List of New Line Cinema films
1970s
Table:
Release date

Title

Notes

April 10, 1970
Multiple Maniacs
produced by Dreamland

March 11, 1971
Brandy in the Wilderness

July 8, 1971
Mississippi Summer

December 15, 1971
Even Dwarfs Started Small
U.S. distribution only; produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

March 17, 1972
Pink Flamingos

March 30, 1973
Reefer Madness
USA theatrical re-release

October 1, 1974
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
USA theatrical re-release

October 4, 1974
Female Trouble
produced by Dreamland and Saliva Films

November 6, 1974
The Nada Gang
U.S. distribution only; produced by Italian International Film, Les Films de la Boétie and Verona Produzione

November 30, 1974
The Street Fighter
U.S. distribution only; produced by Toei Company

May 30, 1975
Nuits Rouges
U.S. distribution only

December 3, 1975
Return of the Street Fighter
U.S. distribution only; produced by Toei Company

February 19, 1976
Sister Street Fighter
U.S. distribution only; produced by Toei Company

March 10, 1976
Immoral Tales
USA theatrical distribution only; subtitled version

June 18, 1976
The Cars That Ate Paris
U.S. distribution only; produced by The Australian Film Development Corporation and Royce Smeal Film Productions; re-edited and retitled The Cars That Eat People

January 12, 1977
Tattooed Hit Man
U.S. distribution only; produced by Toei Company

May 27, 1977
Desperate Living

June 25, 1977
Stunts
U.S. distribution only; produced by Mark Fleischman Ltd. and Spiegel-Bergman Productions Inc.

September 23, 1977
Calmos
U.S. distribution only; subtitled version; retitled Femmes Fatales

February 25, 1978
Night of the Living Dead
re-release; public domain film

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Multiple Maniacs is a 1970 independent American black comedy horror film composed , shot , edited , written , produced , and directed by John Waters , as his second feature film and first talkie . It features several actors who were part of the Dreamland acting troupe for Waters ' films , including Divine , Mary Vivian Pearce , David Lochary , Mink Stole , Edith Massey , George Figgs , and Cookie Mueller . The plot follows a traveling troupe of sideshow freaks whose free shows end in the murder of their attendees . The film 's title pays tribute to Herschell Gordon Lewis 's Two Thousand Maniacs ! , as Waters states in his book Shock Value . In 2016 , American art house film distributor Janus Films and video distribution company The Criterion Collection undertook a new restoration of the film , with its preview for the restored print released for June 17 , 2016 at the Provincetown Film Festival , and its national exhibition began on August 5 , 2016 .
Dreamlanders are the cast and crew of regulars whom John Waters has used in his films . The term comes from the name of Waters ' production company , Dreamland Productions . Many of the original Dreamlanders were friends of Waters from his native Baltimore , Maryland . They included the bad suburban kids he knew from Towson and Lutherville : Bob Skidmore , Mark Isherwood , and Mary Vivian Pearce . This crowd was drawn to downtown Baltimore by the gay scene , where Divine introduced Waters to David Lochary .
Brandy in the Wilderness is a 1971 American drama film directed by Stanton Kaye . On December 18 , 2013 , the Library of Congress announced that this film had been selected for the National Film Registry for being culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant . The film is a partly fictionalized account of the real-life professional and intimate relationship that developed between prodigious filmmaker Kaye and aspiring artist Michaux French , which began when they met in 1965 . Kaye 's character is named Simon Weiss and French is named Brandy , while their actual parents and other friends and acquaintances appear in the film , uncredited and often unnamed . Most of the scenes are depicted with either voiceover or without sound ; only a limited number of moments feature live dialogue being delivered by the participants . These are occasional interjections of stock footage from major film productions , still photos of family members and well-known performers , and moments of blank screen featuring hand-dyed colors ( which Kaye chose and supervised himself ) .
Even Dwarfs Started Small ( German : Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen ) is a 1970 West German comedy-drama film written , produced , and directed by Werner Herzog .
Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American exploitation comedy film directed , written , produced , narrated , filmed , and edited by John Waters . By far Waters ' best-known movie , it is part of what Waters has labelled the Trash Trilogy , which also includes Female Trouble ( 1974 ) and Desperate Living ( 1977 ) . The film stars the countercultural drag queen Divine as a criminal living under the name of Babs Johnson , who is proud to be the filthiest person alive . While living in a trailer with Edie ( Edith Massey ) and Crackers ( Danny Mills ) - her mother and son respectively - and her companion Cotton ( Mary Vivian Pearce ) , Divine is confronted by the Marbles ( David Lochary and Mink Stole ) , a pair of criminals envious of her reputation who try to outdo her in filth . The characters engage in several grotesque , bizarre , and explicitly crude situations . The movie was filmed in and in the vicinity of Baltimore , Maryland ; Waters grew up in suburban Baltimore . Displaying the tagline An exercise in poor taste , Pink Flamingos is notorious for its outrageousness , nudity , profanity , and pursuit of frivolity , scatology , sensationology [ sic ] and skewed epistemology . It features a number of increasingly revolting scenes that centre on exhibitionism , voyeurism , sodomy , masturbation , gluttony , vomiting , rape , incest , murder , cannibalism , castration , foot fetishism , and concludes , to the accompaniment of How Much Is That Doggy in the Window ? , with Divine 's consumption of dog feces ( coprophagia ) - The real thing ! narrator Waters assures us . The film is considered a preliminary exponent of abject art . The film , at first semi-clandestine , has received a warm reception from film critics and the LGBT community , and , despite being banned in several countries , became a cult film in subsequent decades .
Reefer Madness ( originally made as Tell Your Children and sometimes titled as The Burning Question , Dope Addict , Doped Youth , and Love Madness ) is a 1936 American film about drugs revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when high-school students are lured by pushers to try marijuana - from a hit and run accident , to manslaughter , suicide , attempted rape , hallucinations , and descent into madness from marijuana addiction . The film was directed by Louis J. Gasnier and featured a cast of mainly little-known actors . Originally financed by a church group under the title Tell Your Children , the film was intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use . But soon after the film was shot , it was purchased by producer Dwain Esper , who re-cut the film for distribution on the exploitation film circuit , exploiting vulgar interest while escaping censorship under the guise of moral guidance , beginning in 1938-1939 through the 1940s and 1950s . The film was rediscovered in the early 1970s and gained new life as an unintentional satire among advocates of cannabis policy reform . However , critics have called it one of the worst films ever made . Today , it is in the public domain in the United States .
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [ note 1 ] is a 1974 American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper and written and co-produced by Hooper and Kim Henkel . It stars Marilyn Burns , Paul A. Partain , Edwin Neal , Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen , who respectively portray Sally Hardesty , Franklin Hardesty , the hitchhiker , the proprietor , and Leatherface . The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead . The film was marketed as being based on true events to attract a wider audience and to act as a subtle commentary on the era 's political climate ; although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein , its plot is largely fictional . Hooper produced the film for less than $ 140,000 ( $ 700,000 adjusted for inflation ) and used a cast of relatively unknown actors drawn mainly from central Texas , where the film was shot . The limited budget forced Hooper to film for long hours seven days a week , so that he could finish as quickly as possible and reduce equipment rental costs . Due to the film 's violent content , Hooper struggled to find a distributor , but it was eventually aqcuired by Louis Perano of Bryanston Distributing Company . Hooper limited the quantity of onscreen gore in hopes of securing a PG rating , but the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ) rated it R. The film faced similar difficulties internationally . The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was banned in several countries , and numerous theaters stopped showing the film in response to complaints about its violence . While it initially drew a mixed reception from critics , it was highly profitable , grossing over $ 30 million at the domestic box office , equivalent with roughly over $ 150.8 million as of 2019 , selling over 16.5 million tickets in 1974 . It has since gained a reputation as one of the best and most influential horror films . It is credited with originating several elements common in the slasher genre , including the use of power tools as murder weapons , the characterization of the killer as a large , hulking , faceless figure , and the killing of victims .
Female Trouble is a 1974 dark comedy film co-composed , filmed , co-edited , written , produced , and directed by John Waters and starring Divine , David Lochary , Mary Vivian Pearce , Mink Stole , Edith Massey , Michael Potter , Cookie Mueller , and Susan Walsh . The film is dedicated to Manson Family member Charles Tex Watson . Waters ' prison visits to Watson inspired the crime is beauty theme of the film and in the film 's opening credits , Waters includes a wooden toy helicopter that Watson made for him .
Nada ( known as The Nada Gang in the USA . ) is a Franco-Italian political thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol released in 1974 and adapted from the crime novel Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette . Inspired by the May 1968 events in France , the film has been described as a social thriller .
The Street Fighter ( ザ · ストリー · トファイター , Za Sutorīto Faitā ) is a Japanese martial arts film produced by Toei Company Ltd. and released in 1974 , originally released in Japan as Gekitotsu ! Satsujin Ken ( 激突！殺人拳 , lit . Clash ! Killer Fist ) . It was released in the US by New Line Cinema and became one of the first films to be a commercial success for the distributor . It is notable as the first film to receive an X-rating in the United States solely for violence . In the UK it was originally released as Kung Fu Streetfighter ( カンフー・ストリートファイター Kanfū Sutorītofaitā ) , presumably to avoid confusion with the Charles Bronson movie Hard Times which was initially released as The Streetfighter in the UK . The Street Fighter inspired two sequels , Return of the Street Fighter and The Street Fighter 's Last Revenge . Additionally , the film Sister Street Fighter and its sequels is a spin-off series of The Street Fighter . There was another spin-off entitled Kozure Satsujin Ken , which was brought to the US by a different company under the title Karate Warriors . None of the spin-offs have any of the same characters from The Street Fighter films . The video game The Darkness has the entire movie available to watch on any of the in-game TVs .
The Toei Company , Ltd. ( 東映株式会社 , Tōei Kabushiki-gaisha ) ( /toʊ.eɪ/ ) ( also styled TOEI ) is a Japanese film , television production , and distribution and video game developer and publishing company . Based in Tokyo , Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan ( all but two of them operated by its subsidiary , T-Joy ) , studios at Tokyo and Kyoto ; and is a shareholder in several television companies . It is notable for animated , live action dramas known as anime and tokusatsu which use special visual effects , and historical dramas ( jidaigeki ) respectively . Outside Japan , it is known as the controlling shareholder of Toei Animation and the owner of the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai franchises . It is a member of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan ( MPPAJ ) , and is one of Japan 's Big Four film studios . The name Toei is derived from the company 's former name Tōkyō Eiga Haikyū ( 東京映画配給 , Tokyo Film Distribution Company ) .
Nuits Rouges is a 1974 French-Italian crime and thriller film directed by Georges Franju . The film was released in the U.S. in an English-dubbed version by New Line Cinema under the title Shadowman in 1975 .
Return of the Street Fighter ( 殺人拳２ , Satsujin ken 2 , UK title : Blood of the Dragon ) is a 1974 martial arts film and the second in a series starting with The Street Fighter starring Sonny Chiba . In this sequel , Martial artist Takuma ( Terry ) Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations . Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi , but Tsurugi 's fight ultimately is with the mob , and he concentrates on them . The film was initially released on home video by MGM/CBS Home Video and later by New Line Home Video . On November 7 , 2018 , it was announced that Shout ! Factory has acquired the license of all three films in the series for a Blu-ray release on February 19 , 2019 via their Shout ! Selects line .
Sister Street Fighter ( 女必殺拳 , Onna Hissatsu Ken , UK title : Revenge of the Dragon , German title : Die Karate Tiger ) is a spin-off of The Street Fighter ( 1974 ) . The plot revolves around Lǐ Hóng-Lóng ( 李紅竜 Li Kōryū ) , the female martial artist of the title . When her brother Lǐ Wàn-Qīng is kidnapped by drug lords , she seeks revenge . The drug lord 's colorful collection of killers includes a toga-clad group of Thai Boxers called the Amazons Seven , along with representatives of almost every martial art . Hóng-Lóng breaks into the drug lord 's compound with the help of Seiichi Hibiki ( Sonny Chiba ) and other members of the Shorinji Kempo dojo . After all of his minions are defeated , the drug lord himself battles Hóng-Lóng , wearing a steel claw in imitation of Han , the villain from Enter the Dragon ( 1973 ) . This was the first in a trilogy of films . It was followed by Sister Street Fighter : Hanging by a Thread ( 1974 ) and The Return of the Sister Street Fighter ( 1975 ) .
Immoral Tales ( French : Contes immoraux ) is a 1973 French anthology film directed by Walerian Borowczyk . The film was Borowczyk 's most sexually explicit at the time . The film is split into four erotic-themed stories that involve the loss of virginity , masturbation , bloodlust , and incest . After the release of Immoral Tales , Borowczyk began to fall out of favor with film critics . Modern critical reception to the film is that it is not one of Borowczyk 's strongest works .
The Cars That Ate Paris is a 1974 Australian horror comedy film , produced by twin brothers Hal and Jim McElroy and directed by Peter Weir . It was his first feature film , and was also based on an original story he had written . Shot mostly in the rural town of Sofala , New South Wales , the film is set in the fictional town of Paris in which most of the inhabitants appear to be directly , or indirectly , involved in profiting from the results of car accidents .
Desperate Living is a 1977 American comedy film directed , produced , and written by John Waters . The film stars Liz Renay , Mink Stole , Edith Massey , Susan Lowe , Mary Vivian Pearce and Jean Hill .
Stunts , also released as The Deadly Game , is a 1977 film directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Robert Forster .
Calmos is a 1976 French film directed by Bertrand Blier .
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film written , directed , photographed and edited by George A. Romero , co-written by John Russo , and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea . The story follows seven people who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in western Pennsylvania , which is under assault by an enlargening group of cannibalistic , undead corpses . The film was completed on a US $ 114,000 budget and shot outside Pittsburgh , where it had its theatrical premiere on October 1 , 1968 . The film grossed US $ 12 million domestically and US $ 18 million internationally , earning more than 250 times its budget . Night of the Living Dead has been regarded as a cult classic by film scholars and critics , despite being heavily criticized upon its release for its explicit gore . It eventually garnered critical acclaim and was selected in 1999 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant . Night of the Living Dead led to five subsequent films between 1978 and 2009 , also directed by Romero , and inspired several remakes ; the most well-known remake was released in 1990 , directed by Tom Savini . In 2019 , the German Commission for Youth Protection requested the film be taken down from the German version of Netflix , and the company complied .