Top Movies of 1970s


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201. F for Fake ( Vérités et mensonges )

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Cotten, François Reichenbach, Richard Wilson
Plot: Orson Welles directs this documentary about fakes and forgeries while focusing on his own history and maybe fooling the audience as well.

202. State of Siege ( État de siège )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau, Maurice Teynac
Plot: Uruguay in the early 70s - the government fights a group of leftist Tupamaro guerrillas. Against this backdrop an American agent working for a group that is a front for counterinsurgency is kidnapped by the guerrillas and interrogated.

203. Heart of Glass ( Herz aus Glas )

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba

204. The Stepford Wives

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bryan Forbes
Actors: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Carol Eve Rossen
Plot: Bobbie and Joanna move to the suburb of Stepford, Connecticut - a place where the men are content and the women seem oddly submissive. Soon enough, Bobbie learns the truth - the women are actually robots, and he wants in on the action.

205. Marathon Man

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Schlesinger
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Plot: A series of events leads a regular man to become embroiled in the machinations of a Nazi war criminal and his plan to walk away with a fortune in stolen diamonds.

206. Phantom of Liberty, The ( fantôme de la liberté, Le )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale
Plot: Bunuel's enchanting surrealist film casts his usual jaundiced eye on the players and institutions of Western society through a series of loosely interconnected episodes.

207. Burn! ( Queimada )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Actors: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Norman Hill, Thomas Lyons, Renato Salvatore, Valeria Ferran Wanani
Plot: A British secret agent arrives in the Caribbean to take control of a sugar cane plantation. Exposed to the struggles of the locals, he insights a revolution, which spirals out of control.

208. Adversary, The ( Pratidwandi )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Jayshree Roy, Debraj Ray, Krishna Bose, Mamata Chatterjee, Soven Lahiri

209. Where's Poppa?

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carl Reiner
Actors: George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, Barnard Hughes

210. Who Can Kill a Child? ( Quién puede matar a un niño? )

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Actors: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Miguel Narros, Luis Ciges, María Luisa Arias, Antonio Canal

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