Best movies of 1970s

Actors : Lizabeth Scott, Mickey Rooney, Michael Caine, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

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 : Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they ...

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 : 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 Fonda, Elizabeth Chauvin, Vittorio Caprioli, Yves Montand,

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Actors : Paul Galloway, Gerald Cruse, Marshall Grauer, Wade Popwell,

A mad scientist transforms himself into an aquatic killer.

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

Actors : Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel, François Maisongrosse,
Directors : Jacques Tati,

Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual comical, disastrous style.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Actors : Edward Everett Horton, Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston,
Directors : Norman Lear,

Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.

Actors : Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Mikhail Pugovkin,
Directors : Leonid Gayday,

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once ...

Actors : Sylvia Syms, Peter Cushing, Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

Actors : Juliet Mills, James Franciscus, David Ladd, Philip Ahn,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

A skilled flyer but very rebellious young seagull is kicked out of his clan. However, instead of being sad or lonely, he decides to enjoy and explore his newfound freedom.

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 : José Thelman, Lone Fleming, María Elena Arpón, César Burner,
Directors : Amando de Ossorio,

In the 13th century there existed a legion of evil knights known as the Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices. Executed for their unholy ...

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 : Uta Hagen, Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur, Martin Udvarnoky,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Down in the farm country of the US twins are born. One of them turns out to be good, while the other becomes rather evil.

Actors : Félix Rotaeta, Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Alaska,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him.

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.