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.

Sunburn (1979)

Africa Express (1975)

Les Zozos (1973)

Strange New World (1975)

Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973)

Ladies' Doctor (1977)

14 and Under (1973)

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973)

Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)

The Return of Count Yorga (1971)

Killer's Delight (1978)

Let's Make a Dirty Movie (1976)

Coach (1978)

Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979)

Casanova & Co. (1977)

Monika (1974)

Five Loose Women (1974)

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

Born to Win (1971)

Who? (1974)

Take It Out in Trade (1970)

The Four Charlots Musketeers (1974)

Percy's Progress (1974)

Semi-Tough (1977)

Crazy Nights (1978)

The French Sex Murders (1972)

The Two Wizards of the Ball (1970)

Julie pot-de-colle (1977)

Blue Jeans (1975)

Frankenstein '80 (1972)

The Curious Female (1970)

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

Impulse (1974)

Mr. Billion (1977)

Lady Street Fighter (1977)

The Animals (1970)

Corvette Summer (1978)

Up the Front (1972)

There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)

Seizure (1974)

God's Gun (1976)

Tropic of Cancer (1972)

The Arena (1974)

Terror (1979)

Night Call Nurses (1972)

The Villain (1979)

The Swap (1979)

Lovers and Liars (1979)

Take a Hard Ride (1975)

The Four Charlots Musketeers 2 (1974)

Cindy and Donna (1970)

No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977)

The Astral Factor (1978)

Ned Kelly (1970)

The Big Bird Cage (1972)

The Lickerish Quartet (1970)

Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)

The Loreley's Grasp (1973)