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 Hospital (1971)

Going in Style (1979)

They Might Be Giants (1971)

A Girl in Australia (1971)

The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)

Butterflies Are Free (1972)

Helter Skelter (1976)

Violette Nozière (1978)

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

The Chess Players (1977)

Perfumed Nightmare (1979)

Girlfriends (1978)

Frankenstein: The True Story (1974)

Blacker Than the Night (1975)

Foul Play (1978)

The Night Strangler (1973)

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970)

See No Evil (1971)

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

An Unmarried Woman (1978)

Revolver (1973)

The Lacemaker (1977)

Bite the Bullet (1975)

The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)

Jimi Hendrix (1973)

While There's War There's Hope (1974)

Robin and Marian (1976)

Save the Tiger (1973)

The Valachi Papers (1972)

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)

A Very Natural Thing (1974)

Siberiade (1979)

Anna and the Wolves (1973)

Little Murders (1971)

The Concert for Bangladesh (1972)

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

Lost Soul (1977)

Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)

North Dallas Forty (1979)

International Velvet (1978)

Real Life (1979)

Foxy Brown (1974)

The Horse (1970)

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)

House of Dark Shadows (1970)

Prime Cut (1972)

The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

Oh, God! (1977)

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)

Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

Hand of Death (1976)

Don (1978)

Spider-Man (1977)

The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)

Boss Nigger (1975)

My Way Home (1978)

The Making of Star Wars (1977)