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159 relations: A Clockwork Orange (film), A Star Is Born (1937 film), A Star Is Born (1976 film), A Touch of Class (film), Airplane!, Airport 1975, Alexander Payne, Alexandra Cassavetes, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, All That Jazz (film), American Graffiti, An Unmarried Woman, Apocalypse Now, At Long Last Love, B movie, Beverly Hills Cop, Black Christmas (1974 film), Black Orpheus, Blazing Saddles, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Cablevision, Caddyshack, California Suite, Candleshoe, Chan Is Missing, City Lights, CNBC, Coal Miner's Daughter (film), Comcast Spectacor, Corvette Summer, Crocodile Dundee, Das Boot, Death Race 2000, Desperately Seeking Susan, Director's cut, Diva (1981 film), Dressed to Kill (1980 film), Electra Glide in Blue, Eyes of Laura Mars, Farewell, My Lovely, Fatso (1980 film), Fiddler on the Roof (film), Freebie and the Bean, French Connection II, Gone with the Wind (film), Harry and Tonto, HBO, Heaven's Gate (film), How I Won the War, Hughes Aircraft Company, ... Expand index (109 more) »
- American subscription television services
- Film and video fandom
- Film preservation
- Rediscovered television
- Sports in Los Angeles
- TelePrompTer Corporation
- Television channels and stations disestablished in 1989
- Television channels and stations established in 1974
A Clockwork Orange (film)
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.
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A Star Is Born (1937 film)
A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor (in her only Technicolor film) as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March (in his Technicolor debut) as a fading movie star who helps launch her career.
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A Star Is Born (1976 film)
A Star Is Born is a 1976 American musical romantic drama film directed by Frank Pierson, written by Pierson, John Gregory Dunne, and Joan Didion.
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A Touch of Class (film)
A Touch of Class is a 1973 British romantic comedy film produced and directed by Melvin Frank and starring George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Hildegard Neil, Paul Sorvino and K Callan.
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Airplane!
Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debuts, and produced by Jon Davison.
Airport 1975
Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport.
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Alexander Payne
Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an American/Greek film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Alexandra Cassavetes
Alexandra "Xan" Cassavetes is an American actress and director.
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell.
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All That Jazz (film)
All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider.
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American Graffiti
American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by George Lucas, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, written by Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz and Lucas, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, and Wolfman Jack.
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An Unmarried Woman
An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, and Cliff Gorman.
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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At Long Last Love
At Long Last Love is a 1975 American jukebox musical comedy film written, produced, and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and featuring 18 songs with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
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B movie
A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Martin Brest, with a screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr., and story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr.
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Black Christmas (1974 film)
Black Christmas (originally titled Silent Night, Evil Night in the United States and retitled Stranger in the House on television screenings) is a 1974 Canadian slasher film produced and directed by Bob Clark, and written by Roy Moore.
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Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello.
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Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman.
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a 1974 Mexican-American neo-Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, co-written by Peckinpah and Gordon Dawson from a story by Peckinpah and Frank Kowalski, and starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega, with Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández and Kris Kristofferson in supporting roles.
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Cablevision
Cablevision Systems Corporation was an American cable television company with systems serving areas surrounding New York City.
Caddyshack
Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with supporting roles by Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray.
California Suite
California Suite is a 1976 play by Neil Simon.
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Candleshoe
Candleshoe is a 1977 American children's adventure comedy film, directed by Norman Tokar in a screenplay by David Swift and Rosemary Anne Sisson, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and distributed by Buena Vista.
Chan Is Missing
Chan Is Missing is a 1982 American independent comedy-drama film directed, co-written, produced and edited by Wayne Wang.
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City Lights
City Lights is a 1931 American synchronized sound romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin.
CNBC
CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
Coal Miner's Daughter (film)
Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical musical film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay written by Tom Rickman.
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Comcast Spectacor
Comcast Spectacor is an American sports and entertainment company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Corvette Summer
Corvette Summer is a 1978 American adventure comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins.
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Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City.
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Das Boot
Das Boot (The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann.
Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 is a 1975 American science fiction action film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn and Madonna.
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Director's cut
In public use, a director's cut is the director's preferred version of a film (or video game, television episode, music video, or commercial).
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Diva (1981 film)
Diva is a 1981 French thriller film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from the novel Diva by Daniel Odier.
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Dressed to Kill (1980 film)
Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American erotic psychological thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen.
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Electra Glide in Blue
Electra Glide in Blue is a 1973 American action film, starring Robert Blake as a motorcycle cop in Arizona and Billy "Green" Bush as his partner.
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Eyes of Laura Mars
Eyes of Laura Mars is a 1978 American neo-noir supernatural horror thriller film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, René Auberjonois, and Raul Julia.
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Farewell, My Lovely
Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe.
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Fatso (1980 film)
Fatso is a 1980 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Anne Bancroft, her only such credit, and starring Dom DeLuise, Ron Carey and Candice Azzara.
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Fiddler on the Roof (film)
Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 American period musical film produced and directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay written by Joseph Stein, based on the 1964 stage musical of the same name by Stein, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick.
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Freebie and the Bean
Freebie and the Bean is a 1974 American buddy cop black comedy action film starring James Caan and Alan Arkin, and directed by Richard Rush.
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French Connection II
French Connection II is a 1975 American neo-noir action thriller film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Gone with the Wind (film)
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell.
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Harry and Tonto
Harry and Tonto is a 1974 American road comedy-drama directed by Paul Mazursky and written by Mazursky & Josh Greenfeld.
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HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Heaven's Gate (film)
Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, and Joseph Cotten, and loosely based on the Johnson County War.
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How I Won the War
How I Won the War is a 1967 British black comedy film starring Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, and John Lennon in his only non-musical acting role.
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Hughes Aircraft Company
The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of Hughes Tool Company.
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I Vitelloni
I vitelloni (literally "The bullocks" - Romagnol slang for "The slackers" or "The layabouts") is a 1953 Italian comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini from a screenplay written by himself, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli.
Ikiru
is a 1952 Japanese tragedy film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa.
It's Alive (1974 film)
It's Alive is a 1974 American science fiction horror film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen.
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Jerry Harvey (screenwriter)
Gerald Francis "Jerry" Harvey (October 28, 1949 – April 9, 1988) was an American screenwriter and film programmer, best known for his work on Z Channel, a pioneering cable station in Los Angeles from 1974 to 1989. Z Channel and Jerry Harvey (screenwriter) are Rediscovered television.
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Jesus Christ Superstar (film)
Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American musical drama film directed by Norman Jewison, and co-written by Jewison and Melvyn Bragg, based on the 1970 concept album of the same name written by Tim Rice and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn inspired a 1971 musical.
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Jim Jarmusch
James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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John Cassavetes
John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American filmmaker and actor.
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Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is a 1954 American Western film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ernest Borgnine and Scott Brady.
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Julia (1977 film)
Julia is a 1977 American WWII drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann, from a screenplay by Alvin Sargent.
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Let It Be (1970 film)
Let It Be is a 1970 British documentary film starring the Beatles and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
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Letterboxing (filming)
Letter-boxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Los Angeles Angels
The Los Angeles Angels are an American professional baseball team based in the Greater Los Angeles area.
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Los Angeles Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in the Greater Los Angeles area.
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Los Angeles Daily News
The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California, after the unrelated Los Angeles Times, and the flagship newspaper of the Southern California News Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media.
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Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles.
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Los Olvidados
Los Olvidados (Spanish: The Forgotten Ones; known in the United States as The Young and the Damned) is a 1950 Mexican teen crime film directed by Luis Buñuel.
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Love and Death
Love and Death is a 1975 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen.
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MacArthur (1977 film)
MacArthur is a 1977 American biographical war film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the eponymous role as American General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
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Magnum Force
Magnum Force is a 1973 American neo-noir action thriller film and the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan after the 1971 film Dirty Harry.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs.
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Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.
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My Darling Clementine
My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation, sometimes referred to as simply Vacation, is a 1983 American road trip black comedy directed by Harold Ramis starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Christie Brinkley in her acting debut with special appearances by Eddie Bracken, Brian Doyle-Murray, Miriam Flynn, James Keach, Eugene Levy, and Frank McRae.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
North Dallas Forty
North Dallas Forty is a 1979 American sports film starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, and G. D. Spradlin set in the decadent world of American professional football in the late 1970s.
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On Golden Pond (1981 film)
On Golden Pond is a 1981 family drama film directed by Mark Rydell from a screenplay written by Ernest Thompson, adapted from his 1979 play of the same name.
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Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in America (C'era una volta in America) is a 1984 epic crime film co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods.
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One on One (1977 film)
One on One is a 1977 American sports drama film starring Robby Benson and Annette O'Toole.
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Ordinary People
Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford in his feature directorial debut.
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Overlord (1975 film)
Overlord is a 1975 black-and-white British war film written and directed by Stuart Cooper.
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Pac-12 Conference men's basketball
Men's college basketball in the Pac-12 Conference began in 1915 with the formation of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC).
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 American revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Rudy Wurlitzer, and starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, Slim Pickens and Bob Dylan.
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Paths of Glory
Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb, which was based on the Souain corporals affair during World War I. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against charges of cowardice in a court-martial.
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Pay television
The pay television (pay TV), also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television.
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Prince of the City
Prince of the City is a 1981 American epic neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Private Benjamin (1980 film)
Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, and Harvey Miller, and starring Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, and Armand Assante.
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker and actor.
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Rear Window
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder.
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country (released internationally as Guns in the Afternoon) is a 1962 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Mariette Hartley.
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Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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Rocky
Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
Running Scared (1986 film)
Running Scared is a 1986 American action comedy film directed by Peter Hyams, written by Gary Devore and Jimmy Huston, and starring Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, with Steven Bauer, Jimmy Smits and Dan Hedaya in supporting roles.
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Salvador (film)
Salvador is a 1986 American war drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone.
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Same Time, Next Year (film)
Same Time, Next Year is a 1978 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Robert Mulligan.
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Scarecrow (1973 film)
Scarecrow is a 1973 American road drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.
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Showtime (TV network)
Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.
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Silver Streak (film)
Silver Streak is a 1976 American thriller comedy film, about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey.
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Something for Everyone
Something for Everyone is a 1970 American black comedy film starring Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, and Jane Carr.
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Somewhere in Time (film)
Somewhere in Time is a 1980 American romantic fantasy drama film from Universal Pictures, directed by Jeannot Szwarc, and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer.
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SportsChannel
SportsChannel is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that was owned by Cablevision, which from 1988 until the group's demise, operated it as a joint venture with NBC. Z Channel and SportsChannel are Defunct television networks in the United States.
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SportsChannel Los Angeles
SportsChannel Los Angeles was an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between the Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision and NBC, and operated as an affiliate of SportsChannel. Z Channel and SportsChannel Los Angeles are sports in Los Angeles.
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Stardust Memories
Stardust Memories is a 1980 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars alongside Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, and Tony Roberts.
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Straw Dogs (1971 film)
Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.
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Swept Away (1974 film)
Swept Away...
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TelePrompTer Corporation
__notoc__ TelePrompTer Corporation was an American media company that existed from approximately 1950 until 1981.
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That Most Important Thing: Love
That Most Important Thing: Love (original French title: L'important c'est d'aimer) is a French film directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski.
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a 1974 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and adapted by Mordechai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd from Richler’s novel of the same name.
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The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American dramatic coming-of-age romantic survival film directed by Randal Kleiser from a screenplay written by Douglas Day Stewart based on the 1908 novel of the same name by Henry De Vere Stacpoole.
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The Blues Brothers (film)
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 film)
The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1968 British DeLuxe Color satirical war film made by Woodfall Film Productions and distributed by United Artists, depicting parts of the Crimean War and the eponymous charge.
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The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome is a 1979 American disaster thriller film directed by James Bridges and written by Bridges, Mike Gray, and T.S. Cook.
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The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films". Z Channel and the Criterion Collection are film preservation.
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The Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal is a 1982 dark fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz.
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The Day of the Dolphin
The Day of the Dolphin is a 1973 American science fiction thriller film directed by Mike Nichols and starring George C. Scott.
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The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman is a 1979 American western comedy-drama film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack.
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The Front
The Front is a 1976 American drama film set against the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s, when artists, writers, directors, and others were rendered unemployable, having been accused of subversive political activities in support of Communism or of being Communists themselves.
The Front Page (1931 film)
The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code screwball black comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.
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The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Neil Simon and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings and Paul Benedict.
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The Great American Cowboy
The Great American Cowboy is a 1973 documentary film about the sport of rodeo.
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The Great Gatsby (1974 film)
The Great Gatsby is a 1974 American historical romantic drama film based on the 1925 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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The Great Santini
The Great Santini is a 1979 American drama film written and directed by Lewis John Carlino.
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The Great Waldo Pepper
The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill.
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The Last Starfighter
The Last Starfighter is a 1984 American space opera film directed by Nick Castle.
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The Leopard (1963 film)
The Leopard (lit) is a 1963 epic historical drama film directed by Luchino Visconti.
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The Little Prince (1974 film)
The Little Prince is a 1974 British-American sci-fi fantasy-musical film with screenplay and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, arranged and orchestrated by Angela Morley.
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The Longest Yard (1974 film)
The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy, and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad and James Hampton.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg.
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The Mission (1986 film)
The Mission is a 1986 British period drama film about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in 18th-century South America.
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The Onion Field (film)
The Onion Field is a 1979 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Harold Becker and written by Joseph Wambaugh, based on his 1973 true crime book of the same name.
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The Parallax View
The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film starring Warren Beatty, with Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss in support.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a 1975 American black comedy film written by Neil Simon, directed and produced by Melvin Frank and starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft.
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The Seduction of Mimi
The Seduction of Mimi (lit) is a 1972 Italian comedy drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Turi Ferro and Agostina Belli.
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The Song Remains the Same (film)
The Song Remains the Same is a 1976 concert film featuring the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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The Spider's Stratagem
The Spider's Stratagem (Strategia del ragno) is a 1970 Italian made-for-television political mystery-drama film written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and produced by RAI.
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The Sting
The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw).
The Story of Adele H.
The Story of Adèle H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) is a 1975 French historical drama film directed by François Truffaut, and starring Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, and Sylvia Marriott.
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The Super Cops
The Super Cops is a 1974 action adventure film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Ron Leibman and David Selby.
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The Towering Inferno
The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
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The Turning Point (1977 film)
The Turning Point is a 1977 American drama film centered on the world of ballet in New York City, written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross.
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The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates.
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The Wind and the Lion
The Wind and the Lion is a 1975 American epic historical adventure film written and directed by John Milius, and starring Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, and John Huston.
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The Yakuza
The Yakuza is a 1974 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura and Brian Keith.
Thieves Like Us (film)
Thieves Like Us is a 1974 American crime film, set in the United States of the 1930s.
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Throne of Blood
is a 1957 Japanese jidaigeki film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (1606) from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama.
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 American crime comedy film written and directed by Michael Cimino and starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis.
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Time Bandits
Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film co-written, produced, and directed by Terry Gilliam.
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UCLA–USC rivalry
The UCLA–USC rivalry is the American collegiate athletics rivalry between the UCLA Bruins sports teams of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and USC Trojans teams of the University of Southern California (USC).
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Valentino (1977 film)
Valentino is a 1977 American biographical film co-written and directed by Ken Russell and starring Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, and Carol Kane.
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Vertigo (film)
Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Videodrome
Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry.
Weird Science (film)
Weird Science is a 1985 American teen science fantasy comedy film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock.
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Westinghouse Broadcasting
The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
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Westworld (film)
Westworld is a 1973 American science fiction Western film written and directed by Michael Crichton.
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Whose Life Is It Anyway? (film)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a 1981 American drama film directed by John Badham and starring Richard Dreyfuss.
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is a 2004 documentary film about Los Angeles pay cable channel Z Channel which was directed by Xan Cassavetes, daughter of Hollywood director and actor John Cassavetes. Z Channel and z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession are film and video fandom.
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...And Justice for All (film)
...And Justice for All is a 1979 American legal drama film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Al Pacino, Jack Warden and John Forsythe.
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1900 (film)
1900 (Novecento, "Twentieth Century") is a 1976 epic historical drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, and featuring an international ensemble cast including Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Laura Betti, Stefania Casini, Ellen Schwiers, Sterling Hayden, Alida Valli, Romolo Valli, Stefania Sandrelli, Donald Sutherland, and Burt Lancaster.
48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. (pronounced 'forty-eight hours') is a 1982 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and co-written by Walter Hill, co-written by Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza and Roger Spottiswoode, and starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy (the latter in his film debut) as a cop and a convict, respectively, who team up to catch two hardened criminals.
See also
American subscription television services
- GiantsVision
- Hawkvision
- MovieBeam
- ON TV (TV network)
- PRISM (TV channel)
- Phonevision
- Preview (subscription service)
- Satellite Television & Associated Resources
- SelecTV (American TV channel)
- Spectrum (TV channel)
- Sportsvision
- Super TV (American TV channel)
- Telemeter (pay television)
- USDTV
- VEU
- Wometco Home Theater
- Z Channel
Film and video fandom
- 100 Cult Films
- 100 Years, 100 Stinkers: The Worst Films of the 20th Century
- Anime and manga fandom
- Anti-fan
- Binge-watching
- Cinemania (film)
- Cinephilia
- Cult Movies (book)
- Cult Movies 2
- Cult Movies 3
- Cult film
- Cursed Films
- Donaldism
- Georges Méliès in culture
- Harry Potter fandom
- Hate-watching
- James Bond fandom
- List of cult films
- List of films considered the worst
- List of films voted the best
- List of television shows notable for negative reception
- Midnight movie
- My Little Pony fandom
- My Year of Flops
- Nacht van de Wansmaak
- Real-life superhero
- Real-life superheroes
- Sad Hill Cemetery
- Setjetting
- Shrek fandom
- Star Trek fandom
- Star Wars fandom
- Stargate fandom
- TCM Underground
- The Cult Film Reader
- The Cult Movie Network
- The Fifty Worst Films of All Time
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following
- The Snob's Dictionary
- Trailers from Hell
- Twilight fandom
- Video essay
- Z Channel
- Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Film preservation
- ABS-CBN Film Archives
- ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project
- Association of European Cinematheques
- Brinton Collection
- China Film Archive
- Cinémathèque de Bretagne
- Cinémathèque française
- Cinémathèque québécoise
- Cinephilia
- Conservation and restoration of film
- Dawson City: Frozen Time
- Dawson Film Find
- Desmet method
- Ernest Lindgren
- Film archives
- Film preservation
- Harold Brown (film preservationist)
- IndieCollect
- International Federation of Film Archives
- Journal of Film Preservation
- La Cinémathèque Méliès
- Library and Archives Canada
- Little Boy Blue (1912 film)
- Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
- Media Archive for Central England
- Media Burn Independent Video Archive
- Media History Digital Library
- National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
- National Film Archive of India
- National Film Heritage Registry
- National Film Preservation Act
- National Film Registry
- Orphan film
- Paper print
- Robert A. Harris
- Roger Mayer (executive)
- Saving Brinton
- Talking Pictures TV
- The Criterion Collection
- The Film Detective
- These Amazing Shadows
- Treasures from American Film Archives
- Turner Classic Movies
- UK Film Council Completion Fund
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Vinegar syndrome
- When the World was Wide
- Z Channel
Rediscovered television
- At Last the 1948 Show
- Episode 847
- Found Footage Festival
- Harlem Cultural Festival
- Jerry Harvey (screenwriter)
- Marion Stokes
- Operation Kilt
- Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa
- Sailor Moon (1994 TV pilot)
- The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage
- The Enemy of the World
- The Time Meddler
- The Tomb of the Cybermen
- The War Machines
- Turn-On
- Z Channel
Sports in Los Angeles
- All-American Strongman Challenge
- American Pacing Classic
- Angel City FC
- CIF Los Angeles City Section
- CicLAvia
- Golden West Pace
- LA 10 FC
- LA Giltinis
- Los Angeles Aviators
- Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee
- MOJO Sports
- Mob Squad (American football)
- Mob Squad (fans)
- Professional Bull Riders
- Santa Ana Winds FC
- Skid Row Running Club
- Soccer in Los Angeles
- Sports in Los Angeles
- SportsChannel Los Angeles
- Z Channel
TelePrompTer Corporation
- Filmation
- Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
- TelePrompTer Corporation
- Teleprompter
- Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting
- Z Channel
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1989
- GiantsVision
- Norsk TV1
- Premiere (TV channel)
- SelecTV (American TV channel)
- Sportsvision
- TV10 (Dutch TV channel)
- WBNB-TV
- WCCO II
- WLKT (TV)
- WNHT (TV)
- Z Channel
Television channels and stations established in 1974
- BNT 2
- CFVO-TV
- CIII-DT
- CITV-DT
- CKSH-DT
- Canal 8 UCV TV
- CoogTV
- DD Jharkhand
- DWGT-TV
- DWNC-TV
- DXLA-TV
- Global Television Network
- Islamic Broadcasting Union
- KARD (TV)
- KENW (TV)
- KIVI-TV
- KMAX-TV
- KPVI-DT
- KVST-TV
- NTA Jos
- People's Television Network
- RBS TV Uruguaiana
- Rede Amazônica Rio Branco
- Sultanate of Oman Television
- Télévision Centrafricaine
- TV Ceará
- Teleamazonas
- Telelombardia
- WATM-TV
- WFUT-DT
- WHME-TV
- WNIT (TV)
- WOFL
- WZVN-TV
- Wellingborough Cablevision
- Z Channel