Best movies of 1970s

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980)

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Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 41

After the rebels are overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Master Yoda. His friends accept shelter from a questionable ally as Darth Vader hunts them in a plan to capture Luke.



Little Big Man(1970)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.



The Sting(1973)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 40

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.



Il conformista(1970)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.



Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie(1972)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 47

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.



Dark Star(1974)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 50

In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.



Assault on Precinct 13(1976)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A police sergeant and an unlikely band of criminals defend a closing LA precinct office on New Years Eve against an army of gang members.



Smokey and the Bandit(1977)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 45

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.



Halloween(1978)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.



Life of Brian(1979)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.



3 Women(1977)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Pinky is an awkward adolescent who starts work at a spa in the California desert. She becomes overly attached to fellow spa attendant, Millie when she becomes Millie's room-mate. Millie is ...



Beneath the Planet of the Apes(1970)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 42

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.



The Texas Chain Saw Massacre(1974)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.



Rocky(1976)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.



Fame(1980)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.



Used Cars(1980)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 52

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.



Dawn of the Dead(1978)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.



Up in Smoke(1978)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.



Quadrophenia(1979)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Jimmy loathes his job and parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs only to be disappointed.



Professione: reporter(1975)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.




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