Best of 1970s, a list by ahasson

88

/35352/

86

/22268/

4.5

/2369298/

97

/153/

98

/41090/

100

/16/

4.0

age 16+

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

91

9.0

/1475480/

87

/21054/

85

/13470/

4.6

/1231676/

96

/129/

97

/18705/

90

/18/

age 16+

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

89

8.4

/762568/

82

/13614/

82

/8806/

4.4

/891126/

91

/148/

94

/16503/

94

/15/

4.0

age 16+

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

89

8.6

/1552233/

84

/47173/

82

/21825/

4.2

/2308678/

94

/206/

96

/34703/

90

/24/

4.0

age 8+

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

88

8.1

/373578/

79

/6334/

79

/4116/

4.3

/448367/

98

/144/

93

/5232/

92

/23/

4.0

age 15+

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

87

8.2

/1011565/

79

/18913/

81

/13085/

4.1

/2113264/

89

/163/

93

/13431/

94

/23/

4.0

age 17+

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

87

8.2

/297538/

82

/5142/

80

/2837/

4.2

/178237/

93

/107/

95

/3576/

83

/17/

4.0

age 13+

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

87

8.0

/56363/

76

/1007/

76

/739/

4.2

/82829/

98

/115/

89

/953/

93

/15/

4.0

age 17+

High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.

86

8.1

/383577/

78

/5710/

79

/4101/

4.2

/270255/

86

/129/

91

/5764/

90

/18/

4.0

age 17+

Three steelworkers enlist in the Vietnam War, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter overseas changes their lives forever.

86

8.1

/183927/

78

/3262/

78

/1923/

4.3

/195360/

90

/81/

93

/3212/

83

/16/

4.0

age 16+

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

86

8.0

/32634/

79

/753/

77

/542/

4.4

/132332/

86

/36/

91

/574/

88

/16/

4.0

Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.

86

8.1

/56721/

79

/1062/

79

/789/

4.4

/96353/

91

/55/

94

/816/

77

/8/

4.0

age 12+

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

86

8.6

/1146518/

84

/15664/

84

/11120/

4.4

/866205/

93

/135/

96

/14990/

84

/21/

3.0

age 16+

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

85

7.7

/135062/

74

/3027/

75

/1952/

4.2

/245818/

94

/141/

89

/2050/

88

/17/

4.0

age 16+

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

85

7.9

/82159/

77

/1587/

75

/1086/

4.1

/72835/

95

/64/

92

/1748/

83

/16/

4.0

age 14+

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

85

7.9

/289649/

76

/4938/

77

/4126/

4.0

/337688/

97

/129/

92

/6502/

92

/20/

3.5

age 14+

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

85

8.0

/179562/

79

/5150/

78

/3317/

4.0

/208294/

95

/74/

92

/10671/

83

/17/

4.0

age 12+

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

85

7.7

/54950/

76

/921/

74

/684/

3.9

/25830/

97

/34/

90

/910/

91

/16/

4.0

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever.

85

7.7

/67871/

74

/1407/

74

/1109/

4.1

/153004/

94

/66/

89

/1297/

94

/20/

4.0

age 14+

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

85

7.7

/83415/

74

/1767/

74

/1295/

4.0

/169002/

97

/61/

90

/1404/

94

/20/

4.0

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

85

7.7

/148862/

74

/3295/

74

/2055/

4.0

/189816/

97

/93/

87

/2340/

94

/18/

4.0

age 16+

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

84

7.9

/113498/

77

/2296/

74

/1172/

3.9

/50142/

92

/51/

93

/2434/

86

/20/

4.0

age 14+

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

84

7.9

/136227/

78

/3551/

77

/1989/

4.2

/203020/

94

/71/

92

/2244/

84

/18/

3.5

age 13+

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

84

7.7

/27230/

74

/537/

71

/283/

4.0

/25093/

95

/42/

88

/641/

91

/15/

4.0

age 12+

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.

84

8.1

/201159/

79

/3557/

79

/3067/

4.4

/364492/

78

/152/

92

/2590/

89

/21/

3.5

age 12+

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

83

7.5

/11972/

75

/304/

73

/189/

4.1

/36065/

96

/46/

87

/135/

77

/12/

4.0

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

83

7.4

/13436/

72

/297/

72

/196/

3.9

/24679/

98

/41/

87

/203/

84

/12/

4.0

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

83

7.6

/30028/

73

/578/

71

/432/

4.1

/56707/

85

/62/

86

/564/

93

/17/

4.0

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

83

7.6

/43520/

74

/768/

74

/947/

3.9

/42244/

100

/26/

90

/958/

89

/6/

3.5

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

83

7.8

/52150/

76

/1309/

75

/646/

3.9

/31312/

91

/35/

88

/549/

80

/8/

4.0

age 14+

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

83

7.4

/104624/

73

/2407/

70

/1534/

3.7

/136294/

95

/62/

84

/2634/

97

/15/

4.0

age 13+

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

83

7.8

/153266/

76

/2460/

77

/2546/

3.9

/170829/

93

/71/

92

/2762/

83

/10/

3.5

age 16+

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

83

7.8

/164454/

75

/2952/

75

/2377/

4.1

/172908/

90

/101/

89

/1940/

77

/9/

4.0

age 13+

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

83

7.6

/230757/

75

/7261/

73

/4489/

3.8

/284536/

91

/116/

85

/4860/

90

/10/

4.0

age 8+

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

82

7.2

/126812/

70

/2537/

71

/2231/

3.7

/206366/

92

/78/

84

/2265/

96

/11/

4.0

age 18+

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

82

7.2

/11390/

68

/225/

70

/171/

3.9

/19513/

100

/27/

83

/146/

89

/16/

4.0

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.

82

7.6

/29312/

72

/674/

72

/426/

4.0

/40236/

86

/43/

86

/533/

85

/18/

4.0

age 17+

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

81

7.8

/13805/

79

/308/

76

/251/

4.3

/53432/

96

/27/

90

/196/

69

/15/

3.0

Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.

81

7.7

/19558/

74

/464/

71

/332/

4.2

/66445/

83

/54/

85

/376/

82

/5/

4.0

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

81

7.4

/43815/

70

/736/

71

/569/

3.9

/57533/

89

/55/

84

/884/

85

/15/

4.0

age 17+

Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.

81

7.5

/42887/

74

/1147/

74

/730/

4.2

/142027/

95

/57/

87

/679/

87

/17/

3.0

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

81

7.7

/144883/

76

/2953/

75

/2109/

3.9

/166546/

93

/55/

88

/1987/

83

/16/

age 17+

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

81

7.7

/162536/

77

/5689/

72

/2004/

3.8

/190408/

89

/74/

90

/11986/

73

/12/

4.0

age 15+

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

81

7.4

/205895/

74

/7576/

72

/4149/

3.7

/246331/

88

/122/

86

/8465/

82

/21/

4.0

age 9+

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

80

7.9

/52374/

76

/867/

76

/677/

4.0

/26881/

89

/28/

90

/700/

49

/30/

4.0

A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

80

7.5

/161704/

76

/4690/

75

/3038/

3.8

/158943/

97

/31/

85

/1593/

76

/9/

3.5

age 13+

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

80

7.4

/35431/

73

/865/

71

/497/

3.8

/20218/

88

/42/

81

/448/

81

/16/

4.0

age 13+

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.

80

7.3

/29558/

70

/503/

69

/504/

3.8

/53746/

92

/83/

81

/533/

78

/11/