21. 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
22. Gimme Shelter
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Actors: Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Meredith Hunter
Plot: Follows the Rolling Stones on their 1969 tour, mainly focusing on their
free concert at Altamont Speedway in California where the decision to use
Hell's Angels as security leads to tragic consequences.
23. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? ( Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Actors: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Franz Maron, Harry Baer, Peter Moland
Plot: A man is happy living a normal life - a dependable job as a technical draftsman, a loving marriage and caring father. But people push him - his colleges, his socially-mobile wife, parents, friends and neighbors alike - in many directions. A promotion is coming up - but as the pressure continues to build for Herr R. it may ultimately break him.
24. The Aristocats
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Liz English, Gary Dubin, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway
Plot: When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children (Bonfamille's prize family of domesticated house cats) the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the heirs, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O'Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the Aristocats's rescue.
25. My Night at Maud's ( Ma nuit chez Maud )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Rohmer
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Guy Léger
Plot: A man wants a Catholic blonde, so he spends the night with a rowdy brunette.
26. Scrooge
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, David Collings, Suzanne Neve
Plot: A musical retelling of the classic Christmas tale of an unfeeling, old miser visited by three spirits who sees the error of his ways.
27. A Man Called Horse
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Actors: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou, James Gammon, Corinna Tsopei
28. Rio Lobo
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Jennifer O'Neill, Victor French
Plot: Following the Civil War Col. Cord McNally is on a mission to track down
the traitor who sold information to the south and got a close friend
killed. The information leads him to Rio Lobo where a ruthless gang
controls the town... headed by the traitor.
29. Two Mules for Sister Sara
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manuel Fábregas, Alberto Morin, David Estuardo, Ada Carrasco
Plot: A nun is rescued from danger by Hogan, a man who is looking to recon a
French fort. He soon learns she is a fugitive from the French herself, and
helps her in exchange for knowledge of the fort. Even as they form a bond
- there is a secret that still needs to come out.
30. topo, El
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Fantasy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Robert John, Brontis Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio, David Silva, Paula Romo
Plot: In this surreal film from Alejandro Jodorowsky, a gunfighter claiming to be God wanders the desert in search of the four masters, transforms his son from a boy to man and avenges a slaughtered village.
