1970s

001 La Montaña Sagrada (1973)
The Holy Mountain
A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery.
Duration: 114 Minutes
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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002 Barry Lyndon (1975)
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband’s position.
Duration: 184 Minutes
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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003 Stalker (1979)
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers.
Duration: 163 Minutes
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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004 Höstsonaten (1978)
Autumn Sonata
A married daughter who longs for her mother’s love gets visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.
Duration: 99 Minutes
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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005 Badlands (1973)
The Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950’s.
Duration: 94 Minutes
Director: Terrence Malick
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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006 Zerkalo (1975)
The Mirror
A man in his forties is going to die and remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war.
Duration: 108 Minutes
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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007 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy.
Duration: 136 Minutes
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.5/10)
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008 Le souffle au coeur (1971)
Murmur of the Heart
A 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France.
Duration: 118 Minutes
Director: Louis Malle
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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009 Carrie (1976)
A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night.
Duration: 98 Minutes
Director: Brian De Palma
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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010 Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
A young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death.
Duration: 111 Minutes
Director: Dalton Trumbo
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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011 Eraserhead (1977)
A man tries to survive his industrial environment, angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Duration: 89 Minutes
Director: David Lynch
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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012 Turks fruit (1973)
Turkish Delight
A gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl
Duration: 108 Minutes
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (7.2/10)
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013 Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Five friends are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Duration: 83 Minutes
Director: Tobe Hooper
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (7.5/10)
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014 The Last Picture Show (1971)
A group of 50’s high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying.
Duration: 118 Minutes
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Personal Grade: 9/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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015 Apocalypse Now (1979)
During the on-going Vietnam War, a crew is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade.
Duration: 153 Minutes
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Personal Grade: 9/10
IMDB » (8.5/10)
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016 The Devils (1971)
An outspoken priest and a group of sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century France.
Duration: 111 Minutes
Director: Ken Russell
Personal Grade: 9/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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017 Cabaret (1972)
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power.
Duration: 124 Minutes
Director: Bob Fosse
Personal Grade: 9/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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018 Viskningar och rop (1972)
Cries & Whispers
A woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters.
Duration: 91 Minutes
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Personal Grade: 9/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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019 Taxi Driver (1976)
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence.
Duration: 113 Minutes
Director: Martin Scorsese
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.4/10)
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020 Annie Hall (1977)
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Duration: 93 Minutes
Director: Woody Allen
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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021 Manhattan (1979)
New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead.
Duration: 96 Minutes
Director: Woody Allen
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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022 The Exorcist (1973)
When a teenager is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
Duration: 122 Minutes
Director: William Friedkin
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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023 Woodstock (1970)
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.
Duration: 184 Minutes
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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024 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together.
Duration: 133 Minutes
Director: Milos Forman
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.8/10)
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025 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail.
Duration: 91 Minutes
Director: Terry Gilliam
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.4/10)
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026 The Omen (1976)
An American ambassador learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist.
Duration: 111 Minutes
Director: Richard Donner
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.6/10)
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027 Chinatown (1974)
A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder.
Duration: 130 Minutes
Director: Roman Polanski
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.3/10)
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028 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover’s operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Duration: 125 Minutes
Director: Sidney Lumet
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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029 The Deer Hunter (1978)
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
Duration: 182 Minutes
Director: Michael Cimino
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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030 Alien (1979)
A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet where the crew discovers some strange creatures.
Duration: 117 Minutes
Director: Ridley Scott
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.5/10)
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031 Young Frankenstein (1974)
Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson inherits granddad’s castle and repeats the experiments.
Duration: 106 Minutes
Director: Mel Brooks
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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032 Harold and Maude (1971)
Obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Duration: 91 Minutes
Director: Hal Ashby
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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033 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Duration: 100 Minutes
Director: Jim Sharman
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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034 Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture.
Duration: 116 Minutes
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (6.0/10)
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035 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe.
Duration: 200 Minutes
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (9.1/10)
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036 I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Day of the Woman
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men.
Duration: 101 Minutes
Director: Meir Zarchi
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (5.6/10)
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037 The Godfather (1972)
An outspoken priest and a group of sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century France.
Duration: 175 Minutes
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (9.2/10)
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038 La planète sauvage (1973)
Fantastic Planet
Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam.
Duration: 72 Minutes
Director: René Laloux
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.5/10)
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039 Zabriskie Point (1970)
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children.
Duration: 110 Minutes
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.0/10)
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040 Coffy (1973)
Coffy is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin.
Duration: 91 Minutes
Director: Jack Hill
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (6.9/10)
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041 Solyaris (1972)
Solaris
The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence.
Duration: 165 Minutes
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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042 The Last House on the Left (1972)
A pair of teenage girls are kidnapped by a gang of psychotic convicts.
Duration: 84 Minutes
Director: Wes Craven
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (6.0/10)
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043 The Wicker Man (1973)
A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed.
Duration: 88 Minutes
Director: Robin Hardy
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.7/10)
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044 El Topo (1970)
The Mole
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey.
Duration: 125 Minutes
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.5/10)
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