Best movies of 1970s

Bugsy Malone(1976)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.



Robin and Marian(1976)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.



Silent Movie(1976)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.



Capricorn One(1977)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret...



Death on the Nile(1978)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 12

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?



Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro(1979)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A flamboyant thief and his gang struggle to free a princess from an evil count's clutches and to learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to.



The Final Countdown(1980)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.



Two Mules for Sister Sara(1970)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Nun Sara is on the run in Mexico and is saved from cowboys by Hogan, who is preparing for a future mission to capture a French fort. The pair become good friends, but Sara never does tell him the true reason behind her being outlawed.



The Devils(1971)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In 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.



The Tragedy of Macbeth(1971)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.



Lenny(1974)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.



Shampoo(1975)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968.



Dersu Uzala(1975)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.



Day of the Woman(1978)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.



Revenge of the Pink Panther(1978)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 13

To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Clouseau. Once news of his "death" has been announced, Clouseau tries to take advantage of it and goes undercover with Cato to find out who tried to kill him.



10(1979)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.



The Elephant Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.



The Stunt Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out, and falls for the leading lady.



Carny(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.



Johnny Got His Gun(1971)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A World War I soldier, rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack, finds a unique way of communicating with his doctors.




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