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Displaying Search Results: 166 Best Movies from 1970 till 1979

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western

Runtime:  112

Country:  United States | Mexico

Language:  English | Spanish | Latin

Director:  Sam Peckinpah

Writer:   Gordon T. Dawson | Sam Peckinpah | Frank Kowalski | Sam Peckinpah

Stars:   Warren Oates | Isela Vega | Robert Webber | Gig Young

Plot:    An American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

American Graffiti ( 1973 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  110

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  George Lucas

Writer:   George Lucas | Gloria Katz | Willard Huyck

Stars:   Richard Dreyfuss | Ron Howard | Paul Le Mat | Charles Martin Smith

Plot:    A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle ( 1973 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama

Runtime:  102

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Peter Yates

Writer:   George V. Higgins | Paul Monash

Stars:   Robert Mitchum | Peter Boyle | Richard Jordan | Steven Keats

Plot:    After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.

Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob ( 1973 )

Genre:   Adventure | Comedy

Runtime:  100

Country:  France | Italy

Language:  French | English | Hebrew

Director:  Gérard Oury

Writer:   Gérard Oury | Danièle Thompson | Josy Eisenberg

Stars:   Louis de Funès | Suzy Delair | Marcel Dalio | Claude Giraud

Plot:    A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.

Frenzy ( 1972 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  116

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Alfred Hitchcock

Writer:   Arthur La Bern | Anthony Shaffer

Stars:   Jon Finch | Barry Foster | Barbara Leigh-Hunt | Anna Massey

Plot:    A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

The Cowboys ( 1972 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Western

Runtime:  134

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Mark Rydell

Writer:   William Dale Jennings | Irving Ravetch | Harriet Frank Jr. | William Dale Jennings

Stars:   John Wayne | Roscoe Lee Browne | Bruce Dern | Colleen Dewhurst

Plot:    Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his cattle herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of rustlers is trailing them.

Straw Dogs ( 1971 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  113

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Sam Peckinpah

Writer:   David Zelag Goodman | Sam Peckinpah | Gordon Williams

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Susan George | Peter Vaughan | T.P. McKenna

Plot:    A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

The Tragedy of Macbeth ( 1971 )

Genre:   Drama | History

Runtime:  140

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Roman Polanski

Writer:   William Shakespeare | Roman Polanski | Kenneth Tynan

Stars:   Jon Finch | Francesca Annis | Martin Shaw | Terence Bayler

Plot:    A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

Five Easy Pieces ( 1970 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  98

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Bob Rafelson

Writer:   Carole Eastman | Bob Rafelson | Carole Eastman

Stars:   Jack Nicholson | Karen Black | Billy Green Bush | Fannie Flagg

Plot:    A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Ryan's Daughter ( 1970 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  200

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  David Lean

Writer:   Robert Bolt

Stars:   Robert Mitchum | Trevor Howard | Sarah Miles | Christopher Jones

Plot:    Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

Domicile conjugal ( 1970 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  97

Country:  France | Italy

Language:  French | English | Japanese

Director:  François Truffaut

Writer:   François Truffaut | Claude de Givray | Bernard Revon | François Truffaut | Claude de Givray | Bernard Revon

Stars:   Jean-Pierre Léaud | Claude Jade | Hiroko Berghauer | Barbara Laage

Plot:    Antoine Doinel works dying flowers in the courtyard outside his apartment. He is married to Christine, who is pregnant. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage.

Eraserhead ( 1977 )

Genre:   Fantasy | Horror

Runtime:  89

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  David Lynch

Writer:   David Lynch

Stars:   Jack Nance | Charlotte Stewart | Allen Joseph | Jeanne Bates

Plot:    Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.

Suspiria ( 1977 )

Genre:   Horror

Runtime:  99

Country:  Italy

Language:  Italian | Russian | English

Director:  Dario Argento

Writer:   Dario Argento | Daria Nicolodi | Thomas De Quincey

Stars:   Jessica Harper | Stefania Casini | Flavio Bucci | Miguel Bosé

Plot:    An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

The Bad News Bears ( 1976 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport

Runtime:  102

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Michael Ritchie

Writer:   Bill Lancaster

Stars:   Walter Matthau | Tatum O'Neal | Vic Morrow | Joyce Van Patten

Plot:    An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

Assault on Precinct 13 ( 1976 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Thriller

Runtime:  91

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  John Carpenter

Writer:   John Carpenter

Stars:   Austin Stoker | Darwin Joston | Laurie Zimmer | Martin West

Plot:    A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

Phantom of the Paradise ( 1974 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Music | Romance | Thriller

Runtime:  91

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Brian De Palma

Writer:   Brian De Palma | Louisa Rose

Stars:   William Finley | Paul Williams | Jessica Harper | Gerrit Graham

Plot:    A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.

The Getaway ( 1972 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Thriller

Runtime:  123

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Sam Peckinpah

Writer:   Walter Hill | Jim Thompson

Stars:   Steve McQueen | Ali MacGraw | Ben Johnson | Sally Struthers

Plot:    A recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

Roma ( 1972 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  120

Country:  Italy | France

Language:  Italian | German | English

Director:  Federico Fellini

Writer:   Federico Fellini | Bernardino Zapponi | Federico Fellini | Bernardino Zapponi

Stars:   Peter Gonzales Falcon | Fiona Florence | Britta Barnes | Pia De Doses

Plot:    A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.

Morte a Venezia ( 1971 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  130

Country:  Italy | France

Language:  English | Italian | Polish

Director:  Luchino Visconti

Writer:   Thomas Mann | Luchino Visconti | Nicola Badalucco

Stars:   Dirk Bogarde | Romolo Valli | Mark Burns | Nora Ricci

Plot:    While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.

MASH ( 1970 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | War

Runtime:  116

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Japanese | Korean

Director:  Robert Altman

Writer:   Richard Hooker | Ring Lardner Jr.

Stars:   Donald Sutherland | Elliott Gould | Tom Skerritt | Sally Kellerman

Plot:    The staff of a Korean War field hospital uses humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

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