Comer, Vincent Gardenia, Sorrell Booke, Dick Gautier, Nita Talbot, Nicholas Colasanto, Howard Storm	Comedy, Mystery	Live Action
		Sheba, Baby	American International Pictures	William Girdler (director/screenplay); David Sheldon (screenplay); Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Dick Merrifield	Blaxploitation, Action	Live Action

April–June


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	2	Smoke in the Wind	Frontier Productions	Joseph Kane (director); Eric Allen (screenplay); John Ashley, John Russell, Myron Healey, Walter Brennan, Henry Kingi, Dan White, Billy Hughes Jr., Bill Coontz, Susan Huston, Linda Weld, Adair Jameson, Lorna, Jack Horton, Bill McKenzie	Western	Live Action
	2	Supervixens	RM Films International	Russ Meyer (director/screenplay); Shari Eubank, Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, Henry Rowland, Christy Hartburg, Colleen Brennan, John LaZar, Stuart Lancaster, Deborah McGuire, Haji, Charles Pitts, Glenn Dixon, Big Jack Provan, Garth Pillsbury, Ron Sheridan	Comedy	Live Action
	6	Capone	20th Century Fox / Santa Fe Productions	Steve Carver (director); Howard Browne (screenplay); Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakely, John Cassavetes, Sylvester Stallone, Frank Campanella, John Orchard, Carmen Argenziano, George Chandler, John Davis Chandler, Royal Dano, Peter Maloney, Dick Miller, Robert Phillips, Martin Kove, Mario Gallo, Tony Giorgio, Johnny Martino, Tina Scala	Biography, Crime	Live Action
	9	The Passenger	United Artists	Michelangelo Antonioni (director/screenplay); Mark Peploe, Peter Wollen (screenplay); Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff, Ian Hendry, Jenny Runacre, José María Caffarel, Ángel del Pozo, Ambroise Bia, Charles Mulvehill, James Campbell, Manfred Spies, Jean-Baptiste Tiemele	Drama	Live Action
	21	The Maids	American Film Theatre	Christopher Miles (director/screenplay); Robert Enders (screenplay); Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant, Mark Burns	Drama, Romance	Live Action
	23	Aloha, Bobby and Rose	Columbia Pictures / Cine Artists International	Floyd Mutrux (director/screenplay); Paul Le Mat, Dianne Hull, Tim McIntire, Leigh French, Martine Bartlett, Noble Willingham, Robert Carradine, Mario Gallo, Edward James Olmos, Cliff Emmich, Erick Hines, Tony Gardenas, Tip Fredell, William Dooley, David Bond, Dorothy Love	Drama	Live Action
	23	Fore Play	Troma Entertainment	John G. Avildsen, Bruce Malmuth, Robert McCarty, Ralph Rosenblum (directors); Bruce Jay Friedman, Dan Greenburg, David Odell, Jack Richardson (screenplay); Zero Mostel, Estelle Parsons, Pat Paulsen, Jerry Orbach, George S. Irving, Carmen Álvarez, Irwin Corey, Thayer David, Paul Dooley, Laurie Heineman, Louisa Moritz, Shelley Plimpton, Fred Baur, Andrew Duncan, Deborah Loomis, George King, Tom McDermott	Comedy	Live Action
	26	Cops vs. Thugs (Japan)	Toei Company	Kinji Fukasaku (director); Kazuo Kasahara (screenplay); Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Mikio Narita, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota, Shingo Yamashiro, Reiko Ike, Jūkei Fujioka, Asao Sano, Nobuo Kaneko, Takuzo Kawatani, Tatsuo Endō, Kunie Tanaka, Toru Abe, Sanae Nakahara, Harumi Sone, Akira Shioji, Shotaro Hayashi, Masaharu Arikawa, Yoko Koizumi, Maki Tachibana, Keiko Yumi, Midori Shirai, Masako Matsumoto, Gentaro Mori	Action, Crime	Live Action
	26	Dolemite	Dimension Pictures	D'Urville Martin (director); Jerry Jones (screenplay); Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Lady Reed, West Gale, John Kerry, Jerry Jones, Vainus Rackstraw	Blaxploitation, Crime, Comedy	Live Action
	27	Death Race 2000	New World Pictures	Paul Bartel (director); Robert Thom, Charles B. Griffith (screenplay); David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Louisa Moritz, Don Steele, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins, Martin Kove, Joyce Jameson, Paul Laurence, Harriet Medin, Bill Morey, Fred Grandy, John Landis, Carle Bensen, Sandy McCallum, Vince Trankina, William Shephard, Leslie McRay, Wendy Bartel, Jack Favorite, Sandy Ignon, Darla McDonell, Roger Rook	Sci-Fi, Action	Live Action
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	28	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	EMI Films / Python (Monty) Pictures / Michael White Productions / National Film Trustee Company	Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (directors/screenplay); Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin (screenplay); Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Connie Booth, Carol Cleveland, Neil Innes, John Young, Sandy Johnson, Julian Doyle, Charles Knode, Roy Forge Smith, Maggie Weston, Bee Duffell, Rita Davies, Avril Stewart, Sally Kinghorn	Comedy	Live Action
M A Y	1	Switchblade Sisters	Centaur Releasing	Jack Hill (director); F.X. Maier (screenplay); Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Monica Gayle, Asher Brauner, Chase Newhart, Marlene Clark, Kitty Bruce, Janice Karman, Don Stark, Kate Murtagh	Exploitation, Action	Live Action
	4	Seven Beauties	Medusa Distribuzione	Lina Wertmüller (director/screenplay); Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore, Roberto Herlitzka, Lucio Amelio, Piero Di Iorio, Enzo Vitale, Ermelinda De Felice, Bianca D'Origlia, Francesca Marciano, Mario Conti	Comedy, Drama, War	Live Action
	7	The Day of the Locust	Paramount Pictures / Long Road Productions	John Schlesinger (director); Waldo Salt (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, William Atherton, Burgess Meredith, Richard Dysart, John Hillerman, Geraldine Page, Bo Hopkins, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni, Billy Barty, Jackie Earle Haley, Gloria LeRoy, Jane Hoffman, Norman Leavitt, Madge Kennedy, Natalie Schafer, Gloria Stroock, Nita Talbot, Paul Stewart, William Castle, Paul Jabara	Historical, Drama	Live Action
	7	The Specialist	Crown International Pictures / Renaissance Productions	Howard Avedis (director/screenplay); Ralph B. Potts, Marlene Schmidt (screenplay); Adam West, John Anderson, Ahna Capri, Harvey Jason, Alvy Moore, Marlene Schmidt, Howard Avedis, Robert Shayne, Christiane Schmidtmer, Charles Knapp, Chuck Boyd	Thriller	Live Action
	8	The Happy Hooker	Cannon Films	Nicholas Sgarro (director); William Richert (screenplay); Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Tom Poston, Lovelady Powell, Nicholas Pryor, Elizabeth Wilson, Conrad Janis, Richard Lynch, Vincent Schiavelli, Anita Morris	Biography, Comedy	Live Action
	9	The Wild Party	American International Pictures	James Ivory (director); Walter Marks (screenplay); James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Royal Dano, Tiffany Bolling, David Dukes, Mews Small, Paul Barresi, Annette Ferra	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	12	End of the Game	20th Century Fox / Constantin Film / MFG-Film / T.R.A.C.	Maximilian Schell (director/screenplay); Roberto de Leonardis (screenplay); Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Calderoni, Norbert Schiller, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Donald Sutherland	Mystery, Thriller	Live Action
	14	Moonrunners	United Artists	Gy Waldron (director/screenplay); James Mitchum, Kiel Martin, Arthur Hunnicutt, Joan Blackman, Waylon Jennings, Spanky McFarlane, Joey Giardello, Happy Humphrey, Ben Jones, Chris Forbes, George Ellis, Pete Munro, Bill Gribble, Bruce Atkins	Action, Comedy	Live Action
	16	Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York	Paramount Pictures	Sidney J. Furie (director); Kenny Solms (screenplay); Jeannie Berlin, Roy Scheider, Sid Melton, Rebecca Dianna Smith, Janet Brandt, Charles Woolf, Leda Rogers, Jack Bernardi	Black Comedy	Live Action
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		The Man in the Glass Booth	American Film Theatre	Arthur Hiller (director); Edward Anhalt, Robert Shaw (screenplay); Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Henry Booth, Norbert Schiller, Berry Kroeger, Leonardo Cimino, Connie Sawyer	Drama	Live Action
		Tale of The Man of Honor
	20	The Fortune	Columbia Pictures	Mike Nichols (director); Adrien Joyce (screenplay); Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Stockard Channing, Florence Stanley, Richard B. Shull, Tom Newman, John Fiedler, Scatman Crothers, Kathryn Grody, Ian Wolfe, Dub Taylor, Catlin Adams, Christopher Guest, Harry Dean Stanton	Black Comedy	Live Action
	21	Cornbread, Earl and Me	American International Pictures	Joseph Manduke (director); Ronald Fair, Leonard Lamensdorf (screenplay); Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Keith Wilkes, Madge Sinclair, Larry Fishburne, Thalmus Rasulala, Antonio Fargas, Logan Ramsey, Vince Martorano, Charles Lampkin, Stefan Gierasch, Stack Pierce, Tierre Turner, Hal Baylor, Beverly Hope Atkinson	Coming-of-Age, Drama	Live Action
		The Eiger Sanction	Universal Pictures / The Malpaso Company	Clint Eastwood (director); Hal Dresner, Warren B. Murphy, Rod Whitaker (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Brühl, Thayer David, Gregory Walcott, Reiner Schöne, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Brenda Venus, Michael Grimm, Frank Redmond	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		French Connection II	20th Century Fox	John Frankenheimer (director); Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, Laurie Dillon (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter, Charles Millot, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Cathleen Nesbitt, Reine Prat	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		The Return of the Pink Panther	United Artists / ITC Entertainment / Jewel Productions / Pimlico Films / Mirisch-Geoffrey	Blake Edwards (director/screenplay); Frank Waldman (screenplay); Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne, André Maranne, Grégoire Aslan, David Lodge, Burt Kwouk, Graham Stark, Mike Grady, Peter Jeffrey, Eric Pohlmann, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Peter Jones	Comedy	Live Action
		W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings	20th Century Fox / Triangle Productions	John G. Avildsen (director); Thomas Rickman (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Conny Van Dyke, Jerry Reed, Ned Beatty, Art Carney, James Hampton, Don Williams, Rick Hurst, Mel Tillis, Furry Lewis	Comedy	Live Action
		The Wild McCullochs	American International Pictures / Max Baer Productions	Max Baer Jr. (director/screenplay); Forrest Tucker, Julie Adams, Max Baer Jr., Janice Heiden, Dennis Redfield, Don Grady, Chip Hand, William Demarest, Harold J. Stone, Vito Scotti, Sandy McPeak, Lillian Randolph, Mike Mazurki, Billy Curtis, Biff Elliot, Kenneth Tobey, Doodles Weaver, Timothy Scott, James Gammon, Frederic Downs, Joe Sawyers, Matthew Greene, Mark Hall	Drama	Live Action
	22	Breakout	Columbia Pictures	Tom Gries (director); Elliott Baker (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, John Huston, Randy Quaid, Sheree North, Alejandro Rey, Emilio Fernández, Paul Mantee, Alan Vint, Roy Jenson	Action	Live Action
	22	The Wind and the Lion	United Artists / Herb Jaffe Productions	John Milius (director/screenplay); Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis, Vladek Sheybal, Steve Kanaly, Roy Jenson, Nadim Sawalha, Darrell Fetty, Marc Zuber, Antoine Saint-John, Deborah Baxter, Aldo Sambrell, Luis Barboo, Billy Williams, Ben Tatar, John Milius, Simon Harrison, Polly Gottesman, Jack Cooley, Chris Aller, Shirley Rothman, Larry Cross, Alexander Weldon, Audrey San Felix	Epic, Adventure	Live Action
	23	Lepke	Warner Bros.	Menahem Golan (director); Wesley Lau, Tamar Hoffs (screenplay); Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Milton Berle, Michael Callan, Warren Berlinger, Gianni Russo, Vic Tayback, Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Louis Guss, Vaughn Meader, Lillian Adams, Johnny Silver, Barry Miller, Buck Young, Dick Winslow, Wesley Lau, Michael Masters, Clement von Franckenstein, Chuck Hayward, Jack Ackerman, Albert Cole, Zitto Kazann, J.S. Johnson, Simmy Bow, John Durren, Jon Jacobs, Matt Greene, Richard C. Adams, Raymond Cavaleri, Zachary Berger, Ida Mae McKenzie, Erwin Fuller, Ken Del Conte, Robin Chesler, Sy Kramer	Biography, Drama	Live Action
	30	The Hiding Place	World Wide Pictures	James F. Collier (director); Allan Sloane, Lawrence Holben (screenplay); Julie Harris, Eileen Heckart, Arthur O'Connell, Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietti, Paul Henley, Lex van Delden, Nigel Hawthorne, John Gabriel, Edward Burnham, Cyril Shaps, Forbes Collins, Pamela Sholto, Richard Wren, Broes Hartman, Tom van Beek	Biography, Drama, History	Live Action
J U N E	1	Las Vegas Lady	Crown International Pictures / Zappala & Slott Productions	Noel Nosseck (director); Walter Dallenbach (screenplay); Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo, Lynne Moody, Andrew Stevens, Karl Lukas, Frank Bonner, Linda Scruggs, Joseph Della Sorte, Hank Robinson, Emilia Dallenbach, Max Starky, Walter Smith, Jack Gordon, Stephanie Faulkner	Crime	Live Action
		Poor Pretty Eddie	Artaxerxes Productions / Michael Thevis Enterprises	David Worth, Richard Robinson (directors); Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian, Slim Pickens, Dub Taylor, Ted Cassidy	Crime, Horror, Thriller	Live Action
		The Ultimate Warrior	Warner Bros.	Robert Clouse (director/screenplay); Yul Brynner, Max von Sydow, Joanna Miles, Richard Kelton, Lane Bradbury, William Smith, Darrell Zwerling, Mel Novak, Stephen McHattie, Henry Kingi, Gary Johnson, Mickey Caruso, Nate Esformes	Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure	Live Action
	4	Posse	Paramount Pictures / The Bryna Company	Kirk Douglas (director); Christopher Knopf, William Roberts (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Luke Askew, David Canary, Alfonso Arau, Katherine Woodville, Mark Roberts, Dick O'Neill, Melody Thomas Scott, Beth Brickell, Bill Burton, Louie Elias, Gus Greymountain, Allan Warnick, Roger Behrstock, Jess Riggle, Stephanie Steele	Western	Live Action
	10	Love and Death	United Artists	Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, James Tolkan, Harold Gould, Olga Georges-Picot, Beth Porter, Zvee Scooler, Jessica Harper, Féodor Atkine, Despo Diamantidou, Yves Barsacq, Yves Brainville, Brian Coburn, Tony Jay, Howard Vernon, Aubrey Morris, Alfred Lutter, Lloyd Battista, Georges Adet, Sol Frieder, Frank Adu	Comedy	Live Action
	11	Nashville	Paramount Pictures / ABC Motion Pictures	Robert Altman (director); Joan Tewkesbury (screenplay); David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Timothy Brown, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert DoQui, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield, Henry Gibson, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Harris, David Hayward, Michael Murphy, Allan F. Nicholls, Dave Peel, Cristina Raines, Bert Remsen, Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles, Keenan Wynn, Thomas Hal Phillips, Richard Baskin, Merle Kilgore, Elliott Gould, Julie Christie, Vassar Clements, Howard K. Smith	Musical, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	11	Night Moves	Warner Bros. / Hiller Productions, Ltd. – Layton	Arthur Penn (director); Alan Sharp (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, Janet Ward, James Woods, John Crawford, Melanie Griffith, Anthony Costello, Ben Archibek	Neo-Noir	Live Action
	15	Blazing Stewardesses	Independent-International Pictures	Al Adamson (director); Samuel M. Sherman, John R. D'Amato (screenplay); Yvonne De Carlo, Bob Livingston, Don "Red" Barry, The Ritz Brothers, Regina Carrol, T.A. King, Geoffrey Land, Connie Hoffman, Nicolle Riddell, Sheldon Lee, Carol Bilger, Jon Shank, Samuel M. Sherman	Comedy	Live Action
	15	Sunday Too Far Away (Australia)	Roadshow Film Distributors / South Australian Film Corporation	Ken Hannam (director); John Dingwall (screenplay); Jack Thompson, Robert Bruning, Reg Lye, Max Cullen, Peter Cummins, John Ewart, Sean Scully, Ken Shorter, Jerry Thomas, Graham Smith, Lisa Peers, Philip Ross	Drama	Live Action
	17	Bug	Paramount Pictures	Jeannot Szwarc (director); William Castle, Thomas Page (screenplay); Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Alan Fudge, Jesse Vint, Patty McCormack, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Brendan Dillon, Frederic Downs, James Greene, Jim Poyner	Horror	Live Action
	20	The Devil's Rain	Bryanston Distributing Company	Robert Fuest (director); Gabe Essoe, James Ashton, Gerald Hopman (screenplay); Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, William Shatner, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, Joan Prather, Keenan Wynn, John Travolta, George Sawaya, Anton LaVey, Diane LaVey, Woodrow Chambliss, Lisa Todd	Horror	Live Action
		Jaws	Universal Pictures / Zanuck/Brown Company	Steven Spielberg (director); Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb (screenplay); Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Lee Fierro, Peter Benchley, Fritzi Jane Courtney, Steven Spielberg	Thriller	Live Action
		Once Is Not Enough	Paramount Pictures	Guy Green (director); Julius J. Epstein (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin, Gary Conway, Leonard Sachs, John Roper, Phil Foster, Lillian Randolph	Romance	Live Action
		That's the Way of the World	United Artists / Sig Shore Productions	Sig Shore (director); Robert Lipsyte (screenplay); Harvey Keitel, Ed Nelson, Earth, Wind & Fire	Drama, Music	Live Action
	25	Bite the Bullet	Columbia Pictures / Persky-Bright Productions Vista	Richard Brooks (director/screenplay); Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, Robert Donner, Jean Willes, Dabney Coleman, Robert Hoy, Sally Kirkland, John McLiam, Mario Arteaga, Jerry Gatlin	Western	Live Action
		Cooley High	American International Pictures	Michael Schultz (director); Eric Monte (screenplay); Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Steven Williams, Christine Jones, Jackie Taylor, Cynthia Davis, Sherman Smith, Norman Gibson, Corin Rogers, Joseph Carter Wilson, Maurice Marshall, Juanita McConnell	Coming-of-Age, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Rollerball	United Artists	Norman Jewison (director); William Harrison (screenplay); James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Pamela Hensley, Barbara Trentham, Ralph Richardson, John Normington, Shane Rimmer, Burt Kwouk, Richard LeParmentier, Robert Ito, Nancy Bleier	Sci-Fi, Sports	Live Action
	27	Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze	Warner Bros.	Michael Anderson (director); Joe Morhaim, George Pal (screenplay); Ron Ely, Paul Gleason, William Lucking, Eldon Quick, Darrell Zwerling, Paul Wexler, Pamela Hensley, Robyn Hilton, Victor Millan, Paul Frees, Robert Tessier, Michael Berryman, Dar Robinson, Grace Stafford, Michael Miller, Bob Corso, Federico Roberto, Janice Helden, Carlos Rivas	Action	Live Action
	27	Race with the Devil	20th Century Fox	Jack Starrett (director); Wes Bishop, Lee Frost (screenplay); Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker, R.G. Armstrong, Clay Tanner, Paul A. Partain, James N. Harrell, Jack Starrett, Paul Maslansky, Dan Hewitt Owens, Carol Blodgett, Ricci Ware, Karen Miller, Arkey Blue, Wes Bishop, John Buckley	Action, Horror	Live Action

July–September


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	1	The Apple Dumpling Gang	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	Norman Tokar (director); Don Tait (screenplay); Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, David Wayne, Slim Pickens, Harry Morgan, John McGiver, Don Knight, Brad Savage, Dennis Fimple, Iris Adrian, Fran Ryan, Bing Russell, Olan Soule, Joshua Shelley, Dick Winslow, Clay O'Brien, Stacy Manning, Pepe Callahan, James E. Brodhead, Jim Boles, Tom Waters, Dawn Little Sky, Richard Lee-Sung, Arthur Wong, Bill Dunbar, Wally Berns	Comedy, Western	Live Action
	2	Bucktown	American International Pictures	Arthur Marks (director); Bob Ellison (screenplay); Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King, Bernie Hamilton, Art Lund, Tierre Turner, Carl Weathers, Morgan Upton, Jim Bohan	Crime, Action, Blaxploitation	Live Action
		Gone with the West	International Cine Film Corporation	Bernard Girard (director); Monroe Manning, Douglas Day Stewart, Marcus Demian (screenplay); James Caan, Stefanie Powers, Aldo Ray, Barbara Werle, Robert Walker Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., Heather Angel, Mike Lane, Michael Conrad, Anne Barton, Paul Bergen, Fred Book, Noel Drayton, James McHale, Pepper Martin, Elmore Vincent, L. Andy Stone, Elizabeth Leigh, Kenneth Adams, Anthony Gordon, Fabian Dean, Gillian Simpson, Chris Calabrese	Western	Live Action
		Walking Tall Part 2	American International Pictures / Bing Crosby Productions / Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Fuqua Industries / Wometco Enterprises	Earl Bellamy (director); Howard B. Kreitsek (screenplay); Bo Svenson, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Glover, Robert DoQui, Noah Beery, Luke Askew, John Davis Chandler, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn, Logan Ramsey, Lurene Tuttle, Angel Tompkins, Frank McRae, Red West, Brooke Mills, Archie Grinalds, Allen Mullikin	Crime, Action	Live Action
	9	One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	Robert Stevenson (director); Bill Walsh (screenplay); Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Hugh Burden, Deryck Guyler, Molly Weir, Max Wall, Natasha Pyne, Joss Ackland, Arthur Howard, Roy Kinnear, Leonard Trolley, Percy Herbert, Joan Hickson, John Laurie, Angus Lennie, Jon Pertwee, Kathleen Byron, Lucy Griffiths, Aimée Delamain, John Bardon, Jane Lapotaire, Richard Pearson, Michael Elwyn, Anthony Sharp, Wensley Pithey, Frank Williams, Peter Madden, Erik Chitty, Amanda Barrie, Andrew Dove, Max Harris, Joe Ritchie	Comedy	Live Action
	9	Smile	United Artists	Michael Ritchie (director); Jerry Belson (screenplay); Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis, Eric Shea, Nicholas Pryor, Titos Vandis, Paul Benedict, William Traylor, Dennis Dugan, Joan Prather, Denise Nickerson, Melanie Griffith, Annette O'Toole, Colleen Camp, Kate Sarchet, Maria O'Brien, Carol Ann Williams, Shawn Christianson	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	10	The Drowning Pool	Warner Bros. / First Artists	Stuart Rosenberg (director); Tracy Keenan Wynn, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Walter Hill (screenplay); Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith, Richard Derr, Linda Haynes, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Koslo, Andrew Robinson, Coral Browne, Helena Kallianiotes, Joe Canutt, Andre Trottier	Neo-Noir, Thriller	Live Action
	11	Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold	Warner Bros.	Charles Bail (director); William Tennant, Max Julien (screenplay); Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Norman Fell, Albert Popwell, Caro Kenyatta	Action, Adventure, Blaxploitation	Live Action
	16	White Line Fever	Columbia Pictures / International Cinemedia Center / White Line Fever Syndicate	Jonathan Kaplan (director/screenplay); Ken Friedman (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Sam Laws, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Don Porter, R.G. Armstrong, Leigh French, Dick Miller, Martin Kove	Action, Crime, Neo-Noir	Live Action
	23	Cover Girl Models	Filmgroup / New World Pictures	Cirio H. Santiago (director); Howard R. Cohen (screenplay); Pat Anderson, Lindsay Bloom, Tara Strohmeier, Mary Woronov, Vic Diaz, Tony Ferrer, John Kramer, Rhonda Leigh Hopkins, A.C. Castro, Nory Wright, Mark Lebeuse, Ken Metcalfe	Exploitation	Live Action
	23	Return to Macon County	American International Pictures	Richard Compton (director/screenplay); Nick Nolte, Don Johnson, Robin Mattson, Eugene Daniels, Robert Viharo, Devon Ericson	Action, Drama	Live Action
	25	The Other Side of the Mountain	Universal Pictures / Filmways Pictures	Larry Peerce (director); David Seltzer (screenplay); Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges, Belinda J. Montgomery, Nan Martin, Dabney Coleman, Bill Vint, William Bryant, Hampton Fancher, William Roerick, Dori Brenner, Walter Brooke, Tony Becker, Griffin Dunne, Jocelyn Jones, Greg Mabrey	Drama, Romance	Live Action
	25	Zorro (Italy)	United Artists / Titanus / Mondial Televisione Film / Les Productions Artistes Associes	Duccio Tessari (director); Giorgio Arlorio (screenplay); Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo, Enzo Cerusico, Adriana Asti, Giampiero Albertini, Moustache, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Marino Masé, Raika Juri, Paulino Rito, Vicente Roca	Action, Adventure, Comedy	Live Action
	26	Mandingo	Paramount Pictures / Dino De Laurentiis Company	Richard Fleischer (director); Norman Wexler (screenplay); James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward, Brenda Sykes, Ken Norton, Lillian Hayman, Sylvester Stallone	Historical, Drama	Live Action
	30	The Wilby Conspiracy	United Artists / Baum/Dantine Productions / Optimus Productions Ltd.	Ralph Nelson (director); Rodney Amateau, Harold Nebenzal (screenplay); Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Saeed Jaffrey, Persis Khambatta, Rijk de Gooyer, Rutger Hauer, Patrick Allen, Joe De Graft, Archie Duncan, Helmut Dantine	Adventure, Thriller	Live Action
	31	The Candy Tangerine Man	Moonstone Entertainment	Matt Cimber (director); Mikel Angel (screenplay); John Daniels, George Buck Flower, Marilyn Joi, Eli Haines, Tom Hankason, Marva Farmer, Richard Kennedy, Meri McDonald, Talley Cochrane, Patrick Wright, Mikel Angel	Action, Adventure, Blaxploitation	Live Action
		Hennessy (UK)	American International Pictures / Hennessy Film Productions	Don Sharp (director); John Gay (screenplay); Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Peter Egan, Eric Porter, Ian Hogg, Stanley Lebor, John Hallam, Patrick Stewart, David Collings, John Shrapnel, Hugh Moxey, Margery Mason, Paul Brennan, Paul Blake, Patsy Kensit	Thriller	Live Action
		The Man from Hong Kong (Australia/Hong Kong)	20th Century Fox / Golden Harvest / The Movie Company	Brian Trenchard-Smith (director/screenplay); Jimmy Wang Yu, George Lazenby, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Ros Speirs, Rebecca Gilling, Frank Thring, Sammo Hung, Grant Page, Bill Hunter, John Orcsik, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Andre Morgan, Phillip Avalon, Roy Chiao, Deryck Barnes, Elaine Wong	Action	Live Action
A U G U S T	1	The Super Inframan (Hong Kong)	Shaw Brothers Studio	Hua Shan (director); Ni Kuang (screenplay); Danny Lee, Wang Hsieh, Terry Lau, Yuan Man-tzu, Bruce Le, Kong Yeung, Dana Shum, Lin Wen-wei, Lu Sheng, Fanny Leung	Sci-Fi, Action	Live Action
	2	Dersu Uzala (USSR/Japan)	Mosfilm / Daiei Film	Akira Kurosawa (director/screenplay); Yuri Nagibin (screenplay); Maxim Munzuk, Yury Solomin, Alexander Pyatkov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Vladimir Kremena, Svetlana Danilchenko	Adventure, Biography, Drama	Live Action
	3	Framed	Paramount Pictures	Phil Karlson (director); Mort Briskin (screenplay); Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Brock Peters, John Larch, Paul Mantee, Walter Brooke, Joshua Bryant, Hunter von Leer, Les Lannom, Hard Boiled Haggerty, Lawrence Montaigne, Red West, Warren J. Kemmerling, Hoke Howell, Brenton Banks, Ken Lester, Henry O. Arnold, Gary Gober, Lloyd Tatum, Roy Jenson	Crime, Neo-Noir	Live Action
	7	That Lucky Touch	Fox-Rank / Allied Artists / De Grunwald Productions / Gloria Film	Christopher Miles (director); Moss Hart, John Briley, Monja Danischewsky (screenplay); Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, Lee J. Cobb, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Raf Vallone, Sydne Rome, Donald Sinden, Michael Shannon, Aubrey Woods, Julie Dawn Cole, Timothy Carlton, Alfred Hoffman, Vincent Hall, Fabian Cevallos, Takis Emmanuel	Comedy	Live Action
	8	Farewell, My Lovely	AVCO Embassy Pictures / ITC Entertainment	Dick Richards (director); David Zelag Goodman (screenplay); Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack O'Halloran, Joe Spinell, Sylvester Stallone, Rainbeaux Smith, Kate Murtagh, John O'Leary, Walter McGinn, Burton Gilliam, Jim Thompson, Jimmie Archer, Ted Gehring	Neo-Noir, Crime, Thriller	Live Action
		Journey into Fear (Canada)	International Film Distributors / New World Productions	Daniel Mann (director); Trevor Wallace (screenplay); Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Scott Marlowe, Ian McShane, Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, Shelley Winters, Stanley Holloway, Jackie Cooper, Joseph Wiseman	Thriller	Live Action
		Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia)	British Empire Films / South Australian Film Corporation / Australian Film Commission / McElroy & McElroy / Picnic Productions	Peter Weir (director); Cliff Green (screenplay); Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, John Jarratt, Kirsty Child, Martin Vaughan, Vivean Gray, Karen Robson, Anne-Louise Lambert, Jenny Lovell, Peter Collingwood, Olga Dickie, Garry McDonald, John Fegan, Wyn Roberts, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Margaret Nelson, Christine Schuler, Jane Vallis, Frank Gunnell, Kay Taylor	Mystery	Live Action
	13	Darktown Strutters	New World Pictures	William Witney (director); George Armitage (screenplay); Trina Parks, Edna Richardson, Shirley Washington, Roger E. Mosley, Stan Shaw, DeWayne Jessie, Norman Bartold, Dick Miller, Milt Kogan, Ed Bakey, Raymond Allen, Alvin Childress, Zara Cully, Bettye Sweet, Christopher Joy, Gene Simms, Sam Laws	Blaxploitation, Musical, Comedy	Live Action
	13	The Land That Time Forgot	American International Pictures / Amicus Productions	Kevin Connor (director); Michael Moorcock, James Cawthorn (screenplay); Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron, Anthony Ainley, Godfrey James, Declan Mulholland, Roy Holder, Andrew McCulloch, Ron Pember, Brian Hall, Peter Sproule, Steve James	Adventure, Fantasy	Live Action
	14	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	20th Century Fox / Michael White Productions	Jim Sharman (director/screenplay); Richard O'Brien (screenplay); Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, Charles Gray, Jeremy Newson, Hilary Farr, Christopher Biggins, Ishaq Bux, Imogen Claire, Sadie Corre, Annabel Leventon, Henry Woolf, Richard Nixon, Koo Stark, Perry Bedden, Gaye Brown, Stephen Calcutt, Hugh Cecil, Tony Cowan, Fran Fullenwider, Lindsay Ingram, Peggy Ledger, Anthony Milner, Pamela Obermeyer, Tony Then, Kimi Wong	Musical, Comedy, Horror	Live Action
	20	Coonskin	Bryanston Distributing Company / Bakshi Productions / Albert S. Ruddy Productions	Ralph Bakshi (director/screenplay); Barry White, Charles Gordone, Philip Michael Thomas, Scatman Crothers, Al Lewis, Richard Paul, Frank de Kova, Ralph Bakshi, Theodore Wilson, Jesse Welles, Danny Rees, Buddy Douglas, Jim Moore	Crime	Adult Animation
	22	The Great McGonagall	Tigon British Film Productions	Joseph McGrath (director/screenplay); Spike Milligan (screenplay); Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Julia Foster, John Bluthal, Victor Spinetti, Valentine Dyall, Clifton Jones, Julian Chagrin, Charlie Young Atom	Comedy	Live Action
	29	92 in the Shade	United Artists	Thomas McGuane (director/screenplay); Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder, Burgess Meredith, Harry Dean Stanton, Elizabeth Ashley, Sylvia Miles, John Quade, Joe Spinell	Drama	Live Action
S E P T E M B E R	10	It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time	Gemstone Entertainment	John Trent (director/screenplay); Claude Harz, David Main (screenplay); Anthony Newley, Stefanie Powers, Isaac Hayes, Lloyd Bochner, Yvonne De Carlo, John Candy, Lawrence Dane, Henry Ramer	Comedy	Live Action
	10	Mitchell	Allied Artists Pictures Corporation	Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Ian Kennedy Martin (screenplay); Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Robert Phillips, Morgan Paull, Harold J. Stone, Merlin Olsen	Action	Live Action
	17	Swept Away	Medusa Distribuzione	Lina Wertmüller (director/screenplay); Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Isa Danieli, Riccardo Salvino, Aldo Puglisi, Eros Pagni	Romance, Adventure, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	18	Give 'em Hell, Harry!	Theater Television / Permut Presentations / Theatrovision	Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt (directors); Samuel Gallu (screenplay); James Whitmore	Biography, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	21	Dog Day Afternoon	Warner Bros. / Artists Entertainment Complex	Sidney Lumet (director); Frank Pierson (screenplay); Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, Susan Peretz, James Broderick, Lance Henriksen, Carol Kane, Marcia Jean Kurtz, John Marriott, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Dick Anthony Williams, Judith Malina, Dominic Chianese, Edwin "Chu Chu" Malave, Beulah Garrick, Sandra Kazan, Estelle Omens, Amy Levitt, Gary Springer, Lionel Pina	Biography, Crime, Drama	Live Action
	24	Three Days of the Condor	Paramount Pictures / Dino De Laurentiis Corporation	Sydney Pollack (director); Lorenzo Semple Jr., David Rayfiel (screenplay); Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman, Addison Powell, Walter McGinn, Tina Chen, Jess Osuna, Helen Stenborg, Patrick Gorman, Hansford Rowe, Carlin Glynn, Hank Garrett, James Keane, Sal Schillizzi, Sydney Pollack, Michael Kane, Don McHenry, Michael Miller, Dino Narizzano	Thriller	Live Action
	30	Black Moon	Cinema International Corporation (France) / Filmverlag der Autoren (West Germany)	Louis Malle (director/screenplay); Joyce Buñuel, Ghislain Uhry (screenplay); Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Joe Dallesandro, Alexandra Stewart	Fantasy, Horror	Live Action

October–December


Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	3	The Master Gunfighter	Warner Bros. / Taylor-Laughlin Productions	Frank Laughlin (director); Tom Laughlin (screenplay); Tom Laughlin, Ron O'Neal, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Barbara Carrera, Burgess Meredith, Geo Anne Sosa, Victor Campos, Hector Elias	Drama, Western	Live Action
	5	Conduct Unbecoming	British Film / Lion International	Michael Anderson (director); Robert Enders (screenplay); Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, James Faulkner, James Donald, Michael Culver, Persis Khambatta, Helen Cherry, David Robb, Michael Byrne, Jamila Massey, Michael Fleming, David Purcell, Andrew Lodge, David Neville	Drama	Live Action
	8	Hard Times	Columbia Pictures / Lawrence Gordon Productions	Walter Hill (director/screenplay); Bryan Gindoff, Bruce Henstell (screenplay); Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Robert Tessier, Michael McGuire, Nick Dimitri, Margaret Blye, Thomas Jefferson, Bruce Glover, Frank McRae	Crime, Neo-Noir, Sports	Live Action
		Hearts of the West	United Artists	Howard Zieff (director); Rob Thompson (screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin, Richard B. Shull, Herbert Edelman, Alex Rocco, Frank Cady, Anthony James, Burton Gilliam, Matt Clark, Candice Azzara, Thayer David, Marie Windsor, Anthony Holland, Dub Taylor, William Christopher, Stuart Nisbet, Tucker Smith, Richard Stahl, Granville Van Dusen	Comedy	Live Action
		Mahogany	Paramount Pictures / Motown Productions	Berry Gordy (director); Bob Merrill, John Byrum (screenplay); Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nina Foch, Beah Richards, Marisa Mell, Anthony Perkins, Jerome Arnold, Bruce Vilanch, Princess Irene Galitzine, Lenard Norris, Dan Daniel	Romance, Drama	Live Action
	10	Lisztomania	Warner Bros. / Goodtimes Enterprises / Visual Programme Systems Ltd.	Ken Russell (director/screenplay); Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr, Rick Wakeman, John Justin, Fiona Lewis, Little Nell, David English, Imogen Claire, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Melvin, Andrew Faulds, Kenneth Colley, Veronica Quilligan, Andy Reilly, Rikki Howard, David Corti, Lucy Willers, Felicity Devonshire, Otto Diamant	Biography, Musical, Comedy	Live Action
		Royal Flash	20th Century Fox / Two Roads Productions	Richard Lester (director); George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay); Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed, Tom Bell, Joss Ackland, Lionel Jeffries, Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern, Britt Ekland, Christopher Cazenove, Henry Cooper, Richard Pearson, Alan Howard, Bob Hoskins, Richard Hurndall, Arthur Brough, Elizabeth Larner, Margaret Courtenay, Leon Greene, David Jason, Noel Johnson, Ben Aris, Rula Lenska, Bob Peck, John Stuart, Frank Grimes, Tessa Dahl, David Sterne, Roger Hammond, Stuart Rayner, Paul Burton, Claire Russell, Kubi Chaza, Meg Davis	Adventure	Live Action
		Shivers (Canada)	Cinépix Film Properties / CFDC	David Cronenberg (director/screenplay); Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele, Vlasta Vrána, Alan Migicovsky, Susan Petrie, Ronald Mlodzik, Barry Boldero, Camil Ducharme, Hanka Posnanska, Wally Martin, Silvie Debois	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
	11	Let's Do It Again	Warner Bros. / First Artists / Verdon Productions Limited	Sidney Poitier (director); Richard Wesley (screenplay); Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Julius Harris, Denise Nicholas, Lee Chamberlin, Mel Stewart, Jimmie Walker, Ossie Davis, Billy Eckstine, Paul Harris, George Foreman, Jayne Kennedy, Rodolphus Lee Hayden	Action, Crime, Comedy	Live Action
	12	The Divine Nymph	Analysis Film Releasing Corporation	Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (director/screenplay); Alfio Valdarnini (screenplay); Laura Antonelli, Terence Stamp, Marcello Mastroianni, Michele Placido, Duilio Del Prete, Ettore Manni, Carlo Tamberlani, Marina Berti, Doris Duranti, Tina Aumont, Corrado Annicelli, Cecilia Polizzi, Piero Di Iorio, Rita Silva, Gino Cassani	Drama	Live Action
	12	Lies My Father Told Me	Columbia Pictures / Astral Films / Canadian Film Development Corporation	Ján Kadár (director); Ted Allan (screenplay); Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Ted Allan, Barbara Chilcott, Carole Lazare, Cleo Paskal, Yossi Yadin, Jeffery Lynas, Henry Gamer, Mignon Elkins	Drama	Live Action
	15	Whiffs	20th Century Fox / Brut Productions	Ted Post (director); Malcolm Marmorstein (screenplay); Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Harry Guardino, Godfrey Cambridge, Jennifer O'Neill, Don "Red" Barry, James Brown, Richard Masur, Howard Hesseman, Karl Lukas, Danny Wells, Viola Harris, Jack Colley	Comedy	Live Action
	17	Rooster Cogburn	Universal Pictures / Hal Wallis Productions	Stuart Millar (director); Martin Julien (screenplay); John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire, Strother Martin, Paul Koslo, Jack Colvin, Jon Lormer, Lane Smith, Warren Vanders, Richard Romancito, Tommy Lee, Jerry Gatlin	Western	Live Action
	19	Hester Street	Midwest Films	Joan Micklin Silver (director/screenplay); Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Doris Roberts, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Lauren Friedman	Romance	Live Action
	22	Diamonds	AVCO Embassy Pictures	Menahem Golan (director/screenplay); Arik Dichner (director); David Paulsen (screenplay); Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey, Shelley Winters, Shaike Ophir, Yosef Shiloach, Gadi Yagil, Yehuda Efroni	Heist	Live Action
	24	The Giant Spider Invasion	Group 1 International Distribution Organization Ltd. / Transcentury Pictures	Bill Rebane (director); Robert Easton, Richard L. Huff (screenplay); Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Alan Hale Jr., Leslie Parrish, Robert Easton, Christiane Schmidtmer, Kevin Brodie, Bill Williams, Diane Lee Hart, Paul Bentzen, Tain Bodkin, J. Stewart Taylor, William W. Gillett Jr.	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
	29	Take a Hard Ride	20th Century Fox / Bernsen-Ludwig-Bercovici Productions	Anthony Dawson (director); Eric Bercovici, Jerrold L. Ludwig (screenplay); Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly, Dana Andrews, Barry Sullivan, Harry Carey Jr., Robert Donner, Charles McGregor, Ronald Howard, Buddy Joe Hooker, Leonard Smith, Ricardo Palacios, Robin (Baker) Levitt	Western	Live Action
N O V E M B E R	5	Challenge to Be Free	Pacific International Enterprises	Tay Garnett (director); Anne Bosworth, Chuck D. Keen (screenplay); Mike Mazurki, John McIntire, Tay Garnett, Fritz Ford, Vic Christy, Jimmy Kane, Alex Van Bibber, Gordon Yardley, Bob McKinnon, Roger Reitano, Ted Yardley, Brian Russell, Connie Yardley, Patty Piper	Adventure, Family	Live Action
		Crazy Mama	New World Pictures	Jonathan Demme (director); Robert Thom (screenplay); Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Linda Purl, Jim Backus, Donny Most, Tisha Sterling, Sally Kirkland, Dick Miller, Harry Northup, John Milius, Beach Dickerson, Bill Paxton, Dennis Quaid	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Overlord	Janus Films / Joswend	Stuart Cooper (director/screenplay); Christopher Hudson (screenplay); Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, John Franklyn-Robbins, Stella Tanner	Drama, History, War	Live Action
		Winterhawk	Howco International Pictures	Charles B. Pierce (director/screenplay); Kalai Strode, Earl E. Smith (screenplay); Leif Erickson, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, L.Q. Jones, Elisha Cook Jr., Seamon Glass, Dennis Fimple, Arthur Hunnicutt, Dawn Wells, Michael Dante	Western	Live Action
	6	Out of Season	EMI Film Distributors / Lorimar Productions	Alan Bridges (director); Eric Bercovici, Reuben Bercovitch (screenplay); Cliff Robertson, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan George, Edward Evans, Frank Jarvis	Drama	Live Action
	6	The Sunshine Boys	United Artists / Rastar	Herbert Ross (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, Carol Arthur, Rosetta LeNoire, F. Murray Abraham, Howard Hesseman, Ron Rifkin, Jennifer Lee, Fritz Feld, Archie Hahn, Tom Spratley, Milt Kogan, Steve Allen, Phyllis Diller, James Cranna, Jack Bernardi, Garn Stephens, Santos Morales	Comedy	Live Action
	12	Stardust (U.S. Release date)	Anglo-EMI Film Distributors / Goodtimes Enterprises	Michael Apted (director); Ray Connolly (screenplay); David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps, Rosalind Ayres, Marty Wilde, Edd Byrnes, Keith Moon, Dave Edmunds, Paul Nicholas, Karl Howman, Richard LeParmentier, Peter Duncan, John Normington, James Hazeldine, David Daker, David Jacobs, Ray Winstone	Musical, Drama	Live Action
	13	Inn of the Damned	Roadshow Entertainment	Terry Bourke (director/screenplay); Judith Anderson, Alex Cord, Michael Craig, Joseph Furst, Tony Bonner, John Meillon, Robert Quilter	Western, Horror	Live Action
	14	A Boy and His Dog	LQ/Jaf Productions	L.Q. Jones (director/screenplay); Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Alvy Moore, Jason Robards, Tim McIntire, Charles McGraw, Hal Baylor, Ron Feinberg, Michael Rupert, Helene Winston, Don Carter, Michael Hershman	Black Comedy, Sci-Fi	Live Action
	19	The "Human" Factor	Bryanston Distribution / Eton / Avianca Features	Edward Dmytryk (director); Peter Powell, Thomas Hunter (screenplay); George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone, Rita Tushingham, Barry Sullivan, Arthur Franz, Haydee Politoff, Tom Hunter, Frank Avianca, Shane Rimmer, Danny Huston, Ricky Harrison, Jan Englund, Vincenzo Crocitti, Fiamma Verges, Hillary Lief, Michael Mandeville, Mark Lowell, Lewis Charles, Corinne Dunne	Thriller	Live Action
		Fear Over the City	AMLF / Cerito Films / Mondial Televisione Film	Henri Verneuil (director/screenplay); Jean Laborde, Francis Veber (screenplay); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Adalberto Maria Merli, Jean Martin, Lea Massari, Rosy Varte, Catherine Morin, Jean-François Balmer, Albert Delpy	Crime	Live Action
		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	United Artists / Fantasy Films	Miloš Forman (director); Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman (screenplay); Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Dean Brooks, William Duell, Vincent Schiavelli, Michael Berryman, Nathan George, Marya Small, Scatman Crothers, Phil Roth, Louisa Moritz, Peter Brocco, Josip Elic, Ted Markland, Alonzo Brown, Mwako Cumbaka, Delos V. Smith Jr., Mimi Sarkisian	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Permission to Kill	AVCO Embassy Pictures	Cyril Frankel (director); Robin Estridge (screenplay); Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Bekim Fehmiu, Timothy Dalton, Nicole Calfan, Frederic Forrest, John Levene, Klaus Wildbolz, Anthony Dutton, Peggy Sinclair, Dennis Branch, Alf Joint, Vladimir Popovic, Ratislav Plamenac, Oliver Schott, Erna Riedl, Paul Maxwell, John Serret, Anthony Forwood, François Baudet, Bob Sessions, Peter Garell, Friedrich Mönnig, Fritz von Friedl, Erwin Fischer	Spy, Thriller	Live Action
	21	Mackintosh and T.J.	Penland Productions	Marvin J. Chomsky (director); Paul Savage (screenplay); Roy Rogers, Clay O'Brien, Billy Green Bush, Andrew Robinson, Joan Hackett, James Hampton, Dennis Fimple, Luke Askew, Walter Barnes, Edith Atwater, Ted Gehring, Larry Mahan, Dean Smith, James N. Harrell	Western	Live Action
	22	Inserts	United Artists / Film and General Productions	John Byrum (director/screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Veronica Cartwright, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins, Stephen Davies	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	22	The Wrong Move	Axiom Films	Wim Wenders (director); Peter Handke (screenplay); Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Marianne Hoppe, Nastassja Kinski, Hans Christian Blech, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny, Lisa Kreuzer	Drama	Live Action
	26	The Romantic Englishwoman	Fox-Rank / Dial Films / Les Productions Meric-Matalon	Joseph Losey (director); Tom Stoppard, Thomas Wiseman (screenplay); Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Michael Lonsdale, Béatrice Romand, Kate Nelligan, Nathalie Delon, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Anna Steele, Marcus Richardson, Julie Peasgood, Frankie Jordan, Tom Chatto, Frances Tomelty	Comedy, Drama, Romance	Live Action
	27	Inside Out	Warner Bros. / Kettledrum Films	Peter Duffell (director); Judd Bernard, Stephen Schneck (screenplay); Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Günter Meisner, Aldo Ray, Adrian Hoven, Wolfgang Lukschy, Charles Korvin, Constantine Gregory, Richard Warner, Don Fellows, Doris Kunstmann, Lorna Dallas, Sigrid Hanack, Peter Schlesinger	Action, Thriller	Live Action
	29	Operation Daybreak	Warner Bros. / Howard R. Schuster, Inc. / American Allied Studios / Barrandov Studios	Lewis Gilbert (director); Ronald Harwood (screenplay); Timothy Bottoms, Anthony Andrews, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anton Diffring, Carl Duering, Cyril Shaps, Diana Coupland, Ronald Radd, Kim Fortune, Ray Smith, George Sewell, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Kika Markham, Philip Madoc, Nigel Stock, Vernon Dobtcheff, Frank Gatliff, Pavla Matějovská, Jiri Krampol	War	Live Action
D E C E M B E R	3	Peeper	20th Century Fox	Peter Hyams (director); W.D. Richter (screenplay); Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Michael Constantine, Timothy Agoglia Carey, Thayer David, Liam Dunn, Don Calfa, Margo Winkler, Dorothy Adams, Buffy Dee, Robert Ito, Liz Renay, Paul Jabara, Guy Marks	Mystery, Comedy	Live Action
	10	Against a Crooked Sky	Doty-Dayton Releasing	Earl Bellamy (director); Douglas C. Stewart, Eleanor Lamb (screenplay); Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen, Henry Wilcoxon, Clint Ritchie, Shannon Farnon, Jewel Blanch, Brenda Venus, Gordon Hanson, Geoffrey Land, Vince St. Cyr, Margaret Willey, Norman Walke, George Dale, Bar Killer	Western	Live Action
	10	Sixpack Annie	American International / United Producers	Graydon F. David (director); Norman Winski, David Kidd, Wil David (screenplay); Lindsay Bloom, Joe Higgins, Larry Mahan, Raymond Danton, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Bruce Boxleitner, Louisa Moritz, Vince Barnett, Doodles Weaver, Ralph James, Stubby Kaye, Billy Barty, Jana Bellan, Richard Kennedy, Danna Hansen, Steve Randall, Ronald Marriott, Donald Elson, Oscar Cartier, Montana Smoyer, Terry Mace, Danny Michael Mann, Peter Dane	Action, Adventure, Comedy	Live Action
	12	Psychic Killer	AVCO Embassy Pictures / Lexington Productions / Syn-Frank Enterprises	Ray Danton (director/screenplay); Greydon Clark, Mikel Angel (screenplay); Paul Burke, Jim Hutton, Julie Adams, Nehemiah Persoff, Neville Brand, Aldo Ray, Whit Bissell, Rod Cameron, Della Reese, Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Greydon Clark, Robin Raymond, Bill Quinn, Stack Pierce, Judith Brown, Joseph Della Sorte, Harry Holcombe, Jerry James, Diane Deininger, John Dennis, Marland Proctor, Walter O. Miles, Mello Alexandria, Sandra Rustam	Slasher	Live Action
	14	The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother	20th Century Fox / Jouer Films	Gene Wilder (director/screenplay); Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern, Roy Kinnear, Douglas Wilmer, Thorley Walters, George Silver, Nicholas Smith, John Le Mesurier, John Hollis, Aubrey Morris, Tommy Godfrey, Wolfe Morris, Julian Orchard, Kenneth Benda, Tony Sympson, Mel Brooks, Albert Finney, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Fred Wood	Musical, Comedy	Live Action
		Deadly Hero	AVCO Embassy Pictures / City Time Partners	Ivan Nagy (director); George Wislocki, Don Petersen (screenplay); Don Murray, Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones, Lilia Skala, Conchata Ferrell, George S. Irving, Ron Weyand, Treat Williams, Hank Garrett, Dick Anthony Williams, Josh Mostel, Rutanya Alda, Charles Siebert, Beverly Johnson, Edwin "Chu Chu" Malave, Danny DeVito, Deborah Harry	Neo-Noir, Thriller	Live Action
		The Reincarnation of Peter Proud	American International Pictures / Bing Crosby Productions / Cinerama Productions Corporation	J. Lee Thompson (director); Max Ehrlich (screenplay); Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill, Paul Hecht, Albert Henderson, Debralee Scott, Steve Franken, Cornelia Sharpe, Tony Stephano, Anne Ives, Fred Stuthman	Horror	Live Action
	15	Emmanuelle 2	Parafrance Films	Francis Giacobetti (director/screenplay); Bob Elia (screenplay); Sylvia Kristel, Umberto Orsini, Venantino Venantini, Laura Gemser, Catherine Rivet, Frédéric Lagache, Caroline Laurence, Henry Czarniak, Tom Clark	Drama, Romance	Live Action
	17	Emilio and His Magical Bull
	18	Barry Lyndon	Warner Bros. / Hawk Films / Peregrine Productions	Stanley Kubrick (director/screenplay); Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Gay Hamilton, Godfrey Quigley, Steven Berkoff, Marie Kean, Murray Melvin, Frank Middlemass, Leon Vitali, Leonard Rossiter, André Morell, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, David Morley, Diana Koerner, Arthur O'Sullivan, Billy Boyle, Jonathan Cecil, Peter Cellier, Geoffrey Chater, Wolf Kahler, Liam Redmond, Roger Booth, Ferdy Mayne, John Sharp, Pat Roach, Hans Meyer, Dominic Savage, Michael Hordern, John Alcott, Vivian Kubrick	Drama	Live Action
	18	The Man Who Would Be King	Allied Artists Pictures Corporation	John Huston (director/screenplay); Gladys Hill (screenplay); Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine, Doghmi Larbi, Jack May, Albert Moses, Karroom Ben Bouih, Mohammad Shamsi, Paul Antrim, Graham Acres, PJ Retiree, The Blue Dancers of Goulamine	Adventure	Live Action
	19	The Adventures of the Wilderness Family	Pacific International Enterprises	Stewart Raffill (director/screenplay); Arthur R. Dubs (screenplay); Robert Logan, Susan Damante-Shaw, George Buck Flower, Hollye Holmes, Ham Larsen	Family, Adventure, Drama	Live Action
		Bugs Bunny: Superstar	United Artists / Hare-Raising Films	Larry Jackson (director); Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Orson Welles	Documentary	Live Action / Animation
		Carry On Behind	The Rank Organisation	Gerald Thomas (director); Dave Freeman (screenplay); Kenneth Williams, Elke Sommer, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas, Joan Sims, Windsor Davies, Peter Butterworth, Liz Fraser, Patsy Rowlands, Ian Lavender, Adrienne Posta, Patricia Franklin, Donald Hewlett, Carol Hawkins, Sherrie Hewson, David Lodge, Marianne Stone, George Layton, Brian Osborne, Larry Dann, Georgina Moon, Diana Darvey, Jenny Cox, Larry Martyn, Linda Hooks, Kenneth Waller, Hugh Futcher, Helli Louise, Alexandra Dane, Sam Kelly, Johnny Briggs, Lucy Griffiths, Brenda Cowling	Comedy	Live Action
		The Killer Elite	United Artists / Exeter Associates / Persky-Bright Associates	Sam Peckinpah (director); Marc Norman, Stirling Silliphant (screenplay); James Caan, Robert Duvall, Burt Young, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Mako, Gig Young, Tom Clancy, Tiana Alexandra, Takayuki Kubota, Victor Sen Yung, Helmut Dantine, Carole Mallory, George Kee Cheung, Uschi Digard, Kuo Lien Ying, Kate Heflin, Sondra Blake, Walter Kelley, Hank Hamilton, James Wing Woo, Tom Bush	Action, Thriller	Live Action
	20	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-release)	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen (directors); Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith (screenplay); Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell, Roy Atwell, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan, Scotty Mattraw, Billy Gilbert, Eddie Collins, Jimmy MacDonald, Moroni Olsen, Stuart Buchanan	Musical, Fantasy	Animation
	22	The Story of Adele H. (France)	New World Pictures / Les Films du Carrosse	François Truffaut (director/screenplay); Jean Gruault, Suzanne Schiffman, Frances Vernor Guille (screenplay); Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Ivry Gitlis, François Truffaut, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley, Louise Bourdet, Cecil de Sausmarez, Ruben Dorey, Clive Gillingham, Roger Martin, M. White, Madame Louise, Raymond Falla, Jean-Pierre Leursse, Carl Hathwell	Historical, Drama	Live Action
	25	Aaron Loves Angela	Columbia Pictures	Gordon Parks Jr. (director); Gerald Sanford (screenplay); Moses Gunn, Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Robert Hooks, Ernestine Jackson, Charles McGregor, José Feliciano, Walt Frazier, Norman Evans, Leon Pinkney, Wanda Velez, Lou Quinones, Andre La Corbiere, Alex Stevens, William Graeff Jr.	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		The Black Bird	Columbia Pictures / Rastar	David Giler (director/screenplay); George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Lionel Stander, Lee Patrick, Elisha Cook Jr., Felix Silla, Richard B. Shull, Ken Swofford, John Abbott, Vic Tayback, Signe Hasso, Connie Kreski, Howard Jeffrey, Al Silvani, David Giler, Manu Tupou	Comedy	Live Action
		Breakheart Pass	United Artists / Gershwin-Kastner Productions	Tom Gries (director); Alistair MacLean (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter, Bill McKinney, David Huddleston, Roy Jenson, Rayford Barnes, Scott Newman, Robert Tessier, Paul Frees, Joe Kapp, Archie Moore, Sally Kirkland, Eddie Little Sky, John Mitchum, Read Morgan, Casey Tibbs, Doug Atkins, Sally Kemp, Keith McConnell, Robert Rothwell, Eldon Burke, Irv Faling, William Klein, Ron Ponozzo	Western	Live Action
		Friday Foster	American International Pictures	Arthur Marks (director); Orville Hampton (screenplay); Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala, Ted Lange, Eartha Kitt, Jim Backus, Scatman Crothers, Tierre Turner, Paul Benjamin, Jason Bernard, Edmund Cambridge, Julius Harris, Rosalind Miles, Carl Weathers, John Anthony Bailey, Mel Carter	Blaxploitation	Live Action
		The Hindenburg	Universal Pictures	Robert Wise (director); Nelson Gidding, Richard Levinson, William Link (screenplay); George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning, Richard Dysart, Rolfe Sedan, Robert Clary, René Auberjonois, Peter Donat, Ted Gehring, Alan Oppenheimer, Katherine Helmond, Jean Rasey, Joanna Cook Moore, Stephen Elliott, Val Bisoglio, William Sylvester, Greg Mullavey, Simon Scott, Joe Turkel, Sandy Ward, Herbert Morrison, David Mauro, Joyce Davis, Colby Chester, Michael Richardson, Herbert Nelson, Scott Walker	Disaster, Adventure, Drama, History	Live Action
		Hustle	Paramount Pictures	Robert Aldrich (director); Steve Shagan (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Carter, James Hampton, Colleen Brennan, Catherine Bach, Robert Englund, Chuck Hayward, David Spielberg, Naomi Stevens, Med Flory, Hal Baylor, Don "Red" Barry, Karl Lukas, Dave Willock, Queenie Smith, George Memmoli, Fred Willard, Jason Wingreen, Victoria Carroll, Anouk Aimée, Dick Enberg, Lance Fuller, Deanna Lund, Jean-Louis Trintignant	Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama, Mystery	Live Action
		Lucky Lady	20th Century Fox / Gruskoff/Venture Films	Stanley Donen (director); Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck (screenplay); Liza Minnelli, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis, John Hillerman, Robby Benson, Michael Hordern, Anthony Holland, John McLiam, Val Avery, Louis Guss, William Bassett, Roger Cudney, Joe Estevez, Emilio Fernández, Basil Hoffman, Milt Kogan, Ron Masak, Frank Tallman, Susanne Zenor	Comedy, Crime, Drama	Live Action
		Ride a Wild Pony	Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution	Don Chaffey (director); Rosemary Anne Sisson (screenplay); Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith, Michael Craig, John Meillon, Alfred Bell, Roy Haddrick, Peter Gwynne, Melissa Jaffer, Lorraine Bayly, Wendy Playfair, Kate Clarkson, Jessica Noad, Neva Carr Glyn, Gerry Duggan	Family, Adventure	Live Action

Notable films released in 1975

Note: US releases unless stated

Z

Zaklęte rewiry (a.k.a. Hotel Pacific) (Poland)

Births

January 1
- Sonali Bendre, Indian actress
- Toni Ann Gisondi, American former child actress
January 2: Dax Shepard, American actor
January 3
- Jason Marsden, American actor
- Danica McKellar, American actress
January 5: Bradley Cooper, American actor and film director
January 6: Nicole DeHuff, American actress (d. 2005)
January 9: Patrick Sabongui, Canadian actor and stunt performer
January 15: Jorge R. Gutierrez, Mexican animator, director, writer and voice actor
January 16: Julie Ann Emery, American actress
January 22: Balthazar Getty, American actor and musician
January 29: Kelly Packard, American actress
January 31: Preity Zinta, Indian actress
February 3: Terry Chen, Canadian actor
February 4: Natalie Imbruglia, Australian-British singer and actress
February 5: Alison Hammond, English television personality and actress
February 7: Dan Green, American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter
February 9: Rawson Marshall Thurber, American filmmaker and actor
February 14: Malik Zidi, French actor
February 17: Raymond S. Persi, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor
February 18: Hristo Zhivkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 2023)
February 22: Drew Barrymore, American actress and director
February 23: Callan Mulvey, Australian actor
February 25: Chelsea Handler, American comedian, actress, writer, television host and producer
March 3:
- Patric Chiha, Austrian film director and screenwriter[33]
- Tiger Chen, Chinese martial artist, actor and stuntman
March 9: Chaske Spencer, American actor and producer
March 11: Josh Robert Thompson, American voice actor, actor, comedian and the impressionist
March 15:
- Eva Longoria, American actress, director and producer
- Will.i.am, American actor and singer/rapper
March 16: Sienna Guillory, English actress
March 17: Natalie Zea, American actress
March 18: Charles Parnell, American actor
March 21: Justin Pierce, American-British actor and skateboarder (d. 2000)
March 22:
- Guillermo Diaz, American actor
- Nathan Greno, American director and writer
- Cole Hauser, American actor
March 27: Stacy Ferguson, American actress and singer-songwriter
April 2:
- Deedee Magno, Filipino-American actress and singer
- Pedro Pascal, Chilean and American actor
- Adam Rodriguez, American actor
April 6: Zach Braff, American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
April 10: David Harbour, American actor
April 11: Gloria Calderón Kellett, American writer, producer, director and actress
April 13: Angus MacLane, American director, animator, screenwriter and voice actor
April 14: Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress
April 15: Elissa Knight, American employee at Pixar and voice actress
April 21: Charlie O'Connell, American actor
April 27: Erica Schroeder, American voice actress
April 30: Johnny Galecki, American actor
May 3:
- Christina Hendricks, American actress
- Dulé Hill, American actor
May 4: Óscar Jaenada, Spanish actor
May 8: Wilmer Calderon, Puerto Rican-American actor
May 9: Chris Diamantopoulos, Greek-Canadian actor and voice artist
May 20: Marc Thompson, American voice actor
May 22: Harriet Toompere, Estonian actress
May 24: Will Sasso, Canadian-American actor, comedian, voice actor and former podcaster
May 26: Nicki Aycox, American actress and musician (d. 2022)
May 27: André 3000, American singer, songwriter, rapper and actor
June 4:
- Russell Brand, English comedian, actor and radio host
- Angelina Jolie, American actress
June 8: Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
June 10: Nicole Bilderback, Korean-born American actress
June 11: John Tui, New Zealand actor of Tungan descent
June 19: Hugh Dancy, English actor
June 22: Jeff Hephner, American actor
June 23: Jeffrey Carlson, American actor and singer (d. 2023)
June 25: Linda Cardellini, American actress
June 27: Tobey Maguire, American actor
June 28: Jeff Geddis, Canadian actor
June 29: Șerban Pavlu, Romanian actor
July 2: Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
July 3: Ryan McPartlin, American actor
July 5: Sope Aluko, Nigerian-born British-American actress
July 6: 50 Cent, American actor and rapper
July 7: Nina Hoss, German film and stage actress
July 9: Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (d. 2015)
July 10: Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (d. 2018)
July 11: Bridgette Andersen, American actress (d. 1997)
July 13: Gareth Edwards, British filmmaker
July 17:
- Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
- Cécile de France, Belgian actress
July 19: Reuben Langdon, American stuntman and voice actor
July 20:
- Judy Greer, American actress
- Jason Raize, American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (d. 2004)
July 21: David Dastmalchian, American actor
July 22: Hannah Waterman, English actress
July 23: Suriya, Indian actor
July 28: Ori Pfeffer, Israeli actor
August 5:
- Jabez Olssen, New Zealand editor
- Stéphanie Szostak, French actress
August 7:
- Hans Matheson, Scottish actor and musician
- Charlize Theron, South African actress
August 11: Roger Craig Smith, American actor and voice actor
August 12: Casey Affleck, American actor
August 13: James Carpinello, American actor
August 16:
- Brad Morris, American actor
- Taika Waititi, New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian
August 18: Kaitlin Olson, American actress, comedian and producer
August 22: Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
August 24: James D'Arcy, English actor and director
August 25: Raymond Wong Ho-yin, Hong Kong actor[34]
August 27: Bodie Olmos, American actor
August 28: Eugene Byrd, American actor
August 29:
- Dante Basco, American actor
- Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor
September 1:
- Scott Speedman, Canadian actor
- Jason Zumwalt, American actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter
September 2: MC Chris, American rapper, voice actor, and comedian
September 10: Kyle Bornheimer, American actor and comedian
September 18: Jason Sudeikis, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
September 20: Moon Bloodgood, American actress
September 22: Mireille Enos, American actress
September 23:
- Alex Karpovsky, American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and editor
- Kip Pardue, American actor and model
September 27: Sam Lee, Hong Kong actor
September 30
- Asia Argento, Italian actress
- Marion Cotillard, French actress
- Christopher Jackson, American actor, singer, musician and composer
October 3 - Alanna Ubach, American actress
October 4 - Reggie Lee, Filipino-American actor
October 5
- Parminder Nagra, English actress
- Monica Rial, American voice actress
- Scott Weinger, American actor
- Kate Winslet, English actress
October 7:
- Tim Minchin, British-Australian comedian, actor, writer and musician
- Kaspars Znotiņš, Latvian actor
October 8: Richard Short, English actor
October 10: Lenn Kudrjawizki, German actor and musician
October 11: Nat Faxon, American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
October 15: Chukwudi Iwuji, Nigerian-British actor
October 16:
- Nelson Lee, Taiwanese-Canadian actor
- Kellie Martin, American actress
October 26: Lennon Parham, American actress
October 31: Keith Jardine, American actor
November 2: Danny Cooksey, American actor and musician
November 8: Tara Reid, American actress
November 12: Steven Kynman, British actor, puppeteer, writer and voice actor
November 13: Aisha Hinds, American actress
November 15: J. C. Brandy, British-born American actress
November 16: David Leitch, American filmmaker, actor, stunt performer and stunt coordinator
November 19: Sushmita Sen, Indian actress
November 22: James Madio, American actor
November 26: DJ Khaled, American DJ, rapper and actor
December 1: David Hornsby, American actor
December 5: Paula Patton, American actress
December 6: Noel Clarke, British actor and filmmaker
December 12: Mayim Bialik, American actress and game show host
December 17
- Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
- Hilje Murel, Estonian actress
December 22: Omar Dorsey, American actor
December 27: Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (d. 1988)
December 29: Shawn Hatosy, American actor
December 31: Amy Palant, American voice actress and singer

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Arthur Pierson	73	Norway/US	Director, Actor	The Fighting O'Flynn Home Town Story
	9	Pierre Fresnay	77	France	Actor	La Grande Illusion Le Corbeau
	18	Gertrude Olmstead	77	US	Actress	The Boob The Monster
	21	Marie Lohr	84	Australia	Actress	The Winslow Boy Great Catherine
	24	Larry Fine	72	US	Actor	The Three Stooges 4 for Texas
	27	Bill Walsh	61	US	Screenwriter, Producer	Mary Poppins Bedknobs and Broomsticks
February	1	Richard Wattis	62	UK	Actor	The Longest Day The Man Who Knew Too Much
	11	Maria Balcerkiewiczówna	71	Poland	Actress	Vampires of Warsaw Augustus the Strong
	17	George Marshall	83	US	Director	How the West Was Won Destry Rides Again
	20	Robert Strauss	61	US	Actor	Stalag 17 The Seven Year Itch
	20	Lillian Fontaine	88	UK	Actress	The Locket The Lost Weekend
March	3	Edward H. Griffith	86	US	Director	Honeymoon in Bali Virginia
	4	Renée Björling	76	Sweden	Actress	Summer Interlude A Lesson in Love
	7	Ben Blue	73	Canada/US	Actor	The Big Broadcast of 1938 The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
	8	George Stevens	70	US	Director, Producer	A Place in the Sun Giant
	9	Shirley Ross	62	US	Actress	The Big Broadcast of 1938 Thanks for the Memory
	14	Susan Hayward	57	US	Actress	I Want to Live! The Snows of Kilimanjaro
	15	John H. Auer	68	Hungary	Director, Producer	Johnny Trouble City That Never Sleeps
	15	Arthur Crabtree	74	UK	Director, Screenwriter	Caravan Lilli Marlene
	19	Harry Lachman	88	US	Director	Charlie Chan in Rio It Happened in Hollywood
	22	Cass Daley	59	US	Actress, Singer	Riding High Ladies' Man
	25	Michele Girardon	36	France	Actress	The Lovers Hatari!
April	3	Mary Ure	42	UK	Actress	Where Eagles Dare Look Back in Anger
	5	Inez Courtney	67	US	Actress	Clarence The 13th Man
	10	Marjorie Main	85	US	Actress	Meet Me in St. Louis Ma and Pa Kettle
	13	Larry Parks	60	US	Actor	The Jolson Story Down to Earth
	14	Fredric March	77	US	Actor	The Best Years of Our Lives A Star Is Born
	15	Richard Conte	65	US	Actor	The Godfather Ocean's 11
	15	William Hartnell	67	UK	Actor	Hell Drivers Carry On Sergeant
	22	Mary Philips	74	US	Actress	A Farewell to Arms Leave Her to Heaven
May	4	Moe Howard	77	US	Actor	The Three Stooges Men in Black
	9	Philip Dorn	73	Netherlands	Actor	Random Harvest I Remember Mama
	22	Torben Meyer	90	Germany	Actor	Roberta Till We Meet Again
	30	Michel Simon	80	Switzerland	Actor	L'Atalante The Train
June	3	Ozzie Nelson	69	US	Actor	Sweetheart of the Campus The Impossible Years
	4	Evelyn Brent	75	US	Actress	Underworld The Last Command
	6	Larry Blyden	49	US	Actor	On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Kiss Them for Me
	11	Jane Griffiths	45	UK	Actress	The Million Pound Note The Durant Affair
	28	Rod Serling	50	US	Screenwriter	Seven Days in May Planet of the Apes
July	2	James Robertson Justice	68	UK	Actor	The Guns of Navarone Moby Dick
	20	Richard Gaines	70	US	Actor	Double Indemnity The More the Merrier
	28	Alfred L. Werker	78	US	Director	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Repeat Performance
August	2	Jean Yarbrough	73	US	Director	Inside Job Shed No Tears
	7	Phyllis Povah	82	US	Actress	The Women Pat and Mike
	11	Howard Wendell	67	US	Actor	The Fighting Chance The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
	23	Sidney Buchman	73	US	Screenwriter	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Here Comes Mr. Jordan
	23	Hank Patterson	86	US	Actor	The Arizona Kid Tarantula
	25	Joseph Kane	81	US	Director	King of the Cowboys Flame of Barbary Coast
	29	Bob Baker	64	US	Actor	The Singing Outlaw The Phantom Stage
September	9	John McGiver	61	US	Actor	The Manchurian Candidate Midnight Cowboy
	19	Pamela Brown	58	UK	Actress	Lust for Life Becket
	24	Clive Morton	71	UK	Actor	The Moonraker Kind Hearts and Coronets
	27	Mark Frechette	27	US	Actor	Zabriskie Point Many Wars Ago
October	16	Don Barclay	82	US	Actor	Man Hunt Mary Poppins
	18	Al Lettieri	47	US	Actor	The Godfather The Getaway
	24	Martin Boddey	68	UK	Actor	Carry on Sergeant Carry on Nurse
	31	Joseph Calleia	78	Malta/US	Actor, Singer	After the Thin Man Touch of Evil
November	2	Pier Paolo Pasolini	53	Italy	Director, Screenwriter, Actor	The Hawks and the Sparrows Teorema
	4	Sheila Ryan	54	US	Actress	Dressed to Kill Song of Texas
	5	Annette Kellerman	88	Australia	Actress	Venus of the South Seas A Daughter of the Gods
	17	Kay Johnson	70	US	Actress	Dynamite Of Human Bondage
December	7	Hardie Albright	71	US	Actor	Three-Cornered Moon The Scarlet Letter
	9	William A. Wellman	79	US	Director	Wings Battleground
	13	Cyril Delevanti	88	UK	Actor	Mary Poppins Soylent Green
	14	Arthur Treacher	81	UK	Actor	Thank You, Jeeves! Heidi
	17	Frank Sully	67	US	Actor	The Grapes of Wrath Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
	20	William Lundigan	61	US	Actor	The House on Telegraph Hill Love Nest
	21	Rowland V. Lee	84	US	Director	Son of Frankenstein Captain Kidd
	24	Bernard Herrmann	64	US	Composer	Psycho Taxi Driver

Film debuts

Jack Angel – Funny Lady
Michael Berryman – Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Bruce Boxleitner – Sixpack Annie
Jay Brazeau – The Melting Pot
Kim Cattrall – Rosebud
Maury Chaykin – Me
Tom Conti – Galileo
Robert Costanzo – Dog Day Afternoon
Tim Curry – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Ken Davitian – Sons of Sassoun
John de Lancie – Legacy
Brad Dourif – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Griffin Dunne – The Other Side of the Mountain
Conchata Ferrell – Deadly Hero
Laurence Fishburne – Cornbread, Earl and Me
Carrie Fisher – Shampoo
Richard Gere – Report to the Commissioner
Patrick Gorman – Three Days of the Condor
Debbie Harry – Deadly Hero
Bernard Hill – It Could Happen to You
Danny Huston – The "Human" Factor
Brion James – Hard Times
James Keane – Three Days of the Condor
Nastassja Kinski – The Wrong Move
Christopher Lloyd – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mary Stuart Masterson – The Stepford Wives
Richard Masur – Whiffs
Rudy Ray Moore – Dolemite
Sam Neill – Landfall
Bill Paxton – Crazy Mama
Dennis Quaid – Crazy Mama
Rajinikanth – Apoorva Raagangal
Leo Rossi – Alias Big Cherry
Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon
Lin Shaye – Hester Street
Don Stark – Switchblade Sisters
Patrick Stewart – Hennessy
John Travolta – The Devil's Rain
Dee Wallace – The Stepford Wives
Steven Williams – Cooley High
Treat Williams – Deadly Hero

Notes

Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office,[7] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[8]
Bobby in the Soviet Union: 15.65 million Rbls[nb 1] (US$21.44 million,[nb 2] ₹19.24 crore)[nb 3] in 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest box office admissions:
- North America – 53,685,400[20]
- United Kingdom – 9.65 million[21]
- France, Germany – 10,374,879[22]
- Spain, Denmark – 4,996,125[23]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
- North America – 55,069,400[24]
- France, Germany – 3,362,170[25]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show gross revenue:
- North America – $139,876,417[26]
- United Kingdom – £600,000[27] ($916,667)
- Australia, South Korea – $53,303[28]
Sholay estimated gross revenue – ₹540 million ($65.08 million)
- India (1975 release) – ₹350 million ($41.79 million)[n 1]
- Soviet Union (1979 release) – $28.2 million[lower-alpha 1]
Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
- North America – 24,390,200[30]
- France – 471,325[31]

62.6 million tickets sold,[11] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[12]
0.73 Rbl per US dollar in 1975[13]
8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[14]

See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

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Top 20 Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue
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"AskIndicine: Live QnA starts at 4:30PM". Indicine. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
"Sholay emerges as Bollywood's most successful re-run product even after 20 years". India Today. 15 September 1995.
"Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
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"Jaws". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
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[Sholay-9] Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office,[7] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[8]

[Bobby-19] Bobby in the Soviet Union: 15.65 million Rbls[nb 1] (US$21.44 million,[nb 2] ₹19.24 crore)[nb 3] in 1975

[29] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest box office admissions:
North America – 53,685,400[20]

United Kingdom – 9.65 million[21]

France, Germany – 10,374,879[22]

Spain, Denmark – 4,996,125[23]

[4] North America – 53,685,400[20]

[5] United Kingdom – 9.65 million[21]

[6] France, Germany – 10,374,879[22]

[7] Spain, Denmark – 4,996,125[23]

[32] The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
North America – 55,069,400[24]

France, Germany – 3,362,170[25]

[9] North America – 55,069,400[24]

[10] France, Germany – 3,362,170[25]

[36] The Rocky Horror Picture Show gross revenue:
North America – $139,876,417[26]

United Kingdom – £600,000[27] ($916,667)

Australia, South Korea – $53,303[28]

[12] North America – $139,876,417[26]

[13] United Kingdom – £600,000[27] ($916,667)

[14] Australia, South Korea – $53,303[28]

[39] Sholay estimated gross revenue – ₹540 million ($65.08 million)
India (1975 release) – ₹350 million ($41.79 million)[n 1]

Soviet Union (1979 release) – $28.2 million[lower-alpha 1]

[16] India (1975 release) – ₹350 million ($41.79 million)[n 1]

[17] Soviet Union (1979 release) – $28.2 million[lower-alpha 1]

[42] Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
North America – 24,390,200[30]

France – 471,325[31]

[19] North America – 24,390,200[30]

[20] France – 471,325[31]

[14] 62.6 million tickets sold,[11] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[12]

[16] 0.73 Rbl per US dollar in 1975[13]

[18] 8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[14]

[38] See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

[Finler-1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[1975DomesticRevenue-2] Top 20 Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue

[3] "Les Entrees Au Bresil: 1975" [Entries in Brazil: 1975]. JP's Box-Office (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2022-04-02.

[4] "Bilan Annuel France – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[5] "Bilan Annuel Allemagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[6] "AskIndicine: Live QnA starts at 4:30PM". Indicine. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2022-03-29.

[indiatoday-7] "Sholay emerges as Bollywood's most successful re-run product even after 20 years". India Today. 15 September 1995.

[sauder-8] "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.

[10] "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[Japan1975-11] "1975年度日本映画/外国映画業界総決算". Kinema Junpo (in Japanese). No. 1976年（昭和51年）2月下旬号. Kinema Junposha. 1976. p. 117.

[soviet-12] Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Зарубежные популярные фильмы в советском кинопрокате (Индия)".

[moscow7-13] Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011

[15] Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls

[17] "Reserve Bank of India - Publications".

[20] "Bilan Annuel Espagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[BFI_2013-21] BFI Statistical Yearbook (PDF) (2012 ed.). London: British Film Institute. 2013. pp. 22 & 32. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.

[22] "Jaws". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

[jaws-23] "Jaws (1975)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[Guinness_2015-24] Records, Guinness World (2014). Guinness World Records. Vol. 60 (2015 ed.). pp. 160–161. ISBN 9781908843708.

[25] "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[26] "The Ultimate Film Chart". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[27] "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[28] "Пролетая над гнездом кукушки (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975) – Премьеры". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[30] "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[31] "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[33] Box Office Information for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Numbers. Retrieved 25 August 2013.

[34] Hemley, Matthew (18 September 2015). "Rocky Horror Show tops UK cinema box office". The Stage.

[35] "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – International". The Numbers. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[37] Mitra, Sumit (31 July 1985). "After series of box-office duds, Ramesh Sippy strikes back with romantic venture Saagar". India Today. Retrieved 7 February 2019.

[40] "Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[41] "Dog Day Afternoon (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[DaybyDay-43] "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 206.

[44] "Patric Chiha". AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.

[45] "黃浩然44歲生日老婆坐大髀搞驚喜".