Best movies of 1970s

Shurayukihime(1973)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young girl is born and raised to be an instrument of revenge.



The Ruling Class(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.



Sounder(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.



The Hospital(1971)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 9

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.



Utvandrarna(1971)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. ...



Il portiere di notte(1974)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a chance meeting at a hotel in 1957, a Holocaust survivor and the Nazi officer who tortured her resume their sadomasochistic relationship.



Support Your Local Gunfighter(1971)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.



Mandingo(1975)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.



The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and ...



The Boys in the Band(1970)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.



The Last of Sheila(1973)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multi-millionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.



Le boucher(1970)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 5

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.



Roma(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital.



Last Embrace(1979)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Harry breaks down and loses his job after his wife is assassinated - could it be his turn next ?



My Brilliant Career(1979)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career ...



The Hunter(1980)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.



Mother's Day(1980)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Two brothers kidnap and brutalize three women for the pleasure of their demented mother.



Buck Rogers in the 25th Century(1979)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A 20th century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders.



Murder by Decree(1979)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.



The Nude Bomb(1980)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.




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