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.
Ransom (1974)
The Fortune (1975)
Audrey Rose (1977)
No Blade of Grass (1970)
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
Lorna, the Exorcist (1974)
Sex with a Smile (1976)
Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)
Rookies Run Amok (1971)
Black Emanuelle 2 (1976)
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot (1979)
Idaho Transfer (1973)
The Great American Girl Robbery (1979)
Meatballs (1979)
Satan's Slave (1976)
Cruel Passion (1977)
Tender Dracula (1974)
The Girl from Starship Venus (1975)
Thank God It's Friday (1978)
Hanover Street (1979)
The Spell (1977)
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
Something Evil (1972)
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Rabbit Test (1978)
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
Pancho Villa (1972)
I Am a Groupie (1970)
Psychomania (1973)
The Black Hole (1979)
Byleth: The Demon of Incest (1972)
The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (1973)
Baba Yaga (1973)
Poker in Bed (1974)
Americathon (1979)
The Stud (1978)
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
The Ancines Woods (1970)
Find the Lady (1976)
City on Fire (1979)
The Manitou (1978)
Dorian Gray (1970)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
The Twilight People (1972)
Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976)
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)
It Lives Again (1978)
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975)
Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974)
Airport 1975 (1974)
The Vampires' Night Orgy (1973)
Human Experiments (1979)
Lipstick (1976)
Gone with the West (1975)
Get Mean (1975)
Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra (1978)
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
The Betsy (1978)