Best movies of 1970s

Escape to Witch Mountain(1975)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?



The Sunshine Boys(1975)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.



Hababam Sinifi(1975)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lazy, uneducated students share a very close bond. They live together in the dormitory, where they plan their latest pranks. When a new headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.



The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane(1976)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 10

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.



Le locataire(1976)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.



The Front(1976)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.



Demon Seed(1977)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.



Looking for Mr. Goodbar(1977)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.



Zui quan(1978)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Wong Fei-Hung (Jackie Chan) is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by Beggar So (Yuen Siu-Tien), a master of drunken martial arts.



La cage aux folles(1978)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership ...



Caligola(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.



The Wanderers(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst ...



The Champ(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...



Hopscotch(1980)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.



Meng long guo jiang(1972)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.



The Getaway(1972)

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Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.



Viskningar och rop(1972)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.



Tales from the Crypt(1972)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.



Fat City(1972)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.



Black Christmas(1974)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.




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