Best movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, George C. Scott,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

Actors : Oskar Werner, Faye Dunaway, Sam Wanamaker, Lee Grant,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

Actors : Sally Field, Val Avery, Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.

Actors : Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, Mark Hamill, William Bryant,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A high school grad and a hooker-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette.

Actors : Jason Robards, George Grizzard, Jane Fonda, James Caan,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Paul Sand, Ryan O'Neal, Whitman Mayo,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring - an idea her protégé isn't fond of.

Actors : Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of WW2, is sought after by some who aim to sell it and by others who wish to destroy it.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.

Actors : Michelle Phillips, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Warren Oates,
Directors : John Milius,

John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.

Actors : Donald Sinden, Mako, Jacques Marin, David Hartman,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Anne Bancroft, Perry King, Margaux Hemingway,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

Actors : Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Kaye Ballard, Jerry Stiller,
Directors : Richard Lester,

On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Jill Clayburgh, Cliff Gorman, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

Actors : Donna Summer, Chick Vennera, Valerie Landsburg, Terri Nunn,
Directors : Robert Klane,

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other ...

Actors : Peter Boyle, Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.