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The Gun and the Pulpit (1974)

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Rating: 6/10 In the days of the ‘Wild West’, a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister’s identity. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

They Call Me Trinity (1970)

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Rating: 7.7/10 Terence Hill, Bud Spencer. In this off-the-wall spoof of the stereotypical spaghetti Western, ‘two gunslingin’ brothers take on a gang of bandidos trying to run a a group of Mormons out of town and become religious converts in the process. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Frenzy (1972)

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Rating: 7.6/10 In a modern-day London, a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer has the police on alert, and in typical Hitchcock fashion, the trail is leading to an innocent man, who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Duel (1971)

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Rating: 7.9/10 A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

The People That Time Forgot (1977)

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Rating: 5.7/10 A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride’s party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely to their ship. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

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Rating: 5.9/10 In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in an expert vampire researcher named Van Helsing (a descendant of the great vampire-hunter himself, no less) to help them put a stop to these hideous crimes. It becomes apparent that the culprit is Count Dracula himself, disguised as a reclusive property developer, but secretly plotting to unleash a fatal virus upon the world. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)

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Rating: 5.5/10 Suburban homeowners (Richard Crenna, Yvette Mimieux) and their family cannot escape from a demonic dog. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

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Rating: 8.2/10 Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Black Christmas (1974)

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Rating: 7.4/10 A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

The Omen (1976)

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Rating: 7.7/10 Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil’s own son? H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)

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Rating: 5.9/10 An invisible demon in the cargo hold of a jet airliner terrorizes the passengers. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

The Driller Killer (1979)

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Rating: 5.4/10 An artist slowly loses his mind as he and his two female friends scrape to pay the bills. The punk band downstairs increasingly agitates him, his art dealer is demanding that he complete his big canvas painting as promised, and he gets into fights with his girlfriends. When the dealer laughs at his canvas he snaps, and begins taking it out on the people responsible for his pain and random transients in the manner suggested by the title. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Killdozer (1974)

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Rating: 5.5/10 A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when some strange spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)

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Rating: 6.1/10 The film centers on the life of Tod Lubitch (John Travolta), who was born with an improperly functioning immune system. This means that contact with unfiltered air may kill him, so he must live out his life in incubator conditions. He lives with his parents, since they decided to move him from the hospital where he was being kept as a boy. He is constricted to staying in his room all his life, where he eats, learns, reads and exercises, while being protected from the outside world by various coverings. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Carter’s Army (1970)

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Rating: 5.3/10 A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Nazis. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)

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Rating: 7.5/10 A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d’If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)

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Rating: 7.8/10 At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer (Richard Thomas) is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside. The film is based on the classic novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!