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Displaying Search Results: 146 Best Movies from 1970 till 1978

The Last Detail ( 1973 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  104

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Hal Ashby

Writer:   Robert Towne | Darryl Ponicsan

Stars:   Jack Nicholson | Otis Young | Randy Quaid | Clifton James

Plot:    Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.

Wake in Fright ( 1971 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  109

Country:  Australia

Language:  English

Director:  Ted Kotcheff

Writer:   Evan Jones | Kenneth Cook | Ted Kotcheff

Stars:   Donald Pleasence | Gary Bond | Chips Rafferty | Sylvia Kay

Plot:    After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.

10 Rillington Place ( 1971 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  111

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Richard Fleischer

Writer:   Clive Exton | Ludovic Kennedy

Stars:   Richard Attenborough | Judy Geeson | John Hurt | Pat Heywood

Plot:    What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

And Now for Something Completely Different ( 1971 )

Genre:   Comedy

Runtime:  88

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Ian MacNaughton

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

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

Plot:    An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).

Little Big Man ( 1970 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Western

Runtime:  139

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Arthur Penn

Writer:   Thomas Berger | Calder Willingham

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Faye Dunaway | Chief Dan George | Martin Balsam

Plot:    Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Tora! Tora! Tora! ( 1970 )

Genre:   Action | Drama | History | War

Runtime:  144

Country:  Japan | United States

Language:  English | Japanese

Director:  Richard Fleischer | Kinji Fukasaku | Toshio Masuda | Akira Kurosawa

Writer:   Larry Forrester | Hideo Oguni | Ryûzô Kikushima | Gordon W. Prange | Ladislas Farago | Akira Kurosawa

Stars:   Martin Balsam | Sô Yamamura | Jason Robards | Joseph Cotten

Plot:    The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

Scrooge ( 1970 )

Genre:   Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance | Thriller

Runtime:  113

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Ronald Neame

Writer:   Charles Dickens | Leslie Bricusse

Stars:   Albert Finney | Edith Evans | Kenneth More | Laurence Naismith

Plot:    A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Grey Gardens ( 1975 )

Genre:   Documentary | Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  95

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French

Director:  Ellen Hovde | Albert Maysles | David Maysles | Muffie Meyer

Writer:   

Stars:   Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale | Edith Bouvier Beale | Brooks Hyers | Norman Vincent Peale

Plot:    Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.

Superman ( 1978 )

Genre:   Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  143

Country:  United States | United Kingdom | Switzerland

Language:  English

Director:  Richard Donner

Writer:   Jerry Siegel | Joe Shuster | Mario Puzo | Mario Puzo | David Newman | Leslie Newman | Robert Benton | Tom Mankiewicz

Stars:   Marlon Brando | Gene Hackman | Christopher Reeve | Ned Beatty

Plot:    An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 )

Genre:   Horror | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  115

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French

Director:  Philip Kaufman

Writer:   W.D. Richter | Jack Finney

Stars:   Donald Sutherland | Brooke Adams | Jeff Goldblum | Veronica Cartwright

Plot:    When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.

National Lampoon's Animal House ( 1978 )

Genre:   Comedy

Runtime:  109

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Italian

Director:  John Landis

Writer:   Harold Ramis | Douglas Kenney | Chris Miller

Stars:   Tom Hulce | Stephen Furst | Mark Metcalf | Mary Louise Weller

Plot:    At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama | History | War

Runtime:  175

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English | German | Dutch

Director:  Richard Attenborough

Writer:   Cornelius Ryan | William Goldman

Stars:   Siem Vroom | Marlies van Alcmaer | Erik van 't Wout | Wolfgang Preiss

Plot:    Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

The Goodbye Girl ( 1977 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  111

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Japanese | German

Director:  Herbert Ross

Writer:   Neil Simon

Stars:   Richard Dreyfuss | Marsha Mason | Quinn Cummings | Paul Benedict

Plot:    After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, unemployed dancer Paula McFadden and her ten-year-old daughter Lucy are forced to live with struggling off-Broadway actor Elliot Garfield, who is subletting their apartment.

Cross of Iron ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  132

Country:  United Kingdom | West Germany

Language:  English | Russian | French

Director:  Sam Peckinpah

Writer:   Julius J. Epstein | Walter Kelley | James Hamilton | Willi Heinrich

Stars:   James Coburn | Maximilian Schell | James Mason | David Warner

Plot:    German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.

Der amerikanische Freund ( 1977 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  128

Country:  West Germany | France

Language:  German | English | French

Director:  Wim Wenders

Writer:   Patricia Highsmith | Wim Wenders

Stars:   Dennis Hopper | Bruno Ganz | Lisa Kreuzer | Gérard Blain

Plot:    Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Carrie ( 1976 )

Genre:   Horror | Mystery

Runtime:  98

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Brian De Palma

Writer:   Stephen King | Lawrence D. Cohen

Stars:   Sissy Spacek | Piper Laurie | Amy Irving | William Katt

Plot:    Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Marathon Man ( 1976 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  125

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French | German

Director:  John Schlesinger

Writer:   William Goldman | William Goldman

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Laurence Olivier | Roy Scheider | William Devane

Plot:    After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show ( 1975 )

Genre:   Comedy | Horror | Musical

Runtime:  100

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Jim Sharman

Writer:   Richard O'Brien | Jim Sharman | Richard O'Brien

Stars:   Tim Curry | Susan Sarandon | Barry Bostwick | Richard O'Brien

Plot:    A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.

Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery

Runtime:  115

Country:  Australia

Language:  English | French

Director:  Peter Weir

Writer:   Cliff Green | Joan Lindsay

Stars:   Rachel Roberts | Vivean Gray | Helen Morse | Kirsty Child

Plot:    During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.

Professione: reporter ( 1975 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  126

Country:  Italy | France | Spain

Language:  English | Spanish | German

Director:  Michelangelo Antonioni

Writer:   Mark Peploe | Mark Peploe | Enrico Sannia | Michelangelo Antonioni | Miguel de Echarri | Peter Wollen

Stars:   Jack Nicholson | Maria Schneider | Jenny Runacre | Ian Hendry

Plot:    Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.

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