Best movies of 1970s

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.



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.



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.



Sorcerer(1977)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.



The First Great Train Robbery(1978)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 34

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.



Rocky II(1979)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.



The Jerk(1979)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 22

An idiotic man struggles to make it through life on his own in St. Louis.



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.



Frenzy(1972)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.



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.



Amarcord(1973)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 24

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



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.



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.



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.



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.



Fiddler on the Roof(1971)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.



McCabe & Mrs. Miller(1971)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.



Paper Moon(1973)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 23

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.



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.



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.




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