Best movies of 1970s

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Actors : Christopher Gable, Twiggy, Bryan Pringle, Max Adrian,
Directors : Ken Russell,

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.

Actors : Sandra Dee, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner, Dean Stockwell,
Directors : Daniel Haller,

Wilbur Whateley pops over to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon and Sandra Dee. But little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...

Actors : Daniel Ceccaldi, Zouzou, Bernard Verley, Françoise Verley,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.

Actors : Charles Tyner, Keith Carradine, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.

Actors : Dawn Addams, Tom Baker, Terry-Thomas, Michael Craig,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A stuffy author enters into an explosive relationship with his neighbor, a foul-mouthed, freewheeling prostitute.

Actors : Kin Sugai, Yoshitaka Zushi, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

Actors : Sean Connery, Samantha Eggar, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...

Actors : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Carlos Muñoz,
Directors : Giuseppe Colizzi,

The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot ...

Actors : Marcia Rodd, Elliott Gould, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson,
Directors : Alan Arkin,

Comedy about how New Yorkers are coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Larry Blyden, Bob Newhart, Yves Montand,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A troubled young woman who visits a psychotherapist to help her quit smoking undergoes hypnosis and finds herself reliving a tragic Victorian romance from a past life.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford, Lester Rawlins, George C. Scott,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital a man, convinced he is Sherlock Holmes, is treated by a female doctor who happens to be named Watson.

Actors : Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies-Urich, Richard B. Shull,
Directors : Bernard L. Kowalski,

A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.

Actors : Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather...

Actors : Mel Brooks, Frank Langella, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

Actors : Alice Sapritch, Louis de Funès, Karin Schubert, Yves Montand,
Directors : Gérard Oury,

Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Wanting revenge, he tries to compromize the Queen with his valet Blaze, introduced as his ...

Actors : Rolf Sohlman, Bertil Norström, Ann-Sofie Kylin, Anita Lindblom,
Directors : Roy Andersson,

Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.

Actors : Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...