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.

Libera, My Love

1975

Alice or the Last Escapade

1977

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979

The Castaways of Turtle Island

1976

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

1971

The Mephisto Waltz

1971

Nightmare in Badham County

1976

The Salzburg Connection

1972

The Don Is Dead

1973

The Landlord

1970

Kansas City Bomber

1972

Sonny and Jed

1972

Birds of Prey

1973

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

1971

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

1976

Super Fly T.N.T.

1973

Keep It To Yourself!

1976

Where Have All the People Gone

1974

Breakthrough

1979

The Battle Wizard

1977

Legend of the Bat

1978

G.I. Samurai

1979

House of Pleasure for Women

1976

One on One

1977

Butterfly on the Shoulder

1978

Giovannona Long-Thigh

1973

Smile Before Death

1972

UFO Robot Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger

1976

Pete 'n' Tillie

1972

Deadly Hero

1975

Moonraker: 007 in Rio

1979

The Magic of Lassie

1978

Treasure Island

1972

The Five Days

1973

The Black Panther

1977

Death Game

1977

Eat My Dust

1976

Flavia the Heretic

1974

A Piece of the Action

1977

Queens of Evil

1970

Nashville Girl

1976

The Great Smokey Roadblock

1978

Sweet Revenge

1976

Intimate Games

1976

The Moonshine War

1970

When the Legends Die

1972

Runaway!

1973

Devil in the Brain

1972

Connecting Rooms

1970

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

1972

The Cross and the Switchblade

1970

Mirrors

1978

Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras?

1971

Rivals

1972

The Touch

1971

The Hireling

1973

Manhunt in the City

1975

Two Males for Alexa

1971

It's Tough for Everybody

1975

The Anchorite

1976