Best movies of 1970s

The Conversation(1974)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.



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.



Patton(1970)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.



Badlands(1973)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.



Young Frankenstein(1974)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.



Airplane!(1980)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.



Superman II(1980)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.



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?



Animal House(1978)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.



The Shining(1980)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.



Serpico(1973)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.



MASH(1970)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.



Blazing Saddles(1974)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.



The Blues Brothers(1980)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.



Le cercle rouge(1970)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 74

After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.



Mad Max(1979)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.



THX 1138(1971)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society.



Saturday Night Fever(1977)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.



Cabaret(1972)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.




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