Favorite Movies Of The 70's

[frisco]

My top 25 in no order with some HM:

The Deer Hunter
Chinatown
Serpico
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Apocalypse Now Redux
Clockwork Orange
Network
Saturday Night Fever
The Exorcist
Papillon
The Getaway
Dog Day Afternoon
Badlands
Barry Lyndon
Being There
Junior Bonner
The Last Picture Show
Coming Home
The Towering Inferno
The Onion Field
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Soylent Green
Love Story
...And Justice For All

HM: The Day Of The Jackal, Deliverance, All The President's Men, Grease, Logan's Run, The Omegaman, Le Mans, The Omen, Panic In Needle Park, Earthquake, Midway, MacArthur, The Boys From Brazil, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, Damien: The Omen II, Marathon Man, The Three Musketeers, Kramer vs. Kramer, Two Minute Warning, Days Of Heaven, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

My Best-Carey

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[the squared circle]

Two Minute Warning is such an underrated movie. Absolutely love it.
Fantastic list. The 70’s is easily my favourite era for films.

 

[Mescaleroman]

The Sting
Harold and Maude
Slap Shot

whatever was on the Baby Blue movie on Friday night

 

[Neutrinos]

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned:

The Sting, A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather 1 & 2

I'll add the funniest comedy of all-time, Life Of Brian

 

[Babe Ruth]

Star Wars (original/New Hope)
Dirty Harry
Halloween
Jaws

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Barry Lyndon is so good, it's hard to put into words. Great choice. Some of my other favs that haven't been mentioned:

The Driver
MASH
Solaris
Stalker
Walkabout
High Plains Drifter
Paper Moon
The Long Goodbye
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Taxi Driver
The Bad News Bears
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Animal House
Alien

And I actually prefer the original Apocalypse Now. The Redux footage doesn't add much, certainly not enough to justify an additional 45 minutes.

 

[Say Hey Kid]

Animal House & Stripes

 

[Osprey]

I'm not a big fan of 70s films, at least the ones that received critical acclaim. They were so bleak and cynical, no doubt largely because of Vietnam, Watergate and the worsening U.S. economy. I am rather fond of several of the lighter fair, though, such as Star Wars, Jaws, Alien, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein, The Outlaw Josey Wales and so on... basically, the films that helped people escape from the problems of the 70s.

Animal House & Stripes

Stripes is a favorite of mine, too, but it was 1981.

 

[Mescaleroman]

The Conversation
The French Connection

 

[Eisen]

Solaris
My name is Nobody
Drunken Master (you can pick whichever you want, they are all brilliant)
Amator
The wing or the thigh
Aguirre
Mash
Paper Tiger
Zatoichi meets Yojimbo

The 70s was a great decade for films.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

aside from the ones mentioned already:

Friends of Eddie Coyle
Mean Streets

 

[rfournier103]

Cromwell, Rocky, The Godfather I & II, and Star Wars are my favorites from the ‘70s.

Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw at a movie theater.

 

[Pattysaurus]

Jaws
The French Connection
Rocky
Blazing Saddles

 

[frisco]

My top 25 in no order with some HM:

The Deer Hunter
Chinatown
Serpico
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Apocalypse Now Redux
Clockwork Orange
Network
Saturday Night Fever
The Exorcist
Papillon
The Getaway
Dog Day Afternoon
Badlands
Barry Lyndon
Being There
Junior Bonner
The Last Picture Show
Coming Home
The Towering Inferno
The Onion Field
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Soylent Green
Love Story
...And Justice For All

HM: The Day Of The Jackal, Deliverance, All The President's Men, Grease, Logan's Run, The Omegaman, Le Mans, The Omen, Panic In Needle Park, Earthquake, Midway, MacArthur, The Boys From Brazil, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, Damien: The Omen II, Marathon Man, The Three Musketeers, Kramer vs. Kramer, Two Minute Warning, Days Of Heaven, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

My Best-Carey

I missed Taxi Driver. Definitely, in my top 25. So...The Last Picture Show gets bumped to HM.

My Best-Carey

 

[kook10]

Add

Carrie
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Enter The Dragon
Three Days Of The Condor
Dawn Of The Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Midway (not that "good" but it's one of those movies I will watch every time it is on TV)

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

10/10
Le Navire Night
Un homme qui dort
Aurelia Steiner (Melbourne)
L'hypothèse du tableau volé
Numéro deux

9/10
Une vraie jeune fille
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Cet obscur objet du désir
Le jeu avec le feu
L'invenzione di Morel
Le fantôme de la liberté
Images
Glissements progressifs du plaisir
Le genou de Claire
L'ucello dalle piume di cristallo

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

snooty cinephile pick...The Mirror

 

[Thedogo]

Slapshot, Blazing Saddles (that movie wouldn't be made today), Star Wars and Animal House.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

snooty cinephile pick...The Mirror

For sure, Solaris too.

 

[kihei]

25, sort of in order

The Mirror
Alice in the Cities
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Spirit of the Beehive
Last Tango in Paris
The Conformist
Solaris
Mon Oncle Antoine
Don't Look Now
The Conversation
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Goalkeeper's Anxiety of the Penalty Kick
The Wild Child
The French Connection
Walkabout
Apocalypse Now
Mean Streets
Jaws
Barry Lyndon
Star Wars
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion
Taxi Driver
Chinatown
Days and Nights in the Forest

 

[Nalens Oga]

Just saw Animal House last year and what an awful movie (though I'll admit it had some fun bits). Maybe it was funny in the 70s or 80s if you were a teen or something I dunno.

 

[Thedogo]

Just saw Animal House last year and what an awful movie (though I'll admit it had some fun bits). Maybe it was funny in the 70s or 80s if you were a teen or something I dunno.

You seriously didn't like animal house?

 

[ORRFForever]

Manhattan
The Conversation
North Dallas Forty

 

[kingsholygrail]

Star Wars
Jaws
Rocky
Blazing Saddles
Godfather I&II

 

[GarbageGoal]

Jaws is my all time favorite film.

Rocky, Star Wars, Slap Shot, All The President's Men, The French Connection, Day of the Jackal, Night Moves, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Sting, Klute, The Wicker Man, Superman, and Three Days of the Condor are all certainly in there.