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Displaying Search Results: 166 Best Movies from 1970 till 1979

The Godfather ( 1972 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama

Runtime:  175

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Italian | Latin

Director:  Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:   Mario Puzo | Francis Ford Coppola | Mario Puzo

Stars:   Marlon Brando | Al Pacino | James Caan | Richard S. Castellano

Plot:    The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

The Godfather Part II ( 1974 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama

Runtime:  202

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Italian | Spanish

Director:  Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:   Francis Ford Coppola | Mario Puzo | Mario Puzo

Stars:   Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro

Plot:    The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  133

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Milos Forman

Writer:   Lawrence Hauben | Bo Goldman | Ken Kesey | Dale Wasserman

Stars:   Michael Berryman | Peter Brocco | Dean R. Brooks | Alonzo Brown

Plot:    A newly admitted mental patient helps his docile companions defy the tyrannical head nurse.

Hababam Sinifi: Sinifta Kaldi ( 1975 )

Genre:   Comedy

Runtime:  95

Country:  Turkey

Language:  Turkish

Director:  Ertem Egilmez

Writer:   Sadik Sendil | Rifat Ilgaz

Stars:   Münir Özkul | Tarik Akan | Kemal Sunal | Adile Nasit

Plot:    A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.

Star Wars ( 1977 )

Genre:   Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  121

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  George Lucas

Writer:   George Lucas

Stars:   Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Peter Cushing

Plot:    Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

Alien ( 1979 )

Genre:   Horror | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  117

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Ridley Scott

Writer:   Dan O'Bannon | Dan O'Bannon | Ronald Shusett

Stars:   Tom Skerritt | Sigourney Weaver | Veronica Cartwright | Harry Dean Stanton

Plot:    After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.

Apocalypse Now ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | War

Runtime:  147

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French | Vietnamese

Director:  Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:   John Milius | Francis Ford Coppola | Michael Herr | Joseph Conrad

Stars:   Marlon Brando | Martin Sheen | Robert Duvall | Frederic Forrest

Plot:    A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Taxi Driver ( 1976 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama

Runtime:  114

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Martin Scorsese

Writer:   Paul Schrader

Stars:   Diahnne Abbott | Frank Adu | Victor Argo | Gino Ardito

Plot:    A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 )

Genre:   Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy

Runtime:  91

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English | French | Latin

Director:  Terry Gilliam | Terry Jones

Writer:   Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Eric Idle | Terry Gilliam | Terry Jones | Michael Palin | Thomas Malory

Stars:   Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Eric Idle | Terry Gilliam

Plot:    King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.

The Sting ( 1973 )

Genre:   Comedy | Crime | Drama

Runtime:  129

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  George Roy Hill

Writer:   David S. Ward

Stars:   Paul Newman | Robert Redford | Robert Shaw | Charles Durning

Plot:    Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

A Clockwork Orange ( 1971 )

Genre:   Crime | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  136

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Stanley Kubrick

Writer:   Stanley Kubrick | Anthony Burgess

Stars:   Malcolm McDowell | Patrick Magee | Michael Bates | Warren Clarke

Plot:    Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.

The Deer Hunter ( 1978 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  183

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English | Vietnamese | French

Director:  Michael Cimino

Writer:   Michael Cimino | Deric Washburn | Louis Garfinkle | Quinn K. Redeker | Deric Washburn | Meryl Streep

Stars:   Robert De Niro | John Cazale | John Savage | Christopher Walken

Plot:    An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

Höstsonaten ( 1978 )

Genre:   Drama | Music

Runtime:  99

Country:  West Germany | United Kingdom

Language:  Swedish | English

Director:  Ingmar Bergman

Writer:   Ingmar Bergman

Stars:   Ingrid Bergman | Liv Ullmann | Lena Nyman | Halvar Björk

Plot:    A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.

Rocky ( 1976 )

Genre:   Drama | Sport

Runtime:  120

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish | Italian

Director:  John G. Avildsen

Writer:   Sylvester Stallone

Stars:   Sylvester Stallone | Talia Shire | Burt Young | Carl Weathers

Plot:    A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Network ( 1976 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  121

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Sidney Lumet

Writer:   Paddy Chayefsky

Stars:   Faye Dunaway | William Holden | Peter Finch | Robert Duvall

Plot:    A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about mass media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

The Message ( 1976 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | History | War

Runtime:  177

Country:  Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait

Language:  Arabic | English

Director:  Moustapha Akkad

Writer:   H.A.L. Craig | Abdel Hamid Gouda El Sahhar | Tewfik El-Hakim | A.B. Rahman El-Sharkawi | Mohammad Ali Maher

Stars:   Anthony Quinn | Irene Papas | Michael Ansara | Johnny Sekka

Plot:    Historical fresco recounting the life and times of the Prophet Mohammed, the last of the Abrahamic religion, in the sense that, according to Islam, he completed and sealed the monotheistic revelation made to Abraham.

Jaws ( 1975 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Runtime:  124

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Steven Spielberg

Writer:   Peter Benchley | Carl Gottlieb | Peter Benchley

Stars:   Roy Scheider | Robert Shaw | Richard Dreyfuss | Lorraine Gary

Plot:    When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Barry Lyndon ( 1975 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | War

Runtime:  185

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | German | French

Director:  Stanley Kubrick

Writer:   Stanley Kubrick | William Makepeace Thackeray

Stars:   Ryan O'Neal | Marisa Berenson | Patrick Magee | Hardy Krüger

Plot:    An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Chinatown ( 1974 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  130

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Cantonese | Spanish

Director:  Roman Polanski

Writer:   Robert Towne | Roman Polanski

Stars:   Jack Nicholson | Faye Dunaway | John Huston | Perry Lopez

Plot:    A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

The Exorcist ( 1973 )

Genre:   Horror

Runtime:  122

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Latin | Greek

Director:  William Friedkin

Writer:   William Peter Blatty | William Peter Blatty

Stars:   Ellen Burstyn | Max von Sydow | Lee J. Cobb | Kitty Winn

Plot:    When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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