1970

Film Decades: 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• 7 Plus Seven, a TV documentary directed by Michael Apted – (U.K.)
• The Act of the Heart, starring Geneviève Bujold and Donald Sutherland – (Canada)
• The Adventurers – starring Candice Bergen, Bekim Fehmiu, Olivia de Havilland, Ernest Borgnine
• The Adventures of Gerard – starring Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins
• Airport, directed by George Seaton, starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Van Heflin, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
• Alex in Wonderland, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Donald Sutherland
• The American Soldier (Der amerikanische Soldat), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
• An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe – starring Vincent Price
• And Soon the Darkness, starring Pamela Franklin – (U.K.)

• The Angel Levine – starring Zero Mostel & Harry Belafonte

• Ann and Eve, starring Gio Petré, Marie Liljedahl and Francisco Rabal
• The Aristocats – an animated Disney film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, starring Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Gary Dubin, Dean Clark,
• Sterling Holloway, Roddy Maude-Roxby, and Liz English
• Awakening of the Beast (O Ritual dos Sádicos) – (Brazil)
• The Baby Maker, starring Barbara Hershey and Sam Groom
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue – directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Jason Robards & Stella Stevens
• Bartleby, starring Paul Scofield – (U.K.)
• The Bear and the Doll – starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Pierre Cassel – France
• Bed and Board – directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – France
• Behold Homolka (Ecce homo Homolka) – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Beloved, starring Raquel Welch – (U.K.)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes, starring James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, directed by Russ Meyer, written by Roger Ebert, starring Dolly Read
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – directed by Dario Argento – Italy
• Black Brigade, starring Stephen Boyd and Richard Pryor
• Bloody Mama – directed by Roger Corman, starring Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud, Robert De Niro
• The Boatniks, starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers and Phil Silvers
• The Body, a documentary narrated by Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave – (U.K.)
• Borsalino, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon – (France)
• El bosque del lobo (a.k.a. The Ancines Woods) – (Spain)
• Bombay Talkie – directed by James Ivory, starring Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Aparna Sen, Zia Mohyeddin, & Utpal Dutt
• The Boys in the Band, directed by William Friedkin
• Brancaleone at the Crusades (Brancaleone alle Crociate), starring Vittorio Gassman and Adolfo Celi – (Italy)
• The Breach, directed by Claude Chabrol – (France/Italy/Belgium)
• Brewster McCloud – directed by Robert Altman, starring Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, Shelley Duvall
• The Brotherhood of the Bell, starring Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth and Maurice Evans
• The Butcher (Le Boucher), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne – (France)
• Cannon for Cordoba, starring George Peppard
• Carry On Up the Jungle, starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Frankie Howerd – (U.K.)
• Case for a Rookie Hangman
• Catch-22 – directed by Mike Nichols, starring Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Richard Benjamin, Bob Newhart, Charles Grodin, Orson Welles, Art Garfunkel
• C.C. and Company, starring Joe Namath, Ann-Margret and William Smith
• Chariots of the Gods (Erinnerungen an die Zukunft), documentary – (West Germany)
• The Cheyenne Social Club – directed by Gene Kelly, starring James Stewart & Henry Fonda
• Chisum – starring John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Glenn Corbett
• Claire’s Knee (Le genou de Claire), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)
• Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County, starring Dan Blocker and Nanette Fabray
• Colossus: The Forbin Project, starring Eric Braeden and Susan Clark
• Compañeros – starring Franco Nero & Jack Palance – Italy
• The Confession (L’Aveu), directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret – (France/Italy)
• The Conformist (Il conformista), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli – (Italy/France)
• Connecting Rooms, starring Bette Davis and Michael Redgrave – (U.K.)
• Cotton Comes to Harlem, starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Redd Foxx
• Count Dracula – starring Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, & Herbert Lom- Italy
• Country Dance, starring Peter O’Toole
• Crescendo, starring Stefanie Powers
• Crime and Punishment (Prestuplenie i nakazanie) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Crimes of the Future – directed by David Cronenberg – Canada
• Cromwell – directed by Ken Hughes, starring Richard Harris & Alec Guinness – UK
• The Cross and the Switchblade, starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada
• Darker than Amber – starring Rod Taylor & Jane Russell
• Darling Lili, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson
• Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
• Deep End, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jane Asher – (U.K./West Germany)
• The Delta Factor, starring Yvette Mimieux and Christopher George
• The Demise of Father Mouret, directed by Georges Franju – France
• Diary of a Mad Housewife, directed by Frank Perry, starring Carrie Snodgress, Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella
• Dionysus in ’69 – directed by Brian De Palma
• Dirty Dingus Magee, starring Frank Sinatra
• Dodes’ka-den – directed by Akira Kurosawa – Japan

• Donkey Skin – directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve & Jean Marais – France

• The Dunwich Horror, starring Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee
• Eden and After (L’Eden et après / Eden a potom), directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet – (France/Czechoslovakia)
• El Condor, starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef
• El Topo – directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky – Mexico
• Elise, or Real Life (Élise ou la vraie vie) – (France)
• End of the Road, starring Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, James Earl Jones
• Entertaining Mr Sloane – starring Beryl Reid & Harry Andrews – UK
• Equinox, starring Frank Bonner
• Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion – starring Marie Liljedahl, Maria Rohm, & Christopher Lee – Spain
• Even Dwarfs Started Small – directed by Werner Herzog – West Germany
• Figures in a Landscape – directed by Joseph Losey, starring Robert Shaw – UK
• Five Easy Pieces – directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jack Nicholson, Susan Anspach, & Karen Black
• The Flight (Beg) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (Čtyři vraždy stačí, drahoušku) – (Czechoslovakia)
• Fragment of Fear, starring David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt – (U.K.)
• Fruit of Paradise (Ovoce stromů rajských jíme) – (Czechoslovakia)
  Gamera vs. Jiger – Japan
• The Games – directed by Michael Winner, starring Michael Crawford, Ryan O’Neal, Charles Aznavour – UK
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – directed by Vittorio De Sica – Italy
• Getting Straight, starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen
• Gimme Shelter – a documentary featuring The Rolling Stones
• Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
• Goodbye Gemini – starring Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave & Alexis Kanner – UK
• Goin’ Down the Road – Canada
• The Great White Hope – directed by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones & Jane Alexander
• The Green Wall (La muralla verde) – (Peru)
• Halls of Anger – directed by Paul Bogart, starring Calvin Lockhart & Jeff Bridges
• The Hawaiians, starring Charlton Heston
• Hello-Goodbye, starring Michael Crawford
• Hercules in New York – starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Hi, Mom! – directed by Brian De Palma, starring Robert De Niro
• History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu onboro no Seikatsu), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
• Hoffman – starring Peter Sellers & Sinéad Cusack – UK
• Hornets’ Nest – starring Rock Hudson
• The Horror of Frankenstein, starring Ralph Bates, Kate O’Mara, & Veronica Carlson – UK
• Horton Hears a Who! – TV animated film
• House of Dark Shadows, directed by Dan Curtis, starring Jonathan Frid and Grayson Hall
• How Do I Love Thee? – starring Jackie Gleason & Maureen O’Hara
• Husbands – directed by and starring John Cassavetes, with Ben Gazzara & Peter Falk
• I Love My Wife, directed by Mel Stuart, starring Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Angel Tompkins
• I Never Sang for My Father – directed by Gilbert Cates, starring Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Melvyn Douglas
• The Intruders, starring Don Murray, John Saxon and Anne Francis
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – directed by Elio Petri, starring Gian Maria Volonté – Italy
• The Invincible Six – directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Stuart Whitman & Elke Sommer
• I Walk the Line, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld
• El jardín de las delicias (The Garden of Delights), directed by Carlos Saura – (Spain)
• Jenny, starring Marlo Thomas and Alan Alda
• Joe – directed by John G. Avildsen – starring Peter Boyle & Susan Sarandon
• Julius Caesar – directed by Stuart Burge, starring Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud – UK
• Kati Patang, starring Rajesh Khanna – (India)
• Kazoku – (Japan)
• Kelly’s Heroes – starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Carroll O’Connor, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles
• Khilona (Toy) – (India)
• King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis, a documentary on Martin Luther King, Jr. – directed by Sidney Lumet
• The Kremlin Letter – directed by John Huston, starring Patrick O’Neal, Barbara Parkins, Bibi Andersson, Nigel Green, Orson Welles
• The Landlord – directed by Hal Ashby, starring Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett Jr.
• Landscape After the Battle (Krajobraz po bitwie), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
• The Last Grenade, directed by Gordon Flemyng, starring Stanley Baker, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Alex Cord
• Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, starring James Coburn
• The Last Warrior – starring Anthony Quinn, Shelley Winters, Tony Bill
• Leo the Last – directed by John Boorman, starring Marcello Mastroianni & Billie Whitelaw – UK
• Let It Be – directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, starring The Beatles – documentary – UK
• The Liberation of L.B. Jones – directed by William Wyler, starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Anthony Zerbe, Lee J. Cobb, Lola Falana, Barbara Hershey
• Little Big Man – directed by Arthur Penn, starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George
• Little Fauss and Big Halsy, starring Robert Redford and Michael J. Pollard
• The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir – TV movie – France/Italy/West Germany
• Loot – directed by Silvio Narizzano, starring Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel Bennett – UK
• Lost in the Desert (a.k.a. Dirkie), directed by Jamie Uys – (South Africa)
• Love Story – directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, & Tommy Lee Jones
• Lovers and Other Strangers – directed by Cy Howard, starring Richard S. Castellano, Gig Young, Cloris Leachman, Anne Jackson, Bea Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Harry Guardino, Anne Meara, Bob Dishy, Marian Hailey, Joseph Hindy, & Diane Keaton
• Loving – directed by Irvin Kershner, starring George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, David Doyle, Keenan Wynn, Roy Scheider, & Sherry Lansing
• M*A*S*H – directed by Robert Altman,  starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, Michael Murphy, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug
• Macho Callahan, starring Jean Seberg, David Janssen, Lee J. Cobb
• Maidstone, written, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
• A Man Called Horse, starring Richard Harris
• The Man Who Haunted Himself, starring Roger Moore, Anton Rodgers and Hildegarde Neil – (U.K.)
• Metello – (Italy)
• Michael the Brave (Mihai Viteazul) – (Romania)
• The Molly Maguires – directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar
• Monte Walsh – starring Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau
• The Moonshine War, starring Alan Alda, Richard Widmark, Patrick McGoohan
• Move, starring Paula Prentiss and Elliott Gould
• Multiple Maniacs – directed by John Waters, starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, George Figgs, & Cookie Mueller
• Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly – starring Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood, & Vanessa Howard – UK

• The Music Lovers – directed by Ken Russell, starring Richard Chamberlain & Glenda Jackson – UK

• Myra Breckinridge – starring Raquel Welch, Mae West, John Huston, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed
• The Nameless Knight – (Turkey)
• Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger – (U.K.)
• Norwood, starring Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath
• o.k. – directed by Michael Verhoeven – (West Germany)
• Of Gods and the Undead (Os Deuses e os Mortos) – (Brazil)
• The Old Man Who Cried Wolf – directed by Walter Grauman, starring Edward G. Robinson, Martin Balsam, & Diane Baker – TV movie
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Barbra Streisand & Yves Montand
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, starring Tom Courtenay – (U.K./Norway)
• One More Time, directed by Jerry Lewis, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. & Peter Lawford
• One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (Tko pjeva zlo ne misli) – (Yugoslavia)
• On the Comet
• The Out-of-Towners – directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Jack Lemmon & Sandy Dennis
• The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again – starring Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, Fred Astaire
• The Owl and the Pussycat – directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand & George Segal
• The Palace of Angels – Brazil
• The Past-Master (Bash Maystorat), directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Kiril Gospodinov and Yuriy Yakovlev – (Bulgaria)
• Patton, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring George C. Scott & Karl Malden
• Peace in the Fields – Belgium
• The People Next Door – starring Eli Wallach & Julie Harris
• Perfect Friday, starring Ursula Andress and Stanley Baker
• Performance – directed by Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg, starring James Fox & Mick Jagger – UK
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Pizza Triangle – directed by Ettore Scola, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Monica Vitti – Italy
• Pound – directed by Robert Downey Sr., starring Charles Dierkop, Don Calfa, Antonio Fargas, Chuck Green, Marshall Efron, & Robert Downey Jr.
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Robert Stephens, Geneviève Page, Colin Blakely – UK
• Pufnstuf (AKA Pufnstuf Zaps the World) starring Van Snowden and Jack Wild
• Purab Aur Paschim (East and West), starring Ashok Kumar – (India)
• Puzzle of a Downfall Child – starring Faye Dunaway
• Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx – starring Gene Wilder & Margot Kidder – Ireland
• ¡Qué hacer! (What to Do?) – (Chile)
• Rabbit, Run – directed by Jack Smight, starring James Caan
• The Railway Children – directed by Lionel Jeffries, starring Jenny Agutter – UK
• The Rebel Rousers, starring Jack Nicholson

• The Red Circle – directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté – France

• The Revolutionary, starring Jon Voight
• Rio Lobo – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O’Neill, Jack Elam, Sherry Lansing
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, starring Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Arthur Lowe – UK
• R.P.M. – directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn & Ann-Margret
• Reza Motorcyclist – directed by Masoud Kimiai – Iran
• Ryan’s Daughter – directed by David Lean, starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills – UK
• Salt of the Black Earth – Poland
• Scars of Dracula – starring Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman & Jenny Hanley – UK
• Scream and Scream Again – starring Vincent Price, Alfred Marks, & Christopher Lee – UK
• Scrooge – directed by Ronald Neame, with Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans – UK
• Skullduggery – starring Burt Reynolds & Susan Clark
• Soldier Blue, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss
• Something for Everyone – directed by Harold Prince, starring Angela Lansbury & Michael York
• Song of Norway – directed by Andrew L. Stone, starring Toralv Maurstad, Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson, & Frank Porretta
• Space Amoeba – directed by Ishirō Honda – Japan
• The Spider’s Stratagem – directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – Italy
• Spring and Port Wine – starring James Mason & Susan George – UK
• Start the Revolution Without Me – directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith
• Strange Holiday
• The Strawberry Statement, starring Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort
• Street Scenes – directed by Martin Scorsese – documentary
• Strogoff
• Sunflower – directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren – Italy
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came, starring Brian Keith, Don Ameche, Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette
• A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria) – (Sweden)
• Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (Zhi qu wei hu shan) – (China)
• Taste the Blood of Dracula – starring Christopher Lee – UK
• Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Liza Minnelli
• There’s a Girl in My Soup – starring Peter Sellers & Goldie Hawn – UK
• There Was a Crooked Man… – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Kirk Douglas & Henry Fonda
• They Call Me Trinity – starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer – Italy
• The Things of Life (Les choses de la vie) – (France)
• Three Sisters – directed by Laurence Olivier, starring Joan Plowright and Olivier – UK
• …tick…tick…tick…, starring Jim Brown and George Kennedy
• Too Late the Hero – directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda – UK/US
• Tora! Tora! Tora! – directed by Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku, starring Martin Balsam and Takahiro Tamura – US/Japan
• Trash, produced by Andy Warhol, directed by Paul Morrissey
• The Traveling Executioner, starring Stacy Keach, Bud Cort
• Tristana, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero – (Spain/France/Italy)
• The Twelve Chairs – directed by Mel Brooks, starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise
• Two Mules for Sister Sara – directed by Don Siegel, starring Shirley MacLaine & Clint Eastwood
• Ucho (The Ear) – (Czechoslovakia)
• La última aventura del Zorro
• Up in the Cellar, starring Joan Collins and Larry Hagman
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů) – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Vampire Lovers, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
• Vengeance – Hong Kong
• A Walk in the Spring Rain – starring Anthony Quinn & Ingrid Bergman
• The Wandering Swordsman (You xia er), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
• Waterloo – directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles – USSR/Italy
• Weekend With the Babysitter starring George E Carey and Susan Romen
• Where’s Poppa? – directed by Carl Reiner, starring George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman
• Which Way to the Front?, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
• White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) – (USSR)
• Whale (Kit), directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Georgi Kaloyanchev, Dimitar Panov, Georgi Partsalev – (Bulgaria)
• The Window – starring Behrouz Vossoughi and Googoosh – Iran
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
• The Wild Child (L’Enfant sauvage) – directed by François Truffaut – (France)
• Wood Pigeon (Toghi) – directed by Ali Hatami (Iran)
• Woodstock, a musical documentary featuring Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Santana, Jefferson Airplane and others
• WUSA – starring Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward
• Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
  Zig Zag – directed by Richard A. Colla, starring George Kennedy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson