Barry Lyndon (1975)

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Summary: A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.

Release Date: January 21, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Chantal Akerman

Writer: Chantal Akerman

Runtime: 3 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Paradise Films, Unité Trois, Ministère de la Culture Française de Belgique, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Distributor: Janus Films, New Yorker Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Belgium, France

Language: French

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Summary: A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.

Release Date: December 18, 1975

Genres: Comedy, Musical

Director: Jim Sharman

Writers: Richard O'Brien

, Jim Sharman

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Michael White Productions

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Fox Video, Fox Network, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Cinémax, Home Box Office (HBO), Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 112,892,319

International: $ 2,898,917

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Summary: In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of torture.

Release Date: January 10, 1976

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writers: Pier Paolo Pasolini

, Sergio Citti

, Pupi Avati

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), Les Productions Artistes Associés

Distributor: Peppercorn-Wormser Film Enterprises, Zebra Films, The Criterion Collection, Water Bearer Films, HBO Max, The Voyager Company

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Black Moon (1975)

Summary: To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.

Release Date: September 24, 1975

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Director: Louis Malle

Writers: Louis Malle

, Joyce Buñuel

, Ghislain Uhry

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), Bioskop Film

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Nightmare Video, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, Cinema de Bizarre

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: English

A Boy and His Dog (1975)

Summary: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a boy who can communicate with his dog telepathically is targeted by a mysterious committee.

Release Date: November 14, 1975

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: L.Q. Jones

Writers: L.Q. Jones

, Harlan Ellison

, Wayne Cruseturner

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: LQ/JAF

Distributor: Shout! Factory, BuckRay TV, Edde Entertainment, Front Row Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Lumivision, Media Home Entertainment, New Pacific Pictures, SlingShot Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 400,000

Fawlty Towers (1975)

Summary: Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

Release Date: September 19, 1975

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Three Men in a Boat (1975)

Summary: One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So...

Release Date: December 31, 1975

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Stephen Frears

Writers: Jerome K. Jerome

, Tom Stoppard

Runtime: 1 h 04 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Der fliegende Holländer (1975)

Summary: the story of a sinner who is condemned to sail the seas until the day of judgment, to die of thirst until his sin is redeemed by the selfless love of a woman.

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Music

Director: Václav Kaslík

Writers: Richard Wagner

, Václav Kaslík

, Heinrich Heine

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Summary: Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wr...

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Frank Pierson

, P.F. Kluge

, Thomas Moore

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros., Artists Entertainment Complex

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, HBO Max, RCA (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

Domestic: $ 50,000,000

International: $ 2,721

Fox and His Friends (1975)

Summary: A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.

Release Date: February 02, 1976

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Christian Hohoff

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: City Film, Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, New Yorker Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 450,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Death Race 2000 (1975)

Summary: In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.

Release Date: November 28, 1975

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Paul Bartel

Writers: Robert Thom

, Charles B. Griffith

, Ib Melchior

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: New World Pictures

Distributor: New World Pictures, Action Video, American Movie Classics (AMC), Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Digital Multimedia Limited (DML), Films Incorporated, New Concorde Home Entertainment, New Horizons Home Video, Passion Productions, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, Shout! Factory, Silver Screen Video, TBS Superstation, Trans Atlantic Video, United American Video, Viacom, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 300,000

Shivers (1975)

Summary: The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.

Release Date: October 10, 1975

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: David Cronenberg

Writer: David Cronenberg

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinépix Film Properties (CFP), DAL Productions, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Avalanche Home Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), Image Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, Vestron Video

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 185,000

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Summary: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the p...

Release Date: January 02, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Kurt Raab

, Heinrich Zille

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

Production: Filmverlag der Autoren, Filmverlag der Autoren, Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Jaws (1975)

Summary: When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Release Date: June 20, 1975

Genres: Adventure, Thriller

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Peter Benchley

, Carl Gottlieb

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Zanuck/Brown Productions, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures, DiscoVision, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MCA Videocassette, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Jaws

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 266,567,580

International: $ 210,653,000

Switchblade Sisters (1975)

Summary: The leader of an inner-city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.

Release Date: November 24, 1976

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Jack Hill

Writers: F.X. Maier

, Jack Hill

, John Prizer

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Centaur

Distributor: Centaur, Surrogate, Motion Picture Marketing (MPM), Rolling Thunder Pictures, Movies Unlimited, Miramax Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Arrow Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 320,000

Domestic: $ 51,264

The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)

Summary: Giant spiders from another dimension invade Wisconsin.

Release Date: August 14, 1976

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Bill Rebane

Writers: Richard L. Huff

, Robert Easton

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Cinema Group 75, Transcentury Productions, Sanrio Company

Distributor: Group 1 International Distribution, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Catalina Home Video, Burbank Video, Retromedia Entertainment, Cut Entertainment Group, Digital 1 Stop, VCI Entertainment, Synergy Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Dark Force Entertainment, Tubi TV

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Franchise: RiffTrax

Movie budget: $ 300,000

Domestic: $ 293,053

Seven Beauties (1975)

Summary: The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

Release Date: December 20, 1975

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Lina Wertmüller

Writer: Lina Wertmüller

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Medusa Distribuzione

Distributor: Cinema 5 Distributing, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Axon Home Video, Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, Fox Lorber Home Video, Fox Lorber, Kino Lorber, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 12,408

International: $ 211

That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

Summary: Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and g...

Release Date: February 12, 1975

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Andrzej Zulawski

Writers: Christopher Frank

, Andrzej Zulawski

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Albina Productions S.a.r.l., Rizzoli Film, TIT Filmproduktion GmbH

Distributor: Seaberg Film Distribution, Rialto Pictures, Mondo Vision, The Criterion Channel, UCM.ONE

Countries: France, Italy, West Germany

Language: French

Domestic: $ 19,120