Best Movies of 1975 by Rank
55
1
Robert Altman
Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin
Drama / Music
USA
English
68
2
Milos Forman
Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
97
3
Steven Spielberg
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
Adventure / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
121
4
Stanley Kubrick
Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Epic
UK
English
210
5
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman, Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
Drama / Experimental
Belgium / France
French
217
6
Sidney Lumet
Al Pacino, John Cazale
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comedy
USA
English
580
7
Peter Weir
Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Drama / Mystery / Period Film
Australia
English
603
8
Andrei Tarkovsky
Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
685
9
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Cult
UK
English
957
10
Arthur Penn
Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Ed Binns
Thriller / Post-Noir / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1017
11
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Drama
France / Italy / USA / Spain
English
1064
12
Lina Wertmüller
Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler
Comedy / Drama / War
Italy
Italian
1079
13
Michael Ritchie
Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis
Comedy
USA
English
1094
14
John Huston
Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey
Adventure
UK / USA
English
1111
15
Ousmane Sembene
Seun Samb, Tierno Leye, Younous Seye, Makhouredia Gueye
Comedy
Senegal
French
1240
16
Jean Charles Tacchella
Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux
Comedy / Romance
France
French
1248
17
Akira Kurosawa
Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union / Japan
Russian
1367
18
Ingmar Bergman
Josef Köstlinger, Sixten Fark
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy / Musical
Sweden
Swedish
1424
19
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu
Comedy / War
USA
English
1439
20
Dick Richards
Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles
Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
1452
21
François Truffaut
Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Biography
France
French
1557
22
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Drama / Horror
Italy / France
Italian
1560
23
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1560
23
Theo Angelopoulos
Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Stratos Pahis, Maria Vassiliou
Drama
Greece
Greek
1629
24
Jim Sharman
Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien
Comedy / Horror / Musical / Sci-Fi / Experimental / Cult
UK
English
1666
25
John Schlesinger
Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton
Drama / Horror / Period Film
USA
English
1668
26
Marguerite Duras
Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Experimental
France
French
1723
27
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven
Drama / Crime / Romance
West Germany
German
1747
28
Hal Ashby
Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1899
29
Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent
Drama
West Germany
German
2059
30
Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Jack Helmuth
Documentary / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2066
31
Ján Kadár
Yossi Yadin, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Jeff Lynas
Drama
Canada
English
2112
32
Ken Russell
Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Elton John
Drama / Musical / Cult
UK
English
2209
33
Lino Brocka
Bembol Roco, Hilda Koronel, Lou Salvador Jr., Princess Reymundo, Tommy Abuel
Drama / Adventure
Philippines
Tagalog
2273
34
Claude Chabrol
Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, François Maistre, Paolo Giusti
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2302
35
Yash Chopra
Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Parveen Babi, Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy
Drama / Action / Crime / Gangster
India
Hindi
2319
36
Norman Jewison
James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Pamela Hensley
Action / Sci-Fi / Sports / Drama
UK
English
2333
37
Joan Micklin Silver
Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Mel Howard, Claudia Silver, Ed Crowley, Doris Roberts
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2348
38
Richard Brooks
Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen
Action / Adventure / Western / Sports
USA
English
2396
39
Howard Zieff
Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner
Western / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2447
40
Jean-Luc Godard
Sandrine Battistella, Alexandre Rignault, Pierre Oudrey
Drama / Experimental
France
French
2448
41
Herbert Ross
Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith
Comedy
USA
English
2485
42
Herbert Ross
Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall
Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2485
42
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne
Comedy / Crime / Detective / Caper / Family
UK
English
2514
43
John Hough
Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann
Fantasy / Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Action / Drama
USA
English
2514
43
Stuart Millar
John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire
Western / Comedy
USA
English
2556
44
Robert Aldrich
Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
2559
45
Costa-Gavras
Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale
Thriller / Drama / War
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2598
46
Ramesh Sippy
Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan
Adventure / Action / Drama / Musical / Romance / Thriller
India
Hindi
2608
47
Claude Lelouch
Michèle Morgan, Serge Reggiani, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Romance
France
French
2608
47
Melvin Frank
Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2608
47
Frank Perry
Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Slim Pickens
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2608
47
Joseph Losey
Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Michael Lonsdale
Comedy / Drama
France / UK
English
2656
48
Krzysztof Zanussi
Maja Komorowska, Piotr Fronczewski, Marek Piwowski
Drama
Poland
Polish
2679
49
Lindsay Anderson
Alan Bates, James Bolam, Brian Cox, Constance Chapman
Drama
UK
English
2691
50
Walerian Borowczyk
Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti, Guy Tréjan
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Period Film / Cult / Adult
France
French
2691
50
Kevin Connor
Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron, Anthony Ainley
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
2691
50
Robert Stevenson
Derek Nimmo, Hugh Burden, Bernard Bresslaw, Helen Hayes, Joan Sims
Family / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Spy / Sci-Fi
UK / USA
English
2692
51
L.Q. Jones
Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Jason Robards, Tim McIntire, Alvy Moore
Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
2692
51
Tom Gries
Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning
Western / Mystery / Crime / Action / Detective
USA
English
2692
51
Paul Bartel
David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins
Action / Sci-Fi / Sports / Cult
USA
English
2692
51
John Frankenheimer
Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2692
51
George Roy Hill
Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
2692
51
Walter Hill
Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Margaret Blye
Action / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2692
51
Robert Wise
George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young
Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2692
51
Bryan Forbes
Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2692
51
John Milius
Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, John Huston, Brian Keith, Geoffrey Lewis
Adventure / Action / Romance
USA
English
2694
52
Mike Nichols
Stockard Channing, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Ian Wolfe, Rose Michtom
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2712
53
Frank Beyer
Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen
Comedy / Drama / War
East Germany / Czechoslovakia
German
2712
53
Miguel Littin
Diana Bracho, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Antonio Casab, Arturo Beristain
Drama / Thriller
Mexico
Spanish
2712
53
Jerzy Antczak
Jadwiga Baranska, Jerzy Binczycki, Stanislawa Celinska
Drama / Romance / War
Poland
Polish
2712
53
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
Drama / Period Film
Poland
Polish
2742
55
Michael Anderson
Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach
Drama / Crime
UK
English
2758
56
Mimi Pickering
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2758
56
Michael Schultz
Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2758
56
Dwight Core
Dwight Core Jr.
Short / Documentary
USA
English
2760
57
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Henry Czarniak, Hassan El Amir, Brahim Hadjadj, Hassan Hassani
Drama / History / Epic
Algeria
Arabic
2777
58
David Giler
George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Lionel Stander, Lee Patrick, Elisha Cook Jr.
Comedy / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2785
59
Stuart Cooper
Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell
War / Drama
UK
English
2794
61
Manoel de Oliveira
Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva
Drama
Portugal
Portuguese
2794
61
Richard Fleischer
James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward
Drama / Action / Romance
USA
English
2803
62
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal, Nicole Desailly
Drama
France / Italy
French
2809
63
Richard Patterson
Charles Chaplin, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Laurence Olivier, Alan Oppenheimer
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2827
64
Patricio Guzmán
Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Documentary / History
Chile / Cuba
Spanish
2847
66
Dario Argento
David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Italy
Italian
2862
67
Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa
Philippe Abia, Arlette Din Beli, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa
Drama
Cameroon
French
NR
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Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Brühl
Action / Thriller
USA
English
