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.

Main Line to Terror

1975

The Mark of Zorro

1974

Isn't It Shocking?

1973

Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad

1971

The Great Houdinis

1976

Joni

1979

Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods

1972

The Man in the Glass Booth

1975

Child's Play

1972

Asylum

1972

The Prince and the Pauper

1977

A Little Night Music

1977

The Alienist

1970

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

1975

The Secret

1979

The Last Round

1976

A Delicate Balance

1973

A Reflection of Fear

1972

Sitting Target

1972

A Dirty Story

1977

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

1970

One Wild Moment

1977

Dionysus in '69

1970

The Homecoming

1973

Us Two

1979

A Special Cop in Action

1976

The Mouse and His Child

1977

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

1971

Shadows Unseen

1972

Violette & Francois

1977

Elise, or Real Life

1970

Sweeney 2

1978

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

1978

They Call Him Cemetery

1971

Little Italy

1978

The Odd Angry Shot

1979

Doc

1971

A Dragonfly for Each Corpse

1975

Under Milk Wood

1972

Money Movers

1978

There Once Was a Cop

1972

Mimi

1979

Play It as It Lays

1972

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't

1979

Three Men in a Boat

1975

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1974

Hungarian Rhapsody

1979

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1973

The French Calvinists

1972

Voyage of the Damned

1976

Operation Thunderbolt

1977

It's Alive

1974

The Violent Professionals

1973

Little Fauss and Big Halsy

1970

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

1975

The Most Dangerous Game

1978

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

1975

Hail Hazana

1978

Piranha

1978

Four Riders

1972