Highest grossing movies of 1970s on amazon prime

Saturday Night Fever(1977)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.



Friday the 13th(1980)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.



Escape from Alcatraz(1979)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.



Dressed to Kill(1980)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.



Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(1974)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.



The Wiz(1978)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.



The Shootist(1976)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.



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 Private Life of Sherlock Holmes(1970)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 17

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.



Wuthering Heights(1970)

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Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.



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.



The Looking Glass War(1970)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites.



Getting Straight(1970)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.



Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You(1970)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.



C.C. & Company(1970)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her ...



The McMasters(1970)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Benjie, a black man who fought in the Civil War, returns to the southern town of Ironside, his return is not exactly a welcome one. The citizens are already uptight about the color of ...



Hell Boats(1970)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.



The Body Beneath(1970)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. Since inbreeding is destroying the family line, they need new blood to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.



The Mind of Mr. Soames(1970)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man who has been in a coma since infancy is awakened.



Santa and the Three Bears(1970)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When a park ranger tells two bear cubs about Christmas and Santa Claus, they want to skip hibernation to celebrate, but their mother doesn't believe in Saint Nick and wants them to sleep.




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