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, Bob Balaban, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Olimpia Carlisi, Marcel Dalio, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Charles Grodin, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Austin Pendleton, Paula Prentiss, Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, & Orson Welles
• 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, starring Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty, Jack Messinger, Paul Mulholland,,William Haslam, & William Poolman – 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, Robert Fiore, & Bruce Joel Rubin
• 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., & Walter Brooke
• 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, starring Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yu Fujiki, & Haruo Nakajima – 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

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