Film Decades: 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)
- $ (Dollars) – directed by Richard Brooks, starring Warren Beatty & Goldie Hawn
- 10 Rillington Place – directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Richard Attenborough & John Hurt – UK
- 1870, Italian historical drama starring Anna Magnani and Marcello Mastroianni
- 200 Motels, featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
- The 300 Year Weekend, starring Michael Tolan and William Devane
- Aabhijathyam, Indian Malayalam, directed by A Vincent and produced by RS Prabhu, with stars Madhu, Sharada and Sukumari
- Aana Valarthiya Vanampadiyude Makan, Indian Malayalam, directed and produced by P. Subramaniam, with stars Gemini Ganesan and Rajasree
- Aap Aye Bahaar Ayee, Bollywood film produced, directed and written by Mohan Kumar, with stars Rajendra Kumar and Sadhana
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes – starring Vincent Price & Joseph Cotten – UK
- Achante Bharya, Indian Malayalam film, directed by Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair, with stars Adoor Bhasi, K. P. Ummer and Ragini
- Adrift on the Nile (Thartharah fawq al-Nil), directed by Hussein Kamal – (Egypt)
- Adiós, Sabata – starring Yul Brynner – Italy
- The Adversary (Pratidwandi), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
- Agnimrigam, Indian Malayalam film, directed by M. Krishnan Nair, with stars Prem Nazir, Sathyan and Sheela
- Amar Prem (Immortal Love), starring Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna – (India)
- Anand, starring Rajesh Khanna – (India)
- The Anderson Tapes – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Christopher Walken
- And Now for Something Completely Different – directed by Ian MacNaughton, written by & starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin – UK
- The Andromeda Strain, directed by Robert Wise, starring Arthur Hill, Kate Reid, David Wayne, James Olson
- Animal Treasure Island (Dōbutsu Takarajima) – (Japan)
- Bananas – directed by & starring Woody Allen, with Louise Lasser & Howard Cosell
- The Barefoot Executive – starring Kurt Russell
- The Battle of Kerzhenets – USSR
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks – directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson
- The Beguiled – directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood & Geraldine Page
- The Beloved – directed by George P. Cosmatos, starring Raquel Welch & Richard Johnson – aka Sin, Restless
- Benny’s Bathtub (Bennys badekar) – (Denmark)
- Between Miracles (Per grazia ricevuta), directed by and starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
- Beware of a Holy Whore (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
- The Big Boss – directed by Lo Wei, Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, & Tony Liu – Hong Kong
- The Big Doll House – starring Pam Grier
- Big Jake – starring John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Hara
- Billy Jack – starring Tom Laughlin
- Bleak Moments, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson – (U.K.)
- Bless the Beasts and Children – directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Bill Mumy
- The Blood on Satan’s Claw, starring Patrick Wymark and Linda Hayden- (U.K.)
- The Boat on the Grass (Le Bateau sur l’herbe), starring Jean-Pierre Cassel – (France)
- Born to Win – starring George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Héctor Elizondo, Karen Black, Robert De Niro
- The Boy Friend, directed by Ken Russell, starring Twiggy – (U.K.)
- Brian’s Song, starring James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Shelley Fabares, Judy Pace, Jack Warden – TV movie
- Brother John – starring Sidney Poitier
- Bunny O’Hare, starring Bette Davis
- Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen
- Carry On Henry, directed by Gerald Thomas, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims – (U.K.)
- The Ceremony (Gashiki), directed by Nagisa Oshima – (Japan)
- Chandler, starring Warren Oates and Leslie Caron
- Le Chat (The Cat), directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, starring Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret – (France)
- A Clockwork Orange** – directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell – UK
- The Clowns – directed by & starring Federico Fellini – TV movie – Italy
- Cold Turkey, directed by Norman Lear, starring Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart
- Confessions of a Police Captain (Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica), starring Franco Nero – (Italy)
- Countess Dracula, starring Ingrid Pitt – (U.K.)
- Crucible of Terror, starring Mike Raven, James Bolam and Mary Maude- (U.K.)
- Daughters of Darkness, directed by Harry Kümel, starring Delphine Seyrig – (Belgium)
- Dauria – USSR
- The Deadly Duo (Shuang xia), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
- The Deadly Trap – starring Faye Dunaway & Frank Langella
- Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Silvana Mangano – (Italy/France)
- The Decameron, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy)
- The Deserter – directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Bekim Fehmiu, John Huston, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors, Brandon deWilde
- Desperate Characters, directed by Frank D. Gilroy, starring Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars
- The Devils, directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave – (U.K.)
- The Devil Has Seven Faces, starring Stephen Boyd and Carroll Baker- (Italy)
- Die Screaming, Marianne, starring Susan George and Barry Evans- (U.K.)
- Diamonds Are Forever – starring Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Jimmy Dean, Charles Gray – UK
- Dirty Harry – directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, John Vernon, Reni Santoni
- Doc – starring Stacy Keach & Faye Dunaway
- Drive, He Said, directed by Jack Nicholson, starring Karen Black and Bruce Dern
- Duel – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Dennis Weaver – TV movie
- Dulcima – starring John Mills & Carol White – UK
- The Emigrants – directed by Jan Troell, starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann – Sweden
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes, starring Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Ricardo Montalbán, Eric Braeden, William Windom, Sal Mineo
- Evdokia, directed by Alexis Damianos – (Greece)
- Evel Knievel, starring George Hamilton and Sue Lyon
- Family Life (Życie rodzinne) – (Poland)
- Family Life – directed by Ken Loach – UK
- Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Chaim Topol
- The First Nine Month’s Are the Hardest – directed by Carl Reiner, starring Dick Van Dyke
- A Fistful of Dynamite – directed by Sergio Leone, starring James Coburn & Rod Steiger – Italy
- Fleeing the Trap, starring Behrouz Vossoughi and Davoud Rashidi (Iran)
- Fools’ Parade – starring James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell
- Fortune and Men’s Eyes – (Canada)
- Four Nights of a Dreamer – directed by Robert Bresson – France
- The French Connection – directed by William Friedkin, starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
- Fright, starring Susan George and Honor Blackman – (U.K.)
- Fun and Games, British exploitation film directed by Ray Austin
- The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight – starring Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Robert De Niro
- Gas-s-s-s – directed by Roger Corman
- Gentlemen of Fortune – USSR
- Get Carter – directed by Mike Hodges, starring Michael Caine – UK
- A Girl in Australia (Bello onesto emigrato Australia), starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy/Australia)
- The Go-Between, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard – (U.K.)
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah (Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster) – (Japan)
- Grandads-Robbers (Stariki-razboyniki) – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Grissom Gang – directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Kim Darby & Scott Wilson
- Guddi, starring Dharmendra – (India)
- Gumshoe – directed by Stephen Frears, starring Albert Finney & Billie Whitelaw – UK
- A Gunfight, starring Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash
- Hannie Caulder, starring Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp
- Hare Rama Hare Krishna, directed by and starring Dev Anand – (India)
- Harold and Maude, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort
- The Hellstrom Chronicle, a documentary directed by Walon Green narrated by a dramatized title character portrayed by Lawrence Pressman
- The Hired Hand, directed by and starring Peter Fonda, with Warren Oates, Verna Bloom
- The Horsemen – directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Omar Sharif & Jack Palance
- The Hospital, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring George C. Scott and Diana Rigg
- How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês) – (Brazil)
- How to Frame a Figg, starring Don Knotts and Yvonne Craig
- The Hunting Party – starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Oliver Reed
- I, Monster, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
- In Prison Awaiting Trial (Detenuto in attesa di giudizio), starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
- Joe Hill, directed by Bo Widerberg – (Sweden/United States)
- Johnny Got His Gun, directed by Dalton Trumbo, starring Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland
- Juste avant la nuit (a.k.a. Just Before Nightfall), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran – (France)
- King Lear, directed by Peter Brook, starring Paul Scofield – (U.K.)
- King Lear, directed by Grigori Kozintsev – (U.S.S.R.)
- Klute – directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
- Kotch – directed by Jack Lemmon, starring Walter Matthau
- Land of Silence and Darkness – directed by Werner Herzog – West Germany
- The Last Picture Show – directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson
- The Last Run – directed by Richard Fleischer & John Huston (uncredited), starring George C. Scott
- Lawman – starring Burt Lancaster, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall
- Le Mans – starring Steve McQueen
- Liberation (Osvobozhdenie / Befreiung), directed by Yuri Ozerov – (U.S.S.R./East Germany/Poland/Yugoslavia/Italy)
- The Light at the Edge of the World
- Little Murders – directed by Alan Arkin, starring Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Donald Sutherland
- Love – Hungary
- Love Hate Love – directed by George McCowan, starring Ryan O’Neal, Lesley Ann Warren, & Peter Haskell – TV movie
- The Love Machine, directed by Jack Haley Jr., starring Dyan Cannon
- Macbeth, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Jon Finch and Francesca Annis – (U.K./U.S.)
- Made for Each Other, starring Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
- Malpertuis – starring Orson Welles and Susan Hampshire – Belgium/France
- Man in the Wilderness, starring Richard Harris
- The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, starring Richard Benjamin, Joanna Shimkus and Adam West
- Mary, Queen of Scots, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller – directed by Robert Altman, starring Warren Beatty & Julie Christie
- Melody, starring Mark Lester and Jack Wild – (U.K.)
- Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story – directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Louise Lasser & Diane Keaton
- The Mephisto Waltz – starring Alan Alda & Jacqueline Bisset
- Mere Apne – (India)
- The Million Dollar Duck, starring Sandy Duncan
- Minnie and Moskowitz – directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands & Seymour Cassel
- Mira, directed by Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands/Belgium)
- The Missing Clerk (Den forsvundne fuldmægtig) – (Denmark)
- Mon oncle Antoine – considered by some critics the greatest Canadian film – (Canada)
- Murmur of the Heart, directed by Louis Malle – (France/Italy/West Germany)
- Murphy’s War, starring Peter O’Toole
- A New Leaf, directed by and starring Elaine May, co-starring Walter Matthau
- Nicholas and Alexandra, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Laurence Olivier, Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)
- Night of Dark Shadows, directed by Dan Curtis, starring David Selby and Grayson Hall
- The Night Digger (a.k.a. The Road Builder), starring Patricia Neal – (U.K.)
- The Night God Screamed – starring Jeanne Crain with Alex Nicol, Gary Morgan, James Sikking
- Nikah Halala, by Nosrat Karimi. (Iran)
- Octaman
- Officers (ofitsery) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Oil Lamps (Petrolejové lampy) – (Czechoslovakia)
- The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston and Anthony Zerbe
- On the Buses, starring Reg Varney – (U.K.)
- One Armed Boxer (Du bei chuan wang), starring Jimmy Wang Yu – (Hong Kong)
- One More Train to Rob, starring George Peppard and Diana Muldaur
- Out 1 – directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michèle Moretti, Michael Lonsdale, Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier, Françoise Fabian, & Hermine Karagheuz – aka Out 1: Noli Me Tangere – France
- The Panic in Needle Park – directed by Jerry Schatzberg, starring Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Raul Julia, Kiel Martin, & Paul Sorvino
- The Pine Tree in the Mountain (U gori raste zelen bor) – (Yugoslavia)
- Play Misty for Me – directed by & starring Clint Eastwood, with Jessica Walter & Donna Mills
- Plaza Suite, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant
- Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles – Bulgaria
- Pretty Maids All in a Row, written and produced by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Rock Hudson and Angie Dickinson
- Prince Sinbad of the Mountains
- Punishment Park, directed by Peter Watkins
- The Pursuit of Happiness, starring Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Robert Klein
- Raid on Rommel – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Richard Burton and John Colicos
- Raphael, or The Debauched One (Raphaël ou le Débauché) – (France)
- Red Sky at Morning, starring Richard Thomas and Desi Arnaz Jr.
- Red Sun – starring Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon – (France/Italy/Spain)
- Rendezvous at Bray, starring Anna Karina – (France/Belgium)
- Sacco e Vanzetti, starring Gian Maria Volonté – (Italy)
- A Safe Place, starring Jack Nicholson and Tuesday Weld
- The Salamander (La Salamandre), starring Bulle Ogier – (Switzerland)
- See No Evil – directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Mia Farrow
- The Seven Minutes, starring Marianne McAndrew
- Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks, starring Richard Roundtree
- She Killed in Ecstasy (Sie tötete in Ekstase) – (West Germany/Spain)
- Shoot Out – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gregory Peck
- Silence (Chinmoku) – (Japan)
- Skin Game – starring James Garner & Louis Gossett Jr.
- Something Big, starring Dean Martin
- Sometimes a Great Notion – directed by and starring Paul Newman, with Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Sarrazin
- Soul to Soul, a concert documentary featuring Wilson Pickett, Ike & Tina Turner and more
- Star Spangled Girl, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Sandy Duncan and Tony Roberts
- Straw Dogs – directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Dustin Hoffman & Susan George – UK/US
- Such Good Friends – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dyan Cannon & Burgess Meredith
- Summer of ’42 – directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Jennifer O’Neill & Gary Grimes
- Sunday, Bloody Sunday – directed by John Schlesinger, starring Peter Finch & Glenda Jackson – UK
- Support Your Local Gunfighter – directed by Burt Kennedy, starring James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette
- Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, directed by Melvin Van Peebles
- Sympathy for the Underdog (Bakuto gaijin butai) – (Japan)
- THX 1138 – directed by George Lucas, starring Robert Duvall & Donald Pleasance
- T.R. Baskin – directed by Herbert Ross, starring Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, Marcia Rodd,& James Caan
- Taking Off – directed by Miloš Forman, starring Lynn Carlin & Buck Henry
- The Tales of Beatrix Potter, a dance film featuring The Royal Ballet – (U.K.)
- They Might Be Giants – starring George C. Scott & Joanne Woodward
- Three Reservists (Trimata ot zapasa), directed by Zako Heskiya, starring Georgi Partsalev and Kiril Gospodinov – (Bulgaria)
- A Touch of Zen (Xia nu) – (Taiwan)
- Trafic, directed by and starring Jacques Tati – (France)
- The Trojan Women – directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas – US/UK/Greece
- Twitch of the Death Nerve – starring Claudine Auger – Italy
- Two English Girls – directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – France
- Two-Lane Blacktop, starring James Taylor and Warren Oates
- Unman, Wittering and Zigo, starring David Hemmings – (U.K.)
- Up Pompeii, starring Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern – (U.K.)
- Valdez Is Coming, starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan
- Vampyros Lesbos, directed by Jesus Franco
- Vanishing Point, starring Barry Newman and Cleavon Little
- Villain, starring Richard Burton and Ian McShane – (U.K.)
- Von Richthofen and Brown (a.k.a. The Red Baron) – directed by Roger Corman, starring John Phillip Law
- W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. – Misterije organizma) – (Yugoslavia/West Germany)
- Wake in Fright, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Donald Pleasence – (Australia)
- Walkabout – directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Jenny Agutter & David Gulpilil – Australia/UK
- Le Wazzou polygame (The Polygamist’s Morale) – (Niger/France)
- What’s the Matter with Helen? – starring Debbie Reynolds & Shelley Winters
- What the Peeper Saw, starring Britt Ekland, Mark Lester, Hardy Krüger
- When Eight Bells Toll – starring Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins – UK
- Whity – directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – West Germany
- Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? – starring Shelley Winters & Mark Lester
- Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, starring Dustin Hoffman
- Who Killed Mary What’s ‘Er Name? – starring Red Buttons & Sylvia Miles
- Wild Rovers – directed by Blake Edwards – starring William Holden, Ryan O’Neal, Karl Malden, Tom Skerritt
- Willard, starring Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory** – directed by Mel Stuart, starring Gene Wilder & Jack Albertson
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven – starring Gian Maria Volonté – Italy
- The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go – directed by Burgess Meredith, starring James Mason, Jack MacGowran, Irene Tsu, Jeff Bridges, Peter Lind Hayes, & Clarissa Kaye-Mason
- You Are a Widow, Sir – Czechoslovakia
- The Young Graduates – directed by Robert Anderson, starring Patrick Wymer, Steven Stewart, Gary Rist, & Bruno Kirby
- Zeppelin – starring Elke Sommer and Michael York – UK
- El Zorro de Monterrey
- Zorro, Rider of Vengeance