Best excellent award winning movies from 1975

View today’s top 10 movies with excellent from 1975 based on the crowd's interest from popular searches across the country. People have searched for the greatest movies of all time with excellent from 1975.

1 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.

Info

1975-11-19 | Drama

Cast

Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif

Rating

rating icon 8.422
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

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

Trailer

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest trailer
play button

2 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.

Info

1975-06-11 | Drama / Music

Cast

David Arkin, Barbara Baxley

Rating

rating icon 7.22
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  2. Ranked #49 for
    ad lib
  3. Ranked #80 for
    smug

Trailer

Nashville trailer
play button

3 Jaws (1975)

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.

Info

1975-06-20 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw

Rating

rating icon 7.7
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #72 for
    crowd-pleaser
  2. Ranked #104 for
    most thrilling
  3. Ranked #151 for
    tent-pole film

Trailer

Jaws trailer
play button

4 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.

Info

1975-09-21 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Al Pacino, John Cazale

Rating

rating icon 7.835
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #33 for
    freak show
  2. Ranked #46 for
    haywire
  3. Ranked #78 for
    ad lib

Trailer

Dog Day Afternoon trailer
play button
download maimovie
Download
Maimovie Now

to discover other
1,014 similar movies

5 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.

Info

1975-12-18 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson

Rating

rating icon 8.002
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #56 for
    Period Drama
  2. Ranked #58 for
    natural light
  3. Ranked #61 for
    symmetry plots

Trailer

Barry Lyndon trailer
play button

6 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

Info

1975-09-02 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray

Rating

rating icon 7.233
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #63 for
    opaque
  2. Ranked #77 for
    impressionistic
  3. Ranked #110 for
    remaining unanswered

Trailer

Picnic at Hanging Rock trailer
play button

7 The Sunshine Boys (1975)

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.

Info

1975-11-06 | Comedy

Cast

Walter Matthau, George Burns

Rating

rating icon 6.8
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    vaudevillian
  2. Ranked #45 for
    thudding sound
  3. Ranked #57 for
    tetchy

Trailer

The Sunshine Boys trailer
play button

8 Three Days of the Condor (1975)

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Info

1975-08-01 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway

Rating

rating icon 7.3
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    anachronistic
  2. Ranked #94 for
    wallflower
  3. Ranked #98 for
    dated

Trailer

Three Days of the Condor trailer
play button

9 Poachers (1975)

Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.

Info

1975-09-08 | Drama

Cast

Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor

Rating

rating icon 6.5
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #81 for
    atmospheric cinematography
  2. Ranked #207 for
    engaging directing
  3. Ranked #221 for
    severe editing

Trailer

Poachers trailer
play button

10 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 6.4
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10 for
    vaudevillian
  2. Ranked #165 for
    old-timey
  3. Ranked #187 for
    crème de la crème

Trailer

The Day of the Locust trailer
play button

FAQ

According to the review analysis on Maimovie, movies in Best excellent award winning movies from 1975 list are rated as remarkable, critically acclaimed, deservedly won awards, tetchy, shortlisted, most thrilling, cat-and-mouse, engaging directing, most captivating, disciplinarian.
We collect all existing reviews on the web for all movies and proceed machine learning to calculate the A.I. ranking. It ranks the movies while automatically updating new information every week.
Using Taste search, Maimovie provides a unique system which helps you search for specific results through phrases that are collected from movie reviews and information from various movie databases. You can look for movies with phrases such as “adrenaline pumping movies” or “unexpected plot twist of all time.” The Maimovie application’s database covers movie information from all 540K+ movies and connects you to all 74+ available streaming services.