Best movies of 1970

Actors : Mel Brooks, Frank Langella, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

Actors : Sandra Dee, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner, Dean Stockwell,
Directors : Daniel Haller,

Wilbur Whateley pops over to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon and Sandra Dee. But little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...

Actors : Kin Sugai, Yoshitaka Zushi, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

Actors : Sean Connery, Samantha Eggar, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...

Actors : Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather...

Actors : Rolf Sohlman, Bertil Norström, Anita Lindblom, Ann-Sofie Kylin,
Directors : Roy Andersson,

Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, Lee Grant, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...

Actors : Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature ...

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, Jean Lefebvre, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Jean Girault,

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even ...

Actors : Jane Asher, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike...

Actors : Robert Quarry, Michael Macready, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Bob Kelljan,

A couple invites an émigré to conduct a seance for the girl's recently deceased mother, unaware he is a vampire.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

Actors : Beppe Wolgers, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Inger Nilsson,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

With the help of her friends Tommy and Annika, Pippi Longstocking ventures to the South Pacific island Porto Piluse to rescue her father, who was captured by ruthless pirates.

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 : Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price, Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara,
Directors : Jimmy Sangster,

Scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts; the monster comes alive and wreaks havoc.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Achala Sachdev, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal,
Directors : Raj Kapoor,

Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. As his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to the circus to the streets, he must always make ...

Actors : Tom Beck, Sally Main, Gerard Broulard, Kathy Hilton,

Carla has a birthday party for her pimp Troy and invites Brenda, Chi-Chi, Wild Willie and Big John. They all have softcore sex.

Actors : Joan Crawford, Kim Braden, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.