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.

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

1972

Shoot First, Die Later

1974

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977

The Opening of Misty Beethoven

1976

The Cheap Detective

1978

Hooper

1978

Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Mystery Of The Arcadia

1978

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

1979

Proof of the Man

1977

Too Shy to Try

1978

Mattie the Goose-Boy

1977

That Malicious Age

1975

Who'll Stop the Rain

1978

Storm Boy

1977

Harper Valley P.T.A.

1978

Death Walks on High Heels

1971

Joe

1970

The Inheritor

1973

Conrack

1974

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

1975

Jeremy

1973

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

1978

Wizards

1977

The Last Valley

1971

The Naked Civil Servant

1975

Terror of Frankenstein

1977

I Never Sang for My Father

1970

The Big Store

1973

Too Late the Hero

1970

The Grissom Gang

1971

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

1976

Truck Turner

1974

Every Which Way but Loose

1978

The Duel

1971

Original Cast Album: Company

1970

The Music Lovers

1971

Frightmare

1974

Magick Lantern Cycle

1974

Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July

1979

The Man in the Iron Mask

1977

The Girl Most Likely To...

1973

Enter the Game of Death

1978

Rider on the Rain

1970

The Green Hornet

1974

Short Eyes

1977

Someone's Watching Me!

1978

Chilly Scenes of Winter

1979

Luna

1979

Shaolin Rescuers

1979

Flatfoot in Hong Kong

1975

The Molly Maguires

1970

Bad

1977

Starting Over

1979

MacArthur

1977

Ballad of Orin

1977

Space Battleship Yamato

1977

Switchblade Sisters

1975

Brewster McCloud

1971

Wedding in Blood

1973

The Pack

1977