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The 100 Best Films Of The 1970's. by ecmblume • Created 13 years ago • Modified 13 years ago. The best decade for films. End of story. Some are undisputed masterpieces. Some are excellent. Some aren't. Some are ripe for rediscovery. And maybe some you just haven't seen.
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- ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ (1975) There were “midnight movies” before the big-screen version of Richard O’Brien’s tongue-in-cheek stage show, assembled from the spare parts of science fiction double features, musical theater and underlined passages of “Notes on Camp.”
- ‘Saturday Night Fever’ (1977) Meet Tony Manero, age 19, a native of Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge. During the day, this outer-borough everyguy sells paint and bickers with his Italian-American family.
- ‘Cooley High’ (1975) Set in 1964 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and scored by Motown’s vibrant back catalog, this coming-of-age tale follows a group of young, Black high schoolers in Chicago — led by the burgeoning poet Preach (Glynn Turman) and his college bound best friend Cochise (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) — through a series of teenage hijinks (sneaking out of class, fights at house parties).
- ‘F for Fake’ (1973) Orson Welles is at his slipperiest in this essay film, as he imports his gift for telling plummy tall tales on the talk-show circuit to a feature-film format.
1. The Godfather. 1972 2h 55m R. 9.2 (2M) Rate. 100 Metascore. The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Director Francis Ford Coppola Stars Marlon Brando Al Pacino James Caan. 2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 1975 2h 13m R. 8.7 (1.1M) Rate. 84 Metascore.
3 days ago · The 70s movies you need to see, from Star Wars to The Godfather, Taxi Driver to Apocalypse Now, The Jerk and beyond.
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- 'Apocalypse Now' (1979) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. It's easy to call Apocalypse Now a great war movie, but it's also more than just a war movie. It's a loose adaptation of the novella Heart of Darkness, following one man who's given the task of traveling deep into a jungle for the purposes of killing another who's said to have gone rogue, and therefore poses a threat.
- 'Chinatown' (1974) Director: Roman Polanski. Chinatown expertly brings the film noir genre into the 1970s, melding classic noir tropes and storytelling devices with a New Hollywood look/feel.
- 'The Conformist' (1970) Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Though it's certainly not a musical (instead functioning more as a psychological drama), The Conformist is another early 1970s movie that joins Cabaret as a blunt, eye-opening exploration of Fascism.
- 'Jaws' (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg. Jaws wasn't the very first movie Steven Spielberg ever directed, but it was his first arguably perfect (or close to it) one.
1. The Godfather. 1972 2h 55m R. 9.2 (2M) Rate. 100 Metascore. Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son, Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger. Director Francis Ford Coppola Stars Marlon Brando Al Pacino James Caan. 2. Taxi Driver.
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Nov 8, 2023 · This collection of top movies from the 1970s pushed the boundaries of filmmaking so much that it flung grit in the eye of old Hollywood. This period was considered the new golden era for Hollywood for a reason.
