History Main / FilmsOfThe1970s

[[folder: Film Franchises, 1970-1979]]

* ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}''

[[folder: Animation Shorts]]

!!Stop Motion
* Animation/KihachiroKawamotoShorts

[[folder: Live-Action Shorts]]

* "Film/Jaws"

* "Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor"

* "Film/FunnyLady"

* "Film/AliceDoesn'tLiveHereAnymore"

** ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''

* ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}''

* ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''

* ''Film/MadMax1''

* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''

* ''Film/{{Airport}}'' -- A DisasterMovie from a peak in the genre's popularity, crystallizing the standard story arc. Later, it inspired [[Film/{{Airplane}} parodies]].

** ''Film/{{Alien}}'' (1979) -- Combined [[HorrorTropes horror]] and SciFi with one of the first ActionGirl heroines. An early example of UsedFuture.

* ''Film/{{Carry On|Series}}'' -- Twelve films in the seventies alone.

** ''Film/ThatsCarryOn'' (1977) -- Compilation film

* Film/ConfessionsOfASeries -- four movies in the series (1974--1977)

** ''Dirty Harry'' (1971) -- The film that spawned a generation of {{Cowboy Cop}}s. Creator/ClintEastwood stars.

** ''Film/TheLegendOfThe7GoldenVampires'' (1974) -- Hammer Horror meets Creator/ShawBrothers!

* ''Film/JamesBond'' films -- Five installment for the seventies.
** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' (1971) -- Creator/SeanConnery's last ([[Film/NeverSayNeverAgain official]]) film as Bond.
** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' (1973) -- Creator/RogerMoore's first film as Bond.

* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' -- Introduced the "animals on a rampage" movie, pushed Creator/StevenSpielberg into the limelight, and effectively created the SummerBlockbuster.

* ''Film/JoshuuSasori'' -- six films in the series, 1972-77

** ''Film/GoGoKamenRider'' (1971) -- Theatrical edition of ''Series/KamenRider'' episode 13
** ''[[Film/KamenRiderVsShocker Kamen Rider vs. Shocker]]'' (1972) -- First original ''Kamen Rider'' movie

** ''[[Film/KamenRiderV3 Kamen Rider V3]]'' (1973) -- Theatrical edition of ''Series/KamenRiderV3'' episode 2

** ''[[Film/KamenRiderX Kamen Rider X]]'' (1974) -- Theatrical edition of ''Series/KamenRiderX'' episode 3

** ''[[Film/KamenRiderAmazon Kamen Rider Amazon]]'' (1975) -- Theatrical edition of ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'' episode 16
** ''[[Film/KamenRiderStronger Kamen Rider Stronger]]'' (1975) -- Theatrical edition of ''Series/KamenRiderStronger'' episode 7

* ''Film/LoneWolfAndCub'' -- Classic samurai film series {{Bowdlerise}}d as ''Shogun Assassin'' in the United States.

* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' -- The film series that made Sylvester Stallone famous.

* ''Film/TheStreetFighter'' -- The martial arts film series that established Sonny Chiba as an emerging martial arts star.

** ''[[Film/HimitsuSentaiGoranger Himitsu Sentai Goranger]]'' (1975) -- Theatrical edition of ''Goranger'' episode 6
** ''[[Film/HimitsuSentaiGorangerTheBlueFortress Himitsu Sentai Goranger: The Blue Fortress]]'' (1975) -- Theatrical edition of ''Goranger'' episode 15
** ''[[Film/HimitsuSentaiGorangerTheRedDeathMatch Himitsu Sentai Goranger: The Red Death Match]]'' (1976) -- Theatrical edition of ''Goranger'' episode 36
** ''[[Film/HimitsuSentaiGorangerFireMountainsFinalExplosion Himitsu Sentai Goranger: Fire Mountain's Final Explosion]]'' (1976) -- Theatrical edition of ''Goranger'' episode 54
** ''[[Film/HimitsuSentaiGorengerTheBombHurricane Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Bomb Hurricane]]'' (1976) -- First and only original ''Goranger'' movie
** ''[[Film/JAKQDengekitai J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai]]'' (1977) -- Theatrical edition of ''J.A.K.Q.'' episode 7
** ''[[Film/JAKQDengekitaiVsGoranger J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Goranger]]'' (1977) -- The original ''Super Sentai'' {{crossover}} movie

* ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'' -- A Russ Meyer, Creator/RogerEbert collaboration parody. An all-female band of hippies go to LA where they make it big and fall headfirst into a pit of drugs, sin, infidelity, and deceit, ending with a transvestite killing spree.

* ''Theatre/TheBoysInTheBand'' -- The first mainstream gay film.

* ''Film/CatchTwentyTwo'' -- You'd be insane to watch it. Then again, trying to avoid it is a sign of rational thought and so you have no excuse not to watch it.

* ''Film/EvenDwarfsStartedSmall'' -- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Surprisingly enough, not exploitative.

* ''Film/KellysHeroes'' -- UsefulNotes/WorldWarII comedy about soldiers who try to rob a bank.

* ''Film/LetItBe'' -- The classic, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes lost]] [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] documentary.

* ''Film/LoveStory'' -- The seminal 70's Tear Jerker.

* ''Film/{{MASH}}'' -- Before the [[Series/{{MASH}} television series]], there was the movie.

* ''Film/TheBigBoss'' -- Creator/BruceLee's first starring role.

* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' --Stanley Kubrick's controversial dystopian vision of the future.

* ''Film/{{Duel}}'' -- Launched Creator/StevenSpielberg's movie career.
* ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'' (NOT to be confused with the Spielberg movie right above)
* ''Film/DuelOfFists'' - and it's sequel, ''The Angry Guest'', shares the same page

* ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'' -- One of the greatest chase films of all time.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'' -- This is your Godzilla on drugs. Any questions?

* ''Film/TheHospital'' - a dark satire starring Creator/GeorgeCScott and Creator/DianaRigg.

* ''Film/{{Macbeth|1971}}'' -- the Roman Polanski version

* ''Film/PlayMistyForMe'' -- Clint Eastwood's directorial debut.

* ''Film/PropertyOfTheRepublic'' -- A Soviet adventure flick set in the 1920s.
* ''Film/TheProtectors'' -- possibly the shortest kung-fu film released by Creator/ShawBrothers, at 62 minutes in length (!!!)

* ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' -- Can ya dig it?

* ''Film/{{Straw Dogs|1971}}'' -- Sam Peckinpah's story of [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass an ordinary man]] who is [[BewareTheNiceOnes pushed too far]].

* ''Film/SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong'' -- TropeMaker / UrExample of {{Blaxploitation}}.

* ''[[Film/TheresAlwaysVanilla There's Always Vanilla]]''--Creator/GeorgeARomero's follow-up to the original ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Dead]]'', and his only RomanticComedy.
* ''Film/{{They Might Be Giants|1971}}'' - A film adaptation of the play, which was the namesake of [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants the band]].

* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' -- It wasn't a hit at the time, but became the era's closest analogue to ''The Wizard of Oz'' for 1970s-80s kids.

* ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'' -- Made in '72 but never released publicly.

* ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' --The movie that kept people from going canoeing in the South.

* ''Film/TheDeadlyKnives'' - it's no surprise that this movie is [[DuelingWorks released the same time]] as ''Fist of Fury'' listed below, is it?

* ''Film/{{Emma}}'' - miniseries starring Doran Godwin.
* ''Film/EvilRoySlade'' -- A made-for-television film.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan''

* ''Film/GreasersPalace'' -- Robert Downey, Sr.'s retelling of the story of Jesus, with [[Series/{{MASH}} Sidney Freedman]] as the groovy and jivin' Messiah.

* ''Film/MaSuZhen'' - for all versions of the character

* ''Film/{{Solaris|1972}}'' -- Tarkovsky version

* ''Film/TheThunderboltFist'' - see also ''The Deadly Knives'' and ''Fist of Fury'', listed above.

%% * ''Film/LaVallee'' -- obscure film known mostly for its Music/PinkFloyd soundtrack.

* ''Film/WayOfTheDragon'' -- Creator/BruceLee [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny versus]] Creator/ChuckNorris.

* ''Film/{{Amarcord}}'' -- a Creator/FedericoFellini classic.
* ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' -- "Where were you in '62?"

* ''Film/TheDayOfTheJackal'' -- Famous thriller, a race to stop mysterious assassin from killing Charles de Gaulle.

* ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' -- Bruce Lee takes America by storm.

* ''Animation/FantasticPlanet'' -- bizarre and trippy Dali-esque animated fable.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsMegalon''

* ''Film/OmerTheTouristInStarTrek'' - aka "Turkish ''Star Trek''"

* ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' - Creator/WoodyAllen in a sci-fi comedy spoof

* ''Film/TheSting'' -- Everything about TheCon that other films have since attempted to capture.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' -- Spoof of TheWestern genre.

* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' -- A classic modern noir, with one of the bleakest endings ever to grace film. "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

* ''Film/DeathWish'' -- A revenge movie classic, quite shocking for its time.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla''

* ''Anime/{{Jack and the Beanstalk|1974}}'' -- a somewhat trippy animated retelling from Japan.

* ''Film/ProfumoDiDonna'' -- later remade in Hollywood as ''Film/ScentOfAWoman''

* ''Film/RabidDogs'': Directed by Mario Bava but he died before finishing it and Lamberto, his son ended up finishing the movie.

* ''Theatre/{{Rhinoceros}}'': Adaptation of the play with Zero Mostel reprising his role.

* ''Film/{{Shatter}}'' - the second (of two) co-productions between Hammer Studios and Shaw Brothers.

* ''Film/TheToweringInferno'' -- The prototypical disaster-in-a-high-rise movie.

* ''Film/VirginsOfTheSevenSeas'' - what happens if you cross Creator/ShawBrothers kung fu with German porn?

* ''Film/TheYakuza'' -- Directed by Creator/SydneyPollack
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' -- Creator/MelBrooks does to Universal Horror what he did to the Western with ''Film/BlazingSaddles''.

* ''Film/TheAppleDumplingGang'' -- Page includes details on sequel as well.

* ''Film/TheBloodyEscape'' -- Creator/ShawBrothers reportedly finished this movie in 1972, but it ends up in TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for a few years.
%% * ''Blutsbrüder'' -- Tenth and last of the Film/DEFAWesterns.

* ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'' -- A classic "bank heist gone straight to hell" movie.

* ''Film/TheDragonMissile'' - Flying Guillotine ''who''?

* ''Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS'' -- TropeCodifier of the {{Nazisploitation}} subgenre.

* ''Film/TheMagicFlute'' - Creator/IngmarBergman's version.

* ''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine'' -- A kung fu grindhouse classic about a blind evil kung fu master with the [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon coolest weapon ever made]].

* ''Film/PicnicAtHangingRock'' -- A classic Australian mystery which helped to revive the Australian film industry.
* ''WesternAnimation/PinchcliffeGrandPrix'' -- ''(Flåklypa Grand Prix)'' A Norwegian puppet animation.

* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' -- A CultClassic musical with an undying and ''crossdressing'' fanbase.

%% * ''Film/TheStoryOfO'' -- 70's film adaption [[Literature/TheStoryOfO based on the novel of the same name]].

* ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'' -- The final film of the Showa Era.

* ''WesternAnimation/AllegroNonTroppo'' -- Italian AffectionateParody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''

* ''Film/{{Ape}}'' -- South Korean King Kong {{mockbuster}}

* ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' -- Cinematic adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing classic.

* ''Film/FamilyPlot'' -- Creator/AlfredHitchcock's last movie

* ''Film/{{Freaky Friday|1976}}'' -- The first adaptation of the book.

* ''Film/{{King Kong|1976}}'' -- Ill-regarded remake.

* ''Film/{{Network}}'' -- "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

* ''Film/OilyManiac'' - Creator/ShawBrothers dabbles in Malaysian FolkHorror. It's so ''not'' cool.

* ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales'' -- It's Creator/ClintEastwood's favourite film by him
* ''Theatre/TheRitz'' -- One of the first gay-themed comedies released by a major studio.

* ''Film/SilentMovie'' -- Creator/MelBrooks goes postmodern. With lots of slapstick.

* ''Film/{{Squirm}}'' -- The film that ''almost'' made Sylvester Stallone famous.

* ''Film/TaxiDriver'' -- "Someday a real rain will come and wash the scum off the streets..."

* ''Film/AnnieHall'' -- Woody Allen's most famous film. Sometimes derided by ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans for winning Best Picture.

* ''Film/TheBattleWizard'' -- kung-fu, KillerGorilla, giant snakes, legless martial artists, all collides in this crazy out-of-the-world ''{{wuxia}}'' fantasy flick
* ''Film/TheBeastInHeat'' -- a {{Nazisploitation}} {{Video Nast|ies}}y.

* ''[[Literature/BlackSundayThomasHarris Black Sunday]]'' -- Terrorists will explode the blimp over the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl.

* ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' -- The ''other'' big sci-fi/fantasy film of 1977.

* ''Film/{{Cozzilla}}'' -- Italian ReCut of ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1956''

* ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' -- Creator/DavidLynch's first film. Very [[MindScrew hard to describe]].

* ''Film/GrandTheftAuto1977'' -- A movie Directed by Creator/RonHoward which is unrelated to the [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto video game series]].
* ''Film/TheGreatest'' -- biopic of UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, in which he plays himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'' -- The Rankin-Bass adaptation.

* ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' -- First work of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team.

* ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' -- A live-action film with a cel-animated dragon.

* ''Film/{{Sorcerer}}'' - a remake of 1953's ''Film/TheWagesOfFear''

* ''Film/{{Stroszek}}'' -- Werner Herzog's last movie starring Bruno S.

* ''Film/AnimalHouse'' -- The quintessential "wacky college hijinks" comedy.
* ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'' -- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

* ''Film/TheDeerHunter'' -- A harrowing [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]] movie that introduced popular culture to RussianRoulette.

* ''Film/TheDriver'' -- The story of a getaway driver's life in and out of jobs. TropeMaker of TheDriver.

* ''Film/FiveDeadlyVenoms'' -- A Creator/ShawBrothers kung fu classic.

* ''Film/GameOfDeath'' -- Bruce Lee's final film.

* ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'' -- The film that began the craze of 70s and 80s {{Slasher Movie}}s.

* ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'' -- Also known as ''Day of the Woman'', one of the most infamous RapeAndRevenge films of all time.

* ''Film/MessageFromSpace'' -- Japan's answer to ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]''.
* ''Film/MidnightExpress'' -- The Turkish Prison film.

* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' -- The most disturbing war movie ever. "The Horror...The Horror...The Horror..."

* ''Film/{{Captain America|1979}}'' -- Creator/RebBrown takes on the [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica role of the star-spangled superhero]]
* ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' -- Creator/HayaoMiyazaki does ''Franchise/LupinIII''.

* ''Film/ChillyScenesOfWinter'' -- Released as ''Head Over Heels'', then re-released in a slightly different edit under a new title in 1982.

* ''Film/EscapeFromAlcatraz'' -- Grants TruthInTelevision to the most unlikely tropes.

* ''Film/{{Hardcore}}'' - a controversial film directed by Creator/PaulSchrader (screenplay writer of ''Film/TaxiDriver''), starring Creator/GeorgeCScott

* ''[[Film/TheShapeOfThingsToCome HG Wells' The Shape of Things to Come]]'' -- InNameOnly remake

* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' -- Film debut of everyone's favorite puppets from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', this family comedy shows how Kermit the Frog and his friends broke into showbiz.

* ''Film/RainingInTheMountain'' -- Taiwanese CaperStory that takes place in a Buddhist monastery during China's Ming Dynasty.

* ''Scooby Goes Hollywood'' (aka ''Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood'') -- TV movie
* ''Film/{{Scum}}'': British film about life in the borstal; based off of a 1977 BBC teleplay.

* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' -- Brought back the entire original cast (plus two more), ten years after the series ended.

* ''Film/TimeAfterTime'' -- Creator/HGWells battles UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper in THE FUTURE (well, 1979).

* ''WesternAnimation/BanjoTheWoodpileCat'' (1979) -- Forced into becoming a half-hour short due to budget restraints.

* ''Film/{{The Texas Chain Saw Massacre|1974}}''

** ''Film/AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent''