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Sweater Girls

1978

Sweater Girls

1978
5.1
A group of teenage girls forms a club, The Sweater Girls, to preserve their virginity.
Skateboard

1978

Skateboard

1978
4.3
A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000
Starhops

1978

Starhops

1978
4
After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a French chef try to turn it around.
The Honeymooners Specials: Valentine Special

1978

The Honeymooners Specials: Valentine Special

1978
Capulina Chisme Caliente

1977

Capulina Chisme Caliente

1977
5.9
When he lands a job as a telephone operator, Capulina -- legendary Mexican funnyman Gaspar Henaine -- quickly discovers that he can get the best gossip in town by eavesdropping on callers' private conversations. But when he uses these juicy tidbits to help a local newspaper boost its circulation, he unleashes a firestorm of scandal that threatens to ruin him. Gilberto Martínez Solares directs this comedy.
ABBA: The Movie

1977

ABBA: The Movie

1977
6.4
A radio DJ in pursuit of an exclusive interview follows ABBA during their mega-successful tour of Australia.
Lucy Calls the President

1977

Lucy Calls the President

1977
5
Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at her house. Now Lucy has her hands full as family, friends and Secret Service agents invade her home in preparation for the big dinner summit.
Semi-Tough

1977

Semi-Tough

1977
5.6
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Charge of the Model T's

1977

Charge of the Model T's

1977
During WWI, the Germans try to encourages and hires a band of certain Mexican guerrillas and bandits to make trouble on the Texas border and attack the Stonewall Farm. He plans this so the Americans will have no choice but to send more troops to Texas instead of Europe. Masterminding the plot is a German spy who has, at his disposal, the RX4, a specially equipped weapon-bearing automobile of awesome speed, but a U.S. Army lieutenant carries the day with his own fleet of Model T racers.
Petey Wheatstraw

1977

Petey Wheatstraw

1977
5.4
Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young Wheatstraw becomes a martial artist, but is unable to best the evil comedy team of Leroy and Skillet, who also indulge in wholesale murder. Satan restores the comedians' victims to life, and charges Petey with the task of marrying his clock-stoppingly ugly daughter to give him a grandchild. When Petey attempts to default on the deal, he is pursued by the devil's henchmen.
A Piece of the Action

1977

A Piece of the Action

1977
5.6
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
Oh, God!

1977

Oh, God!

1977
6.5
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977
6.2
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
Outrageous!

1977

Outrageous!

1977
5.6
Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll someday find the courage to perform in drag himself. When his schizophrenic friend, Liza, turns up looking for a place to stay, the two form an increasingly tight bond, Robin helping Liza through an unplanned pregnancy and Liza pushing Robin to develop a successful nightclub act.
Jabberwocky

1977

Jabberwocky

1977
6
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Queen Kong

1976

Queen Kong

1976
3.4
A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.
The Aztec Karate Fighter

1976

The Aztec Karate Fighter

1976
5.8
Potter who makes fake pre-Colombian statues gets mixed up with thieves and treasure-hunters at an Aztec art museum.
Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1976

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1976
5.6
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for.
The Human Tornado

1976

The Human Tornado

1976
6.2
Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose nightclub is threatened by the Mafia.
Black and White in Color

1976

Black and White in Color

1976
6.4
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.