Best movies of 1970s

Performance(1970)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by...



Beyond the Valley of the Dolls(1970)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.



Charley Varrick(1973)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A man, his wife, and their friend, stage a bloody bank robbery, unaware they are stealing money from the Mob.



Night Moves(1975)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Los Angeles private detective Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter and he stumbles upon a case of murder and artifact smuggling.



The Frisco Kid(1979)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.



The Deep(1977)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater ...



Stridulum(1979)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 33

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.



Oh, God!(1977)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.



Pretty Baby(1978)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.



The Missouri Breaks(1976)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.



Sleuth(1972)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.



Alligator(1980)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.



Maniac(1980)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?



Eyes of Laura Mars(1978)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.



The Legend of Hell House(1973)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Physicist Lionel Barrett and his wife lead a team of mediums into the Belasco House, which is supposedly haunted by the victims of its late owner, a six-foot-five serial killer.



Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.



Stroszek(1977)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.



Motel Hell(1980)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.



Blue Collar(1978)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night when they steal away from their...



Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma(1975)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture.




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