Best Romance movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Annie Hall(1977)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.



Manhattan(1979)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.



Days of Heaven(1978)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.



Grease(1978)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?



Breaking Away(1979)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.



Love Story(1970)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.



The Blue Lagoon(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 32

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.



Urban Cowboy(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.



The Rose(1979)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 47

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.



Harold and Maude(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.



Somewhere in Time(1980)

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Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.



The Great Gatsby(1974)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.



Goin' South(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 37

Due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a small western town allows a bachelorette with ulterior motives to save a horse-thief from the gallows by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the sheriff, the bank - and each other.



Heaven Can Wait(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.



The Way We Were(1973)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.



Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore(1974)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.



A Woman Under the Influence(1974)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.



The Shootist(1976)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.



10(1979)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.



Coming Home(1978)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.




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