Most popular movies of 1970s

Apocalypse Now(1979)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.



The Blue Lagoon(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 32

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.



On a Clear Day You Can See Forever(1970)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A troubled young woman who visits a psychotherapist to help her quit smoking undergoes hypnosis and finds herself reliving a tragic Victorian romance from a past life.



The Beguiled(1971)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 13

While imprisoned in a Confederate girls' boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.



Deliverance(1972)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.



American Graffiti(1973)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.



Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.



The Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.



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.



Eraserhead(1977)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.



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.



Caligola(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.



Airplane!(1980)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

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



The AristoCats(1970)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 19

With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.



The French Connection(1971)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.



Ultimo tango a Parigi(1972)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.



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.



Young Frankenstein(1974)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

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.



Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma(1975)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture.



The Omen(1976)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?




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