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 Gendarme Takes Off (1970)
The Outfit (1973)
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)