Box Office 1970s, a list by Steve Davis

8.6

/1551904/

84

/47173/

82

/21816/

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.

86

8.1

/727521/

78

/18212/

77

/11239/

3.9

/1545574/

97

/169/

91

/36180/

87

/21/

4.0

age 12+

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

83

8.1

/492988/

78

/13030/

77

/8407/

4.0

/928214/

78

/178/

87

/18747/

83

/23/

4.0

age 16+

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

73

7.2

/322585/

73

/11758/

73

/7540/

3.5

/1005278/

65

/157/

87

/54405/

70

/15/

3.0

age 11+

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

83

7.6

/230730/

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.

81

7.4

/205850/

74

/7576/

72

/4148/

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.

93

IMDb 79

9.2

/2194209/

88

/35257/

86

/22250/

4.5

/2344268/

97

/153/

98

/41096/

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.

72

6.8

/93556/

67

/2698/

67

/2026/

3.2

/146849/

82

/55/

71

/3518/

77

/7/

3.5

age 16+

Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

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5.8

/95/

10

/1/

40

/2/

Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.

61

6.3

/115613/

65

/4424/

61

/2127/

2.9

/89235/

59

/56/

43

/2223/

66

/13/

3.0

age 13+

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.

70

7.1

/123446/

73

/7910/

72

/5276/

3.7

/310559/

64

/33/

70

/5753/

66

/12/

3.0

age 4+

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

54

5.8

/91690/

62

/3307/

60

/2063/

2.7

/89033/

57

/42/

40

/5123/

51

/12/

age 13+

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

70

7.0

/123176/

71

/4391/

68

/2137/

3.5

/81809/

82

/61/

77

/2083/

55

/12/

age 14+

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.

74

7.4

/181649/

76

/6391/

74

/3042/

4.0

/770073/

81

/52/

85

/20683/

65

/12/

2.5

age 15+

After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr. Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.

70

6.9

/74439/

70

/3615/

67

/2629/

3.4

/102642/

79

/33/

68

/1484/

74

/8/

age 6+

Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.

87

8.2

/297462/

82

/5130/

80

/2832/

4.2

/176630/

93

/107/

95

/3577/

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.

89

8.4

/762405/

82

/13566/

83

/8800/

4.4

/885199/

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.

80

7.4

/135240/

74

/3350/

69

/1618/

3.4

/104692/

91

/54/

89

/6403/

79

/13/

4.0

age 17+

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

83

7.4

/104611/

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.

60

6.4

/101460/

69

/5255/

64

/1851/

3.2

/70671/

51

/59/

42

/3049/

50

/17/

3.0

age 8+

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

74

6.9

/39803/

69

/771/

68

/721/

3.4

/33127/

63

/30/

75

/1384/

84

/5/

4.0

age 13+

Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.

70

7.0

/61743/

75

/2456/

70

/771/

3.6

/60017/

72

/36/

85

/2112/

50

/6/

age 13+

A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.

64

6.7

/122545/

68

/4513/

65

/2200/

3.2

/93180/

67

/54/

64

/2632/

55

/9/

2.5

age 14+

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.

59

7

7.0

/273/

57

/4/

62

/12/

50

/1/

Early IMAX documentary about the development of human flight.

81

7.7

/162495/

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

8.1

/679773/

79

/14860/

78

/8371/

4.1

/845786/

93

/73/

69

/1432746/

70

/14/

4.0

age 11+

Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!

63

6.5

/121035/

67

/4729/

64

/2275/

2.9

/88530/

64

/53/

57

/2271/

59

/11/

3.0

age 14+

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

70

7.0

/51912/

72

/1367/

70

/998/

3.5

/29276/

69

/39/

72

/983/

69

/11/

3.0

age 14+

At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

86

8.6

/1146245/

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.

66

6.2

/20247/

61

/540/

57

/285/

3.2

/8507/

64

/25/

56

/316/

68

/7/

4.0

age 17+

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

83

7.8

/164420/

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.

88

8.5

/1050883/

83

/33745/

81

/15889/

4.2

/1656240/

93

/207/

94

/22400/

89

/34/

4.0

age 15+

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

52

5.8

/13262/

65

/505/

57

/282/

2.9

/6390/

32

/22/

38

/180/

50

/8/

2.5

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.

91

9.0

/1475099/

87

/21054/

85

/13460/

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.

74

7.4

/17442/

74

/263/

69

/178/

3.7

/11297/

77

/26/

85

/419/

64

/11/

3.0

age 13+

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

60

6.6

/24152/

67

/729/

65

/425/

3.2

/13138/

72

/18/

54

/328/

42

/5/

2.0

An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.

52

41

5.0

/7263/

58

/65/

54

/164/

2.5

/2334/

Linda's frustration with her inability to achieve orgasm causes a friend to recommend that she see a sex therapist about her problem. During the exam the therapist discovers that Linda's clitoris is located in her throat and recommends deep throating as a treatment to her ailment. Linda then goes on to experiment with this new technique as she searches for a husband.

61

6.8

/22940/

74

/915/

66

/311/

3.2

/6475/

39

/18/

71

/257/

48

/6/

2.5

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

71

6.8

/242774/

68

/10012/

66

/4785/

3.3

/299191/

89

/70/

70

/4057/

73

/14/

age 16+

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.

52

6.3

/15162/

65

/443/

60

/251/

3.0

/8231/

38

/26/

39

/169/

41

/6/

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.

74

7.2

/36802/

72

/1506/

72

/1036/

3.6

/49082/

83

/18/

83

/561/

68

/4/

age 14+

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his master's fighting school.

70

7.1

/68004/

73

/2236/

68

/870/

3.6

/68732/

82

/45/

84

/3351/

61

/14/

2.0

age 16+

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.

71

6.9

/25362/

67

/599/

65

/427/

3.4

/20009/

84

/50/

68

/388/

72

/10/

3.0

age 12+

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

57

6.7

/119749/

67

/4376/

64

/2196/

3.1

/86815/

40

/52/

55

/2122/

43

/11/

age 13+

Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.

48

5.8

/38571/

61

/1049/

58

/664/

2.6

/29048/

39

/28/

48

/845/

34

/7/

1.5

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

50

5.8

/13670/

63

/505/

55

/315/

2.9

/7125/

50

/12/

32

/169/

36

/7/