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)
- The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army (Urutora Roku Kyōdai tai Kaijū Gundan) – (Japan/Thailand)
- 11 Harrowhouse, starring Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason
- 36 Ghante, starring Raaj Kumar and Sunil Dutt – (India)
- 99 and 44/100% Dead, starring Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Edmond O’Brien, Chuck Connors
- Aap Ki Kasam, starring Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz – (India)
- Abby, starring William Marshall
- Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj) – (Yugoslavia)
- Aina (The Mirror) – (Pakistan)
- Airport 1975, starring Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Helen Reddy, Myrna Loy, Gloria Swanson
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
- Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore – directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Harvey Keitel, Alfred Lutter, Jodie Foster
- Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten), directed by Wim Wenders – (West Germany)
- Alien Thunder, starring Donald Sutherland
- All the Kind Strangers, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Stacy Keach and Samantha Eggar
- Allonsanfàn, starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- Almost Human (Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare), starring Tomas Milian and Henry Silva – (Italy)
- And Now My Love (Toute une vie), directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Marthe Keller – (France)
- And Then There Were None, starring Richard Attenborough, Charles Aznavour, Gert Fröbe, Herbert Lom, Oliver Reed, Adolfo Celi, Elke Sommer
- Animals Are Beautiful People – (South Africa)
- Angkur (The Seedling) – (India)
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Richard Dreyfuss – Golden Bear winner – (Canada)
- Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle mille e una notte), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy)
- At Home Among Strangers (Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh) – (U.S.S.R.)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (made for TV), starring Cicely Tyson - Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, starring Barry Crocker and Barry Humphries – (Australia)
- The Beast Must Die, starring Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
- Benji, starring Patsy Garrett
- Big Bad Mama, starring Angie Dickinson
- Billy Two Hats, starring Gregory Peck and Desi Arnaz Jr.
- Black Belt Jones, starring Jim Kelly
- Black Christmas (a.k.a. Silent Night, Evil Night), starring Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Keir Dullea – (Canada)
- The Black Windmill – starring Michael Caine and Janet Suzman – (U.K.)
- Blazing Saddles** – directed by Mel Brooks, starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras
- Blood for Dracula (Andy Warhol’s Dracula), directed by Paul Morrissey
- Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy)
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia – directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Robert Webber
- Buster and Billie, starring Jan-Michael Vincent
- Butley, directed by Harold Pinter, starring Alan Bates and Jessica Tandy – (U.K.)
- Caged Heat – directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
- California Split – directed by Robert Altman, starring George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss
- Callan, starring Edward Woodward – (U.K.)
- Carry On Dick, starring Sid James and Barbara Windsor – (U.K.)
- The Cars that Ate Paris, directorial debut of Peter Weir – (Australia)
- Céline and Julie Go Boating – directed by Jacques Rivette – starring Dominique Labourier, Juliet Berto, & Marie-France Pisier – aka Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris – France
- Chinatown – directed by Roman Polanski, starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston – Golden Globe Awards for best picture, director and actor
- Claudine, starring Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones
- The Clockmaker (L’ Horloger de Saint-Paul), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort – (France)
- Cockfighter, starring Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton
- Conrack, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Jon Voight
- The Conscript (De loteling) – (Belgium)
- The Conversation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford
- Conversation Piece (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster – (Italy)
- Crazy Joe, starring Peter Boyle, Paula Prentiss, Eli Wallach
- The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder, starring Timothy Bottoms and Barbara Hershey
- Daisy Miller – directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Cybill Shepherd and Barry Brown
- Dark Star – directed by John Carpenter, starring Dan O’Bannon
- Death Wish, directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, Hope Lange
- The Deluge (Potop) – (Poland)
- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, starring Peter Fonda and Susan George
- Dost (Friend), starring Dharmendra – (India)
- Drama of the Rich (Fatti di gente perbene), starring Giancarlo Giannini and Catherine Deneuve – (Italy)
- Earthquake, directed by Mark Robson, starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Richard Roundtree, Geneviève Bujold, Victoria Principal
- Edvard Munch – (Norway/Sweden)
- Effi Briest, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Hanna Schygulla – (West Germany)
- Electra, My Love (Szerelmem, Elektra), directed by Miklós Jancsó – (Hungary)
- Emmanuelle, starring Sylvia Kristel – (France)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (a.k.a. Every Man For Himself and God Against All) – directed by Werner Herzog – (West Germany)
- F for Fake (originally Vérités et Mensonges) – directed by and starring Orson Welles – (France/West Germany/Iran)
- Female Trouble – directed by John Waters, starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller, & Susan Walsh
- Five Shaolin Masters (Shao Lin wu zu), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
- Flesh for Frankenstein (Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein), directed by Paul Morrissey
- For Pete’s Sake, starring Barbra Streisand
- The Four Musketeers (a.k.a. The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge) – directed by Richard Lester, starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain – (U.K.)
- Foxy Brown – starring Pam Grier
- Freebie and the Bean, starring James Caan and Alan Arkin
- The Front Page – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Carol Burnett
- The Gambler, directed by Karel Reisz, starring James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Paul Sorvino
- Gavaznha (The Deer) – (Iran)
- General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait), a documentary film by Barbet Schroeder – (France/Switzerland)
- Ginger in the Morning – starring Sissy Spacek
- The Girl from Petrovka, starring Goldie Hawn, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins
- The Godfather Part II – directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Michael V. Gazzo, Lee Strasberg
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, directed by Jun Fukuda – (Japan)
- Going Places (Les Valseuses), directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau – (France)
- Gold, starring Roger Moore and Susannah York
- Golden Needles, starring Joe Don Baker and Elizabeth Ashley
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, starring John Phillip Law and Tom Baker with special effects by Ray Harryhausen – (U.K.)
- Gone in 60 Seconds, directed by and starring H.B. Halicki
- Great Expectations, starring Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason – (U.S./U.K.)
- The Great Gatsby, directed by Jack Clayton, starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Lois Chiles, Karen Black
- La Gueule ouverte (The Mouth Agape), directed by Maurice Pialat – (France)
- Harry and Tonto – directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Art Carney, Herbert Berghof, Larry Hagman, Ellen Burstyn
- Hearts and Minds, directed by Peter Davis – Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
- Herbie Rides Again, starring Helen Hayes, Stefanie Powers, Ken Berry
- Heroes Two (Fang Shiyu yu Hong Xiguan), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
- The Holy Office (El santo oficio) – (Mexico)
- The Homeless (Yadonashi) – (Japan)
- Hotel Angel (Theptida rong ram) – (Thailand)
- The Internecine Project, starring James Coburn and Lee Grant – (U.K.)
- The Island at the Top of the World, starring David Hartman
- It’s Alive – directed by Larry Cohen, starring John P. Ryan and Sharon Farrell
- Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! (Joachim, Put It in the Machine) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Jock Petersen, starring Jack Thompson – (Australia)
- Journey Back to Oz
- Juggernaut, starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, Anthony Hopkins – (U.K.)
- A Jungle Book of Regulations (Nie ma rózy bez ognia) – (Poland)
- Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon – (Japan)
- The Klansman – directed by Terence Young, starring Lee Marvin and Richard Burton
- Kunwara Baap, directed by and starring Mehmood – (India)
- Lacombe, Lucien, directed by Louis Malle, starring Pierre Blaise and Aurore Clément – (France)
- Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, a concert film
- Lancelot du Lac, directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
- Lenny – directed by Bob Fosse, starring Dustin Hoffman & Valerie Perrine
- Little House on the Prairie
- The Little Prince – directed by Stanley Donen, starring Steven Warner, Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder
- The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, starring Dan Haggerty
- The Longest Yard (a.k.a. The Mean Machine) – directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, Richard Kiel
- The Lords of Flatbush, starring Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler
- Lost in the Stars, starring Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Clifton Davis
- Lovin’ Molly, starring Blythe Danner, Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges
- Luther, a biopic of Martin Luther, starring Stacy Keach – (U.K./U.S./Canada)
- Macon County Line, starring Max Baer Jr.
- Madhouse – starring Vincent Price
- Mahler, a biopic of Gustav Mahler directed by Ken Russell – (U.K.)
- Majboor (Compulsed) – (India)
- Mame, directed by Gene Saks, starring Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, Robert Preston
- Man on a Swing, directed by Frank Perry, starring Cliff Robertson, Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson, George Voskovec
- The Man Who Sleeps (l’homme qui dort) – (France) – winner of the Prix Jean Vigo
- The Man with the Golden Gun, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond), with Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland – (U.K.)
- The Mark of Zorro
- The Marseille Contract – starring Michael Caine, James Mason, Anthony Quinn
Mashti Mamdali’s Car by Reza Fazeli (Iran) - McQ – directed by John Sturges, starring John Wayne, Al Lettieri, Eddie Albert, Clu Gulager, Colleen Dewhurst, Diana Muldaur
- Le meravigliose avventure di Zorro
- The Middle of the World (Le Milieu du monde) – (France/Switzerland)
- The Midnight Man, directed by and starring Burt Lancaster, with Susan Clark, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Lauter
- The Migrants – directed by Tom Gries, starring Cloris Leachman, Ron Howard, & Sissy Spacek – TV movie
- The Missiles of October, made for TV, directed by Anthony Page, starring William Devane, Martin Sheen, Ralph Bellamy, Howard Da Silva, James Hong
- Mr. Majestyk, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri
- Murder on the Orient Express – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Ingrid Bergman, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Richard Widmark – (U.K.)
- My Little Loves (Mes Petites Amoureuses) – (France)
- Newman’s Law, starring George Peppard
- The Night of the Scarecrow (A Noite do Espantalho) – (Brazil)
- The Night Porter (Il Portiere di notte), directed by Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling – (Italy)
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, an adult animated film
- The Odessa File – directed by Ronald Neame, starring Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell – (U.K./West Germany)
- One or the Other of Us, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Jürgen Prochnow – (West Germany)
- Once Upon a Scoundrel – starring Zero Mostel, Katy Jurado and A Martinez
- Les Ordres (Orders), starring Jean Lapointe – (Canada)
- Parade, directed by and starring Jacques Tati – (France/Sweden)
- The Parallax View, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss
- Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Den-en ni shisu) – (Japan)
- A Peasant on a Bicycle (Selyaninat s Koleloto), directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Georgi Georgiev-Getz and Georgi Rusev – (Bulgaria)
- The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté), directed by Luis Buñuel – (France)
- Phantom of the Paradise – directed by Brian De Palma, starring Paul Williams and Jessica Harper
- Phase IV, directed by Saul Bass, starring Michael Murphy and Nigel Davenport
- La prima Angélica (a.k.a. Cousin Angelica), directed by Carlos Saura – (Spain)
- QB VII, mini-series for TV, starring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, Leslie Caron
- The Red Snowball Tree (Kalina krasnaya) – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Rehearsal (I Dokimi), directed by and starring Jules Dassin with Olympia Dukakis – (Greece)
- Report to the Commissioner, starring Michael Moriarty and Yaphet Kotto
- Return of the Street Fighter (Satsujin ken 2) – (Japan)
- Rhinoceros – starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel
- Sandakan No. 8 (Brothel 8) – (Japan)
- The Sannikov Land (Zemlya Sannikova) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Scent of a Woman (Profumo di donna), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
- Shanks – directed by William Castle (last film), starring Marcel Marceau
- Sister Street Fighter (Onna Hissatsu Ken) – (Japan)
- Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (Onna hissatsu ken: kiki ippatsu) – (Japan)
- Son of Dracula, starring Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr – (U.K.)
- The Spikes Gang – directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Lee Marvin, Ron Howard, Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith
- S*P*Y*S – directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould
- Stardust, directed by Michael Apted, starring David Essex, Adam Faith and Larry Hagman – (U.K.)
- Stavisky, directed by Alain Resnais, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France/Italy)
- Still Life (Tabiate bijan) – (Iran)
- Stone, a cult Australian film
- The Street Fighter (Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken), starring Sonny Chiba – (Japan)
- The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge – (Japan)
- The Sugarland Express – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Ben Johnson
- The Super Cops, directed by Gordon Parks, starring Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer
- Sweet Movie, directed by Dušan Makavejev – (Canada/France/West Germany)
- Swept Away (Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto), starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato – (Italy)
- Symptoms, starring Angela Pleasence – (U.K.)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, directed by Joseph Sargent, starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Héctor Elizondo, Jerry Stiller
- The Tamarind Seed, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif – (U.K./U.S.)
- The Terminal Man, starring George Segal and Joan Hackett
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Marilyn Burns
- That’s Entertainment! – a documentary directed by Jack Haley Jr., featuring Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Bing Crosby, Mickey Rooney, Liza Minnelli
- Thieves Like Us – directed by Robert Altman, starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot – directed by Michael Cimino, starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, & Geoffrey Lewis
- Thursday’s Game – starring Gene Wilder, Bob Newhart, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman
- Torkaman by Amir Shervan (Iran)
- The Towering Inferno – starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Jones, Robert Wagner, O.J. Simpson, Fred Astaire
- Three Tough Guys, starring Lino Ventura, Fred Williamson, Isaac Hayes
- Truck Turner, starring Isaac Hayes
- The Traveler (Mossafer), directed by Abbas Kiarostami – (Iran)
- The Ultimate Thrill, starring Barry Brown and Britt Ekland
- Vampyres, starring Marianne Morris and Anulka – (U.K.)
- Vase de Noces, directed by Thierry Zéno – (Belgium)
- We All Loved Each Other So Much (C’eravamo tanto amati), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Stefania Sandrelli and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
- Weighed But Found Wanting (Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang) – (Philippines)
- When the North Wind Blows, starring Dan Haggerty
- Where the Lilies Bloom, starring Harry Dean Stanton
- The White Dawn, starring Warren Oates, Louis Gossett Jr., Timothy Bottoms – (Canada)
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (animated short)
- A Woman Under the Influence, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands & Peter Falk
- Young Frankenstein** – directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn
- Zandy’s Bride, starring Gene Hackman and Liv Ullmann
- Zardoz – directed by John Boorman, starring Sean Connery & Charlotte Rampling – (U.K.)