Top Movies of 1970s


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111. Amarcord

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi
Plot: A year in the life of a small Italian town is during the 1930s is recast through Fellini's fantastical mind's eye, giving a carnivalesque slant to this charming coming of age story.

112. Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Actors: Duncan Watson, Greg Felton, Stuart Brotman, Gail Davis, Liam Martin, Melanie Kohn
Plot: The peanuts gang attends summer camp with the culmination of the stay being a river rafting race. The bullies from a rival camp plan to cheat their way to the finish - but Charlie Brown and crew may pull off the impossible and actually win.

113. The Last Waltz

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Eric Clapton
Plot: Martin Scorsese documents the last performance by The Band, following 16 years on the road. Special guests are there to sent them off in style, while backstage The Band reflects on the ups and downs of their career.

114. A Woman Under the Influence

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Cassavetes
Actors: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Laborteaux
Plot: One of American cinema's most treasured masterworks about a suburban housewife's descent into alcoholic oblivion.

115. Way of the Dragon, The ( Meng long guo jiang )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Lee
Actors: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Ping-Ao Wei, Chung-Hsin Huang, Robert Wall
Plot: Bruce Lee's character is sent to protect a man and his restaurant in Rome. As he shows his skill to the rest of the team, the mafia try to kill him. With little success, they bring in the ultimate fighter, Chuck Norris!

116. Suspiria

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Stefania Casini, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi, Udo Kier, Eva Axén, Jessica Harper
Plot: An American ballet student joins a new academy. Her arrival is overshadowed by the recent killing of a former ballet student. As she tries to fit in she realizes that the faculty are very strange and when she begins to investigate things are really out of hand.

117. Cabaret

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper
Plot: An entertainer in Germany during WW II entertains a couple of men while the Nazi party begins to come to fruition.

118. Three Days of the Condor

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman, Addison Powell
Plot: A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

119. Breaker Morant

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan
Plot: Three Australian officers, though acting under orders, are tried for shooting prisoners during the Boer war, but they put up a stronger defense to being used as scapegoats than anticipated.

120. The Silent Partner

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daryl Duke
Actors: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, John Candy, Susannah York, Céline Lomez, Michael Kirby

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