70s horror - thriller, a list by Lunaivy

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.

86

7.9

/31277/

76

/775/

76

/697/

4.2

/60151/

96

/67/

92

/419/

92

/19/

4.0

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

86

8.0

/155019/

78

/3229/

81

/2409/

4.4

/333199/

100

/47/

92

/1589/

85

/17/

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

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.

85

7.7

/335395/

75

/11170/

75

/6016/

3.8

/1022456/

97

/92/

89

/15062/

91

/21/

4.0

age 16+

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

85

8.0

/14920/

79

/456/

82

/848/

4.2

/32927/

100

/14/

94

/81/

89

/10/

3.0

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

85

8.0

/288936/

79

/4986/

78

/3220/

4.3

/449298/

96

/118/

90

/3874/

86

/15/

3.5

age 15+

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

84

7.8

/5287/

76

/99/

73

/132/

4.0

/5966/

100

/8/

85

/16/

4.0

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.

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.

83

7.4

/13428/

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

/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.

82

7.8

/135474/

75

/3501/

75

/2230/

4.0

/181591/

92

/61/

90

/8033/

71

/14/

4.0

age 16+

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

82

7.2

/126787/

70

/2527/

71

/2228/

3.7

/205219/

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.

81

7.4

/48709/

71

/1190/

73

/1042/

3.8

/146829/

93

/71/

83

/988/

79

/19/

4.0

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

81

7.4

/52893/

72

/1139/

71

/979/

3.7

/53633/

89

/47/

78

/817/

92

/15/

4.0

age 15+

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.

80

7.1

/3115/

68

/62/

68

/114/

3.7

/3720/

100

/7/

78

/16/

4.0

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

80

7.5

/161678/

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

/35423/

73

/865/

72

/496/

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

7.4

/225416/

73

/6774/

73

/4163/

3.9

/795479/

94

/81/

77

/8904/

86

/21/

3.5

age 15+

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

79

7.6

/41467/

76

/1597/

76

/1061/

4.0

/249117/

91

/33/

87

/9231/

73

/13/

age 13+

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

79

7.3

/115059/

73

/3820/

74

/3114/

3.9

/523745/

94

/64/

83

/3123/

79

/11/

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

78

8.2

/928923/

80

/18241/

81

/13532/

4.1

/1304335/

86

/84/

93

/29696/

77

/22/

2.0

age 17+

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

78

7.2

/141490/

71

/3588/

73

/2661/

3.8

/493650/

87

/84/

82

/4766/

87

/15/

age 16+

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

78

7.7

/34501/

76

/1354/

74

/626/

4.3

/133656/

84

/56/

83

/322/

68

/13/

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

78

7.4

/80117/

73

/2528/

72

/1257/

3.9

/157114/

93

/75/

82

/1379/

75

/15/

age 14+

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

80

77

7.7

/8243/

75

/247/

73

/193/

4.1

/24817/

92

/12/

86

/231/

In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.

76

7.5

/15862/

73

/503/

73

/326/

4.0

/39900/

96

/57/

83

/202/

85

/21/

2.0

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

76

7.3

/39390/

71

/900/

70

/539/

3.7

/33229/

85

/40/

84

/1006/

80

/15/

3.0

age 16+

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

76

7.6

/127407/

74

/2952/

73

/1741/

3.9

/117971/

90

/68/

82

/2866/

80

/15/

2.5

age 18+

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

75

7.1

/11279/

72

/574/

69

/241/

3.6

/7000/

90

/10/

76

/157/

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

77

75

7.3

/8910/

73

/322/

68

/188/

4.1

/67517/

88

/25/

79

/61/

81

/15/

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…

75

6.9

/34513/

69

/697/

65

/542/

3.4

/30568/

85

/40/

72

/643/

78

/9/

4.0

A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.

75

7.4

/208807/

72

/5984/

73

/3668/

3.8

/821671/

84

/90/

82

/7269/

92

/18/

2.0

age 16+

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

74

7.6

/1839/

68

/34/

71

/48/

3.9

/1816/

81

/1/

3.0

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

74

7.0

/6038/

69

/128/

68

/83/

3.6

/8519/

80

/5/

74

/33/

3.5

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

79

74

7.6

/14706/

75

/220/

70

/166/

3.8

/6081/

92

/12/

87

/113/

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.

73

7.7

/20905/

74

/605/

75

/408/

4.2

/69306/

71

/34/

88

/331/

49

/11/

Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns and a respected reputation for protecting the city of Loudon from corruption. Grandier’s influence is then undermined following a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft.

73

7.1

/20691/

71

/465/

70

/474/

3.7

/17751/

90

/21/

72

/228/

66

/6/

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.

73

7.4

/44449/

74

/864/

70

/558/

3.9

/48961/

78

/36/

80

/578/

58

/9/

3.0

age 15+

An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.

74

72

7.2

/16083/

72

/345/

70

/279/

3.9

/45725/

79

/28/

83

/300/

65

/13/

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.

73

72

6.9

/13855/

68

/361/

67

/303/

3.7

/34067/

90

/40/

76

/426/

68

/9/

A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.

72

7.4

/67737/

72

/1303/

71

/1024/

3.8

/57893/

82

/45/

82

/1443/

75

/11/

2.0

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.

71

7.3

/1050/

61

/26/

64

/33/

3.7

/1358/

75

/8/

88

/17/

2.5

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

78

71

7.4

/5816/

73

/136/

74

/280/

3.8

/9210/

88

/8/

87

/98/

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.

74

71

7.5

/10811/

73

/287/

73

/209/

3.8

/10229/

64

/14/

84

/183/

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

70

6.6

/33312/

65

/1108/

63

/621/

3.3

/20966/

71

/35/

66

/781/

67

/13/

4.0

age 11+

After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.

70

7.0

/1775/

67

/23/

61

/25/

3.4

/693/

83

/6/

69

/16/