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Best Movies of the 1970s
The Godfather (1972)
RCrime, Drama2h55An organized crime dynasty's aging patriarch transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
RCrime, Drama3h22The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
RDrama2h13A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h01Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Alien (1979)
RHorror, Sci-Fi1h57After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
RDrama, Mystery, War2h27A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
RCrime, Drama, Sci-Fi2h16In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
The Sting (1973)
PGComedy, Crime, Drama2h09Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Fantasy1h31King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Stalker (1979)
Not RatedDrama, Sci-Fi2h42A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Taxi Driver (1976)
RCrime, Drama1h54A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
PGAdventure, Drama, History3h05An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Chinatown (1974)
RDrama, Mystery, Thriller2h10A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
RComedy1h34Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Network (1976)
RDrama2h01A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
Paper Moon (1973)
PGComedy, Crime, Drama1h42During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Rocky (1976)
PGDrama, Sport2h00A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Solaris (1972)
PGDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi2h47A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
The Deer Hunter (1978)
RDrama, War3h03An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Annie Hall (1977)
PGComedy, Romance1h33Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
Being There (1979)
PGComedy, Drama2h10A simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
RBiography, Crime, Drama2h05Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
GDrama, Family, Musical3h01In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Jaws (1975)
PGAdventure, Thriller2h04When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Papillon (1973)
PGBiography, Crime, Drama2h31A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
The Exorcist (1973)
RHorror2h02When a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.
The Last Picture Show (1971)
RDrama, Romance1h58In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
PGComedy1h46An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
All the President's Men (1976)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h18"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
UnratedHorror, Thriller2h07Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Harold and Maude (1971)
PGComedy, Drama, Romance1h31Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Manhattan (1979)
RComedy, Drama, Romance1h36The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Patton (1970)
PGBiography, Drama, War2h52The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Badlands (1973)
PGAction, Crime, Drama1h34An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Cabaret (1972)
PGDrama, Music, Musical2h04A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
PGDrama1h45Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.
The Conversation (1974)
PGDrama, Mystery, Thriller1h53A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
PGWestern2h15Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
GFamily, Fantasy, Musical1h40A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Blazing Saddles (1974)
RComedy, Western1h33In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.