Best underrated award winning movies from 1975

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1 Barry Lyndon (1975)

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

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1975-12-18 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson

Rating

rating icon 8.009
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #56 for
    Period Drama
  2. Ranked #60 for
    natural light
  3. Ranked #61 for
    symmetry plots

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2 Shampoo (1975)

George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.

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1975-02-11 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Warren Beatty, Julie Christie

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #48 for
    devil-may-care
  2. Ranked #79 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  3. Ranked #103 for
    sex-starving character

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3 Hearts of the West (1975)

Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.

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1975-10-08 | Comedy / Western

Cast

Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #76 for
    scammer
  2. Ranked #77 for
    horse opera
  3. Ranked #81 for
    fey

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4 Rollerball (1975)

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

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1975-06-25 | Science Fiction / Action

Cast

James Caan, John Houseman

Rating

rating icon 6.239
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #30 for
    orwellian
  2. Ranked #55 for
    futuristic society
  3. Ranked #82 for
    cutthroat

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5 That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)

Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.

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1975-02-12 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi

Rating

rating icon 7.093
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #162 for
    deformed
  2. Ranked #184 for
    jittery
  3. Ranked #282 for
    propulsive

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6 Nashville (1975)

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

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1975-06-11 | Drama / Music

Cast

David Arkin, Barbara Baxley

Rating

rating icon 7.234
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #37 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  2. Ranked #47 for
    ad lib
  3. Ranked #78 for
    smug

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7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

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1975-11-19 | Drama

Cast

Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif

Rating

rating icon 8.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #40 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  3. Ranked #75 for
    deservedly won awards

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8 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

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1975-09-21 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Al Pacino, John Cazale

Rating

rating icon 7.84
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #33 for
    freak show
  2. Ranked #46 for
    haywire
  3. Ranked #79 for
    ad lib

Trailer

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9 The Day of the Locust (1975)

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

Info

1975-05-07 | Drama

Cast

Donald Sutherland, Karen Black

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10 for
    vaudevillian
  2. Ranked #165 for
    old-timey
  3. Ranked #189 for
    very good

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10 Cooley High (1975)

In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they are falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through to the dramatic end of high school.

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1975-06-25 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Rating

rating icon 6.884
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #155 for
    afterschool special
  2. Ranked #179 for
    blaxploitation
  3. Ranked #183 for
    little scary

Trailer

Cooley High trailer
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