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Displaying Search Results: 146 Best Movies from 1970 till 1978

Young Frankenstein ( 1974 )

Genre:   Comedy

Runtime:  106

Country:  United States

Language:  English | German

Director:  Mel Brooks

Writer:   Gene Wilder | Mel Brooks | Mary Shelley

Stars:   Gene Wilder | Peter Boyle | Marty Feldman | Madeline Kahn

Plot:    An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

A Woman Under the Influence ( 1974 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  155

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Italian

Director:  John Cassavetes

Writer:   John Cassavetes

Stars:   Peter Falk | Gena Rowlands | Fred Draper | Lady Rowlands

Plot:    Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.

Papillon ( 1973 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama

Runtime:  151

Country:  France | United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer:   Dalton Trumbo | Lorenzo Semple Jr. | Henri Charrière | William Goldman

Stars:   Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon

Plot:    A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

La nuit américaine ( 1973 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  116

Country:  France | Italy

Language:  French | English | Italian

Director:  François Truffaut

Writer:   François Truffaut | Jean-Louis Richard | Suzanne Schiffman

Stars:   Jacqueline Bisset | Valentina Cortese | Dani | Alexandra Stewart

Plot:    A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Fiddler on the Roof ( 1971 )

Genre:   Drama | Family | Musical | Romance

Runtime:  181

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Hebrew | Russian

Director:  Norman Jewison

Writer:   Sholom Aleichem | Arnold Perl | Joseph Stein | Joseph Stein

Stars:   Topol | Norma Crane | Leonard Frey | Molly Picon

Plot:    In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

The Last Picture Show ( 1971 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  118

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Peter Bogdanovich

Writer:   Larry McMurtry | Peter Bogdanovich | Larry McMurtry

Stars:   Timothy Bottoms | Jeff Bridges | Cybill Shepherd | Ben Johnson

Plot:    In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Annie Hall ( 1977 )

Genre:   Comedy | Romance

Runtime:  93

Country:  United States

Language:  English | German

Director:  Woody Allen

Writer:   Woody Allen | Marshall Brickman

Stars:   Woody Allen | Diane Keaton | Tony Roberts | Carol Kane

Plot:    Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

All the President's Men ( 1976 )

Genre:   Drama | History | Thriller

Runtime:  138

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Alan J. Pakula

Writer:   Carl Bernstein | Bob Woodward | William Goldman

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Robert Redford | Jack Warden | Martin Balsam

Plot:    "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon\'s resignation.

Sleuth ( 1972 )

Genre:   Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  138

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Italian

Director:  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writer:   Anthony Shaffer | Anthony Shaffer

Stars:   Laurence Olivier | Michael Caine | Alec Cawthorne | John Matthews

Plot:    A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Harold and Maude ( 1971 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  91

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Hal Ashby

Writer:   Colin Higgins

Stars:   Ruth Gordon | Bud Cort | Vivian Pickles | Cyril Cusack

Plot:    Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Patton ( 1970 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | War

Runtime:  172

Country:  United States

Language:  English | German | French

Director:  Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer:   Francis Ford Coppola | Edmund H. North | Francis Ford Coppola | Edmund H. North | Ladislas Farago | Omar N. Bradley

Stars:   George C. Scott | Karl Malden | Stephen Young | Michael Strong

Plot:    The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.

Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 )

Genre:   Horror | Thriller

Runtime:  127

Country:  United States | Italy

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  George A. Romero

Writer:   George A. Romero

Stars:   David Emge | Ken Foree | Scott H. Reiniger | Gaylen Ross

Plot:    During an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Opening Night ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  144

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  John Cassavetes

Writer:   John Cassavetes

Stars:   Gena Rowlands | John Cassavetes | Ben Gazzara | Joan Blondell

Plot:    A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.

The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 )

Genre:   Drama | Western

Runtime:  135

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Navajo | Spanish

Director:  Clint Eastwood

Writer:   Forrest Carter | Philip Kaufman | Sonia Chernus

Stars:   Clint Eastwood | Chief Dan George | Sondra Locke | Bill McKinney

Plot:    Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.

Alice in den Städten ( 1974 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  113

Country:  West Germany

Language:  German | English | Dutch

Director:  Wim Wenders

Writer:   Wim Wenders | Veith von Fürstenberg

Stars:   Rüdiger Vogler | Yella Rottländer | Lisa Kreuzer | Edda Köchl

Plot:    A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  143

Country:  United Kingdom | France

Language:  English | Italian | French

Director:  Fred Zinnemann

Writer:   Frederick Forsyth | Kenneth Ross

Stars:   Edward Fox | Terence Alexander | Michel Auclair | Alan Badel

Plot:    In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria\'s independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.

Cabaret ( 1972 )

Genre:   Drama | Music | Musical | Romance

Runtime:  124

Country:  United States

Language:  English | German | Hebrew

Director:  Bob Fosse

Writer:   Joe Masteroff | John Van Druten | Christopher Isherwood | Jay Presson Allen

Stars:   Liza Minnelli | Michael York | Helmut Griem | Joel Grey

Plot:    A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 )

Genre:   Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical

Runtime:  100

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | French | German

Director:  Mel Stuart

Writer:   Roald Dahl | Roald Dahl | Robert Kaufman | David Seltzer

Stars:   Gene Wilder | Jack Albertson | Peter Ostrum | Roy Kinnear

Plot:    A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

Johnny Got His Gun ( 1971 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  111

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Dalton Trumbo

Writer:   Dalton Trumbo | Dalton Trumbo | Luis Buñuel

Stars:   Timothy Bottoms | Kathy Fields | Marsha Hunt | Jason Robards

Plot:    During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.

Halloween ( 1978 )

Genre:   Horror | Thriller

Runtime:  91

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  John Carpenter

Writer:   John Carpenter | Debra Hill

Stars:   Donald Pleasence | Jamie Lee Curtis | Nancy Kyes | P.J. Soles

Plot:    Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.

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