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.

Black Caesar (1973)

Because of the Cats (1973)

Killer Force (1976)

Jessi's Girls (1975)

The Night Child (1975)

Guns and Guts (1974)

Peeper (1975)

This Merry Planet (1973)

Trick Baby (1972)

Lady Caliph (1970)

Law and Disorder (1974)

Omen (1974)

Black Samson (1974)

Death at Love House (1976)

Hollywood Man (1976)

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970)

The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1975)

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)

What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972)

House of the Living Dead (1974)

The Family Vice (1975)

The Bermuda Depths (1978)

Strange Occasion (1976)

To Love Ophelia (1974)

Sheba, Baby (1975)

Bobby Deerfield (1977)

Loving in the Rain (1974)

A Matter of Time (1976)

A Doll's House (1973)

The Private Lesson (1975)

The Roommates (1973)

Italian Sex (1974)

A Howling in the Woods (1971)

Law Breakers (1971)

Carry On Loving (1970)

The World's Greatest Lover (1977)

Ghost Story (1974)

Dirty Little Billy (1972)

The Year of the Plague (1978)

Legends of the Super Heroes (1979)

The Love Butcher (1975)

When Love Is Lust (1973)

Brute Corps (1971)

Duets on Sofa (1979)

Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971)

My Mother's Friend (1975)

The Capture of Bigfoot (1979)

Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)

Mark of the Devil Part II (1973)

Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979)

The Cat and the Canary (1978)

The Voyage (1974)

Hello-Goodbye (1970)

Taxi Girl (1977)

When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

The Great Gambler (1979)

The Savage Bees (1976)

The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack (1974)

S*P*Y*S (1974)

The Good and the Bad (1976)