Movies by Lists - Rotten Tomatoes 140 Essential 70s Movies (142 [144]) 
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| Aguirre The Wrath Of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes]In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. | 1972 | Werner Herzog (*) | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.9 (55.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Ali - Fear Eats the Soul [Angst essen Seele auf]A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (20.9K votes) | 92 | 20220414 |
| AlienThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission. | 1979 | Ridley Scott (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 8.4 (841K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| All the President's Men"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (111.6K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| AmarcordA series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town. | 1973 | Federico Fellini (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (42.5K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| American GraffitiA group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals. | 1973 | George Lucas (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (87.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Animal HouseAt a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him. | 1978 | John Landis (*) | Comedy | 7.5 (118.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Annie HallAlvy 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. | 1977 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.0 (260.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Apocalypse NowA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, War | 8.4 (641.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Assault On Precinct 13An unlikely partnership between a Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary is formed to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang. | 1976 | John Carpenter (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (48.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Bad News Bears, TheAn aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league. | 1976 | Michael Ritchie | Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport | 7.3 (22.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| BadlandsAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. | 1973 | Terrence Malick (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (71.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Bakuchi-uchi - Inochi-huda [Fate Deals the Card of Death]Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. | 1971 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (76.2K votes) | 91 | 20220315 |
| Barry LyndonAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 8.1 (161.6K votes) | 185 | 20211228 |
| Bay of Blood, A [Reazione a catena]The murder of a wealthy countess, which was erroneously deemed suicide, triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to take over her large estate. | 1971 | Mario Bava (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (10.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Being ThereAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics. | 1979 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (70.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Blazing SaddlesIn order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. | 1974 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy, Western | 7.7 (134.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Breaking AwayA working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends. | 1979 | Peter Yates | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 7.7 (23.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| CabaretA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. | 1972 | Bob Fosse (*) | Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (53K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| CarrieCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. | 1976 | Brian De Palma (*) | Horror, Mystery | 7.4 (182.8K votes) | 98 | 20220524 |
| Castle Of Cagliostro, TheA dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid cop struggle to free a princess from an evil count, and learn the secret of a treasure that she holds part of the key to. | 1979 | Hayao Miyazaki (*) | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 7.6 (29.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Celine and Julie Go Boating [Celine et Julie vont en bateau]A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. | 1974 | Jacques Rivette (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.5 (5.4K votes) | 193 | 20211228 |
| Cercle Rouge, LeAfter leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist. | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.0 (24.6K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| ChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. | 1974 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (315K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Claire's Knee [Le Genou de Claire]On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends. | 1970 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (10.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Clockwork Orange, AIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (799.7K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Close Encounters of the Third KindRoy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches. | 1977 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (195.8K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| CoffyA sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim. | 1973 | Jack Hill | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.8 (11K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Conformist, TheA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama | 8.0 (29.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Conversation, TheA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (108K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Cries and WhispersWhen a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 8.1 (33K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Dawn Of The DeadFollowing 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. | 1978 | George A. Romero (*) | Horror, Thriller | 7.9 (117.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Day for Night [La Nuit Americaine]A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew. | 1973 | François Truffaut (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (22.1K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Days of HeavenA hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune. | 1978 | Terrence Malick (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (56.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Deep RedA jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic. | 1975 | Dario Argento (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (36.5K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Deer Hunter, TheAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania. | 1978 | Michael Cimino (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (329.7K votes) | 183 | 20211228 |
| DeliveranceIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. | 1972 | John Boorman (*) | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (105.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Dersu Uzala [The Hunter]The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter. | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 8.3 (27K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Devils, TheIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually-repressed nun. | 1971 | Ken Russell (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.8 (15.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Dirty HarryWhen a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. | 1971 | Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.7 (151.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, TheA surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together. | 1972 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Comedy | 7.9 (41.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Dog Day AfternoonThree 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 | 1975 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.0 (249.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Don't Look NowA married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (54.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Drunken MasterWong Fei-Hung (Jackie Chan) is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by Beggar So (Siu-Tin Yuen), a Master of drunken martial arts. | 1978 | Woo-Ping Yuen | Action, Comedy | 7.5 (39.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Enter The DragonA secret agent comes to an opium lord's island fortress with other fighters for a martial-arts tournament. | 1973 | Robert Clouse | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (102.3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| EraserheadHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. | 1977 | David Lynch (*) | Fantasy, Horror | 7.4 (111.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Exorcist, TheWhen a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her. | 1973 | William Friedkin (*) | Horror | 8.0 (384.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Fantastic PlanetOn a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders. | 1973 | René Laloux | Animation, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (29.3K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Five Easy PiecesA dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest. | 1970 | Bob Rafelson (*) | Drama | 7.4 (35.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Getaway, TheA recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry. | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (31.4K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part I, TheThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son. | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.2 (1.7M votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part II, TheThe 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. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.0 (1.2M votes) | 202 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Girl, TheAfter being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor. | 1977 | Herbert Ross | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (13.6K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| GreaseGood girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? | 1978 | Randal Kleiser | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (259.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| HalloweenFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again. | 1978 | John Carpenter (*) | Horror, Thriller | 7.7 (262.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Harlan County U.S.A.A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line. | 1976 | Barbara Kopple | Documentary | 8.3 (5.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Harold and MaudeYoung, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. | 1971 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (75.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Holy Mountain, TheIn a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment. | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 (41.2K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| House [Hausu]A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted. | 1977 | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Comedy, Horror | 7.4 (25.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| In the Realm of the Senses [Nagisa Oshima]A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship. | 1976 | Nagisa Ôshima | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (20.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| In-Laws, TheOn the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators. | 1979 | Arthur Hiller | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (8.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Invasion of the Body SnatchersWhen strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time. | 1978 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (58.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime. | 1970 | Elio Petri | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (10.8K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| JawsWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. | 1975 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Adventure, Thriller | 8.0 (573.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels [Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles]A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine. | 1975 | Chantal Akerman (*) | Drama | 7.8 (8.5K votes) | 202 | 20211228 |
| Jerk, TheA simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy. | 1979 | Carl Reiner (*) | Comedy | 7.2 (56.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Journey of the Hyena [Touki Bouki]Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind. | 1973 | Djibril Diop Mambéty (*) | Drama | 7.0 (3.9K votes) | 85 | 20231001 |
| Killer of SheepSet in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support. | 1978 | Charles Burnett (*) | Drama | 7.3 (6.5K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| KluteA small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (25.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Kramer vs KramerAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation. | 1979 | Robert Benton (*) | Drama | 7.8 (141.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Lady SnowbloodA strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family. | 1973 | Toshiya Fujita | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (13.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Last Detail, TheTwo Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way. | 1973 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (24.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Last House on The Left, TheTwo teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts. | 1972 | Wes Craven (*) | Crime, Horror, Thriller | 6.0 (36.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Last Picture Show, TheIn 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. | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (46.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Last Tango in ParisA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex. | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (52.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Life of BrianBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. | 1979 | Terry Jones (*) | Comedy | 8.1 (388.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Long Goodbye, ThePrivate investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder. | 1973 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (30.5K votes) | 112 | 20220414 |
| Love and DeathIn czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon. | 1975 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, War | 7.7 (37.9K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Mad MaxIn a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang. | 1979 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (201.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Fell to Earth, TheAn alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications. | 1976 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (25.7K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Marathon ManAfter the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds. | 1976 | John Schlesinger (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (61.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Marriage of Maria Braun, The [Die Ehe der Maria Braun]Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s. | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama | 7.8 (13.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| MASHThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. | 1970 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.4 (71.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| McCabe & Mrs. MillerA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. | 1971 | Robert Altman (*) | Drama, Western | 7.7 (24.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Mean StreetsA small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors. | 1973 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (106.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Mirror, The [Zerkalo]A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation. | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (44.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Monty Python and the Holy GrailKing Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles. | 1975 | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 8.2 (525.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Muppet Movie, TheKermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit. | 1979 | James Frawley | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.6 (35.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| NashvilleOver the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention. | 1975 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.7 (25.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| NetworkA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control. | 1976 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 8.1 (154.7K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| New Leaf, AHenry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder he | 1971 | Elaine May (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (6.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Norma RaeA young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved. | 1979 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama | 7.3 (11.3K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | 1975 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 8.7 (970.7K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Outlaw Josey Wales, TheMissouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. | 1976 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Western | 7.8 (71.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Paper MoonDuring 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. | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.1 (45.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| PattonThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton. | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.9 (100K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| Picnic at Hanging RockDuring a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind. | 1975 | Peter Weir (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.5 (36.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Pink FlamingosNotorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive". | 1972 | John Waters (*) | Comedy, Crime | 6.1 (23.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| RockyA small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. | 1976 | John G. Avildsen (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.1 (551.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Rocky Horror Picture Show, TheA newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter. | 1975 | Jim Sharman | Comedy, Horror, Musical | 7.4 (145.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture. | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini (*) | Drama, Horror | 5.9 (58.1K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Saturday Night FeverAnxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco. | 1977 | John Badham (*) | Drama, Music | 6.8 (77.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Scenes From A Marriage [Scener ur ett äktenskap]Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners. | 1974 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 8.3 (8.3K votes) | 169 | 20231112 |
| SerpicoAn honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. | 1973 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (119K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Seven BeautiesThe defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso. | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.8 (5.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| ShaftCool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. | 1971 | Gordon Parks (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (18.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| SholayAfter his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit. | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Thriller, Western | 8.2 (54.3K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Slap ShotA failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery. | 1977 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 7.3 (36.6K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Smokey and the BanditThe Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff. | 1977 | Hal Needham | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 7.0 (49K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Solaris [Solyaris]A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane. | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Soylent GreenA nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth. | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (62.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Spirit of the Beehive, The [El espíritu de la colmena]In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world. | 1973 | Víctor Erice | Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 (18.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| StalkerA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.1 (129.5K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Star WarsLuke 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 Vad | 1977 | George Lucas (*) | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 8.6 (1.3M votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Sting, TheTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. | 1973 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.3 (254.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Straw DogsA young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (59K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| SupermanAn alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero. | 1978 | Richard Donner | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (169.6K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| SuspiriaAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders. | 1977 | Dario Argento (*) | Horror | 7.4 (89.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 TheFour armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away? | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.7 (29.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Taxi DriverA 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. | 1976 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (780.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Tenant, TheA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. | 1976 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (42.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre, TheFive friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. | 1974 | Tobe Hooper (*) | Horror | 7.5 (151K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Three Days of the CondorA bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. | 1975 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (53.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Touch of Zen, AA lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks. | 1971 | King Hu (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (6.1K votes) | 200 | 20211228 |
| Towering Inferno, TheAt the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. | 1974 | John Guillermin | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (42.6K votes) | 165 | 20211228 |
| Twitch of the Death Nerve aka Reazione a catenaThe murder of a wealthy countess, which was erroneously deemed suicide, triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to take over her large estate. | 1971 | Mario Bava (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (10.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Two-Lane BlacktopWhile drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevvy 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an alluring hitchhiker and the inexperienced, tall tale-spinning driver of a GTO. | 1971 | Monte Hellman (*) | Drama | 7.2 (12.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Valerie and Her Week of Wonders [Valerie a týden divu]Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world, based on a classical Czech novel of the same title. | 1970 | Jaromil Jires | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.2 (9.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Vanishing PointDuring the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops. | 1971 | Richard C. Sarafian | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.2 (28.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Vuelo de la cigüeña, ElA dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid cop struggle to free a princess from an evil count, and learn the secret of a treasure that she holds part of the key to. | 1979 | Hayao Miyazaki (*) | Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.6 (31.3K votes) | 102 | 20230126 |
| Wake in Fright [Outback]After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent. | 1971 | Ted Kotcheff | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (11.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| WalkaboutTwo city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe. | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.6 (24.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| WandaWanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in. | 1970 | Barbara Loden | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Warriors, TheIn the near future, a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them | 1979 | Walter Hill | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.6 (99.9K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Watership Down Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren. | 1978 | Martin Rosen, John Hubley | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (35.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| What's Up DocThe accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations. | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy | 7.7 (23.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Wicker Man, TheA puritan Police Sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, whom the Pagan locals claim never existed. | 1973 | Robin Hardy | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (78K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Willy Wonka and the Chocolate FactoryA 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. | 1971 | Mel Stuart | Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.8 (193.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Woman Under the Influence, AAlthough wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage. | 1974 | John Cassavetes (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.2 (24.4K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Yokosuka Navy PrisonTwo Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way. | 1973 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (24.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Young FrankensteinAn 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. | 1974 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy | 8.0 (154K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Hearts and Minds | 1974 | Peter Davis | Documentary, History, War | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Grey Gardens | 1975 | David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles | Documentary, Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |