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)
- 92 in the Shade – starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Elizabeth Ashley, Margot Kidder
- Aaron Loves Angela – directed by Gordon Parks Jr., starring Moses Gunn
- Adoption – Hungary
- The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother – directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman – US/UK
- The Adventures of the Wilderness Family – starring Robert Logan
- Afonya – USSR
- Africa Express – starring Ursula Andress & Jack Palance – Italy
- Aloha, Bobby and Rose – starring Paul Le Mat
- Anno Domini 1573 – (Yugoslavia)
- Apoorva Raagangal (Rare Melodies) – (India)
- The Apple Dumpling Gang – starring Don Knotts & Tim Conway
- At Long Last Love – directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, Eileen Brennan, John Hillerman, & Mildred Natwick
- Attilas ’74 – documentary – Cyprus
- Autobiography of a Princess – directed by James Ivory, starring James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier, Diane Fletcher, & Timothy Bateso – UK
- Barry Lyndon – directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Ryan O’Neal & Marisa Berenson – US/UK
- The Beehive, directed by Fereydun Gole – (Iran)
- The Best of Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures – directed by James Algar – documentary
- Bim – (Trinidad)
- Bite the Bullet – directed by Richard Brooks, starring Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson
- The Black Bird – starring George Segal
- A Boy and His Dog – starring Don Johnson
- Brannigan – starring John Wayne
- Breakheart Pas – starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna
- Breakout – starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? – Depression – documentary – UK
- Bucktown – starring Fred Williamson & Pam Grier
- Bugs Bunny: Superstar
- Capone – starring Ben Gazzara
- Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des Années de Braise) – (Algeria)
- Chupke Chupke (Hush Hush) – starring Dharmendra – (India)
- The Claws of Light (Maynila… sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag) – (Philippines)
- Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold – starring Tamara Dobson and Stella Stevens
- Conduct Unbecoming – starring Stacy Keach, Michael York and Richard Attenborough – UK
- Cooley High – starring Glynn Turman
- Coonskin – directed by Ralph Bakshi
- Cornbread, Earl and Me – starring Laurence Fishburne
- Crazy Mama – directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Cloris Leachman, Ann Sothern, Linda Purl
- The Cycle (Dayereh-ye Mina) – (Iran)
- The Day of the Locust, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Donald Sutherland, William Atherton, Karen Black
- Deafula, first film entirely in American Sign Language
- Death Race 2000 – directed by Paul Bartel, starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone
- Deep Red – directed by Dario Argento, starring David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi – (Italy)
- Dersu Uzala – directed by Akira Kurosawa – USSR/Japan
- Deewaar (The Wall) – starring Shashi Kapoor – (India)
- The Devil’s Rain – directed by Robert Furst, starring William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, Keenan Wynn, & John Travolta
- Dialogues of Exiles – Chile
- Diamonds – starring Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree, Barbara Hershey
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze – starring Ron Ely
- Dog Day Afternoon – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Charles Durning
- The Drowning Pool – directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Melanie Griffith
- The Eiger Sanction – directed by & starring Clint Eastwood, with George Kennedy & Jack Cassidy
- The Empress Dowager (Qing guo qing cheng) -starring Lisa Lu – (Hong Kong)
- End of the Game – directed By Maximilian Schell, starring Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw
- Das Erdbeben in Chili, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms – (West Germany)
- Escape to Witch Mountain – starring Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence
- Evrydiki BA 2O37 (Ευριδίκη ΒΑ 2Ο37), directed by Nikos Nikolaidis – (Greece/West Germany)
- Fantozzi (a.k.a. White Collar Blues) – (Italy)
- Farewell – My Lovely, directed by Dick Richards, starring Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, Jack O’Halloran, Sylvia Miles, John Ireland
- Flame – starring Slade – UK
- The Flower in His Mouth – starring Jennifer O’Neill and Franco Nero – Italy
- Fore Play – starring Zero Mostel & Estelle Parsons
- The Fortune – directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing
- Fox (Faustrecht der Freiheit) – directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
- Framed – directed by Phil Karlson, starring Joe Don Baker
- French Connection II – directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard
- Friday Foster – starring Pam Grier
- Funny Lady – directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen, Carol Welles, Omar Sharif
- Furtivos (Poachers) – (Spain)
- Galileo – directed by Joseph Losey, starring Topol, Edward Fox, John Gielgud – UK
- The Giant Spider Invasion – starring Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, Alan Hale Jr.
- Give ’em Hell, Harry! – starring James Whitmore
- God’s Gun – starring Lee Van Cleef & Jack Palance – Italy/Israel
- Gone with the West, starring James Caan, Stefanie Powers and Aldo Ray
- Grandsons of Zorro
- Graveyard of Honor (Jingi no hakaba) – (Japan)
- Great – animated short – UK
- The Great Waldo Pepper – directed by George Roy Hill, starring Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Susan Sarandon
- Grey Gardens, a documentary film
- Hababam Sınıfı (Outrageous Class) – (Turkey)
- Hagiga B’Snuker (Party at the Snooker) – (Israel)
- Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid (Anderusen Dōwa Ningyo hime) – (Japan)
- The Happy Hooker, starring Lynn Redgrave and Jean-Pierre Aumont
- Hard Times – directed by Walter Hill, starring Charles Bronson & James Coburn
- Hearts of the West, starring Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, Andy Griffith
- Hedda, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Peter Eyre and Glenda Jackson – (UK)
- Hedgehog in the Fog (Yozhik v tumane) – (USSR)
- Hello, I’m Your Aunt! (Zdravstvuyte, ya vasha tyotya!) – (USSR)
- Hennessy, starring Rod Steiger and Lee Remick
- Hester Street, starring Carol Kane
- The Hiding Place, starring Julie Harris
- The Hindenburg – directed by Robert Wise, starring George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Gig Young
- The ‘Human’ Factor, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring George Kennedy, John Mills, Rita Tushingham
- Hustle – directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson
- In Celebration – directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Alan Bates & Brian Cox – UK
- Inserts – starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins – UK
- The Irony of Fate (Ironiya sudby, ili S lyogkim parom!) – (USSR)
- Jacob the Liar (Jakob, der Lügner) – (East Germany/Czechoslovakia)
- Jaws** – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, starring Delphine Seyrig – (France/Belgium)
- Journey into Fear – starring Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Vincent Price – Canada
- Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, documentary by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
- Kaddu Beykat (a.k.a. Letter from My Village) – (Senegal)
- Keetje Tippel (Katie Tippel), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Monique van de Ven and Rutger Hauer – (Netherlands)
- The Killer Elite – directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Caan & Robert Duvall
- L’important c’est d’aimer (That Most Important Thing: Love), starring Romy Schneider – (France)
- The Land That Time Forgot, starring Doug McClure – (UK)
- Legend of the Lawman (a.k.a. Walking Tall Part 2), starring Bo Svenson
- Legend of the Werewolf, starring Peter Cushing (UK)
- Lepke, starring Tony Curtis
- Let Joy Reign Supreme – directed by Bertrand Tavernier – France
- Let’s Do It Again – directed by & starring Sidney Poitier with Bill Cosby
- Lies My Father Told Me – directed by Ján Kadár – Canada
- The Lion Roars Again – documentary short
- Lisztomania – directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas – UK
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta (West Germany)
- Love and Death – directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton
- Lucky Lady – directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds
- Mackintosh and T.J., starring Roy Rogers
- The Magic Flute – directed by Ingmar Bergman – Sweden
- Mahogany, directed by Berry Gordy, starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont
- La Maldicion de la Bestia (Horror of the Werewolf), starring Paul Naschy (Spain)
- Man Friday, starring Peter O’Toole
- The Man in the Glass Booth – directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Maximilian Schell & Lois Nettleton
- The Man Who Would Be King – directed by John Huston, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey – UK/US
- Mandingo, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton, Perry King
- La marque de Zorro
- Milestones
- The Mirror – directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – UK
- Mitchell, starring Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, Martin Balsam, Merlin Olsen
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail** – directed by Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, written by & starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Gilliam, Eric Idle, Jones, & Michael Palin – UK
- Moonrunners, starring James Mitchum
- Mother Küsters’ Trip to Heaven (Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (West Germany)
- Mr. Ricco, starring Dean Martin
- My Friends (Amici miei), directed by Mario Monicelli (Italy)
- Nashville, directed by Robert Altman, starring Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black, Michael Murphy, Barbara Harris, Ned Beatty
- Night Moves – directed by Arthur Penn, starring Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren
- Nights and Days (Noce i dnie) (Poland)
- Nishant (India)
- The Noah – starring Robert Strauss
- Number Two – directed by Jean-Luc Godard – France
- The Old Gun (Le vieux fusil), starring Philippe Noiret and Romy Schneider (France)
- Once Is Not Enough, starring Kirk Douglas, David Janssen, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin, George Hamilton
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – directed by Miloš Forman, starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito
- One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing – starring Peter Ustinov & Helen Hayes – US/UK
- Operation Daybreak, starring Timothy Bottoms, Anthony Andrews, Martin Shaw (US/Czechoslovakia)
- Osadeni Dushi (Doomed Souls) (Bulgaria)
- The Other Side of the Mountain, starring Marilyn Hassett and Beau Bridges
- Out of Season – starring Vanessa Redgrave
- Overlord, directed by Stuart Cooper – UK
- The Passenger – directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff – Italy/France
- Peeper – directed by Peter Hyams, starring Michael Caine
- Permission to Kill, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ava Gardner
- Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir, starring Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse – Australia
- Pick-Up
- The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix – Norway
- Posse, directed by and starring Kirk Douglas
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue – directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jack Lemmon & Anne Bancroft
- The Promised Land – directed by Andrzej Wajda – Poland
- Queen of the Gypsies – USSR
- Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, starring Maureen Stapleton and Charles Durning
- Race with the Devil – starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker
- Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, starring Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips
- Rancho Deluxe – directed by Frank Perry, starring Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens
- The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O’Neill
- The Return of the Pink Panther – directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom – UK
- The Return of the Sister Street Fighter – Japan
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show – directed by Jim Sharman, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick – US/UK
- Rollerball, directed by Norman Jewison, starring James Caan, John Houseman, John Beck, Maud Adams
- The Romantic Englishwoman, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger (UK)
- Rooster Cogburn – starring John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn
- Rosebud – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Peter O’Toole
- Royal Flash – directed by Richard Lester, starring Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates – UK
- Russian Roulette, starring George Segal
- Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy/France)
- Le Sauvage (a.k.a. Lovers Like Us), starring Catherine Deneuve and Yves Montand (France)
- The Sensuous Nurse (L’Infermiera), starring Ursula Andress, Luciana Paluzzi, Jack Palance (Italy)
- Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), directed by Lina Wertmüller (Italy)
- Shampoo – directed by Hal Ashby, starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher
- Shivers – directed by David Cronenberg – Canada
- Sholay, the highest grossing Bollywood film of all time (India)
- Slashed Dreams, starring Peter Hooten and Robert Englund
- Smile, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon
- Special Section (Section spéciale), directed by Costa Gavras (France)
- The Stepford Wives – directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Tina Louise
- The Story of Adele H. – directed by François Truffaut, starring Isabelle Adjani & Bruce Robinson – France
- The Strongest Man in the World – starring Kurt Russell
- Sunday Too Far Away, starring Jack Thompson (Australia)
- The Sunshine Boys – directed by Herbert Ross, starring Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, F. Murray Abraham, Rosetta LeNoire, Howard Hesseman, and Ron Rifkin
- Supervixens, cult adult film directed by Russ Meyer
- Switchblade Sisters (a.k.a. The Jezebels), directed by Jack Hill
- Take a Hard Ride, starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef
- Terror of Mechagodzilla (Mekagojira no gyakushu), directed by Ishirō Honda (Japan)
- They Fought for Their Country (Они сражались за Родину), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (USSR)
- Three Days of the Condor – directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
- Three Men in a Boat – directed by Stephen Frears, starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin, & Stephen Moore – TV movie
- Tommy – directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Jack Nicholson, Roger Daltrey – UK
- The Travelling Players (Ο Θίασος; O Thiassos), directed by Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
- The Ultimate Warrior – starring Yul Brynner
- Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms (West Germany)
- Villa Zone (Vilna Zona), directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Katya Paskaleva, Naum Shopov (Bulgaria)
- W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings – directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Burt Reynolds & Art Carney
- White Line Fever, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz
- The Wilby Conspiracy – directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Sidney Poitier & Michael Caine – UK
- The Wild Party – directed by James Ivory, starring James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling, Royal Dano, & David Dukes
- The Wind and the Lion – directed by John Milius, starring Sean Connery & Candice Bergen
- A Woman’s Decision (Bilans kwartalny) (Poland)
- The Wrong Move, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Rüdiger Vogler and Hanna Schygulla (West Germany)
- Zaklęte rewiry (a.k.a. Hotel Pacific) (Poland)
- Xala, directed by Ousmane Sembène (Senegal)
- The Yakuza, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura (US/Japan)