Best movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Quinn Cummings, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Benedict, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Actors : Laurence Olivier, John Matthews, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne,
Directors : Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw, Dick Anthony Williams,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater ...

Actors : John Denver, Donald Pleasence, Teri Garr, George Burns,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

Actors : Charles Grodin, Audra Lindley, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Elaine May,

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...

Actors : Graham Beckel, John Houseman, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner,
Directors : James Bridges,

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Joan Blondell, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.

Actors : Conrad Janis, Gary Busey, Charles Martin Smith, Don Stroud,
Directors : Steve Rash,

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Actors : Clive Revill, Juliet Mills, Edward Andrews, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, George Burns, Lee Meredith, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Woody Allen, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Actors : William Atherton, Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Jack Warden, Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

Actors : Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Glenda Jackson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Steve McQueen, Sally Struthers,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

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

Actors : Stacy Keach, Candy Clark, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : John Huston,

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.

Actors : George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Charlton Heston, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

Actors : John Randolph, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.