Best Fantasy movies of 1970s

La bête(1975)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A late businessman's daughter is heading with her aunt to the crumbling estate of her soon-to-be husband, unaware of the strange rumours that cloud the family's name.



Circle of Iron(1978)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A young martial artist embarks on an adventure, encountering other martial artists in battle until one day he meets an aging blind man who will show him the true meaning of martial arts and life.



Oh, God! Book II(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.



When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth(1970)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Set in the ancient past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving a sacrifice of a blond woman to their god, the sun, in return for ...



Scream Blacula Scream(1973)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

The vampire Mamuwalde (Blacula) is stirred by African voodoo, and is forced to kill again.



The Little Prince(1974)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.



From Beyond the Grave(1974)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An anthology of four short horror stories revolving around a British antique shop and its mysterious owner.



Jubilee(1978)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.



Wholly Moses!(1980)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Harvey and Zoey, two tourists travelling through Israel, discover an ancient scroll describing the life of Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to ...



Ganja & Hess(1973)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 8

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.



Sanatorium pod klepsydra(1973)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.



The Strongest Man in the World(1975)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Dexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength



The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella(1976)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically ...



Allegro non troppo(1976)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has ...



Resurrection(1980)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...



200 Motels(1971)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the...



The Pied Piper(1972)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants...



Lost Horizon(1973)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music. While escaping war-torn China, a group of...



I Never Promised You a Rose Garden(1977)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.



Harlequin(1980)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...




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