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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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4 days ago · The 70s movies you need to see, from Star Wars to The Godfather, Taxi Driver to Apocalypse Now, The Jerk and beyond.
- ‘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.
Top 30 Best Movies of 1970. by khanydi • Created 10 years ago • Modified 10 years ago. List activity. 23K views. 21 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 30 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Patton. 1970 2h 52m PG. 7.9 (108K) Rate. 86 Metascore.
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- The Godfather (1972) - Director: Francis Ford Coppola. - Stacker score: 100. - IMDb user rating: 9.2. - Metascore: 100. - Runtime: 175 minutes. The most popular film of the 1970s is also considered one of the greatest crime movies of all time.
- The Godfather: Part II (1974) - Director: Francis Ford Coppola. - Stacker score: 93.75. - IMDb user rating: 9.0. - Metascore: 90. - Runtime: 202 minutes. The mafia sequel based on Mario Puzo's book went back in time to show a younger Don Vito Corleone—with Robert De Niro playing the role Marlon Brando made famous—back in Italy, while his son Michael (Al Pacino) tightens his grip on his family in the present.
- Apocalypse Now (1979) - Director: Francis Ford Coppola. - Stacker score: 93.23. - IMDb user rating: 8.5. - Metascore: 94. - Runtime: 147 minutes. In the 1970s, it appeared that Francis Ford Coppola could do no wrong—"Apocalypse Now" is another example of that.
- The Conformist (1970) - Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. - Stacker score: 93.23. - IMDb user rating: 7.9. - Metascore: 100. - Runtime: 113 minutes. Legendary filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and the Coen brothers frequently cite Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" as having a significant impact on their own work, thanks to its distinctive techniques, arresting visuals, and unique storytelling methods.
Apr 19, 2024 · The following titles aim to show just how good the 1970s were when it came to movies, and are ranked below starting with the great, and ending with the greatest. 25 'Days of Heaven' (1978)
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Nov 8, 2023 · 1. The Godfather Part II (1974) View now at Amazon. Whenever the argument arises over the inferiority of sequels, Francis Ford Coppola’s first follow-up to The Godfather is commonly used as a classic example that bucks the trend. Along with Addams Family Values of course.
