My Top 20 by Year - 1975
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 166 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Feb 2020)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Special note!
Films which also belong to the list (but - sadly - can't add them due to the 'improved' (hmmm) search engine in the last few years):
Yet to see (among many):
O thiasos (The Travelling Players, Angelopoulos, 1975)
Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag (The Nail of Brightness, Brocka, 1975)
Ahdat sanawovach el-djamr (Chronique des années de braise/Chronicle of the Years of Fire, Lakhdar-Hamina, 1975)
Oni srazhalis za rodinu (They Fought for Their Country, Bondarchuk, 1975)
Sholay (R. Sippy, 1975)
Section spéciale (Special Section, Costa-Gavras, 1975)
La bête (The Beast, Borowczyk, 1975)
Fällan (The Trap, Watkins, 1975, TV)
Giliap (R. Andersson, 1975)
Flåklypa Grand Prix (The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Caprino, 1975)
Numéro deux (Number Two, Godard, 1975)
Lies My Father Told Me (Kadár, 1975)
The Sunshine Boys (Ross, 1975)
The Fortune (Nichols, 1975)
Sakura no mori no mankai no shita (Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees, M. Shinoda, 1975)
Keetje Tippel (P. Verhoeven, 1975)
Hedda (Nunn, 1975)
Furtivos (Poachers, J. L. Borau, 1975)
Cousin Cousine (Tacchella, 1975)
Les innocents aux mains sales (Innocents with Dirty Hands, Chabrol, 1975)
The Stepford Wives (Forbes, 1975)
Karayuki-san (Karayuki-san, The Making of a Prostitute; S. Imamura, 1975, doc)
Conduct Unbecoming (M. Anderson, 1975)
Hester Street (J. Micklin Silver, 1975)
Babodeuli haengjin (March of Fools, Kil-jong Ha, 1975)
Juego de amor prohibido (Forbidden Love Game, E. de la Iglesia, 1975)
Le vieux fusil (The Old Gun, R. Enrico, 1975)
Que la fête commence... (Let Joy Reign Supreme, Tavernier, 1975)
La traque (Gunman in the Streets, S. Leroy, 1975)
Dzieje grzechu (The Story of Sin, Borowczyk, 1975)
Supervixens (R. Meyer, 1975)
Lina Braake (B. Sinkel, 1975)
De Palestijnen (The Palestinians, van der Keuken, 1975, doc, sh)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 166 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Feb 2020)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Special note!
Films which also belong to the list (but - sadly - can't add them due to the 'improved' (hmmm) search engine in the last few years):
- Le pas (P. Kamler, 1975, sh) - 9/10
- Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel) (B. Godfrey, 1975, sh) - 9/10
Yet to see (among many):
O thiasos (The Travelling Players, Angelopoulos, 1975)
Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag (The Nail of Brightness, Brocka, 1975)
Ahdat sanawovach el-djamr (Chronique des années de braise/Chronicle of the Years of Fire, Lakhdar-Hamina, 1975)
Oni srazhalis za rodinu (They Fought for Their Country, Bondarchuk, 1975)
Sholay (R. Sippy, 1975)
Section spéciale (Special Section, Costa-Gavras, 1975)
La bête (The Beast, Borowczyk, 1975)
Fällan (The Trap, Watkins, 1975, TV)
Giliap (R. Andersson, 1975)
Flåklypa Grand Prix (The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Caprino, 1975)
Numéro deux (Number Two, Godard, 1975)
Lies My Father Told Me (Kadár, 1975)
The Sunshine Boys (Ross, 1975)
The Fortune (Nichols, 1975)
Sakura no mori no mankai no shita (Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees, M. Shinoda, 1975)
Keetje Tippel (P. Verhoeven, 1975)
Hedda (Nunn, 1975)
Furtivos (Poachers, J. L. Borau, 1975)
Cousin Cousine (Tacchella, 1975)
Les innocents aux mains sales (Innocents with Dirty Hands, Chabrol, 1975)
The Stepford Wives (Forbes, 1975)
Karayuki-san (Karayuki-san, The Making of a Prostitute; S. Imamura, 1975, doc)
Conduct Unbecoming (M. Anderson, 1975)
Hester Street (J. Micklin Silver, 1975)
Babodeuli haengjin (March of Fools, Kil-jong Ha, 1975)
Juego de amor prohibido (Forbidden Love Game, E. de la Iglesia, 1975)
Le vieux fusil (The Old Gun, R. Enrico, 1975)
Que la fête commence... (Let Joy Reign Supreme, Tavernier, 1975)
La traque (Gunman in the Streets, S. Leroy, 1975)
Dzieje grzechu (The Story of Sin, Borowczyk, 1975)
Supervixens (R. Meyer, 1975)
Lina Braake (B. Sinkel, 1975)
De Palestijnen (The Palestinians, van der Keuken, 1975, doc, sh)
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