Top Movies of 1970s


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81. M*A*S*H

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Roger Bowen
Plot: A group of Medical Officers in Korea during the Korean War try to maintain
sanity by doing things that are of a typical American.

82. Don't Look Now

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa
Plot: The parents of a drowned child go to Venice and experience strange occurrences, including the arrival of what appears to be their dead little girl.

83. Andrey Rublyov ( Andrei Rublev )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Irma Raush, Nikolai Burlyayev
Plot: Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece about the great 15th century Russian icon painter.

84. Love and Death

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu, Edmond Ardisson, Féodor Atkine
Plot: A bumbling young man, in love with his beautiful cousin, sets off to fight for Mother Russia against the invading troops of Napoleon. Eventually, the couple hatches a madcap scheme to assassinate the warmongering leader, with hilarious, if not altogether successful, results.

85. Red Circle, The ( cercle rouge, Le )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet, Paul Amiot
Plot: An aristocratic just-paroled thief, an escaped murderer and an alcoholic ex-police sharpshooter form an unlikely trio bent on pulling off a daring jewel heist. Standing in their way is a vengeful mob boss, a persistent police superintendent. In this world, no on is innocent.

86. The Shootist

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian
Plot: J.B. Books is one of the baddest outlaws in the land; But he's dying of cancer.

87. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The ( Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Fernando Rey, Bulle Ogier, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau
Plot: A group of six six middle-class people come together for a nice dinner - only to have the meal constantly interrupted in this surreal journey.

88. Scenes from a Marriage ( Scener ur ett äktenskap )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjö, Gunnel Lindblom, Anita Wall
Plot: We explore multiple decades in the lives of couple Johan and Marianne - one in which they share intimate moments, but also a certain detachment. As years go by, they grow apart and learn that a relationship can take many different forms.

89. Frenzy

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen, Billie Whitelaw
Plot: A temperamental London man is mistaken for the Necktie Killer, a serial
rapist/murderer stalking London women. Hitchock's last great film
contains the director's trademark pitch-black humor, as well as
uncharacteristically graphic violence.

90. Woodstock

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Actors: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, The Who
Plot: Filmmakers document the1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY featuring musical performances and a candid look at some of the 500,000 concertgoers, the organizers and townspeople who were all a part of the historic event.

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