Best movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Alec McCowen,
Directors : George Cukor,

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

Actors : Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Marsha Mason, James Caan,
Directors : Robert Moore,

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Paul Land, Tovah Feldshuh,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Actors : Lesley-Anne Down, Len Cariou, Diana Rigg, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik ...

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Elizabeth Taylor, Keith Baxter,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...

Actors : Michael Brandon, Bonnie Bedelia, Bea Arthur, Gig Young,
Directors : Cy Howard,

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife ...

Actors : Jeff Corey, Tom Berenger, William Katt, John Schuck,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A prequel of sorts to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which chronicles the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the 1969 movie.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Sterling Hayden, Judd Hirsch, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Judith Lowry, Roberta Wallach,
Directors : Paul Newman,

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...

Actors : Slim Pickens, Amy Irving, Dyan Cannon, Willie Nelson,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Ben Piazza,
Directors : Anthony Page,

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Jeff East, Warren Oates,
Directors : Don Taylor,

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

Actors : Roger Moore, Bradford Dillman, Ray Milland, Susannah York,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the ...