Best movies of 1970s

Flash Gordon(1980)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.



Popeye(1980)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 32

The adventures of the sailor man and his friends in the seaside town of Sweethaven.



American Graffiti(1973)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.



The Wicker Man(1973)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 27

A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.



Xanadu(1980)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 40

The story of a girl who makes dreams come true.



Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto(1970)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.



The Last Picture Show(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.



Harold and Maude(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.



Scarecrow(1973)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Max, an ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by Lion, a homeless ex-sailor, and they partner up as they head east together.



Nashville(1975)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.



Overlord(1975)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 57

During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.



Killer of Sheep(1978)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.



Nine to Five(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.



Somewhere in Time(1980)

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Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.



Any Which Way You Can(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 33

A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.



Seems Like Old Times(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Wrongfully accused of a bank robbery, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to the soon-to-be D.A. of California.



Five Easy Pieces(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.



Airport(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.



Straw Dogs(1971)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.



Joe Kidd(1972)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.




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