By Patrick Mondout
The Sting was number one at the box office while The Godfather, Part II won Best Picture at the Oscars. Other notable movies of the year include:
Airport '75
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Ali-Fear Eats the Soul
Amarcord
Arabian Nights
Bank Shot
Big Bad Mama
Black Belt Jones
Black Christmas
Blazing Saddles
Blood for Dracula
Caged Heat
Chinatown
Claudine
The Conversation
Daisy Miller
Dark Star
Death Wish
Earthquake
Emmanuelle
Female Trouble
Flesh Gordon
Flesh for Frankenstein
For Pete's Sake
Foxy Brown
Freebie and the Bean
Front Page
Gambler
The Godfather Part II
Going Places
Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Gone in 60 Seconds
Great Gatsby
Groove Tube
Harry and Tonto
Hearts and Minds
Herbie Rides Again
Juggernaut
Lenny
Little Prince
Longest Yard
Lords of Flatbush
Magnum Force
Mame
Man with the Golden Gun
McQ
Mr. Majestyk
Murder on the Orient Express
My Name Is Nobody
Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
Night Porter
Odessa File
Parallax View
Phantom of the Paradise
Scenes from a Marriage
Scent of a Woman
Sugarland Express
Taking of Pelham 123
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
That's Entertainment
Thieves Like Us
Three Musketeers
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Towering Inferno
Truck Turner
Uptown Saturday Night
A Woman Under the Influence
Where the Red Fern Grows
Willie Dynamite
Zardoz
5: Herbie Rides Again ($17.5M)
4: Magnum Force ($18.3M)
3: Papillon ($19.7M)
2: The Exorcist ($66.3M)
1: The Sting ($68.5M)