Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
New York, New York | Martin Scorsese | Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander | Musical, Romance, Drama | United Artists; music by Kander and Ebb |
Night Terror | E.W. Swackhamer | Valerie Harper, Richard Romanus, Nicholas Pryor, Michael Tolan, John War Eagle | Horror, Thriller | Made-for-TV |
Oh, God! | Carl Reiner | George Burns, John Denver, Paul Sorvino, Teri Garr | Comedy | Warner Bros. Based on Avery Corman novel; 2 sequels |
One on One | Lamont Johnson | Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G. D. Spradlin | Sports, Drama | Warner Bros. Cowritten by Benson |
Opening Night | John Cassavetes | Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Katherine Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Zohra Lampert | Psychological Drama | Independent |
Orca | Michael Anderson | Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Robert Carradine, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn | Adventure, Thriller | Paramount; Dino De Laurentiis production |
The Other Side of Midnight | Charles Jarrott | Marie-France Pisier, Susan Sarandon, John Beck, Michael Lerner, Clu Gulager, Raf Vallone | Drama | Fox; based on Sidney Sheldon novel |
Outlaw Blues | Richard T. Heffron | Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford | Drama | Warner Bros. |
The Pack | Robert Clouse | Joe Don Baker, Richard B. Shull, Bibi Besch | Horror | Warner Bros. |
The People That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy | AIP. |
Pete's Dragon | Don Chaffey | Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Shelley Winters | Live-Action/Animated, Musical, Fantasy | Disney |
A Piece of the Action | Sidney Poitier | Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones | Crime, Comedy | Warner Bros. 3rd Cosby-Poitier pairing |
Pine Canyon is Burning | Christian I. Nyby II | Kent McCord, Megan McCord, Shane Sinutko | Drama | TV film for NBC |
Planet of Dinosaurs | James Shea | Max Thayer, Louie Lawless | Sci-Fi | Independent |
Portrait of a Hitman | Allan A. Buckhantz | Rod Steiger, Jack Palance, Bo Svenson | Crime, Drama | Independent. Unreleased until 1984 |
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Larry Cohen | Broderick Crawford, Jose Ferrer, Celeste Holm | Biography, Drama | AIP |
Rabid | David Cronenberg | Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, | Body Horror | New World |
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown | Phil Roman, Bill Melendez | Duncan Watson, Bill Melendez, Stuart Brotman, Melanie Kohn, Gail Davis | Animation | Paramount |
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure | Richard Williams | Didi Conn, Mark Baker | Live-Action/Animated, Musical, Fantasy | 20th Century Fox |
Raid on Entebbe | Irvin Kershner | Peter Finch, Martin Balsam, Yaphet Kotto, Charles Bronson, Robert Loggia, Horst Buchholz, John Saxon, Jack Warden | Drama | Made-for-TV; 10 Emmy nominations |
The Ransom | Richard Compton | Oliver Reed, Deborah Raffin, Stuart Whitman, James Mitchum, John Ireland, Paul Koslo | Thriller | New World |
The Rescuers | John Lounsbery | Voices of Eva Gabor, Bob Newhart, Geraldine Page | Animation | Disney |
Rollercoaster | James Goldstone | George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda | Disaster, Suspense, Thriller | Universal |
Rolling Thunder | John Flynn | William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, Dabney Coleman, James Best, Cassie Yates | Psychological Thriller | AIP |
Roseland | James Ivory | Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Walken | Anthology, Romance | Independent. 3 stories |
Ruby | Curtis Harrington | Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman. Roger Davis | Supernatural Horror | Dimension |
Run for the Roses | Henry Levin | Vera Miles, Stuart Whitman, Lisa Eilbacher | Sports, Drama | Independent |
Satan's Cheerleaders | Greydon Clark | Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, John Carradine | Comedy, Horror | Dimension Pictures |
Saturday Night Fever | John Badham | John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow | Dance, Drama | Paramount; 4 Golden Globe nominations |
Scott Joplin | Jeremy Kagan | Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery | Biography | Universal |
Semi-Tough | Michael Ritchie | Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Brian Dennehy, Carl Weathers, Bert Convy | Sports, Comedy | United Artists; from Dan Jenkins novel |
The Sentinel | Michael Winner | Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner | Supernatural Horror | Universal; from Jeffrey Konvitz novel |
September 30, 1955 | James Bridges | Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrell, Collin Wilcox | Drama | Universal |
The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe | Drama | Paramount; Bergman's only Hollywood film |
The Shadow of Chikara | Earl E. Smith | Joe Don Baker, Sondra Locke, Slim Pickens | Western, Horror | Howco |
Shock Waves | Ken Wiederhorn | Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, John Carradine | Horror | Independent |
Short Eyes | Robert M. Young | Bruce Davison, Jose Perez | Crime Drama | Independent |
Sidewinder 1 | Earl Bellamy | Marjoe Gortner, Michael Parks, Susan Howard | Action | Embassy |
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | Sam Wanamaker | Jane Seymour, Taryn Power, Patrick Wayne | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Columbia |
Slap Shot | George Roy Hill | Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Jennifer Warren, M. Emmet Walsh | Sports, Comedy | Universal |
Smokey and the Bandit | Hal Needham | Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Jerry Reed | Action, Comedy | Universal. Second to Star Wars at box office; two sequels |
Sorcerer | William Friedkin | Roy Scheider, Francisco Rabal, Bruno Cremer | Thriller | Paramount-Universal. The Wages of Fear remake |
Speedtrap | Earl Bellamy | Joe Don Baker, Tyne Daly, Richard Jaeckel | Action | Independent |
The Spy Who Loved Me | Lewis Gilbert | Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel | Spy, Action | United Artists. Sequel to The Man with the Golden Gun |
Star Wars | George Lucas | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness | Space Opera | 20th Century Fox. First Star Wars film; won 6 Academy Awards |
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? | Russ Mayberry | Barbara Eden, Richard Basehart, Louise Latham | Mystery, Crime, Drama | Made-for-TV |
Stunts | Mark L. Lester | Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Joanna Cassidy | Adventure, Thriller | New Line |