Best movies of 1970s

Phantasm(1979)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.



The Big Red One(1980)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.



Caddyshack(1980)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 51

An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.



The Gods Must Be Crazy(1980)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.



Wake in Fright(1971)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 71

After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.



Bananas(1971)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 54

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.



The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1974)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 57

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?



Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979)

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Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 49

When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop the intruder.



Tristana(1970)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 66

When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable ...



Escape from the Planet of the Apes(1971)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 53

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society; but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.



The Man with the Golden Gun(1974)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 47

James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.



Altered States(1980)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.



The Andromeda Strain(1971)

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Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread.



Superman(1978)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.



Solaris(1972)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.



Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask(1972)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. The segments range from "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?" in which a court ...



The Sugarland Express(1974)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.



Carrie(1976)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.



Jaws 2(1978)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.



The Black Stallion(1979)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 61

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks ...




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