Top Movies of 1970s


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161. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III, Harvey Keitel, Diane Ladd, Kris Kristofferson, Jodie Foster
Plot: After the death of her husband, Alice and her 11-year-old son leave their Socorro, New Mexico home and plan to make it to Monterrey, California. Alice is a singer and, in order to fund the trip, plans to take odd jobs along the way - but she eventually finds herself as a waitress.

162. Death Wish

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Winner
Actors: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William Redfield, Stuart Margolin
Plot: While New York City architect Paul Kersey is away from home, drug addicts break into his house and brutally murder his wife and rape his daughter until she's comatose. Once wary of guns, Kersey takes matters into his own hands, seeking vigilante justice against not only the culprits, but other wrongdoers as well.

163. Ryan's Daughter

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lean
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Leo McKern, Sarah Miles
Plot: WWI seems worlds away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula. A young, conflicted British officer finds himself in the pub - the only customer - while Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy tends bar. The two have a magnetic attraction - but one night a group of Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrives at the pub and everything will come crashing down.

164. Helter Skelter

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Gries
Actors: Steve Railsback, George DiCenzo, Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns, Christina Hart, Cathey Paine
Plot: Story of the crimes, capture and trial of the notorious Charles Manson and his "family".

165. The Andromeda Strain

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell
Plot: A U.S. army satellite falls to the town of Piedmont, New Mexico and brings
back something alien that wipes out nearly the entire town. A team of five
scientists are brought in to solve the mystery behind the biological
terror before it spreads.

166. Milky Way, The ( voie lactée, La )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley, Michel Piccoli

167. Jeremiah Johnson

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Robert Redford, Josh Albee, Joaquín Martínez, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Stefan Gierasch
Plot: The trials and tribulations of a man out in the wilderness (probably northern Montana) totally alone. It is a real tale of survival.

168. Blue Collar

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, Lane Smith

169. The Longest Yard

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Bernadette Peters
Plot: A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

170. Fox and His Friends ( Faustrecht der Freiheit )

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Baer
Plot: Explores the class struggle and homosexual undertones of when a former circus performer and working class man, Franz "Fox" Biberkopf wins the lottery and looks to improve his lot in life. But money comes at a cost, and his new upper middle-class friends take advantage of him.

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