Films of the 1970s

See also: Early Films, Films of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

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Notable Film Franchises, 1970- 1979

• The 7th Company
  • Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? (1973)
  • The 7th Company Has Been Found (1975)
  • The 7th Company Outdoors (1977)
• The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
  • Bed and Board (1970)
  • Love on the Run (1979) —fifth and last installment in the series
• Airport — A Disaster Movie from a peak in the genre's popularity, crystallizing the standard story arc. Later, it inspired parodies.
  • Airport (1970)
  • Airport 1975 (1974)
  • Airport '77 (1977)
  • The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)
• Alien
  • Alien (1979) — Combined horror and Sci-Fi with one of the first Action Girl heroines. An early example of Used Future.
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973-79)
• Blind Dead
  • Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
  • Return of the Blind Dead (1973)
  • The Ghost Galleon (1974)
  • Night of the Seagulls (1975)
• Boggy Creek
  • The Legend of Boggy Creek (1973)
  • The Return to Boggy Creek (1977)
• Carry On — Twelve films in the seventies alone.
  • Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
  • Carry On Loving (1970)
  • Carry On Henry (1971)
  • Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)
  • Carry On Matron (1972)
  • Carry On Abroad (1972)
  • Carry On Girls (1973)
  • Carry On Dick (1974)
  • Carry On Behind (1975)
  • Carry On England (1976)
  • That's Carry On! (1977) — Compilation film
  • Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
• Confessions of a... Series — four movies in the series (1974—1977)
• Count Yorga
  • Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
  • The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
• Dirty Harry
  • Dirty Harry (1971) — The film that spawned a generation of Cowboy Cops. Clint Eastwood stars.
  • Magnum Force (1973)
  • The Enforcer (1976)
• Hammer's Dracula
  • Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
  • Scars of Dracula (1970)
  • Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
  • The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
  • The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
• The Exorcist:
  • The Exorcist (1973)
  • Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
• French Fried Vacation (1978)
  • French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
• Fritz the Cat (1972)
  • The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
• Gamera
  • Gamera Vs Jiger (1970)
  • Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)
• The Godfather (1974)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • The Godfather Part II (1974)
• Godzilla
  • Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
  • Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
  • Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
  • Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
• Hanzo the Razor
  • Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
  • Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
  • Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (1974)
• It's Alive
  • It's Alive (1974)
  • It Lives Again (1978)
• James Bond films — Five installment for the seventies.
  • Diamonds Are Forever (1971) — Sean Connery's last (official) film as Bond.
  • Live and Let Die (1973) — Roger Moore's first film as Bond.
  • The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
  • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  • Moonraker (1979)
• Jaws — Introduced the "animals on a rampage" movie, pushed Steven Spielberg into the limelight, and effectively created the Summer Blockbuster.
  • Jaws (1975)
  • Jaws 2 (1978)
• Joshuu Sasori — six films in the series, 1972-77
• Films based on the Kamen Rider franchise
  • Go Go Kamen Rider (1971) — Theatrical edition of Kamen Rider episode 13
  • Kamen Rider vs. Shocker (1972) — First original Kamen Rider movie
  • Kamen Rider vs. Ambassador Hell (1972)
  • Kamen Rider V3 (1973) — Theatrical edition of Kamen Rider V3 episode 2
  • Kamen Rider V3 vs. Destron Mutants (1973)
  • Kamen Rider X (1974) — Theatrical edition of Kamen Rider X episode 3
  • Five Riders vs. King Dark (1974)
    • Was made into the Thai film Hanuman and the Five Riders by Chaiyo Productions. This production was not authorized by Toei Company.
  • Kamen Rider Amazon (1975) — Theatrical edition of Kamen Rider Amazon episode 16
  • Kamen Rider Stronger (1975) — Theatrical edition of Kamen Rider Stronger episode 7
• Living Dead Series
  • Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Lone Wolf and Cub — Classic samurai film series Bowdlerised as Shogun Assassin in the United States.
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
• The Omen
  • The Omen (1976)
  • Damien: Omen II (1978)
• The Pink Panther
  • The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
  • Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) (The last entry to actually star Peter Sellers)
• Planet of the Apes
  • Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
  • Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
  • Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
  • Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
• Rocky — The film series that made Sylvester Stallone famous.
  • Rocky (1976)
  • Rocky II (1979)
• Sartana
  • Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970)
  • Light The Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (1971)
  • Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (1972)
• The Street Fighter — The martial arts film series that established Sonny Chiba as an emerging martial arts star.
  • The Street Fighter (1974)
  • Return of the Street Fighter (1976)
  • Sister Street Fighter (1976)
  • The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1979)
• Films based on the Super Sentai franchise
  • Himitsu Sentai Goranger (1975) — Theatrical edition of Goranger episode 6
  • Himitsu Sentai Goranger: The Blue Fortress (1975) — Theatrical edition of Goranger episode 15
  • Himitsu Sentai Goranger: The Red Death Match (1976) — Theatrical edition of Goranger episode 36
  • Himitsu Sentai Goranger: Fire Mountain's Final Explosion (1976) — Theatrical edition of Goranger episode 54
  • Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Bomb Hurricane (1976) — First and only original Goranger movie
  • J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai (1977) — Theatrical edition of J.A.K.Q. episode 7
  • J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Goranger (1977) — The original Super Sentai crossover movie

1970

• Adios, Sabata

• The Aristocats
• Atlantic Wall
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue
• The Bear and the Doll
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls — A Russ Meyer, Roger Ebert 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.
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• The Blood Waters of Dr. Z
• The Boys in the Band — The first mainstream gay film.
• Brewster McCloud
• Case for a Rookie Hangman
• Catch-22 — 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.
• Le Cercle Rouge
• The Cheyenne Social Club
• Chisum
• Claire's Knee
• Cold Sweat
• Colossus: The Forbin Project
• Companeros
• The Conformist
• Darling Lili
• Dodes'ka-den
• Even Dwarfs Started Small — Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Surprisingly enough, not exploitative.
• Five Easy Pieces
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
• Le Gendarme en balade
• Gimme Shelter
• Hell's Bloody Devils
• The Honeymoon Killers
• The Horror of Frankenstein
• Hornets' Nest
• La Horse
• I Drink Your Blood
• I Eat Your Skin
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
• Joe
• Kelly's Heroes — World War II comedy about soldiers who try to rob a bank.
• Last Known Address
• Let It Be — The classic, lost Beatles documentary.
• Little Big Man
• The Losers
• Love Story — The seminal 70's Tear Jerker.
• M*A*S*H — Before the television series, there was the movie.
• The Molly Maguires
• Myra Breckinridge
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

• Patton
• Performance
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• Pound
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• Ryan's Daughter
• San Francisco International Airport
• Scrooge (1970)
• Soldier Blue
• Space Amoeba
• Start the Revolution Without Me
• Tchaikovsky
• There Was a Crooked Man...
• El Topo
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Tristana
• The Twelve Chairs
• Two Mules for Sister Sara
• Uomini Contro
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
• The Vampire Lovers
• Waterloo
• Watermelon Man
• When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

• The Wizard of Gore — Technically made in 1968, but unreleased until 1970.
• Woodstock
• Zabriskie Point

1971

• 10 Rillington Place
• 200 Motels
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• The Andromeda Strain
• Battle of Okinawa
• Bananas
• Beast of the Yellow Night
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• The Beguiled
• The Big Boss — Bruce Lee's first film.
• Big Jake

• The Black Belly of the Tarantula
• Bless the Beasts & Children
• The Blood on Satan's Claw
• Brian's Song
• The Brotherhood of Satan
• The Cat o' Nine Tails
• A Clockwork Orange —Stanley Kubrick's controversial dystopian vision of the future.
• Cold Turkey
• The Corpse Grinders
• Countess Dracula
• Daughters of Darkness
• Day of the Wolves
• Death in Venice
• The Devils
• Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde
• Don't Turn the Other Cheek!
• Duel — Launched Steven Spielberg's movie career.
• The Emigrants
• Fiddler on the Roof
• A Fistful of Dynamite
• Four Flies on Grey Velvet
• The French Connection — One of the greatest chase films of all time.
• Get Carter
• The Go-Between
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah — This is your Godzilla on drugs. Any questions?
• Goodbye Uncle Tom
• A Gunfight
• Harold and Maude
• Hands of the Ripper
• The Hospital - a dark satire starring George C. Scott and Diana Rigg.
• The House That Dripped Blood
• If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?
• I, Monster
• Jo
• Johnny Got His Gun
• Klute
• Lady Frankenstein
• The Last Picture Show
• The Last Valley
• The Legend of Frenchie King
• Le Mans
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Melody (S.W.A.L.K.)
• Mon Oncle Antoine
• Morte a Venezia
• A New Leaf
• Nicholas and Alexandra
• The Omega Man
• Play Misty for Me — Clint Eastwood's directorial debut.
• The Point
• Pretty Maids All in a Row
• Property of the Republic — A Soviet adventure flick set in the 1920s.
• Red Sun
• Return of Sabata
• Santo vs. la hija de Frankestein (Santo versus Frankenstein's Daughter)
• Shaft — Can ya dig it?
• Straw Dogs (1971) — Sam Peckinpah's story of an ordinary man who is pushed too far.
• Summer of '42
• Sunday Bloody Sunday
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song — Trope Maker / Ur-Example of Blaxploitation.
• Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince
• There's Always Vanilla—George A. Romero's follow-up to the original Night of the Living Dead, and his only Romantic Comedy.
• They Might Be Giants - A film adaptation of the play, which was the namesake of the band.
• THX 1138
• Touch of Satan
• A Touch Of Zen
• They Call Me Trinity
• Twitch of the Death Nerve
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• Vampire Circus
• Vanishing Point
• Wake in Fright
• Walkabout
• Wanda
• Werewolves on Wheels
• What's the Matter with Helen?
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory — It wasn't a hit at the time, but became the era's closest analogue to The Wizard of Oz for 1970s-80s kids.
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

1972

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• The Amazing Mr. Blunden
• An American Hippie in Israel
• Beware! The Blob
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• Black Mama, White Mama
• Black Rage
• Blacula
• Cabaret
• The Candidate
• Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
• Chloe In The Afternoon
• The Cowboys
• Cries and Whispers
• The Dawns Here Are Quiet
• The Day the Clown Cried — Made in '72 but never released publicly.
• Delightful Forest
• Deliverance —The movie that kept people from going canoeing in the South.
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Don't Torture a Duckling
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
• Emma - miniseries starring Doran Godwin.
• Evil Roy Slade — A made-for-television film.
• Fist of Fury
• The Flesh and Blood Show
• The Flower Girl
• Frenzy
• Fritz the Cat
• Frogs
• Gentlemen of Fortune
• The Getaway
• Godzilla vs. Gigan
• The Gore Gore Girls
• Grave of the Vampire
• Greaser's Palace — Robert Downey, Sr.'s retelling of the story of Jesus, with Sidney Freedman as the groovy and jivin' Messiah.
• The Harder They Come
• The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
• Horror Express
• The Hot Rock
• Images
• The Island at the Top of the World
• Jeremiah Johnson
• Lady Caroline Lamb
• The Last House on the Left
• Last Tango in Paris
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
• Man of La Mancha
• The Mechanic
• The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
• The New Land
• Night of the Lepus
• Now You See Him, Now You Don't
• Pink Flamingos
• Play It Again, Sam
• Poor Albert & Little Annie
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Prime Cut
• The Revengers
• The Ruling Class
• Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
• Santo y Blue Demon contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo
• 1776
• Silent Running
• Slap the Monster on Page One
• Sleuth
• Snoopy, Come Home
• The Snowball Express
• Solaris — Tarkovsky version
• Sounder

• Super Fly
• Tales from the Crypt
• The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
• Tintin and the Lake of Sharks

• La Vallée — obscure film known mostly for its Pink Floyd soundtrack.
• Way of the Dragon — Bruce Lee versus Chuck Norris.
• What's Up, Doc?
• Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth)

1973

• Amarcord — a Federico Fellini classic.
• American Graffiti — "Where were you in '62?"
• And Now the Screaming Starts!
• The Baby
• Badlands
• Belladonna of Sadness
• Black Caesar/Hell Up In Harlem
• The Black 6
• The Black Hand
• Blood for Dracula
• Blood Orgy of the She-Devils

• Charley Varrick
• Cleopatra Jones
• Coffy
• The Crazies (1973)
• Day for Night
• The Day of the Jackal — Famous thriller, a race to stop mysterious assassin from killing Charles de Gaulle.
• Dillinger
• Don't be Afraid of the Dark
• Don't Look Now
• Emmanuelle
• Enter the Dragon — Bruce Lee takes America by storm.
• Fantastic Planet — bizarre and trippy Dali-esque animated fable.
• Emperor of the North aka Emperor of the North Pole
• Flesh for Frankenstein
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• Go Ask Alice
• Godspell
• Godzilla vs. Megalon
• La Grande Bouffe
• High Plains Drifter
• The Holy Mountain
• The Horror at 37,000 Feet
• Invasion of the Bee Girls
• Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Lady Snowblood
• The Last Detail
• The Last of Sheila
• Lisa and the Devil
• The Long Goodbye
• The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
• Magnum Force
• Manson
• Mean Streets
• Moscow — Cassiopeia
• My Name Is Nobody
• Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
• The Paper Chase
• Paper Moon
• Papillon
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
• Robin Hood
• Sannikov Land - Russian adventurers go to the far north in search of a legendary island.

• Scenes from a Marriage
• Scream Bloody Murder
• Serpico
• The Seven-Ups
• Le Silencieux
• The Sinful Dwarf
• Sisters
• Sleeper - Woody Allen in a sci-fi comedy spoof
• Soylent Green
• The Spirit of the Beehive
• The Sting — Everything about The Con that other films have since attempted to capture.
• Stranded in Space
• Theatre of Blood
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• Three Big Men
• Thriller: A Cruel Picture

• Turkish Delight
• Vault of Horror
• Walking Tall

• The Werewolf of Washington
• Westworld
• The Wicker Man
• Wonder Women
• The World's Greatest Athlete
• Zindy, the Swamp-Boy

1974

• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Auntie Mame
• Bad Ronald
• Bank Shot
• The Beast Must Die
• Black Christmas (1974)
• The Black Godfather
• Blazing Saddles — Spoof of The Western genre.
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

• California Split
• Captain Kronos-Vampire Hunter
• The Cars That Ate Paris
• Castle of Sand
• Celine and Julie Go Boating
• Chinatown — A classic modern noir, with one of the bleakest endings ever to grace film. "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
• The Conversation
• Dark Star
• Death Wish — A revenge movie classic, quite shocking for its time.
• Diamonds on Wheels
• Down and Dirty Duck
• Earthquake
• East Meets Watts
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
• Le fantôme de la liberté
• Female Trouble
• F for Fake (Vérités et mensonges)

• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
• The Front Page
• Foxy Brown
• Gator Bait
• General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
• Gone in Sixty Seconds
• The Great Gatsby
• Harry and Tonto
• Hearts and Minds
• Herbie Rides Again
• House of Whipcord
• Il Profumo Della Signora In Nero
• It Lives by Night (aka The Bat People)
• Jack and the Beanstalk — a somewhat trippy animated retelling from Japan.
• Juggernaut
• Killdozer
• Knife for the Ladies
• Lacombe, Lucien
• Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
• Lancelot du Lac

• The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
• The Longest Yard
• Magical Disappearing Money
• The Maids
• La Moutarde Me Monte Au Nez
• Murder on the Orient Express
• The Night Porter
• The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
• The Odessa File
• The Parallax View
• Pastoral: To Die in the Country
• Patayin Mo Sa Sindak Si Barbara
• Phantom of the Paradise
• Phase IV
• Prophecies of Nostradamus
• Rabid Dogs: Directed by Mario Bava but he died before finishing it and Lamberto, his son ended up finishing the movie.
• The Return of the Tall Blond Man
• Rhinoceros: Adaptation of the play with Zero Mostel reprising his role.
• Sandakan No. 8
• School of the Holy Beast
• Space Is the Place
• Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
• The Street Fighter
• The Sugarland Express
• Sweet Movie
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
• The Terminal Man
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Thieves Like Us
• The Towering Inferno — The prototypical disaster-in-a-high-rise movie.
• Three the Hard Way
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
• Les Valseuses
• Vase de Noces
• Watch Out, We're Mad!
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Wonder Woman (1974)
• Young Frankenstein — Mel Brooks does to Universal Horror what he did to the Western with Blazing Saddles.
• Zardoz

1975

• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
• The Apple Dumpling Gang — Page includes details on sequel as well.
• At Long Last Love
• Barry Lyndon
• Black Belt Jones
• Blonde in Black Leather
• Blutsbrüder — Tenth and last of the DEFA Westerns.
• Boss Nigger
• A Boy and His Dog
• Breakheart Pass
• The Candy Tangerine Man
• Cousin Cousine
• Cooley High
• Coonskin
• Criminally Insane
• The Day of the Locust
• Deafula
• Death Race 2000
• Deep Red
• Deewaar
• The Devil Within Her
• Dersu Uzala
• Doc Savage
• Dog Day Afternoon — A classic "bank heist gone straight to hell" movie.
• Dolemite
• Escape to Witch Mountain
• Face to Face
• Farewell, My Lovely
• Fox and His Friends
• A Girl Named Sooner
• The Great Waldo Pepper
• Grey Gardens
• The Giant Spider Invasion
• The Hindenburg
• Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS — Trope Codifier of the Nazisploitation subgenre.
• Jakob the Liar (the original 1975 version)
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• The Killer Elite
• The Land That Time Forgot
• Lisztomania
• Love And Death
• The Man from Hong Kong
• The Man in the Glass Booth
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Master of the Flying Guillotine — A kung fu grindhouse classic about a blind evil kung fu master with the coolest weapon ever made.
• The Mirror
• Mitchell
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Nashville
• Night Moves
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing

• The Passenger
• Picnic at Hanging Rock — A classic Australian mystery which helped to revive the Australian film industry.
• Pinchcliffe Grand Prix — (Flåklypa Grand Prix) A Norwegian puppet animation.
• Race with the Devil
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show — A Cult Classic musical with an undying and crossdressing fanbase.
• Rollerball
• Rooster Cogburn
• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
• Seven Beauties
• Shampoo
• Shivers
• Sholay
• The Stepford Wives
• The Story of O — 70's film adaption based on the novel of the same name.
• The Strongest Man in the World
• The Sunshine Boys
• Switchblade Sisters
• Satan's Children
• That's the Way of the World
• Terror of Mechagodzilla — The final film of the Showa Era.
• Three Days of the Condor
• Trilogy of Terror
• Tommy
• Tubby the Tuba
• Le Vieux Fusil

• The Wind and the Lion
• The Yakuza — Directed by Sydney Pollack

1976

• 1900
• Allegro non Troppo — Italian Affectionate Parody of Fantasia
• All the President's Men
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
• At the Earth's Core
• The Bad News Bears
• Black and White in Color
• Bloodsucking Freaks
• The Blue Bird
• Bound for Glory
• The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
• Brotherhood of Death
• Bugsy Malone
• Burnt Offerings
• Carrie (1976) — Cinematic adaptation of the Stephen King classic.
• Car Wash
• La Casa Dalle Finestre Che Ridono
• Chinesisches Roulette
• Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
• The Eagle Has Landed
• Family Plot
• The First Nudie Musical
• The Food of the Gods
• Freaky Friday (1976) — The first adaptation of the book.
• The Front
• Futureworld
• Grizzly
• The Gumball Rally
• Gus
• Harlan County U.S.A.

• Heart of Glass
• In the Realm of the Senses
• Insiang
• The Irony of Fate
• Keoma
• King Kong — Ill-regarded remake.
• Kiss of the Tarantula
• The Last Hard Men
• The Last Waltz
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
• Logan's Run
• Mad Dog Morgan
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• Marathon Man
• Martin
• Midway
• Mohammad, Messenger of God AKA The Message
• Mother, Jugs & Speed
• Murder by Death
• Network — "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

• No Deposit No Return
• Obsession
• The Outlaw Josey Wales — It's Clint Eastwood's favourite film by him
• Robin and Marian
• Robot Taekwon V
• Satansbraten
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
• Sherlock Holmes in New York
• The Shootist
• Silent Movie — Mel Brooks goes postmodern. With lots of slapstick.
• Silver Streak
• Sisters of Death
• Slave of Love
• The Slipper and the Rose
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
• The Song Remains the Same
• Sparkle
• Squirm — The film that almost made Sylvester Stallone famous.
• A Star Is Born
• Sybil
• Taxi Driver — "Someday a real rain will come and wash the scum off the streets..."
• The Tenant
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown
• Track of the Moon Beast
• Tunnelvision
• The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
• Two-Minute Warning
• The Wing or the Thigh
• Who Can Kill a Child?

1977

• 3 Women
• Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
• Alice, Sweet Alice
• The American Friend
• Annie Hall — Woody Allen's most famous film. Sometimes derided by Star Wars fans for winning Best Picture.
• Apaches
• The Ascent
• Axe!
• The Beast in Heat — a Nazisploitation Video Nasty.
• Black Sunday — Terrorists will explode the blimp over the Super Bowl.
• Breaker! Breaker!
• A Bridge Too Far
• The Brothers Lionheart
• Candleshoe
• The Car
• Ceddo
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind — The other big sci-fi/fantasy film of 1977.
• Code Name: Diamond Head
• Cosmos: War of the Planets
• Cross of Iron
• Damnation Alley
• Day of the Animals
• Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
• Demon Seed
• Desperate Living
• Le diable probablement
• Dot and the Kangaroo
• Drive-In Massacre
• The Duellists
• Eaten Alive
• Equus
• Eraserhead — David Lynch's first film. Very hard to describe.
• Fight for Your Life
• The Finishing Line

• Full Circle
• Fun with Dick and Jane
• The Gauntlet
• The Goodbye Girl

• The Guy from Harlem
• Hausu
• Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
• High Anxiety
• The Hills Have Eyes
• The Hobbit — The Rankin-Bass adaptation.
• Holocaust 2000
• The Incredible Melting Man
• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• Jabberwocky
• Julia
• The Kentucky Fried Movie — First work of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team.
• Kingdom of the Spiders
• The Last Dinosaur
• The Last Remake of Beau Geste
• The Last Wave
• Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds

• Madame Rosa
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Mimino
• New York, New York
• Oh, God!
• Office Romance
• Orca: The Killer Whale
• Padre Padrone
• Pete's Dragon (1977) — A live-action film with a cel-animated dragon.
• Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
• Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
• The Rescuers
• Rollercoaster
• Rolling Thunder
• Saturday Night Fever
• The Sentinel
• Shock Waves
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
• Sleeping Dogs
• Slap Shot
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Soldier of Orange
• Sorcerer - a remake of 1953's The Wages of Fear
• A Special Day
• SST: Death Flight
• Starship Invasions
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (originally titled Star Wars) — obscure independent sci-fi adventure movie, since completely forgotten
• Stroszek — Werner Herzog's last movie starring Bruno S.
• Stunts
• Suspiria
• Telefon
• That Obscure Object of Desire
• The Turning Point
• Twilight's Last Gleaming
• The Uncanny
• Viva Knievel!
• White Bim Black Ear
• Wizards

1978

• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• The Adventures of Picasso
• The Alien Factor
• Animal House — The quintessential "wacky college hijinks" comedy.
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! — Exactly What It Says on the Tin
• Autumn Sonata
• Avalanche
• La Balladedes Dalton
• The Bermuda Depths
• Blue Sunshine
• The Boys from Brazil
• The Boys in Company C

• The Buddy Holly Story
• La Cage aux folles
• The Cat from Outer Space

• Capricorn One
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
• The Cheap Detective
• Circle of Iron
• Coma

• Coming Home
• Convoy
• Crocodile
• D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
• Days of Heaven
• The Deer Hunter — A harrowing Vietnam War movie that introduced popular culture to Russian Roulette.
• The Driver — The story of a getaway driver's life in and out of jobs. Trope Maker of The Driver.
• Drunken Master
• Every Which Way But Loose
• The Evil
• Faces of Death
• F.I.S.T.
• Five Deadly Venoms — A Shaw Brothers kung fu classic.
• Force 10 from Navarone
• Foul Play
• The Fury
• Game of Death — Bruce Lee's final film.
• Gates of Heaven
• Gray Lady Down
• Grease
• The Great Santa Claus Caper
• Halloween (1978) — The film that began the craze of 70s and 80s Slasher Movies.
• Heaven Can Wait (1978)
• Hot Lead and Cold Feet
• The Inquest of Pilot Pirx
• International Velvet
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) — A well-regarded update.
• I Spit on Your Grave — Also known as Day of the Woman, one of the most infamous Rape and Revenge films of all time.
• I Wanna Hold Your Hand
• Jennifer
• Jubilee
• Killer of Sheep
• KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
• Laserblast
• The Legacy
• Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings
• The Magic of Lassie
• Magic
• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• Message from Space — Japan's answer to Star Wars.
• Midnight Express — The Turkish Prison film.
• The Mountain of the Cannibal God
• Mr. No Legs

• Panna a netvor
• Patrick
• Piranha
• Planet of the Dinosaurs
• Pretty Baby

• Sextette
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Siberiade
• Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
• The Star Wars Holiday Special
• Summer of My German Soldier
• Superman: The Movie — "You'll believe a man can fly" with the first big comic book movie.
• The Swarm
• Thank God It's Friday
• The Thirty-Nine Steps

• The Toolbox Murders
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs
• An Unmarried Woman
• Up in Smoke
• Watership Down
• The Wild Geese
• The Wiz

1979

• 10
• 1941
• All That Jazz
• Americathon
• The Amityville Horror (1979)
• An American Christmas Carol
• ...And Justice for All
• Angels Revenge
• Apocalypse Now — The most disturbing war movie ever. "The Horror...The Horror...The Horror..."

• Being There
• Beyond the Darkness
• The Black Hole
• The Black Stallion
• Boulevard Nights
• Breaking Away
• The Brood
• Caligula
• Captain America — Reb Brown takes on the role of the star-spangled superhero
  • Captain America II: Death Too Soon
• The Castle of Cagliostro — Hayao Miyazaki does Lupin III.
• The Cat and the Canary
• The China Syndrome
• Chilly Scenes of Winter — Released as Head Over Heels, then re-released in a slightly different edit under a new title in 1982.
• City on Fire
• Clonus
• The Cuenca Crime
• Disco Godfather
• Dracula
• The Driller Killer
• The Electric Horseman
• Escape from Alcatraz — Grants Truth in Television to the most unlikely tropes.
• Escape to Athena
• Fleisch
• Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres
• Going in Style
• Hardcore - a controversial film directed by Paul Schrader (screenplay writer of Taxi Driver), starring George C. Scott
• HG Wells' The Shape of Things to Come — In-Name-Only remake
• The In-Laws
• The Jerk
• Jesus
• J-Men Forever
• The Kids Are Alright
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• Love at First Bite
• Mad Max
• Manhattan
• Meatballs
• Meteor
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• The Muppet Movie — Film debut of everyone's favorite puppets from The Muppet Show, this family comedy shows how Kermit the Frog and his friends broke into showbiz.
• Murder by Decree
• Norma Rae
• The North Avenue Irregulars
• North Sea Hijack
• Over the Edge
• The Passage
• Phantasm
• Prophecy
• Quadrophenia
• Quintet
• Rock 'n' Roll High School
• The Rose
• The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
• Scavenger Hunt
• School Waltz
• Scooby Goes Hollywood (aka Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood) — TV movie
• Scum: British film about life in the borstal; based off of a 1977 BBC teleplay.
• Stalker
• Starcrash
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Brought back the entire original cast (plus two more), ten years after the series ended.
• Supersonic Man
• Time After Time — H. G. Wells battles Jack the Ripper in THE FUTURE (well, 1979).
• The Tin Drum
• Tourist Trap
• Vengeance Is Mine
• The Villain
• The Wanderers
• The Warriors
• When a Stranger Calls
• Winter Kills
• Wise Blood
• The Wizard of Speed and Time
• Wolfman
• Woyzeck
• Zombi 2

Notable Cartoon Shorts

The Dark Age of Animation hit rock bottom during this era, as the Hollywood studios got out of the theatrical shorts business and television animation was generally cheap and of poor quality.

• The Ant and the Aardvark — theatrical series ran through 1971
• Banjo the Woodpile Cat (1979) — Forced into becoming a half-hour short due to budget restraints.
• Bead Game (1977)
• Chilly Willy — theatrical cartoons ended in 1972
• A Christmas Carol (1971) (1971)
• Closed Mondays (1974)
• The Crunch Bird (1971)
• Every Child (1979)
• Evolution (1971)
• The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973)
• Firing Range (1977)
• Frank Film (1973)
• Fuji (1974)
• Heron And Crane (1974)
• Hot Stuff (1971)
• Hunger (1974)
• Is It Always Right to Be Right? (1970)
• Kick Me (1975)
• The Killing of an Egg (1977)
• Leisure (1976)
• Monsieur Pointu (1975)
• The Pink Panther: Theatrical cartoons ran from 1971 to 1977; some episodes of the 1978-1980 TV show later got shown in theaters.
• Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
• The Sand Castle (1977)
• The Small One (1978)
• Special Delivery (1978)
• The Street (1976)
• Tup Tup (1971)
• Woody Woodpecker: One of the last holdovers from The Golden Age of Animation, the series finally ended in 1972.

Notable Live-Action Shorts

• The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977)
• Angel and Big Joe (1975)
• Frog Story (1972)
• Hardware Wars (1978)
• I, an Actress (1977)
• I'll Find a Way (1977)
• Multiple SIDosis (1970)
• Nostalgia (1971)
• One-Eyed Men Are Kings (1974)
• Powers of Ten (1977)
• Recorded Live (1975)
• Solly's Diner (1979)
• The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970)

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