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 Castaways on Gilligan's Island

1979

Maten al León

1977

Hera Pheri

1976

The Slams

1973

The Unholy Four

1970

Mi niño Tizoc

1972

Memoirs of a French Whore

1979

Trapped

1974

Hunter in the Dark

1979

Agatha

1979

Showdown

1973

Chinese In Paris

1974

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks

1970

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

1971

Day of the Woman

1978

The Knowledge

1979

The Punk Rock Movie

1978

Rich Little's Christmas Carol

1978

The Final Comedown

1972

The Glass House

1972

Time Travelers

1976

Carry On Henry

1971

Ten Tigers of Kwangtung

1979

Dr. Strange

1978

The Norliss Tapes

1973

Flying Guillotine II

1978

The Breach

1970

The Passage

1979

Love at the Top

1974

The Dracula Saga

1973

The Bears and I

1974

The American West of John Ford

1971

Namak Haraam

1973

The Muppets Go Hollywood

1979

Shamus

1973

Oklahoma Crude

1973

Courage fuyons

1979

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

1976

Love Thy Neighbour

1973

Shango

1970

A Man on His Knees

1979

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

1977

The Biscuit Eater

1972

The Shout

1978

Z.P.G.

1972

White Fang and the Kid

1978

Carry on Christmas

1973

Emiliano Zapata

1970

The Payoff

1978

Paper Tiger

1975

The Water Babies

1978

The Crazy Fifty

1971

Good News

1979

The Legend of Nigger Charley

1972

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

1974

Another Man, Another Chance

1977

Orders are Orders

1972

Cousin, Cousine

1975

Remember My Name

1978

Stadium Nuts

1972