Best movies of 1970s

Ryan's Daughter(1970)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.



Sunday Bloody Sunday(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...



Summer of '42(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 15

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.



Husbands(1970)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be ...



Tang shan da xiong(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.



Tommy(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.



Lion of the Desert(1980)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Duce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...



Hababam Sinifi Sinifta Kaldi(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.



Burnt Offerings(1976)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants.



The Dogs of War(1980)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.



Tosun Pasa(1976)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Tellioglu"s are competing for the "Green Valley". The winner will be determined by Daver Bey, ...



The Wild Geese(1978)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.



Rooster Cogburn(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Marshal Rooster Cogburn unwillingly teams up with Eula Goodnight to track down the killers of her father.



The Wind and the Lion(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.



A Little Romance(1979)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...



Phase IV(1974)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. ...



California Split(1974)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A down on his luck gambler links up with free spirit Elliot Gould at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of ...



Terror Train(1980)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.



Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.



Höstsonaten(1978)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A married daughter who longs for her mother's love gets visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.




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