Top Movies of 1970s


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61. Five Easy Pieces

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bob Rafelson
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Sally Struthers, Lois Smith, Toni Basil
Plot: A man who works for an oil-drilling company is constantly, irresponsibly on the move.

62. Solyaris ( Solaris )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Jüri Järvet, Sos Sargsyan, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Yulian Semyonov, Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk
Plot: A planet appears to have been landed upon by the Solyaris space crew when Kelvin is sent to investigate the strange happenings.

63. Deliverance

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Boorman
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, Bill McKinney, Ed Ramey
Plot: Four business men decide to tame the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into a lake. Their carefully planned adventure takes a wrong turn when some unfriendly locals take an interest in them.

64. Tree of Wooden Clogs, The ( Albero degli zoccoli, L' )

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Actors: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli
Plot: Ermanno Olmi's epic film charts the destinies of four families in an Italian peasant community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The title refers to the landlord's tree a peasant cuts down so his son can have shoes to go to school.

65. Cries and Whispers ( Viskningar och rop )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Anders Ek, Inga Gill
Plot: In turn-of-the-century Sweden, a dying woman's sisters visit her at her country home. However, the sisters are consumed by selfishness and fear, while the woman's maid does her best to comfort her in her final days.

66. Robin Hood

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Peter Ustinov, Brian Bedford, Terry-Thomas, Monica Evans, Phil Harris, Andy Devine
Plot: Disney animates Robin Hood in this imaginative retelling where animals sub for humans. The outlaw and hero of the people Robin Hood and his gang of merry men take on the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and usurper Prince John.

67. Sholay

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ramesh Sippy
Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri, Amjad Khan
Plot: After his wife is murdered by an elusive bandit, a police officer recruits two criminals in order to hunt down the man so he can enact his revenge.

68. That Obscure Object of Desire ( Cet obscur objet du désir )

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber, Ellen Bahl
Plot: An aging man finds himself in love with an infuriating but captivating younger woman, played interchangeably by two actresses, one a cool, icy Frenchwoman, the other a fiery Spaniard.

69. Cross of Iron

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna
Plot: During WWII, battle-hardened Rolf Steiner leads many successful missions but when a new Prussian commander is assigned, the man wants only one thing - an Iron Cross to maintain his families honor. The two men cannot coexist as honor and arrogance collide.

70. Day for Night ( nuit américaine, La )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion
Plot: Truffaut's seriocomic, strangely documentarian, and always affectionate look at the trials and travails of filmmaking.

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