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.
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Second Tragic Fantozzi (1976)
Little Big Man (1970)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
All That Jazz (1979)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
Sorcerer (1977)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Magnum Force (1973)
American Graffiti (1973)
An Average Little Man (1977)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
The Devils (1971)
The Duellists (1977)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Kes (1970)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Death in Venice (1971)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Getaway (1972)
Donkey Skin (1970)
Walkabout (1971)
Soylent Green (1973)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
The Old Gun (1975)
Nashville (1975)
Horse Fever (1976)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
El Topo (1970)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Black Christmas (1974)
Caliber 9 (1972)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
...And Justice for All (1979)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The Rescuers (1977)
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
A Touch of Zen (1970)
Roma (1972)
Scent of a Woman (1974)
Lenny (1974)