The Top 250 Movies of the 1970s

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The Top 250 Movies of the 1970s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas PG -
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola R -
10 The Godfather Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola R -
18 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott R -
29 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones PG -
32 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman R -
47 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese R -
58 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola R -
65 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski R -
66 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg PG -
71 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick R -
98 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen PG -
101 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
102 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet R -
106 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
119 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick PG -
127 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog NR -
143 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick PG -
167 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen PG -
177 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill PG -
178 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula PG -
180 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet R -
190 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart G -
198 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman R -
213 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin R -
214 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks PG -
223 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones R -
229 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick PG -
234 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen R -
251 Paper Moon 1973 Peter Bogdanovich PG -
258 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin R -
259 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich R -
261 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino R -
262 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento R -
269 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks R -
275 Le Cercle Rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville R -
283 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky PG -
288 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman R -
301 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese R -
302 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby PG -
305 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman R -
308 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby PG -
325 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg PG -
332 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
344 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky R -
346 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent R -
353 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes R -
366 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman R -
373 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood PG -
375 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin PG -
386 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci R -
395 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel R -
397 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby R -
402 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel NR -
415 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood R -
435 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse R -
438 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner PG -
457 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 John Huston PG -
465 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse R -
480 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento R -
486 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson R -
494 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles NR -
504 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet R -
505 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah R -
510 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut PG -
513 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill R -
523 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini R -
525 Animal House 1978 John Landis R -
531 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg R -
538 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger R -
543 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero NR -
547 Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen PG -
553 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack R -
558 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir PG -
560 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch NR -
572 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman PG -
580 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 Ingmar Bergman PG -
582 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner R -
592 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter R -
599 Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg PG -
606 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich G -
614 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz PG -
616 House 1977 Nobuhiko Ôbayashi NR -
623 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy R -
628 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman NR -
633 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman PG -
646 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder NR -
649 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner PG -
651 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill R -
658 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg PG -
699 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice NR -
704 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas PG -
705 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah R -
709 Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark R -
711 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates PG -
716 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse PG -
722 The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann PG -
727 Superman 1978 Richard Donner PG -
731 MASH 1970 Robert Altman R -
733 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper R -
756 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman R -
774 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky NR -
789 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter R -
795 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges R -
814 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma PG -
820 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton PG -
828 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley G -
844 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell NR -
855 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton PG -
873 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma R -
876 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog PG -
877 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel NR -
896 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Don Siegel PG -
926 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 Sydney Pollack PG -
927 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Peter Yates R -
934 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner R -
935 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa G -
943 Mad Max 1979 George Miller R -
944 Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro 1979 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
951 The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese PG -
962 Duck, You Sucker 1971 Sergio Leone PG -
965 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski NR -
989 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen PG -
999 Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman NR -
1009 Rocky II 1979 Sylvester Stallone PG -
1013 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah PG -
1017 The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 1978 Chia-Liang Liu R -
1024 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese PG -
1026 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison NR -
1032 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Dario Argento NR -
1033 Lady Snowblood 1973 Toshiya Fujita NR -
1049 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel PG -
1072 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula R -
1077 Wake in Fright 1971 Ted Kotcheff R -
1087 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes R -
1089 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker R -
1109 Play It Again, Sam 1972 Herbert Ross PG -
1124 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974 Werner Herzog NR -
1125 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn R -
1138 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni PG -
1167 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet PG -
1168 Sisters 1972 Brian De Palma R -
1180 Stroszek 1977 Werner Herzog NR -
1181 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough R -
1196 Frenzy 1972 Alfred Hitchcock R -
1206 Magnum Force 1973 Ted Post R -
1208 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah R -
1215 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges PG -
1217 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn PG13 -
1235 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula R -
1261 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser PG -
1265 Robin Hood 1973 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
1277 Lenny 1974 Bob Fosse R -
1280 The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg R -
1291 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman R -
1327 Time After Time 1979 Nicholas Meyer PG -
1332 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin R -
1339 Bananas 1971 Woody Allen PG13 -
1355 The Duellists 1977 Ridley Scott PG -
1356 Drunken Master 1978 Woo-ping Yuen PG13 -
1384 Vanishing Point 1971 Richard C. Sarafian R -
1398 Fantastic Planet 1973 René Laloux PG -
1425 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer NR -
1427 And Now for Something Completely Different 1971 Ian MacNaughton PG -
1436 Zombie 1979 Lucio Fulci R -
1447 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes PG13 -
1454 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill R -
1456 ...and justice for all. 1979 Norman Jewison R -
1463 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Lewis Gilbert PG -
1464 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh R -
1477 Murder by Death 1976 Robert Moore PG -
1479 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton PG -
1517 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross PG -
1527 Harlan County U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple PG -
1534 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg R -
1536 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen PG -
1548 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson PG -
1564 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci NC17 -
1567 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer PG -
1569 Live and Let Die 1973 Guy Hamilton PG -
1582 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 Robert Fuest PG13 -
1598 Phantasm 1979 Don Coscarelli R -
1609 Theater of Blood 1973 Douglas Hickox R -
1633 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols R -
1639 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder R -
1642 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko NR -
1670 THX 1138 1971 George Lucas R -
1678 Smokey and the Bandit 1977 Hal Needham PG -
1713 Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel R -
1720 Martin 1977 George A. Romero R -
1739 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame PG -
1748 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer PG -
1792 The Big Boss 1971 Wei Lo R -
1801 Scarecrow 1973 Jerry Schatzberg R -
1811 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Luis Buñuel R -
1813 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff R -
1828 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu NR -
1834 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 Michael Cimino R -
1835 Play Misty for Me 1971 Clint Eastwood R -
1836 The Bad News Bears 1976 Michael Ritchie PG -
1859 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby R -
1864 The Longest Yard 1974 Robert Aldrich R -
1877 Death Race 2000 1975 Paul Bartel R -
1883 The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 Guy Hamilton PG -
1889 Blue Collar 1978 Paul Schrader R -
1907 Silent Running 1972 Douglas Trumbull PG -
1915 The Way of the Dragon 1972 Bruce Lee R -
1951 Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols R -
1955 The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 Sam Peckinpah NR -
1958 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman R -
1963 The Andromeda Strain 1971 Robert Wise G -
1968 My Name Is Nobody 1973 Tonino Valerii NR -
1972 The Boys From Brazil 1978 Franklin J. Schaffner R -
1990 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 1970 Elio Petri R -
1993 The Legend of Hell House 1973 John Hough PG -
2015 Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Guy Hamilton PG -
2019 The In-Laws 1979 Arthur Hiller PG -
2025 Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970 Don Siegel PG -
2029 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette NR -
2036 A New Leaf 1971 Elaine May G -
2053 The Cowboys 1972 Mark Rydell PG -
2056 California Split 1974 Robert Altman R -
2058 Fist of Fury 1972 Wei Lo R -
2063 Death Wish 1974 Michael Winner R -
2087 The Enforcer 1976 James Fargo R -
2088 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett NR -
2091 Gates of Heaven 1978 Errol Morris PG -
2092 Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance 1972 Kenji Misumi NR -
2103 World on a Wire 1973 Rainer Werner Fassbinder NR -
2146 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wim Wenders NR -
2149 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin PG -
2151 The Front 1976 Martin Ritt PG -
2168 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer PG -
2173 Hardcore 1979 Paul Schrader R -
2212 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 Wes Craven R -
2218 Death on the Nile 1978 John Guillermin PG -
2219 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller PG -
2226 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1977 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
2235 Norma Rae 1979 Martin Ritt PG -
2239 Interiors 1978 Woody Allen PG -
2242 High Anxiety 1977 Mel Brooks PG -
2285 Rio Lobo 1970 Howard Hawks PG -
2289 Mikey and Nicky 1976 Elaine May R -
2291 Foul Play 1978 Colin Higgins PG -
2294 Straight Time 1978 Ulu Grosbard R -
2295 Coffy 1973 Jack Hill R -
2296 Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah R -
2311 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx 1972 Kenji Misumi NR -
2317 The Last of Sheila 1973 Herbert Ross PG -
2323 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex... 1972 Woody Allen R -

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