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 House of Seven Corpses (1974)

The Norseman (1978)

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973)

Black Velvet (1976)

Behind Convent Walls (1978)

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)

Avalanche Express (1979)

Bilitis (1977)

War of the Planets (1977)

The Black Gestapo (1975)

Bigfoot (1970)

Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)

The Bees (1978)

Bug (1975)

The Dark (1979)

Beyond Atlantis (1973)

Rum Runners (1971)

Spermula (1976)

Zoltan… Hound of Dracula (1977)

School Teacher in College (1978)

Are You Being Served? The Movie (1977)

Scream and Scream Again (1970)

Star Odyssey (1979)

Eaten Alive (1976)

Blacula (1972)

The Dunwich Horror (1970)

The Story of O (1975)

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)

It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)

Women in Cellblock 9 (1978)

I Eat Your Skin (1971)

Carry On England (1976)

You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine (1977)

Starship Invasions (1977)

Airport '77 (1977)

Caged Heat (1974)

Riding with Death (1976)

The Werewolf of Washington (1973)

More American Graffiti (1979)

Myra Breckinridge (1970)

Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970)

The Great Alligator (1979)

Good Guys Wear Black (1978)

Vampire Hookers (1978)

Black Cobra (1976)

Up from the Depths (1979)

Black Emanuelle (1975)

She Devils of the SS (1973)

Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)

Sweet Movie (1974)

Slaughter Hotel (1971)

A Real Young Girl (1976)

The Humanoid (1979)

Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)

Perched on a Tree (1971)

Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

The Amputee (1974)

Meteor (1979)

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)