Best 1975 movies

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August 29, 2025
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Best 1975 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1975 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. A Boy and His Dog
- Stacker score: 76.3
- IMDb user rating: 6.4 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: L.Q. Jones
- Actors: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton
- Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#19. Tommy
- Stacker score: 76.3
- IMDb user rating: 6.6 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 66
- Director: Ken Russell
- Actors: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $34,251,525

#18. The Wind and the Lion
- Stacker score: 78.0
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 67
- Director: John Milius
- Actors: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#17. French Connection II
- Stacker score: 78.0
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: John Frankenheimer
- Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $12,484,444

#16. Three Days of the Condor
- Stacker score: 79.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 67,000)
- Metascore: 63
- Director: Sydney Pollack
- Actors: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $27,476,252

#15. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Stacker score: 80.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 177,000)
- Metascore: 65
- Director: Jim Sharman
- Actors: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $112,892,319

#14. Farewell, My Lovely
- Stacker score: 80.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 10,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Dick Richards
- Actors: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#13. Hard Times
- Stacker score: 81.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 69
- Director: Walter Hill
- Actors: Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#12. Night Moves
- Stacker score: 88.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Arthur Penn
- Actors: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#11. Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Stacker score: 89.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 44,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Peter Weir
- Actors: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $83,212

#10. Grey Gardens
- Stacker score: 91.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 16,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles
- Actors: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $36,923

#9. The Passenger
- Stacker score: 94.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
- Runtime: 2 hours 6 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $620,155

#8. Love and Death
- Stacker score: 95.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 43,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Woody Allen
- Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet
- Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $20,123,742

#7. Dog Day Afternoon
- Stacker score: 96.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 285,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Sidney Lumet
- Actors: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen
- Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $50,000,000

#6. The Man Who Would Be King
- Stacker score: 97.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 54,000)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: John Huston
- Actors: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
- Runtime: 2 hours 9 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#5. Jaws
- Stacker score: 97.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 712,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $267,263,625

#4. Barry Lyndon
- Stacker score: 98.3
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 197,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
- Runtime: 3 hours 5 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Stacker score: 98.8
- IMDb user rating: 8.7 (votes: 1.1 million)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Milos Forman
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman
- Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $108,981,275

#2. Nashville
- Stacker score: 99.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 30,000)
- Metascore: 96
- Director: Robert Altman
- Actors: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley
- Runtime: 2 hours 40 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $9,984,123

#1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 593,000)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
- Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
- Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $2,562,392

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