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.

What Have You Done to Solange?

1972

The Rose

1979

Across 110th Street

1972

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

1977

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons

1978

The In-Laws

1979

All the Colours of the Dark

1972

Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend

1973

The Castle of Sand

1974

Boulevard Nights

1979

The Widow Couderc

1971

Bound for Glory

1976

Hitch Hike

1977

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

The Annuity

1972

1776

1972

The Outfit

1973

The Gendarme Takes Off

1970

The Wind and the Lion

1975

The Car

1977

A Christmas Carol

1971

Rooster Cogburn

1975

The Phantom Tollbooth

1970

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack

1979

California Split

1974

The Herd

1978

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

1977

The Desert of the Tartars

1976

The Four Musketeers

1974

Five Fingers of Death

1972

The Golden Lotus

1974

Lovers Like Us

1975

Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview

1971

Abigail's Party

1977

The Common Man

1975

The Knock Out Cop

1973

Telefon

1977

Julia

1977

Come Home and Meet My Wife

1974

Lady Sings the Blues

1972

The Apple Dumpling Gang

1975

The Silent One

1973

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

1978

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

1971

Chato's Land

1972

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972

The Fury

1978

Even Angels Eat Beans

1973

Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

The Vampire Lovers

1970

Dillinger

1973

The Dominici Affair

1973

Escape to Witch Mountain

1975

Horror Express

1972

The Harder They Come

1972

Moonraker

1979

The Other

1972

The Avenging Eagle

1978

The Bullet Train

1975

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977