This is a list of American films released in 1975.
Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1975, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by The Numbers, are as follows: + Highest-grossing films of 1975 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Jaws Universal $272,965,550 2One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest United Artists $108,981,275 3 Shampoo Columbia $49,407,734 4 Dog Day Afternoon Warner Bros. $46,665,856 5 The Return of the Pink Panther United Artists $41,833,347 6 Three Days of the Condor Paramount $41,509,797 7 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 20th Century Fox $40,420,000 8 Funny Lady Columbia $40,055,897 9 The Other Side of the Mountain Universal $34,673,100 10 Tommy Columbia $34,251,525
January–March Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.JANUARY 1 Teenage Seductress Vineager Syndrome Chris Warfield (director/screenplay); George Buck Flower, John F. Goff (screenplay); Sondra Currie, Chris Warfield, Elizabeth Saxon, John Trujillo, Sonny Cooper, Gwen Van Dam, Michelle D'Agostin, Claudia Smillie 6 Slade in Flame Goodtimes Enterprises Richard Loncraine (director); Andrew Birkin, Dave Humphries (screenplay); Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Jim Lea, Tom Conti, Alan Lake, Johnny Shannon, Kenneth Colley, Anthony Allen, Sara Clee 9 The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man Appalshop Mimi Pickering (director) 27 Galileo American Film Theatre Joseph Losey (director/screenplay); Barbara Bray (screenplay); Topol, Georgia Brown, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Tom Conti, Patrick Magee, John McEnery, Michael Lonsdale, Clive Revill, Job Stewart 29 Mr. Ricco United Artists / Cinema International Corporation Paul Bogart (director); Robert Hoban, Ed Harvey (screenplay); Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Thalmus Rasulala, Denise Nicholas, Cindy Williams, Geraldine Brooks, Philip Michael Thomas, George Tyne 31 And Then There Were None Variety Distribution / Corona Filmproduktion / Talía Films / COMECI Peter Collinson (director); Harry Alan Towers (screenplay); Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Stéphane Audran, Herbert Lom, Gert Fröbe, Maria Rohm, Adolfo Celi, Alberto de Mendoza, Charles Aznavour, Orson Welles, Naser Malek Motiei FEBRUARY 2 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins Warner Bros. Dick Richards (director); John Kaye (screenplay); Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Alex Rocco, Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton, John McLiam, Richard Hale, Louis Prima, Lauren Stocks, Earl W. Smith 5 Report to the Commissioner United Artists / Frankovich Productions Milton Katselas (director); Abby Mann, Ernest Tidyman (screenplay); Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Héctor Elizondo, Tony King, Michael McGuire, Edward Grover, Dana Elcar, Bob Balaban, William Devane, Stephen Elliott, Richard Gere, Vic Tayback, Albert Seedman, Mark Margolis, Noelle North 6 The Strongest Man in the World Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution Vincent McEveety (director); Joseph L. McEveety, Herman Groves (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Patten, Harold Gould, Michael McGreevey, Richard Bakalyan, William Schallert, Benson Fong, James Gregory, Paul Linke, John Debney 11 Shampoo Columbia Pictures / Rubeeker Films Hal Ashby (director); Robert Towne, Warren Beatty (screenplay); Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, Jay Robinson, George Furth, Susanna Moore, Carrie Fisher, Luana Anders, Mike Olton, Kathleen Miller, Brad Dexter, William Castle, Howard Hesseman, Michelle Phillips, Susan Blakely, Cynthia Wood, Randy Scheer, Richard E. Kalk 12 The Stepford Wives Columbia Pictures / Palomar Pictures Bryan Forbes (director); William Goldman (screenplay); Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Patrick O'Neal, William Prince, Carole Mallory, Judith Baldwin, George Coe, Franklin Cover, Robert Fields, Michael Higgins, Josef Sommer, Remak Ramsay, Mary Stuart Masterson, Tom Spratley, Carol Rossen, Toni Reid, Barbara Rucker, Ronny Sullivan 24 Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris American Film Theatre Denis Héroux (director); Eric Blau (screenplay); Mort Shuman, Elly Stone, Jacques Brel, Joe Masiell, Annick Berger, Moni Yakim, Bernard Lafontaine, France Lombard, Sophie Héroux, Nico Sirakos, Jean Schianno, René Quivrin, Paule Tanneur, Martial Mahler Goodtimes Enterprises Ken Russell (director/screenplay); Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin, Rosalie Crutchley, Richard Morant, Angela Down, Ronald Pickup, Peter Eyre, Dana Gillespie, George Coulouris, David Collings, Arnold Yarrow, Elaine Delmar, Benny Lee, Andrew Faulds, Kenneth Colley, Oliver Reed, Antonia Ellis, David Trevena, Otto Diamant, Michael Southgate, Sarah McClellan, Claire McClellan, Gary Rich 26 Boss Nigger Dimension Pictures Jack Arnold (director); Fred Williamson (screenplay); Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, R. G. Armstrong, William Smith MARCH 1 At Long Last Love 20th Century Fox Peter Bogdanovich (director/screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, Eileen Brennan, John Hillerman, Mildred Natwick, Quinn Redeker, J. Edward McKinley, John Stephenson, William Paterson, Lester Dorr, Liam Dunn, M. Emmet Walsh, Burton Gilliam, Ned Wertimer, Arthur Peterson, Roger Price, Morgan Farley, Gene LeBell, Artie Butler, Basil Hoffman, Jeffrey Byron, Christa Lang, Tucker Smith 12 Funny Lady Columbia Pictures / Rastar Herbert Ross (director); Jay Presson Allen, Arnold Schulman (screenplay); Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen, Carole Wells, Omar Sharif, Larry Gates, Royce Wallace, Lilyan Chauvin, Joshua Shelley, Cliff Norton, Corey Fischer, Garrett Lewis, Ken Sansom, Colleen Camp, Alana Stewart, Gary Menteer, Dick Winslow, Jack Angel, Eugene Troobnick, Heidi O'Rourke, Samantha C. Kirkeby, Matt Emery, Jackie Stoloff 13 The Great Waldo Pepper Universal Pictures George Roy Hill (director/screenplay); William Goldman (screenplay); Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Susan Sarandon, Margot Kidder, Bo Brundin, Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Herrmann, Philip Bruns, Roderick Cook, Scott Newman, John Reilly, Kelly Jean Peters, James S. Appleby, Patrick W. Henderson, James N. Harrell, Elma Aicklen, Deborah Knapp, John A. Zee, Jack Manning, Joe Billings, Robert W. Winn, Lawrence P. Casey, Greg Martin, Frank Price 14 The Prisoner of Second Avenue Warner Bros. Melvin Frank (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley, Maxine Stuart, Ed Peck, Ivor Francis, Stack Pierce, Patricia Marshall, Ketty Lester, M. Emmet Walsh, Sylvester Stallone, F. Murray Abraham, Lonnie Burr, Gary Owens, John Ritter, Joe Turkel, Gene Blakely, Dee Carroll, James McCallion, Alan DeWitt, Cosmo Sardo, Norman Stevans Rancho Deluxe United Artists / Elliott Kastner Productions Frank Perry (director); Thomas McGuane (screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens, Charlene Dallas, Richard Bright, Patti D'Arbanville, Joe Spinell, Doria Cook-Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Sandy Kenyon, Thomas McGuane, Warren Oates, John Quade, Maggie Wellman, Bert Conway, Jim Melin, Dwight Riley, Tim Schaeffer 17 In Celebration American Film Theatre Lindsay Anderson (director); David Storey (screenplay); Alan Bates, Bill Owen, Brian Cox, James Bolam, Constance Chapman, Gabrielle Daye 19 The Yakuza Warner Bros. Sydney Pollack (director); Paul Schrader, Robert Towne (screenplay); Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan, Keiko Kishi, Eiji Okada, James Shigeta, Kyosuke Machida, Christina Kokubo, Eiji Go, William Ross, Lee Chirillo, M. Hisaka, Akiyama, Harada 21 Escape to Witch Mountain Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution John Hough (director); Robert Malcolm Young (screenplay); Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Walt Barnes, Reta Shaw, Denver Pyle, Alfred Ryder, Lawrence Montaigne, Terry Wilson, George Chandler, Dermott Downs, Don Brodie, Paul Sorensen, Harry Holcombe, Sam Edwards, Dan Seymour, Eugene Daniels, Shepherd Sanders, Kyle Richards 24 Rosebud United Artists Otto Preminger (director); Erik Lee Preminger (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin, John V. Lindsay, Peter Lawford, Raf Vallone, Adrienne Corri, Isabelle Huppert, Brigitte Ariel, Lalla Ward, Kim Cattrall, Debra Berger, Mark Burns, Amidou, Klaus Löwitsch, Yosef Shiloach, Françoise Brion, Maria Machado, Serge Marquand, Jean Martin 26 Brannigan United Artists Douglas Hickox (director); Christopher Trumbo, Michael Butler, William P. McGivern, William W. Norton (screenplay); John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon, Ralph Meeker, Daniel Pilon, Lesley-Anne Down, Barry Dennen, John Stride, James Booth, Arthur Batanides, Pauline Delaney, Del Henney, Brian Glover, Don Henderson, Tony Robinson, Anthony Booth Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Visual Programme Systems Ltd. / Dimension Pictures Philippe Mora (director/screenplay); The Andrews Sisters, Fred Astaire, Warner Baxter, Jack Benny, Busby Berkeley, Willie Best, Humphrey Bogart, George Burns, James Cagney, Cab Calloway, Eddie Cantor, Hobart Cavanaugh, George Chandler The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery United Artists / Strathmore Productions Dean Hargrove (director/screenplay); Gabriel Dell (screenplay); Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Jackie Coogan, Joyce Van Patten, Barbara Harris, Will Geer, Anjanette Comer, Vincent Gardenia, Sorrell Booke, Dick Gautier, Nita Talbot, Nicholas Colasanto, Howard Storm Sheba, Baby American International Pictures William Girdler (director/screenplay); David Sheldon (screenplay); Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Dick Merrifield
April–June