Best Movies of the 1970s

The 1970s might be cinema's best decade - directors ran the studios briefly, and it shows. Paranoid thrillers, crime sagas, the birth of the blockbuster and endings that don't flinch. The era's best films are ranked here; find where each streams and see how many you've survived.

The Sentinel

1977

Jaws 2

1978

Seven Blood-Stained Orchids

1972

The Brave Archer

1977

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

1973

Running

1979

The Private Eyes

1976

The Incredible Kung Fu Master

1979

Holy Year

1976

The Organization

1971

The Traitors

1973

Puff, the Magic Dragon

1978

Callan

1974

Elisa, My Life

1977

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976

The Couples

1970

The Gypsy

1975

Handicapped Future

1971

Wattstax

1973

A Wedding

1978

The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979

1979

Doberman Cop

1977

The Laughing Policeman

1973

On the Buses

1971

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

1970

The Raging Moon

1971

The Devil's Playground

1977

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1972

The Magnificent Ruffians

1979

Madame Sin

1972

Femmes Fatales

1976

Miracle on 34th Street

1973

Starsky & Hutch

1975

The Anderson Tapes

1971

The Outside Man

1972

The Evictors

1979

The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping

1973

Baron Blood

1972

Homebodies

1974

The Heist

1976

Innocents with Dirty Hands

1975

Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin

1970

An Enemy of the People

1978

Impossible Is Not French

1974

The Olsen Gang and Data-Harry Blows Up The World Bank

1978

Deadlock

1970

The Brink's Job

1978

The Battle of Sutjeska

1973

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

1978

Dhund

1973

Conversation with Fritz Lang

1975

Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde

1971

Meetings with Remarkable Men

1979

Plaza Suite

1971

Tony Arzenta

1973

Kidnapped

1971

Islands in the Stream

1977

The Strongest Man in the World

1975

The Death of Richie

1977

My Brilliant Career

1979