Your TOP 30 Best Films Of The Seventies !!!

What's your top 30 films of the 70's ?

Here is my list in disorder.

The Tin Drum
American Graffiti
The Last Tycoon
The Last Detail
Hard Times (the streetfighter)

Sleeper
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
Get Carter

The Last Picture Show
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Eraserhead
Saturday Night Fever
Apocalypse Now

Stalker
The Godfather
Solaris
The Exorcist
The Long Goodbye

Deliverance
Barry Lydon
Taxi Driver
1900
Carrie

Assault On Precinct 13
Chinatown
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (uncut)
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

 

Le Cercle rouge
Five Easy Pieces
Performance
Bananas
Dirty Harry
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Avanti!
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Godfather
Badlands
Mean Streets
The Mother and the Whore
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Chinatown
The Conversation
Fox and His Friends
Dog Day Afternoon
Graveyard of Honour
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Assault on Precinct 13
The Magic Blade
Taxi Driver
Suspiria
Blue Collar
The Driver
In a Year with 13 Moons
The Butterfly Murders
Mad Max

 

Really cool list !

Fassbinder's best film.

Captain Beefheart.

 

Chinatown
Straw Dogs
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
The Exorcist
Apocalypse Now
Sorcerer
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Play Misty For Me
Dog Day Afternoon
Emperor Of The North
Death Wish
Halloween
Once Upon A Time In America
Suspiria
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Jaws
Duel
Alien
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Woodstock
The Last Waltz
The Buddy Holly Story
Enter The Dragon
Carrie
Being There
Midnight Express
American Graffitti
The Sting

 

I don't have a list handy but I'll say that the 70's is my favorite decade for film. So many films made in that decade that were incredible, pushed boundaries, and wouldn't stand a chance of being made today!

 

Most certainly.

My list, in no particular order:

All The President's Men
Network
Taxi Driver
Electra Glide in Blue
Aguirre Wrath of God
Rocky
Jaws
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
American Graffiti
Badlands
Young Frankenstein
Chinatown
Return of the Dragon
Paper Moon
Manhattan
Alien
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Star Wars
Annie Hall
The Sting

which leaves out: THX 1138, Bananas, Days of Heaven, A Clockwork Orange (I have a love/hate relationship with this film), Don't Look Now, Enter the Dragon, The Last Picture Show, Cries and Whispers, O Lucky Man!, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dog Day Afternoon...

 

Great film, but from 1984.

 

In no particular order:

Amarcord
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
The Duelists
Avanti
Fellini's Casanova
The Front Page
Bring Me the Head Of Alfredo García
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
Jaws
Nicholas And Alexandra
Papillon
Ryan's Daughter
The Horsemen
Solaris
The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
The Life Of Brian
Ludwig
Cross Of Iron
Apocalypse Now
The Conversation
Straw Dogs
Woyzeck
Stroszek
The Man Who Would Be King
The Wind And The Lion
Robin And Marian
Dersu Uzala
Lacombe Lucien

 

1. Rocky
2. Taxi Driver
3. Jaws
4. Mad Max
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Foul Play
7. Chinatown
8. Smokey & The Bandit
9. Frenzy
10. The Conversation
11. One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest
12. Saturday Night Fever
13. The Longest Yard
14. Watership Down
15. Outlaw Josey Wales
16. Animal House
17. Star Wars
18. Dirty Harry
19. The French Connection
20. Papillion
21. Superman
22. Godfather
23. The Poseidon Adventure
24. Silver Streak
25. Scrooge
26. Young Frankenstein
27. F For Fake
28. Marathon Man
29. Last Tango in Paris
30. Bad News Bears
31. Straw Dogs
32. The Jerk

 

In alphabetical order-

Alien
All The President's Men
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Being There
The Candidate
Chinatown
A Clockwork Orange
The Conversation
Dog Day Afternoon
The Exorcist
Five Easy Pieces
The French Connection
Gimme Shelter
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Harder They Come
Harold And Maude
Jaws
The Last Waltz
Manhattan
MASH
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Network
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Parallax View
Shampoo
Taxi Driver
Young Frankenstein

 

Too easy.

An Unmarried Woman
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Barry Lyndon
Annie Hall
Interiors
Shampoo
Heaven Can Wait
American Gigolo
Days of Heaven
The Exorcist
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Midnight Express
All the President’s Men
Network
Taxi Driver
Kramer v. Kramer
Badlands
Chinatown
Dog Day Afternoon
The Last Picture Show
Straw Dogs
Cabaret
A Clockwork Orange
The Deer Hunter
Lenny
Lacombe Lucien
The Conversation
The French Connection
MASH

 

Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Serpico
The Last Detail
The Deer Hunter
The Godfather I
The Godfather II
Manhattan
Annie Hall
The Longest Yard
Saturday Night Fever
Meatballs
The Last Waltz
The Warriors
Dog Day Afternoon
Fat City
Dirty Harry
Looking For Mr. Goodbar
Magnum Force
The Taking of Pelham 123
The French Connection
The Song Remains The Same
Superman
Network
The Hospital
Slapshot
The Candidate
Days of Heaven
Five Easy Pieces
Woodstock

 

My favorite era for films.

In no particular order:

THE CONFORMIST
FIVE EASY PIECES
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA
MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER
PERFORMANCE
NIGHT MOVES
NETWORK
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
DIRTY HARRY
THE EXORCIST

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
HALLOWEEN
THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE
THE AMERICAN FRIEND
THE CONVERSATION
MEAN STREETS
DON'T LOOK NOW
DEMON SEED
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
THE LAST DETAIL

THE PASSENGER
THE GODFATHER
THE GODFATHER II
JAWS
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
BARRY LYNDON
IMAGES
THREE WOMEN
THE LONGEST YARD
CHINATOWN

I could go on and on.

 

Wow alexpop (and others)--these are all great lists! And multiple ones for different decades going at the same time. I appreciate it, but it's a bit much for me to absorb all at once. Would it be wrong to--at some point, when these lists are all done--start again on a year by year? I'm not sure what year to start on though. Maybe 1939? Or do we start back in the teens? I don't know. Just a thought. Great lists here...

 

30 Best

Extremely difficult as there are so many truly great films from that decade.
Popular entertainment was never better.

In no particular order--

JAWS (the best thing Spielberg has ever done)

CHINATOWN (impeccable script, cast, direction, music)

TAXI DRIVER (gritty, powerful perfection)

APOCALYPSE NOW (some of the greatest imagery ever put on celluloid)

DAYS OF HEAVEN (ditto; above)

THE EXORCIST (still the most chilling film I've seen)

ALIEN (great atmospherics and isolation-mood)

THE GODFATHER (the first blockbuster for adults)

AMERICAN GRAFFITI (mise-en-scene, characters, music integration, realism and idealism co-mingled)

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (shockingly real and intimate-- real depth)

THE DEER HUNTER (the wedding sequence, the bar scene, the hunt)

ANNIE HALL (Woody's finest amalgamation)

BARRY LYNDON (quiet, rainy day viewing that is so sedate and intelligent, that nothing else comes close)

THE BLACK STALLION ( fantastic cinematography, compelling story, minimal dialogue)

DIRTY HARRY (San Francisco at Night at the dawn of the 70's)

SLAPSHOT (So funny it hurts-- and so real)

THE FRENCH CONNECTION (intense, faux-real, ominous)

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (So so iconic)

ROCKY (heart and soul in abundance--and so sweet-natured)

STAR WARS (you've probably seen it)

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (the most ultimate bond film, truly)

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (intelligent satire)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) (Michael Chapman bested Taxi Driver on this one)

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (unrelentingly grim, but with Giorgio Moroder)

O LUCKY MAN! (the music, the interludes, the green jacket)

SUPERMAN - THE MOVIE ( pure magic in 70mm)

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Quintessential Steven)

WHAT'S UP DOC? (by far the greatest G-rated comedy)

YOUNG FRANKENSTIEN (Premium Mel-- funny and scary)

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (crazy, isn't it?)

 

I would include many of the mentioned classics above, plus a few favorite suspence films - Three Days of the Condor and the Marathon Man.

The Spy Who Loved Me is one of my favorite Bond films too.

 

My 70's List :

The Godfather (The greatest American film IMHO)
The Godfather Part II
A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Last Picture Show
Dog Day Afternoon
Murder on the Orient Express
Apocalypse Now
Cabaret
The Conversation
Chinatown
Catch 22
The Deer Hunter
The French Connection
The Exorcist
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Shampoo
The Last Detail
Being There
Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
The Last Waltz
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Blazing Saddles
All That Jazz
Lenny
The Conformist
Last Tango in Paris
Frenzy
Straw Dogs
MASH
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Long Goodbye
Thieves Like Us
Nashville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Taxi Driver
The Conversation
Aguirre: The Wrath Of God
Alien
Dog Day Afternoon
Chinatown
Annie Hall
Days Of Heaven
F For Fake
Hearts & Minds
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Conformist
Two Lane Blacktop
Harlan County, USA
Gimmie Shelter
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Dawn Of The Dead
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Godfather
The Godfather Part Two
The American Friend
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Nashville
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Cria Cuervos
Spirit Of The Beehive
Gates of Heaven
Salo

 

1. Star Wars
2. Smokey & The Bandit
3. Little Big Man
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Animal House
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
9. Woodstock
10. The Wicker Man
11. Cheech & Chong’s Up In Smoke
12. Jaws
13. MASH
14. Manhattan
15. Taxi Driver
16. The Godfather
17. Blazing Saddles
18. Young Frankenstein
19. A Clockwork Orange
20. Kelly’s Heroes
21. Patton
22. Sleeper
23. The Warriors
24. Barry Lyndon
25. The Sting
26. The Longest Yard
27. Dirty Harry
28. Magnum Force
29. Slapshot
30. Willy Wonka

There could be so many more.

 

Jeremiah Johnson always feel compelled to watch it when it comes on TV.

 

Random list:

Young Frankestein
Animal house
The Spy who loved me
Being There
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Apocalypse now
Serpico
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Big Wednesday
Taxi Driver
Blazing Saddles
Jaws
Day for Night
Life of Brian
The Deer Hunter
Star Wars
Marathon Man
Chinatown
Fellini's Casanova
Soylent Green
The Wicker Man
A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
Profondo Rosso (Deep Red)
The Man Who Would Be King
Sleeper
Manhattan
Annie Hall
The Yakuza

 

Forgot Slaughterhouse Five and Zardoz

 

No love for Tommy on this forum?

 

Alternate 30

There could be ALTERNATIVE group of 30, from an altered point of view.

TOMMY
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
SUSPIRIA
CARRIE
BLACK CHRISTMAS
EXORCIST II: The Heretic
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
SUGARLAND EXPRESS
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
THE DEVILS
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
THE GUMBALL RALLY
FREEBIE AND THE BEAN
THE BEGUILED
McCABE & MRS. MILLER
HEAVEN CAN WAIT
FOUL PLAY
1941
PAPER MOON
SMILE
THE BAD NEWS BEARS
ALL THAT JAZZ
THE STEPFORD WIVES
LITTLE BIG MAN
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
ZARDOZ