Top Movies of 1970s


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81. Tenant, The ( locataire, Le )

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova
Plot: A man searching for the apartment finds the perfect place. One day he starts becoming like the former tenant, even though he had no previous knowledge of him.

82. Andrey Rublyov ( Andrei Rublev )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Irma Raush, Nikolai Burlyayev
Plot: Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece about the great 15th century Russian icon painter.

83. Love and Death

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu, Edmond Ardisson, Féodor Atkine
Plot: A bumbling young man, in love with his beautiful cousin, sets off to fight for Mother Russia against the invading troops of Napoleon. Eventually, the couple hatches a madcap scheme to assassinate the warmongering leader, with hilarious, if not altogether successful, results.

84. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul ( Angst essen Seele auf )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt, Marquard Bohm
Plot: An aging woman falls for a Berber man ten years her junior - and all those around her oppose the relationship, especially when they decide to marry. Yet even as the date draws closer, each has their own personal doubts about how to continue.

85. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The ( Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Fernando Rey, Bulle Ogier, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau
Plot: A group of six six middle-class people come together for a nice dinner - only to have the meal constantly interrupted in this surreal journey.

86. Frenzy

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen, Billie Whitelaw
Plot: A temperamental London man is mistaken for the Necktie Killer, a serial rapist/murderer stalking London women. Hitchock's last great film contains the director's trademark pitch-black humor, as well as uncharacteristically graphic violence.

87. Scenes from a Marriage ( Scener ur ett äktenskap )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjö, Gunnel Lindblom, Anita Wall
Plot: We explore multiple decades in the lives of couple Johan and Marianne - one in which they share intimate moments, but also a certain detachment. As years go by, they grow apart and learn that a relationship can take many different forms.

88. Woodstock

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Actors: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, The Who
Plot: Filmmakers document the1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY featuring musical performances and a candid look at some of the 500,000 concertgoers, the organizers and townspeople who were all a part of the historic event.

89. Watership Down

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Rosen
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Simon Cadell
Plot: Much like Richard Adams's wonderful novel, this animated tale of wandering rabbits is not meant for small children. It is, however, rich storytelling, populated with very real individuals inhabiting a very real world. The animation is problematic, sometimes appearing out of proportion or just subpar; but it seems to stem from an attempt at realism, something distinguishing the film's characters from previous, cutesy, animated animals. A band of rabbits illegally leave their warren after a prophecy of doom from a runt named Fiver (Richard Briers). In search of a place safe from humans and predators, they face all kinds of dangers, including a warren that has made a sick bargain with humankind, and a warren that is basically a fascist state.

90. The Shootist

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian
Plot: J.B. Books is one of the baddest outlaws in the land; But he's dying of cancer.

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