Best movies of 1970s

Kelly's Heroes(1970)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.



Tora! Tora! Tora!(1970)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A series of mistakes made by the US Navy in the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor prove disastrous when Japan strikes.



Shaft(1971)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.



The Poseidon Adventure(1972)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.



Play It Again, Sam(1972)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.



Rollerball(1975)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.



Family Plot(1976)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.



Private Benjamin(1980)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.



Smokey and the Bandit II(1980)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.



And Now for Something Completely Different(1971)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 16

An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).



The Way We Were(1973)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.



Zardoz(1974)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.



Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore(1974)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.



Freaky Friday(1976)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.





Damien: Omen II(1978)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Damien the Antichrist, now thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.



Meatballs(1979)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.



Zombi 2(1979)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.



Friday the 13th(1980)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.



Kagemusha(1980)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.




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