Best movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Lee Grant, Barbara Harris, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.

Actors : Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Steven Keats,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, John Cassavetes, Charlton Heston, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT ...

Actors : Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Brian Keith,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.

Actors : William Holden, Roger C. Carmel, Kay Lenz, Marj Dusay,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the ...

Actors : Deborah Walley, Peter Breck, Allen Fiuzat, Patsy Garrett,
Directors : Joe Camp,

A stray dog saves two kidnapped children.

Actors : Helen Morse, Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie is presented. On a cold winter day, her damaged car with ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Dorothy Tutin, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...

Actors : Christopher Gable, Twiggy, Bryan Pringle, Max Adrian,
Directors : Ken Russell,

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.

Actors : Paul Sorvino, George Segal, Glenda Jackson, K Callan,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.

Actors : Lenny Baker, Ellen Greene, Shelley Winters, Lois Smith,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

The portrayal of pretentiously bohemian youth.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A stuffy author enters into an explosive relationship with his neighbor, a foul-mouthed, freewheeling prostitute.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Ireland, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Miles,
Directors : Dick Richards,

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Michael Moriarty, Phil Foster, Robert De Niro,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.

Actors : Diana Ross, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins,

Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring ...

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Paul Sand, Ryan O'Neal, Whitman Mayo,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring - an idea her protégé isn't fond of.

Actors : Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of WW2, is sought after by some who aim to sell it and by others who wish to destroy it.

Actors : Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, Mark Hamill, William Bryant,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A high school grad and a hooker-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette.

Actors : Jason Robards, Jane Fonda, George Grizzard, James Caan,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...