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.
The American Friend (1977)
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
Jo (1971)
The Beguiled (1971)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Get Carter (1971)
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters (1973)
One Way or Another (1976)
The Shootist (1976)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Love Story (1970)
Scarecrow (1973)
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
Tristana (1970)
Pretty Baby (1978)
Buffet Froid (1979)
Breaking Away (1979)
Punishment Park (1971)
The Magnificent One (1973)
The Enforcer (1976)
El profe (1971)
Indian Summer (1972)
Love in the Afternoon (1972)
Blue Collar (1978)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
The Cowboys (1972)
Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)
The Things of Life (1970)
Serie Noire (1979)
The Brood (1979)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Seven Beauties (1975)
Capricorn One (1977)
Norma Rae (1979)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Interiors (1978)
Logan's Run (1976)
Coma (1978)
The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Slap Shot (1977)
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Conversation Piece (1974)
Time After Time (1979)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
The Scopone Game (1972)
French Fried Vacation (1978)
The Psychic (1977)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
The Decameron (1971)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Avanti! (1972)
The Confession (1970)