Best movies of 1970s on amazon prime

California Split(1974)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A down on his luck gambler links up with free spirit Elliot Gould at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of ...



10 Rillington Place(1971)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Based on the real-life case of the British serial killer John Christie, and what happened to his neighbors Tim and Beryl Evans.



The Cheap Detective(1978)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 12

San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.



Butterflies Are Free(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.



The Lords of Flatbush(1974)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes things easier but at the same time they have to face new problems.



God Told Me To(1976)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."



When a Stranger Calls(1979)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.



Cromwell(1970)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.



Black Sunday(1977)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.



Hanover Street(1979)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.



White Lightning(1973)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 6

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.



Death Ship(1980)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a WW2 Nazi torture vessel.



Chato's Land(1972)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.



Walking Tall(1973)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.



Dillinger(1973)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.



The Creeping Flesh(1973)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones ...



Mitchell(1975)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a socialite who murdered a burglar.



Shock Waves(1977)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.



The Competition(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...



Track of the Moon Beast(1976)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young man is transformed into a hideous "moon beast" due to a meteor fragment lodged in his body.




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