Top Movies of 1970s


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121. 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

122. Play Misty for Me

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 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.

123. Macbeth

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride, Nicholas Selby
Plot: Roman Polanski's version of the Shakespeare drama that has a ruthless Scottish lord ascend the throne with help from a trio of witches and his wife. As his wife suffers from guilt and hallucinations, the king's son plots to expose him as a murderer.

124. 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.

125. The Day of the Jackal

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey
Plot: In early 1960s France, the disbanded members of the former French Foreign Legion want to kill current president Charles DeGaulle - turning him into one of the most guarded men in the world. In desperation they turn to "The Jackal", codename of a notorious assassin who agrees to take the job for half-a-million in payment. As he plans the perfect assassination, the police desperately try to track him down.

126. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bill Melendez
Actors: Todd Barbee, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea, Hilary Momberger-Powers, Christopher DeFaria, Jimmy Ahrens
Plot: Charlie Brown decides to throw a Thanksgiving Day dinner... with the help of his friends.

127. Eraserhead

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near
Plot: Henry Spencer lives in an industrial wasteland where he must contend with a new, strange baby, an unreliable girlfriend, a beautiful girl across the hall and the lady in the radiator.

128. Butcher, The ( boucher, Le )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Chabrol
Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara, William Guérault
Plot: A working-class butcher strikes up an unlikely friendship with a repressed schoolteacher. A series of gristly murders around town have everyone on edge.

129. Grey Gardens

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Muffie Meyer
Actors: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers, Norman Vincent Peale, Jerry Torre
Plot: Maysles brothers Documentary about the poor side of the family of Jacque O (Edith Bouvier Beale, and her daughter Edie)

130. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Sharman
Actors: Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, Meat Loaf, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien
Plot: A couple's vehicle breaks down and they are forced to contact some one
don't even know when the couple are instituted in a weird place.

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