Top Movies of 1970s


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111. The Man Who Would Be King

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Huston
Actors: Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer, Jack May, Albert Moses, Saeed Jaffrey
Plot: A pair of British Soldiers retire from the Army and try to go where white
man are not really allowed...or so it seems.

112. Brian's Song

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Buzz Kulik
Actors: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Bernie Casey, Shelley Fabares, David Huddleston

113. 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.

114. 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.

115. 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.

116. 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.

117. Spirit of the Beehive, The ( espíritu de la colmena, El )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Víctor Erice
Actors: Teresa Gimpera, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ketty de la Cámara, Ana Torrent, Juan Margallo
Plot: Visually beautiful film about a young girl in fascist Spain who, after
seeing a traveling exhibition of James Whale's classic "Frankenstein,"
believes the monster is hiding out in an abandoned barn.

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. 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.

120. Play Misty for Me

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Don Siegel
Plot: Clint Eastwood stars and directs the original crazy ex-girlfriend flick.
When a popular California Jazz DJ gets mixed up with his stalker, things
go terribly wrong.

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