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Displaying Search Results: 146 Best Movies from 1970 till 1978

Days of Heaven ( 1978 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  94

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Italian

Director:  Terrence Malick

Writer:   Terrence Malick

Stars:   Richard Gere | Brooke Adams | Sam Shepard | Linda Manz

Plot:    A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Sorcerer ( 1977 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  121

Country:  United States | Mexico

Language:  English | Spanish | French

Director:  William Friedkin

Writer:   Walon Green | Georges Arnaud | William Friedkin

Stars:   Roy Scheider | Bruno Cremer | Francisco Rabal | Amidou

Plot:    Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.

3 Women ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  124

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Robert Altman

Writer:   Robert Altman | Patricia Resnick

Stars:   Shelley Duvall | Sissy Spacek | Janice Rule | Robert Fortier

Plot:    Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.

Stroszek ( 1977 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  115

Country:  West Germany

Language:  German | English | Turkish

Director:  Werner Herzog

Writer:   Werner Herzog

Stars:   Bruno S. | Eva Mattes | Clemens Scheitz | Wilhelm von Homburg

Plot:    In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | War

Runtime:  129

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Arabic | Urdu

Director:  John Huston

Writer:   John Huston | Gladys Hill | Rudyard Kipling

Stars:   Sean Connery | Michael Caine | Christopher Plummer | Saeed Jaffrey

Plot:    In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

The Conversation ( 1974 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  113

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:   Francis Ford Coppola

Stars:   Gene Hackman | John Cazale | Allen Garfield | Frederic Forrest

Plot:    A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Blazing Saddles ( 1974 )

Genre:   Comedy | Western

Runtime:  93

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Yiddish | German

Director:  Mel Brooks

Writer:   Mel Brooks | Norman Steinberg | Andrew Bergman | Richard Pryor | Alan Uger | Andrew Bergman

Stars:   Cleavon Little | Gene Wilder | Slim Pickens | Harvey Korman

Plot:    In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

Serpico ( 1973 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  130

Country:  United States | Italy

Language:  English | Italian | Spanish

Director:  Sidney Lumet

Writer:   Peter Maas | Waldo Salt | Norman Wexler

Stars:   Al Pacino | John Randolph | Jack Kehoe | Biff McGuire

Plot:    An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Badlands ( 1973 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama

Runtime:  94

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Terrence Malick

Writer:   Terrence Malick

Stars:   Martin Sheen | Sissy Spacek | Warren Oates | Ramon Bieri

Plot:    An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

F for Fake ( 1973 )

Genre:   Documentary

Runtime:  89

Country:  France | Iran | West Germany

Language:  English | French | Spanish

Director:  Orson Welles | Gary Graver | Oja Kodar | François Reichenbach

Writer:   Orson Welles | Oja Kodar

Stars:   Orson Welles | Oja Kodar | François Reichenbach | Elmyr de Hory

Plot:    A documentary about fraud and fakery.

What's Up, Doc? ( 1972 )

Genre:   Comedy | Romance

Runtime:  94

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French | German

Director:  Peter Bogdanovich

Writer:   Buck Henry | David Newman | Robert Benton | Peter Bogdanovich

Stars:   Barbra Streisand | Ryan O'Neal | Madeline Kahn | Kenneth Mars

Plot:    The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

The French Connection ( 1971 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  104

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French | Italian

Director:  William Friedkin

Writer:   Ernest Tidyman | Robin Moore | William Friedkin

Stars:   Gene Hackman | Fernando Rey | Roy Scheider | Tony Lo Bianco

Plot:    A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.

Dirty Harry ( 1971 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Thriller

Runtime:  102

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Don Siegel | Clint Eastwood

Writer:   Harry Julian Fink | Rita M. Fink | Dean Riesner | Harry Julian Fink | Rita M. Fink | Terrence Malick | Jo Heims | John Milius

Stars:   Clint Eastwood | Harry Guardino | Reni Santoni | John Vernon

Plot:    When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town ( 1970 )

Genre:   Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical

Runtime:  48

Country:  United States | Japan

Language:  English

Director:  Jules Bass | Arthur Rankin Jr.

Writer:   Romeo Muller

Stars:   Fred Astaire | Mickey Rooney | Keenan Wynn | Paul Frees

Plot:    A mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus.

The Year Without a Santa Claus ( 1974 )

Genre:   Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical

Runtime:  51

Country:  United States | Japan

Language:  English

Director:  Jules Bass | Arthur Rankin Jr.

Writer:   William J. Keenan | Phyllis McGinley

Stars:   Shirley Booth | Mickey Rooney | Dick Shawn | George S. Irving

Plot:    When a weary and discouraged Santa Claus considers skipping his Christmas Eve run one year, Mrs. Claus and his elves set out to change his mind.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  138

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Steven Spielberg

Writer:   Steven Spielberg | Hal Barwood | Jerry Belson | John Hill | Matthew Robbins

Stars:   Richard Dreyfuss | François Truffaut | Teri Garr | Melinda Dillon

Plot:    An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

The Shootist ( 1976 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance | Western

Runtime:  100

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Don Siegel

Writer:   Glendon Swarthout | Miles Hood Swarthout | Scott Hale

Stars:   John Wayne | Lauren Bacall | Ron Howard | James Stewart

Plot:    A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Nashville ( 1975 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Music

Runtime:  160

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Robert Altman

Writer:   Joan Tewkesbury

Stars:   David Arkin | Barbara Baxley | Ned Beatty | Karen Black

Plot:    Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.

Love and Death ( 1975 )

Genre:   Comedy | War

Runtime:  85

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Woody Allen

Writer:   Woody Allen

Stars:   Woody Allen | Diane Keaton | Georges Adet | Frank Adu

Plot:    In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ( 1974 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Thriller

Runtime:  104

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Joseph Sargent

Writer:   John Godey | Peter Stone

Stars:   Walter Matthau | Robert Shaw | Martin Balsam | Hector Elizondo

Plot:    Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

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