Recommend Me Some Movies From the 1970s

I've said it a many times before, but these have to have some sort of possibility on ones lists

The King of Marvin Gardens
Play it Again Sam
Harry and Tonto

An arbitrary 25 for beginners -

1. Taxi Driver
2. Chinatown
3. Apocalypse Now
4. The Godfather
5. Days Of Heaven
6. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Star Wars
8. Jaws
9. The Exorcist
10. Annie Hall
11. Network
12. The French Connection
13. Alien
14. Halloween
15. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
16. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
17. The Conversation
18. Don't Look Now
19. The Long Goodbye
20. The Deer Hunter
21. Deliverence
22. Paper Moon
23. Dirty Harry
24. Carrie
25. Blazing Saddles

Another resource (again, with plenty of overlap from other lists and other member suggestions) is Roger Ebert's Great Movies. Here are the 1970s releases he highlighted (full reviews can be found on his site)...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alien
Amarcord
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Badlands
Barry Lyndon
Being There
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Chinatown
The Conversation
Cries & Whispers
Day for Night
Days of Heaven
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Dog Day Afternoon
Don't Look Now
El Topo
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Five Easy Pieces
Gates of Heaven
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Heart of Glass
Jaws
Killer of Sheep
The Last Tango in Paris
Late Spring
Manhattan
The Last Picture Show
The Long Goodbye
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Mean Streets
Mon Oncle Antoine
Nashville
Network
Night Moves
Nosferatu the Vampire
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Patton
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Saturday Night Fever
Solaris
Spirit of the Beehive
Star Wars
Stroszek
Superman: The Movie
Taxi Driver
3 Women
Walkabout
A Woman Under the Influence
Woodstock
WR: Mysteries of the Organism

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Take it for what you will, but here are the top fifty grossing films at the U.S. box office for the decade...

Star Wars
Jaws
The Exorcist
The Sting
Animal House
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Godfather
Superman: The Movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Smokey & the Bandit
Blazing Saddles
Rocky
The Towering Inferno
American Graffiti
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Love Story
Kramer vs. Kramer
Every Which Way but Loose
Jaws 2
Airport
Heaven Can Wait
Billy Jack
Saturday Night Fever
The Poseidon Adventure
The Trial of Billy Jack
Young Frankenstein
To Fly!
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
MASH
Fiddler on the Roof
Earthquake
Apocalypse Now
The Muppet Movie
10
The Jerk
Rocky 2
All President's Men
Alien
A Star is Born
Moonraker
Patton
The Electric Horseman
The Amityville Horror
The Longest Yard
The Godfather Part II
What's Up, Doc?
The Aristocats
The Omen
Papillon
King Kong

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I will probably put this on my list if others will.

At least one Bond film is making my list.

BAAAAAAAAAAA

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Le Cercle Rouge
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The Warriors
The French Connection
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
The Ascent (1977)
Dog Day Afternoon
Badlands
Days of Heaven
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Hunters (1977)
The Travelling Players (1975)
Lupin the Third: Castle of Cagliostro
Deliverance
A Fistful of Dynamite
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Dirty Harry
Jeremiah Johnson
High Plains Drifter
Solaris
The Conformist
Escape from Alcatraz
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Chinatown
Enter the Dragon
The Murder on Orient Express
Keoma
All The President's Men
Stalker

I made the stupid mistake of compiling a list before actually having a good look at the thread. Just having a quick skim through and noticed quite a few of these already mentioned, particularly by Holden and Mark. But left them in anyway. Gone with generally lesser known films but also put a few more well known in that I think really should be seen.


10 Rillington Place (1971)
All the President's Men (1976)
Andromeda Strain (1971)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Beguiled, The (1971)
Candidate, The (1972)
Capricorn One (1977)
Charley Varrick (1973)
China Syndrome, The (1979)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Coma (1978)
Day of the Jackal (1973)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Frenzy (1972)
Gauntlet, The (1977)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Joe (1970)
Last of Sheila (1973)
Little Big Man (1970)
Magic (1978)
Marathon Man (1976)
Muppet Movie, The (1979)
Paper Moon (1973)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Robin Hood (1973)
Rollerball (1975)
Serpico (1973)
Silent Partner (1978)
Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (1974)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Time After Time(1979)
Westworld (1973)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

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if a few more people watch the long goodbye, it has a serious chance of making the top 20. so watch the long goodbye.