Critically acclaimed movies of 1970s

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Robert Benton,

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Ramon Bieri, Martin Sheen, Warren Oates,
Directors : Terrence Malick,

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Actors : Michael Strong, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Actors : Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Sylvia Kay, Chips Rafferty,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

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.

Actors : Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Woody Allen,

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Christopher Reeve,

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

Actors : Phyllis Boyens-Liptak, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Biographical story of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer that came from poverty to worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

Actors : Rip Torn, David Bowie, Buck Henry, Candy Clark,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return ...

Actors : Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,

A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Actors : Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst, John Belushi, Karen Allen,
Directors : John Landis,

At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Actors : Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Actors : Lola Gaos, Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

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 ...

Actors : Don Pedro Colley, Donald Pleasence, Robert Duvall, Maggie McOmie,
Directors : George Lucas,

Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway, John Travolta,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

Actors : Clifton James, Otis Young, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.