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Displaying Search Results: 166 Best Movies from 1970 till 1979

Paper Moon ( 1973 )

Genre:   Comedy | Crime | Drama

Runtime:  102

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Peter Bogdanovich

Writer:   Joe David Brown | Alvin Sargent

Stars:   Ryan O'Neal | Tatum O'Neal | Madeline Kahn | John Hillerman

Plot:    During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Life of Brian ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy

Runtime:  94

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English | Latin

Director:  Terry Jones

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

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

Plot:    Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  125

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Sidney Lumet

Writer:   Frank Pierson | P.F. Kluge | Thomas Moore

Stars:   Penelope Allen | Sully Boyar | John Cazale | Beulah Garrick

Plot:    Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

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.

Being There ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  130

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Russian | Italian

Director:  Hal Ashby

Writer:   Jerzy Kosinski | Jerzy Kosinski | Robert C. Jones

Stars:   Peter Sellers | Shirley MacLaine | Melvyn Douglas | Jack Warden

Plot:    After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.

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.

Kramer vs. Kramer ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  105

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Robert Benton

Writer:   Avery Corman | Robert Benton | Meryl Streep | Jay Christian

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Meryl Streep | Jane Alexander | Justin Henry

Plot:    After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.

All That Jazz ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Music | Musical

Runtime:  123

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Bob Fosse

Writer:   Robert Alan Aurthur | Bob Fosse

Stars:   Roy Scheider | Jessica Lange | Ann Reinking | Leland Palmer

Plot:    Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Manhattan ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  96

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Woody Allen

Writer:   Woody Allen | Marshall Brickman

Stars:   Woody Allen | Diane Keaton | Michael Murphy | Mariel Hemingway

Plot:    The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

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.

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