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Mystery · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Night Moves (1975)

Set against the backdrop of the misty Pacific Northwest, this story follows an activist couple and a troubled Vietnam veteran who team up to challenge a powerful corporation’s destructive hydroelectric dam project. Their ambitious plan to disrupt the status quo is complicated by hidden secrets and unexpected lies, threatening to unravel their mission and expose the truth behind their actions. The consequences of their radical choices become increasingly dangerous as they navigate a web of deception and risk everything to fight for their beliefs.

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Drama · Tense tone · Ambiguous ending

In Celebration (1975)

Set in a Yorkshire mining community, three educated brothers travel back to their blue‑collar hometown to celebrate their parents’ 40th wedding anniversary. As the family gathers, long‑buried secrets emerge, bringing tension to the reunion and revealing the clash between their academic lives and their roots.

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Drama · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Mechagodzilla returns, more enraged and heavily armed. A submarine crew attempting to recover its wreck is halted by the massive Titanosaurus. An Interpol probe draws biologist Ichinose into Dr. Mafune’s experiments and his enigmatic daughter Katsura, who, allied with the Black Hole Aliens, becomes entangled with the revived machine.

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Drama · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Cage Without a Key (1975)

Needing a ride, a high‑school girl accepts a lift from a stranger who then forces her to join a robbery that ends with a clerk’s murder. Though she loudly protests her innocence, they are arrested, and she is convicted of first‑degree murder and sent to prison. Inside, she quickly learns that the hardships awaiting her are only just beginning now.

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Western · Melancholic tone · Bittersweet ending

Rancho Deluxe (1975)

A yearning for a low‑interest loan, a cowgirl, two pickup trucks, a color TV and free beer defines the dream of Rancho Deluxe. The film follows two drifters—one refined, one rough—who rustle cattle while evading the law across the vast contemporary Montana.

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Drama · Bittersweet tone · Sad ending

Shampoo (1975)

In the midst of the 1970s, Beverly Hills hairstylist George Roundy juggles a thriving business with a reputation as a charming womanizer. Seeking financial assistance to expand his salon, he turns to wealthy client Felicia. However, his pursuit of money and desire complicates his relationships with several women, leading to a series of romantic entanglements and potential ruin for his burgeoning empire.

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Thriller · Tense tone · Mixed ending

The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)

Giorgio Mainardi, a womanizer, plots to eliminate his wealthy wife Norma. After seeing a sinister figure dump a body, he hires the killer to murder her. The deed succeeds, but a young couple, Luca and Laura, unwittingly steal the assassin’s car, discovering Norma’s corpse in the boot. They flee to a beach house, where the killer tracks them, assaults Laura and kills a blonde stranger and Luca during a threesome. Laura eventually wounds her attacker, and the police grow increasingly suspicious of Giorgio.

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Adventure · Tense tone · Happy ending

Zorro (1975)

Zorro returns as a newly appointed governor discovers his province ruled by the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid becoming Huerta’s target, he feigns weakness and indecision, convincing the colonel he poses no danger. In secret he dons the Zorro mask, allying with monk Francisco and aristocrat Hortensia to battle Huerta’s forces and restore justice.

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Drama · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Scandal in the Family (1975)

Industrialist Carlo spends a holiday at his villa near Piacenza with his wife Piera and daughter Francesca. Their nephew Milo arrives and begins to flirt with and seduce the women in the house, including the attractive cook Doris, who already has a liaison with Carlo, creating a tangled web of desire.

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Horror · Dark tone · Sad ending

Deafula (1975)

A theology student finds himself turning into a vampire and hunting other students for their blood.

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Crime · Melancholic tone · Sad ending

Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975)

In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.

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Comedy · Light tone · Happy ending

At Long Last Love (1975)

Four high‑society individuals collide in a whirlwind of chance encounters. Heiress Brooke Carter meets gambler Johnny Spanish at the racetrack, while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O’Kelly in his car. Backstage, Kitty discovers she and Brooke are old school friends. The quartet tours the town together, accompanied by Brooke’s confidante Elizabeth, who pursues Michael’s butler‑chauffeur Rodney James.

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Mystery · Tense tone · Bleak ending

The Passenger (1975)

David Locke, a jaded American reporter sent to cover a war in northern Africa, struggles to find a story. After stumbling upon the corpse of a man who resembles him, he adopts the dead man’s identity, only to discover the stranger was an arms dealer. With the help of a striking woman, Locke must evade both police and ruthless criminals who are after him.

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Drama · Dark tone · Bleak ending

The Common Man (1975)

Georges Lajoie, a Paris café owner, spends each summer holiday with his wife Ginette and adult son Léon at Loulou’s campsite. There they reconnect with the Schumacher family, whose father is a bailiff, and the Colin family, market bra sellers. This year their tranquil routine is upset by a nearby construction site employing foreign workers, prompting xenophobic remarks. Tensions climax at a campsite ball when Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two Algerian laborers get into a violent brawl.

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History · Dark tone · Sad ending

The Promised Land (1975)

Set in nineteenth‑century Łódź, three enterprising friends pool their resources to build and invest in a textile factory, hoping to strike it rich. Their story frames a vivid portrait of the town’s swift industrial boom, capturing the ambitions, risks and social changes that reshaped Poland’s textile hub.

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Adventure · Bittersweet tone · Bittersweet ending

Mondo candido (1975)

Voltaire, a 16th‑century author, rages at scholars of a “civilized” society who insist that the senseless violence and chaos of disasters, war, disease and human cruelty are merely components of a larger, benevolent plan. He argues that a perfect God could not logically have created anything less than the best possible universe.

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Action · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Graveyard of Honor (1975)

He declares, “Only crows will cry when I die,” and plunges into the yakuza world. A self‑destructive man rises to a feared position within the criminal organization, yet his volatile temperament quickly spirals out of control, leading to chaos. The film follows the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

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Action · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)

In 1970s South Africa, Jim Keogh and Shack Twala, two men from different backgrounds, find themselves on the run and forge an uneasy alliance. Pursued by the authorities, they depend on the resourceful lawyer Rina to aid their escape. Their mission involves delivering a valuable diamond stash to Wilby, but as they journey through dangerous landscapes, they discover they are being closely monitored, and their freedom is uncertain.

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Comedy · Bittersweet tone · Ambiguous ending

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)

Sheila Levine epitomizes every woman forced to attend her younger sister’s wedding. A bright, inventive yet painfully introverted young woman, she moves to New York City and shares an apartment with a party‑loving roommate. In the bustling city she navigates romance and heartbreak in equal measure.

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Sci-Fi · Dark tone · Bleak ending

The Stepford Wives (1975)

When Joanna Eberhart and her husband move to the seemingly perfect town of Stepford, Connecticut, she finds its charm quickly turns sinister. As Joanna observes the unsettling uniformity of the local women, she begins to suspect a dark secret lies beneath the town's idyllic surface. Her investigation leads her down a disturbing path, revealing a shocking truth about the community and the women who inhabit it.

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Drama · Melancholic tone · Bittersweet ending

Yeong-ja’s Heydays (1975)

Chang‑su remembers the girl he loved before his military service, when she worked as a housemaid. Years later they reunite at a police station, where Yeong‑ja tells him she left her job after being raped by her employer’s son. Her fortunes continue to decline; a car crash costs her an arm, forcing her into prostitution to afford an artificial limb.

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Drama · Dark tone · Happy ending

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)

Sarah, only 15, turns to alcohol after her parents’ divorce and the stress of daily life. She drinks in secret, as though she must, finding brief comfort and release. The habit quickly spirals out of control, creating big trouble for anyone around her and sending her world into chaos. Her secret habit strains school and family, deepening the chaos.

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Crime · Tense tone · Ambiguous ending

The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)

An atmospheric dramatization of the infamous 1893 Massachusetts trial in which Lizzie Borden was accused of ax‑murdering her father and stepmother. The film follows the courtroom proceedings, the frantic media coverage, and the lingering question of whether she truly committed the crime of the century.

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Romance · Dark tone · Sad ending

A Woman Called Sada Abe (1975)

Sada Abe, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant, is expelled after being raped and losing her virginity. She drifts through the city, becomes a geisha, and meets Kichizo, an upscale restaurateur who falls under her spell. Their week‑long, obsessive liaison ends in a shocking crime of passion that dominates headlines. Based on the 1936 real case.

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Drama · Dark tone · Sad ending

Prem Kahani (1975)

An apolitical poet abandons his love to become a freedom fighter — only for fate to bring them face-to-face again years later.

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Sci-Fi · Light tone · Happy ending

The Strongest Man in the World (1975)

A college student's unusual experiment results in a potion granting temporary superhuman strength to those who drink it. When the cereal containing the potion becomes wildly popular, the creators find themselves facing challenges from powerful corporate interests and competing companies. A battle of wits and strength ensues, leading to a chaotic and unpredictable series of events as everyone vies for control of the incredible formula.

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Drama · Bleak tone · Bleak ending

Report to the Commissioner (1975)

Patty Butler, a police officer working undercover under the alias “Chicklet,” lives with criminal Thomas “Stick” Henderson to gather evidence. Unaware that she is a cop, Detective Bo Lockley is assigned to find her, ultimately becoming the detective who kills her.

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Mystery · Tense tone · Bleak ending

Footprints on the Moon (1975)

Ecstasy beyond passion, possession beyond lust—ultimate fulfillment. Alice, a translator, sees reality merge with recurring nightmares while dealing with recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to Garma Island, where locals recognize her. She doubts her identity and the meaning of a dream about an astronaut abandoned on the moon.

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Thriller · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

The Spiral Staircase (1975)

There’s always another twist to… A mute young woman is stalked by a serial killer at her uncle’s mansion.

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Thriller · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

Mr. Ricco (1975)

San Francisco lawyer Joe Ricco (Dean Martin) frees suspected killer Frankie Steele. When two cops are murdered, all clues point to Steele, but Ricco doubts his client and investigates. He battles a hostile lieutenant, faces planted evidence, survives attempts on his life, and uncovers a hidden mastermind. Cindy Williams appears as his assistant.

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Thriller · Tense tone · Sad ending

The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

Kidnapping, masquerade and a murder trial drive this tense thriller. Wealthy Manhattan industrialist Arthur Goldman, a Jewish man known for his sharp humor, is arrested by Israeli agents as a Nazi war criminal. Extradited to Israel, Goldman forces his prosecutors to confront not only his alleged crimes but also their own moral culpability.

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Music · Whimsical tone

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)

Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them.

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Thriller · Tense tone · Mixed ending

Eyeball (1975)

A group of American tourists journeys through Spain, only to have two members brutally slain by a mysterious serial killer who extracts an eyeball from each victim. As the body count rises, the remaining travelers and local police race to uncover which member of the tour is the murderer, heightening the horror and suspicion.

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Action · Tense tone

Gambling City (1975)

Luca Altieri is a gambler, poker ace and cardsharper. He takes a job for the crime boss known as “The President,” who runs a chain of gambling houses. Their partnership looks solid until Luca falls for Maria Luisa, the girlfriend of Corrado, The President’s son, sparking a dangerous love triangle.

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Thriller · Dark tone · Bittersweet ending

Autopsy (1975)

It takes a chilling turn when a string of seemingly random suicides in Rome, blamed on a heatwave, catches the attention of Simona, a young pathologist researching murders staged as suicides. After a girl linked to Simona’s playboy father is found dead in another apparent suicide, Simona joins forces with the girl’s brother, a priest, to prove it was murder and unmask the elusive serial killer.

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Thriller · Bleak tone · Bleak ending

The Dead Don’t Die (1975)

A solitary sailor in the 1930s is determined to clear his brother’s name after a wrongful execution for murder. His quest pulls him into a dark occult realm where a zombie‑master commands an army of the undead, using the risen dead to serve his nefarious purposes. The sailor must confront this horde alone and stop the necromancer before his brother’s soul—and countless others—are lost.

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Horror · Tense tone · Bleak ending

Satan’s Triangle (1975)

After a shipwreck, a lone female survivor is rescued by two Coast Guard helicopter pilots, but their mission goes awry when they become stranded in the enigmatic region of the ocean called the Satan’s Triangle, where mounting terror and inexplicable phenomena threaten their survival.

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Crime · Dark tone · Sad ending

Deewaar (1975)

Haunted by the past, Vijay turns to crime, while Ravi, his brother, becomes an honest police officer. Fate pits them against each other when Ravi is sent to nab Vijay.

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Family · Hopeful tone · Happy ending

Stowaway to the Moon (1975)

E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11‑year‑old space fan, sneaks onto a NASA launch pad at Cape Kennedy and hides on a lunar‑bound spacecraft. Discovered, NASA aborts, but the boy and the crew persuade officials to continue. When an astronaut falls ill and two are stranded on the Moon, E.J. remotely pilots the capsule and rescues the mission.

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Drama · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Switchblade Sisters (1975)

A tough gang of teenage girls roams the city’s mean streets, chasing love while battling for turf. These bad‑to‑the‑bone high‑school hoodlums are unapologetically outrageous, taking whatever they want and leaving chaos in their wake. Their fierce loyalty to each other fuels the mayhem they unleash across every corner of the urban landscape.

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