Best movies of 1970s

Marathon Man(1976)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.



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.



Soylent Green(1973)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.



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.



Three Days of the Condor(1975)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.



Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.



Coma(1978)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 30

When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.



Papillon(1973)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.



The Amityville Horror(1979)

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Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.



Amarcord(1973)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.



Exorcist II: The Heretic(1977)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 28

A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.



The AristoCats(1970)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 19

With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.



Logan's Run(1976)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30.



Escape from Alcatraz(1979)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.



The Rescuers(1977)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.



Tess(1979)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A strong-willed young peasant girl becomes the affection of two men.



Cheech and Chong's Next Movie(1980)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 33

The two stoners and their friends go through another series of crazy, drug-influenced misadventures.



The Lord of the Rings(1978)

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Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 23

The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.




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