The Best Dramas of the 1970s

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The Godfather

1972    Francis Ford Coppola    Rated R

Crime    Crime Drama    Drama

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The Godfather Part II

1974    Francis Ford Coppola    Rated R

Crime    Crime Drama    Drama

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975    Milos Forman    Rated R

Comedy Drama    Drama    Medical Drama

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Taxi Driver

1976    Martin Scorsese    Rated R

Drama    Prostitution Film    Psychological Drama

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Apocalypse Now

1979    Francis Ford Coppola    Rated R

Adventure    Adventure Drama    Anti-War Film

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Network

1976    Sidney Lumet    Rated R

Black Comedy    Comedy Drama    Drama

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Rocky

1976    John G. Avildsen    Rated PG

Drama    Sports Drama

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The Conversation

1974    Francis Ford Coppola    Rated PG

Drama    Paranoid Thriller    Psychological Drama

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Badlands

1973    Terrence Malick    Rated PG

Americana    Based-on-a-True-Story    Crime

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Days of Heaven

1978    Terrence Malick    Rated PG

Costume Romance    Drama    Period Film

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Manhattan

1979    Woody Allen    Rated R

Comedy Drama    Comedy of Manners    Drama

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Dog Day Afternoon

1975    Sidney Lumet    Rated R

Based-on-a-True-Story    Crime    Crime Drama

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Aguirre: The Wrath of God

1972    Werner Herzog    Not Rated

Adventure    Adventure Drama    Drama

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All the President's Men

1976    Alan J. Pakula    Rated PG

Based-on-a-True-Story    Docudrama    Drama

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The Deer Hunter

1978    Michael Cimino    Rated R

Anti-War Film    Drama    Ensemble Film

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The Exorcist

1973    William Friedkin    Rated R

Drama    Horror    Religious Drama

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Mean Streets

1973    Martin Scorsese    Rated R

Coming-of-Age    Crime    Crime Drama

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The Last Picture Show

1971    Peter Bogdanovich    Rated R

Americana    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977    Steven Spielberg    Rated PG

Adventure    Adventure Drama    Drama

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1971    Robert Altman    Rated R

Drama    Prostitution Film    Revisionist Western

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