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 36th Chamber of Shaolin – starring Gordon Liu – Hong Kong
- Almost Summer – directed by Martin Davidson, starring Bruno Kirby & Lee Purcell
- American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, directed by Martin Scorsese – documentary
- American Hot Wax, a biopic of Alan Freed, starring Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Laraine Newman, Jay Leno
- L’argent des autres (Other People’s Money), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Catherine Deneuve – (France)
- The Astral Factor, starring Robert Foxworth and Stefanie Powers
- Autumn Sonata – directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann – Sweden
- Avalanche – starring Rock Hudson, Robert Forster, Mia Farrow
- The Bad News Bears Go to Japan, starring Tony Curtis and Jackie Earle Haley
- Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron – Japan
- Battlestar Galactica
- The Betsy – starring Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Katharine Ross, Kathleen Beller, Lesley-Anne Down
- The Big Fix – starring Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, F. Murray Abraham, John Lithgow
- The Big Sleep – starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Oliver Reed, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, James Stewart – UK
- Big Wednesday – directed by John Milius, starring Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey
- Bloodbrothers, starring Richard Gere and Paul Sorvino
- Blue Collar – directed by Paul Schrader, starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, Harvey Keitel
- Born Again, starring Dean Jones and Anne Francis
- The Boys from Brazil – directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason – UK/US
- The Boys in Company C, starring Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens and Craig Wasson
- The Brink’s Job – directed by William Friedkin, starring Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, Warren Oates
- The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, Don Stroud and Charles Martin Smith
- Bye Bye Monkey – starring Gérard Depardieu and Marcello Mastroianni – France/Italy
- La Cage aux Folles, directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault – (France/Italy)
- California Suite – directed by Herbert Ross, starring Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Matthau, Elaine May, Richard Pryor, & Maggie Smith
- Capricorn One, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Elliott Gould, James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, Sam Waterston, Hal Holbrook, Brenda Vaccaro
- Caravans, starring Anthony Quinn, Jennifer O’Neill, Michael Sarrazin
- Casey’s Shadow, starring Walter Matthau, Alexis Smith, Robert Webber
- The Cat from Outer Space, starring Ken Berry and Sandy Duncan
- Centennial – starring Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Crenna, Andy Griffith, David Janssen, Alex Karras – miniseries
- La chambre verte (The Green Room) – directed by and starring François Truffaut – (France)
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, directed by Fred Schepisi – (Australia)
- The Cheap Detective, starring Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Sid Caesar
- China 9, Liberty 37 (Amore, piombo e furore), starring Fabio Testi, Jenny Agutter, Warren Oates – (Italy/Spain)
- The Class of Miss MacMichael, starring Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
- Closed Circuit (Circuito chiuso) – (Italy)
- Coma, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark
- Comes a Horseman – directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards
- Coming Home – directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford
- Convoy – directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, & Ernest Borgnine
- Corvette Summer – starring Mark Hamill & Annie Potts
- Cosi’ come sei (aka Stay As You Are) starring Marcello Mastroianni and Nastassja Kinski – (Italy)
- Crippled Avengers – directed by Chang Cheh – Hong Kong
- The Dain Curse – starring James Coburn & Jean Simmons – miniseries
- Damien: Omen II – starring William Holden & Lee Grant
d’Artagnan and Three Musketeers (d’Artanyan i tri mushketera) – (U.S.S.R.) - Dawn of the Dead – directed by George A. Romero – US/Italy
- Days of Heaven – directed by Terrence Malick, starring Richard Gere, Sam Shepard, Brooke Adams
- Death on the Nile – directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Olivia Hussey, Mia Farrow – UK
- Deathsport – starring David Carradine
- The Deer Hunter – directed by Michael Cimino, starring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
- The Demon – Japan
- A Different Story, starring Meg Foster, Perry King, Valerie Curtin
- El diputado (The Deputy) – (Spain)
- Don, starring Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
- A Dream of Passion (Kravgi gynaikon), directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Ellen Burstyn – (Greece)
- The Driver, directed by Walter Hill, starring Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley
- Drunken Master – starring Jackie Chan – Hong Kong
- Ecce bombo, directed by and starring Nanni Moretti – (Italy)
- Empire of Passion – directed by Nagisa Oshima – Japan
- The End – directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, with Dom DeLuise, Joanne Woodward, Pat O’Brien, Myrna Loy, Sally Field
- An Enemy of the People, starring Steve McQueen
- Enter the Fat Dragon – starring Sammo Hung – Hong Kong
- Every Which Way but Loose – directed by James Fargo, starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis
- Eyes of Laura Mars – directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, René Auberjonois, & Raul Julia
- F.I.S.T., directed by Norman Jewison, starring Sylvester Stallone, Melinda Dillon, Rod Steiger
- FM, starring Cleavon Little and Eileen Brennan
- Fedora – directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden & Marthe Keller
- Fingers – directed by James Toback, starring Harvey Keitel
- Five Deadly Venoms
- Force 10 from Navarone, starring Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Harrison Ford – (U.K.)
- Foul Play – directed by Colin Higgins, starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, & Billy Barty
- The Fury – directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Andrew Stevens, Amy Irving
- Gates of Heaven – documentary
- Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst) – (West Germany)
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs – directed by Bertrand Blier – France
- Girlfriends – directed by Claudia Weill, starring Melanie Mayron
- Go Tell the Spartans, starring Burt Lancaster
- Goin’ South – directed by & starring Jack Nicholson, with Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Richard Bradford, Veronica Cartwright, Danny DeVito, & Ed Begley Jr
- Gray Lady Down – starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty
- Grease** – directed by Randal Kleiser, starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway, Stockard Channing, Sid Caesar, Eve Arden
- Halloween** – directed by John Carpenter, starring Jamie Lee Curtis & Donald Pleasence
- Harper Valley PTA, starring Barbara Eden
- Heaven Can Wait – directed by Buck Henry & Warren Beatty, starring Beatty, Julie Christie, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Jack Warden, James Mason
- The Herd (Sürü) – (Turkey)
- High-Ballin’ – starring Peter Fonda, Michael Ironside, Helen Shaver, Jerry Reed
- Holocaust – starring Meryl Streep, James Woods, Michael Moriarty, Tovah Feldshuh, Fritz Weaver, Ian Holm – miniseries
- Hooper – directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Robert Klein, Brian Keith
- Hot Lead and Cold Feet, directed by Robert Butler, starring Jim Dale, Karen Valentine, Don Knotts
- House Calls – directed by Howard Zieff, starring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Richard Benjamin, Art Carney
- Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie’s Pictures – directed by James Ivory, starring Peggy Ashcroft, Larry Pine, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee, & Aparna Sen – TV movie
- A Hunting Accident (Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver) – (U.S.S.R.)
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand – directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Nancy Allen, Marc McClure, Bobby Di Cicco
- Ice Castles, directed by Donald Wrye, starring Lynn-Holly Johnson and Robby Benson
- In a Year of 13 Moons (In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
- In Praise of Older Women, starring Tom Berenger, Karen Black, Helen Shaver – (Canada)
- Interiors – directed by Woody Allen, starring Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, & Sam Waterston
- International Velvet, starring Tatum O’Neal, Nanette Newman and Anthony Hopkins
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers – directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum
- Jaws 2, directed by Jeannot Szwarc, starring Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary
- Killer of Sheep, directed by Charles Burnett
- King of the Gypsies – directed by Frank Pierson, starring Eric Roberts, Sterling Hayden, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Annette O’Toole, & Judd Hirsch
- Kondura (The Boon), directed by Shyam Benegal – (India-Bollywood/Telugu)
- Lady on the Bus (A Dama do Lotação), starring Sônia Braga – (Brazil)
- The Left-Handed Woman (Die linkshändige Frau) – (West Germany)
- The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese, featuring The Band, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Bob Dylan – documentary
- Long Weekend, starring John Hargreaves – (Australia)
- The Lord of the Rings – directed by Ralph Bakshi, starrin voices of William Squire, John Hurt, Anthony Daniels
- Magic, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter
- De Mantel der Liefde (The Mantle of Love) – (Netherlands)
- Mean Dog Blues, starring Gregg Henry, Kay Lenz, Tina Louise and George Kennedy
- The Medusa Touch, starring Richard Burton, Lino Ventura and Lee Remick – (U.K.)
- Midnight Express – directed by Alan Parker, starring Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt – UK/US
- Moment by Moment – directed by Jane Wagner, starring John Travolta & Lily Tomlin
- Movie Movie – directed by Stanley Donen, starring George C. Scott, Harry Hamlin, Barry Bostwick, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons, Art Carney
- Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (Conqueror of Destiny), starring Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
- National Lampoon’s Animal House – directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert, Tom Hulce, Karen Allen, John Vernon
- Newsfront, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Wendy Hughes and Bryan Brown – (Australia)
- A Night Full of Rain (Una notte piena di pioggia), directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Candice Bergen – (Italy/U.S.)
- The Night the Prowler – directed by Jim Sharman – Australia
- Occupation in 26 Pictures (Okupacija u 26 slika) – (Yugoslavia)
- Oliver’s Story – directed by John Korty, starring Ryan O’Neal & Candice Bergen
- The One and Only – directed by Carl Reiner, starring Henry Winkler & Kim Darby
- Orchestra Rehearsal – directed by Federico Fellini – Italy
- Paradise Alley, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, with Armand Assante and Anne Archer
- Passion Flower Hotel (Leidenschaftliche Blümchen), starring Nastassja Kinski – (West Germany)
- Perceval le Gallois (Percival the Gaul), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)
- Piranha – directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, starring Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
- The Place Without Limits (El lugar sin límites) – (Mexico)
- Pretty Baby – directed by Louis Malle, starring Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields, & Susan Sarandon
- The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians (Profetul, aurul si Ardelenii) – (Romania)
- Pugachev – (U.S.S.R.)
- Rabbit Test – directed by Joan Rivers, starring Billy Crystal
- Remember My Name, starring Geraldine Chaplin and Anthony Perkins
- Renaldo and Clara, directed by and starring Bob Dylan
- Return from Witch Mountain, starring Bette Davis and Christopher Lee
- Revenge of the Pink Panther – directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom and Dyan Cannon – (U.K./U.S.)
- Rhinegold – (West Germany)
- Ringing Bell (Chirin no Suzu), an anime film – (Japan)
- Rockers, starring Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs and Big Youth – (Jamaica)
- The Sailor’s Return, starring Tom Bell – (U.K.)
- Same Time Next Year, starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn
- The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, directed by Margarethe von Trotta – (West Germany)
- Sextette, starring Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – starring Peter Frampton, Steve Martin and the Bee Gees with music by The Beatles
- Shogun’s Samurai (Yagu ichizoku no inbō), starring Sonny Chiba – (Japan)
- The Shout – directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Alan Bates, John Hurt & Susannah York – UK
- The Silent Partner, directed by Daryl Duke, starring Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York
- Slow Dancing in the Big City, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Paul Sorvino
- The Small One
- Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (Shé xíng diāo shǒu), starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong)
- Somebody Killed Her Husband – starring Farrah Fawcett & Jeff Bridges
- Stevie, starring Glenda Jackson and Trevor Howard – (U.K.)
- Straight Time, directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey
- The Stud, starring Joan Collins – (U.K.)
- Superman – directed by Richard Donner, starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty, Glenn Ford
- The Swarm – starring Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant
- The Swissmakers (Die Schweizermacher) – (Switzerland)
- Thank God It’s Friday – starring Debra Winger, Donna Summer, Jeff Goldblum
- Three from Prostokvashino (Troye iz Prostokvashino) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Toplo (Heat) – (Bulgaria)
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs – directed by Ermanno Olmi – Italy
- Trishul, starring Sanjeev Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
- Las truchas (The Trout) – Spain
- Two Solitudes, starring Jean-Pierre Aumont and Stacy Keach – (Canada)
- Uncle Joe Shannon, starring Burt Young
- An Unmarried Woman, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy
- Up in Smoke, starring Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong
- Violette Nozière, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran – (France)
- Ward Six (Paviljon VI) – (Yugoslavia)
- Warriors Two (Zan xian sheng yu zhao qian Hua), starring Bryan Leung and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
- The Water Babies, directed by Lionel Jeffries, starring James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw – (U.K./Poland)
- Watership Down – directed by Martin Rosen, starring the voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Zero Mostel – UK
- A Wedding – directed by Robert Altman, starring Desi Arnaz, Jr., Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin, Lauren Hutton, Paul Dooley, Mia Farrow
- Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, starring George Segal and Jacqueline Bisset – (West Germany/U.S.)
- Who’ll Stop the Rain, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld
- The Wild Geese, starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris – (U.K.)
- Without Anesthesia (Bez znieczulenia), directed by Andrzej Wajda – (Poland)
- The Wiz, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell
- Wolf Lake, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Rod Steiger
- You Are Not Alone (Du er ikke alene) – (Denmark)