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.
Billy Two Hats (1974)
Dear Louise (1972)
The Dead Are Alive (1972)
The Love of Captain Brando (1974)
Hay que educar a papá (1971)
Shatter (1974)
Two Sane Nuts (1974)
The Soul of Nigger Charley (1973)
Nest of Virgins (1972)
The Big Fix (1978)
Zee and Co. (1972)
Beyond Good and Evil (1977)
The Pyjama Girl Case (1977)
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
Cleopatra: Queen of Sex (1970)
Winter Kills (1979)
The Cat Creature (1973)
The Brute (1977)
Playing the Field (1974)
The Black Peacock (1975)
Norman... Is That You? (1976)
In Celebration (1975)
A Question of Love (1978)
A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977)
Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Gulliver's Travels (1977)
The Bloody Fists (1972)
The Secret Rivals (1976)
Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
Legend of the Witches (1970)
Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice? (1979)
Amuck! (1972)
To Forget Venice (1979)
Abby (1974)
The Gatling Gun (1971)
Mafia Junction (1973)
Ante Up (1974)
Ordeal (1973)
Revenge (1971)
Golden Needles (1974)
French Postcards (1979)
Le Jour de gloire (1976)
The Mysterious Island (1973)
Massacre at Central High (1976)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
The House by the Lake (1976)
Blood and Lace (1971)
The Sex Thief (1973)
Eye in the Labyrinth (1972)
Dear Michele (1976)
The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)
Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1979)
French Provincial (1975)
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
The Woman with Red Boots (1974)
Ostia (1970)
Moving Violation (1976)
The Amsterdam Kill (1977)
The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970)