Films of the 1970s

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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)
• 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)
• Daughters of Satan (1972)
• 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 Night Stalker (1972)
  • The Night Strangler (1973)
• Nihon No Don trilogy
• The Omen
  • The Omen (1976)
  • Damien: Omen II (1978)
• OSS 117
  • OSS 117 takes a Vacation (1970)
  • OSS 117 kills the Horsefly (1971)
• 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)
• Star Wars
  • Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, originally titled Star Wars)
• 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
• Waldemar Daninsky series:
  • The Fury of the Wolf Man (1970)
  • The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman (1970)
  • Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf (1971)
  • Curse of the Devil (1973)
  • Night of the Howling Beast (1975)

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1970

• Adios, Sabata

• Alex In Wonderland
• And God Said to Cain...
• And Soon the Darkness
• The Aristocats
• Atlantic Wall
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue
• Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair
• The Bear and the Doll
• Bed and Board
• 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
• Blind Woman's Curse
• The Blood Waters of Dr. Z
• Borsalino
• Le Boucher
• The Boys in the Band — The first mainstream gay film.
• Brewster McCloud
• Brothers Five
• They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
• 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
• The Chinese Boxer
• Claire's Knee
• Cold Sweat
• Colossus: The Forbin Project
• Compañeros
• The Conformist
• Count Dracula
• Cry Blood, Apache
• Darling Lili

• Dodes'ka-den
• Even Dwarfs Started Small — Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Surprisingly enough, not exploitative.
• First Love
• Five Easy Pieces
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
• Le Gendarme en balade
• Gimme Shelter
• Heads For Sale
• Hell's Bloody Devils
• The Heroic Ones
• Hoa-Binh
• L'Homme orchestre
• 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
• The Iron Buddha
• Joe
• Kelly's Heroes — World War II comedy about soldiers who try to rob a bank.
• Lady Of Steel
• Last Known Address
• Let It Be — The classic, lost Beatles documentary.
• Little Big Man
• The Losers
• Love Story — The seminal 70's Tear Jerker.
• A Man Called Horse
• Mark of the Devil
• M*A*S*H — Before the television series, there was the movie.
• The Molly Maguires
• Multiple Maniacs
• Myra Breckinridge
• Ned Kelly
• No Blade of Grass
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
• The Out-of-Towners
• The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

• Paix sur les champs
• Patton
• Performance
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• Pound
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• Rio Lobo
• Ryan's Daughter
• San Francisco International Airport
• The Secret of the Dirk
• Scream and Scream Again
• Scrooge
• The Singing Killer
• Soldier Blue
• Space Amoeba
• Start the Revolution Without Me
• The Student Nurses
• Swordswomen Three
• Tchaikovsky
• There Was a Crooked Man...
• El Topo
• A Taste Of Cold Steel
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Tristana
• Trog
• The Twelve Chairs
• The Twelve Gold Medallions
• Two Mules for Sister Sara
• Uomini Contro
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
• Valley of the Fangs
• The Vampire Lovers
• Vengeance! (1970)
• The Wandering Swordsman
• Waterloo
• Watermelon Man
• When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
• Wheres Poppa
• The Wizard of Gore — Technically made in 1968, but unreleased until 1970.
• Woodstock
• Zabriskie Point

1971

• $, aka Dollars
• 10 Rillington Place
• 200 Motels
• The Anderson Tapes
• Battal Gazi
• Blood Of The Dragon
• The Brave And The Evil
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Anonymous Heroes
• Bananas
• Battle of Okinawa
• A Bay of Blood
• Beast of the Yellow Night
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• The Beguiled
• The Big Boss — Bruce Lee's first starring role.
• The Big Doll House
• Big Jake
• Billy Jack — Was actually a sequel to a movie Born Losers
• The Black Belly of the Tarantula
• Bless the Beasts & Children
• Blindman
• The Blood on Satan's Claw

• Brian's Song
• The Brotherhood of Satan
• Call to Arms
• Carnal Knowledge
• The Cat o' Nine Tails
• City Beneath the Sea
• A Clockwork Orange —Stanley Kubrick's controversial dystopian vision of the future.
• Cold Turkey
• The Corpse Grinders
• Countess Dracula
• The Crimson Charm
• Daughters of Darkness
• Day of the Wolves
• The Deadly Duo
• Death in Venice
• Delusions of Grandeur
• The Deserter
• The Devils
• Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde
• Don't Turn the Other Cheek!
• Drive, He Said
• Duel — Launched Steven Spielberg's movie career.
• Duel of the Ironfist (NOT to be confused with the Spielberg movie right above)
• Duel For Gold
• The Emigrants
• The Eunuch
• 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.
• Friends
• Furious Slaughter
• The Gatling Gun (shot in 1969, but not released until 1971)
• Get Carter
• The Go-Between
• The Golden Lion
• The Golden Seal
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah — This is your Godzilla on drugs. Any questions?
• Goodbye Uncle Tom
• A Gunfight
• Hands of the Ripper
• Hannie Caulder
• Harold and Maude
• The Hired Hand
• 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
• The Invincible Sword
• Jo
• Johnny Got His Gun
• Juste avant la nuit
• King Eagle
• Klute
• Lady Frankenstein
• The Lady Hermit
• The Last Movie
• The Last Picture Show
• The Last Valley
• The Legend of Frenchie King
• The Light at the Edge of the World
• The Long Chase
• Macbeth — the Roman Polanski version
• Malpertuis
• Man in the Wilderness
• Le Mans
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Melody (S.W.A.L.K.)
• The Mephisto Waltz
• The Mighty One
• Mon Oncle Antoine
• Morte a Venezia
• A New Leaf
• Nicholas and Alexandra
• Oath Of Death
• The Omega Man
• The Organization
• The Panic in Needle Park
• Play Misty for Me — Clint Eastwood's directorial debut.
• Plaza Suite
• The Point
• Pretty Maids All in a Row
• Property of the Republic — A Soviet adventure flick set in the 1920s.
• Punishment Park
• Rage of the Master
• Red Sun
• The Rescue (1971)
• Return of Sabata
• A Safe Place (1971)
• Santo vs. la hija de Frankestein (Santo versus Frankenstein's Daughter)
• Shadow Whip
• Shaft — Can ya dig it?
• Shinbone Alley
• Six Assassins
• Straw Dogs — 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.
• The Swift Knight
• 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
• Trafic
• They Call Me Trinity
• Twins of Evil
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• Valdez is Coming
• Vampire Circus
• Vanishing Point
• The Velvet Vampire
• Vengeance Of A Snow Girl
• 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.
• The Winged Tiger
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
• Yuma
• Zachariah
• Zeppelin

1972

• 1776
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• The Amazing Mr. Blunden
• An American Hippie in Israel
• Asylum
• L'aventure, c'est l'aventure
• Beware! The Blob
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• The Black Enforcer
• Black Mama, White Mama
• Black Rage
• Blacula
• Bluebeard
• The Boxer From Shantung
• Boxcar Bertha
• Butterflies Are Free
• Cabaret
• The Candidate
• The Casino
• Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
• Chloe in the Afternoon
• The Cowboys
• Cries and Whispers
• The Culpepper Cattle Co.
• Curse of the Headless Horseman
• Daigoro vs. Goliath
• The Dawns Here Are Quiet
• The Day the Clown Cried — Made in '72 but never released publicly.
• Death Line
• 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
• Doomsday Machine
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again
• The Deadly Knives - it's no surprise that this movie is released the same time as Fist of Fury listed below, is it?
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
• Emma - miniseries starring Doran Godwin.
• Evil Roy Slade — A made-for-television film.
• Finger Of Doom
• Fist of Fury
• Five Fingers Of Death
• Fourteen Amazons
• The Flesh and Blood Show
• The Flower Girl
• Four Riders
• Frenzy
• Fritz the Cat
• Frogs
• Ganja & Hess
• 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.
• Hardcase
• The Harder They Come
• The Heartbreak Kid
• Horror Express
• The Hot Rock
• Images
• The Imperial Swordsman
• The Island at the Top of the World
• Jeremiah Johnson
• Joe Kidd
• Keep Off My Grass!
• The King of Marvin Gardens
• Koshish
• Lady Caroline Lamb
• The Last House on the Left
• Last Tango in Paris
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
• Man of Iron (1972)
• Man of La Mancha
• Ma Su-zhen - for all versions of the character
• The Mattei Affair
• The Mechanic
• The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
• The New Land
• Night Call Nurses
• 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
• Pursuit
• One-Armed Boxer
• The Revengers
• Roma
• The Ruling Class
• Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
• Santo y Blue Demon contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo
• Silent Running
• Slap the Monster on Page One
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Sleuth
• Snoopy, Come Home
• The Snowball Express
• Solaris — Tarkovsky version
• Sounder
• State Of Siege
• The Suckers
• Super Fly
• Tales from the Crypt
• The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
• Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
• Travels with My Aunt
• Trilogy of Swordsmanship
• Un Burattino Di Nome Pinocchio
• Up The Sandbox

• La Vallée — obscure film known mostly for its Pink Floyd soundtrack.

• The Valachi Papers
• The Water Margin
• Way of the Dragon — Bruce Lee versus Chuck Norris.
• What Have You Done to Solange?
• What's Up, Doc?
• The Wrath of God
• The Young Avenger
• Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth)

1973

• Alvin Purple
• Amarcord — a Federico Fellini classic.
• American Graffiti — "Where were you in '62?"
• Anamika
• And Now the Screaming Starts!
• The Baby
• Badlands
• The Bastard
• Beach Of The War Gods
• Belladonna of Sadness
• The Black Six
• Black Caesar/Hell Up In Harlem
• Blackenstein
• The Black Hand
• Blood Brothers (1973)
• Blood for Dracula
• Blood Orgy of the She-Devils

• The Candy Snatchers
• Cannibal Girls
• Charley Varrick
• Charlotte's Web (1973)
• Cleopatra Jones
• Coffy
• The Crazies
• Day for Night
• The Day of the Jackal — Famous thriller, a race to stop mysterious assassin from killing Charles de Gaulle.
• Dillinger
• Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman
• Don't be Afraid of the Dark
• Don't Look Now
• Emmanuelle
• Emperor of the North aka Emperor of the North Pole
• Enter the Dragon — Bruce Lee takes America by storm.
• The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
• Fantastic Planet — bizarre and trippy Dali-esque animated fable.
• Flesh for Frankenstein
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• Go Ask Alice
• Godspell
• Godzilla vs. Megalon
• La Grande Bouffe
• Heavy Traffic
• Heroes of Sung
• Heroes of the Underground
• High Plains Drifter
• The Holy Mountain
• The Horror at 37,000 Feet
• The House on Chelouche Street
• Invasion of the Bee Girls
• The Iron Bodyguard
• Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Lady Snowblood
• The Last Detail
• The Last of Sheila
• Lisa and the Devil
• Lolly-Madonna XXX
• The Long Goodbye
• Ludwig
• The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
• Le Magnifique
• Magnum Force
• Manson
• A Man Called Tiger
• Mean Streets
• Moscow — Cassiopeia
• The Mother and the Whore
• My Name Is Nobody
• Na Cha - Na Cha and the Seven Devils (1973) and Na Cha The Great (1974) both goes here
• Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
• The Paper Chase
• Paper Moon
• Papillon
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
• Payment In Blood
• The Pedestrian
• Robin Hood
• Sannikov Land
• Save The Tiger
• Scarecrow
• Scenes from a Marriage
• Scorpio
• 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
• Three Big Men
• The Three Musketeers
• Thriller: A Cruel Picture
• Torso

• Trained to Kill, USA
• Turkish Delight
• Up the Chastity Belt
• Vault of Horror
• Walking Tall
• War Goddess
• The Way We Were
• The Werewolf of Washington
• Westworld
• White Lightning
• The Wicker Man
• Wonder Women
• The World's Greatest Athlete
• Zanjeer
• Zindy, the Swamp-Boy

1974

• Act of Vengeance
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Alice in the Cities
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
• At Home Among Strangers
• Bad Ronald
• Bank Shot
• The Beast Must Die
• Black Christmas
• The Black Godfather
• Blazing Saddles — Spoof of The Western genre.
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
• Busting
• Caged Heat
• 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
• Daisy Miller
• Dark Star
• Death Wish — A revenge movie classic, quite shocking for its time.
• Diamonds on Wheels
• Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
• Down and Dirty Duck
• Earthquake
• East Meets Watts
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
• Le fantôme de la liberté
• Female Trouble
• Five Dolls for an August Moon
• Five Shaolin Masters
• F for Fake (Vérités et mensonges)

• Foxy Brown
• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
• Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
• The Freakmaker
• Frightmare
• From Beyond the Grave
• The Front Page
• 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
• Heroes Two
• Himiko
• House of Whipcord
• It Lives by Night (aka The Bat People)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1974) — a somewhat trippy animated retelling from Japan.
• Juggernaut
• Killdozer!
• The Klansman
• Knife for the Ladies
• Lacombe, Lucien
• Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
• Lancelot du Lac
• Lenny
• The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
• The Longest Yard
• Madhouse
• Magical Disappearing Money
• The Maids
• Mame
• La moutarde me monte au nez
• Mr. Majestyk
• Murder on the Orient Express
• The Night Porter
• The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
• The Odessa File
• Open Season
• The Parallax View
• Pastoral To Die In The Country
• Patayin Mo Sa Sindak Si Barbara
• Phantom of the Paradise
• Phase IV
• Il Profumo Della Signora In Nero
• Profumo di donna — later remade in Hollywood as Scent of a Woman
• Prophecies of Nostradamus
• Rabid Dogs: Directed by Mario Bava but he died before finishing it and Lamberto, his son ended up finishing the movie.
• A Reflection Of Fear
• 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
• Scream Of The Wolf
• Shaolin Martial Arts
• 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
• Three the Hard Way
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• The Towering Inferno — The prototypical disaster-in-a-high-rise movie.
• Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
• Les Valseuses
• Vase de Noces
• Village Of Tigers
• Virgins Of The Seven Seas - what happens if you cross Shaw Brothers kung fu with German porn?
• Watch Out, We're Mad!
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• The Wild and the Brave
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Wonder Woman
• The Yakuza — Directed by Sydney Pollack
• Young Frankenstein — Mel Brooks does to Universal Horror what he did to the Western with Blazing Saddles.
• Zardoz

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1975

• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
• Alkitrang Dugo
• 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
• Brannigan
• Breakheart Pass
• The Bullet Train
• The Candy Tangerine Man
• Chupke Chupke
• Conduct Unbecoming
• Cooley High
• Coonskin
• Cousin Cousine
• Criminally Insane
• The Day of the Locust
• Deafula
• Death Race 2000
• Deep Red
• Deewaar
• The Devil Within Her
• Dersu Uzala
• Disciples Of Shaolin
• Doc Savage
• Dog Day Afternoon — A classic "bank heist gone straight to hell" movie.
• Dolemite
• The Dragon Missile - Flying Guillotine who?
• The Eiger Sanction
• Escape to Witch Mountain
• Face to Face
• Farewell, My Lovely
• Flying Guillotine
• The Fortune
• Fox and His Friends
• The Giant Spider Invasion
• A Girl Named Sooner
• The Great Waldo Pepper
• Grey Gardens
• Hester Street
• The Hindenburg
• The Super Inframan
• Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS — Trope Codifier of the Nazisploitation subgenre.
• The Imposter
• Jacob the Liar
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• The Killer Elite
• The Land That Time Forgot
• Lion Man
• Lisztomania
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
• Love and Death
• The Man from Hong Kong
• The Man in the Glass Booth
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Marco Polo - also known as Four Assassins
• 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
• Operation Daybreak
• Overlord

• Pas de problème !
• The Passenger
• Peur sur la ville
• 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.
• The Promised Land
• 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
• Satan's Children
• Savage Man, Savage Beast
• Seven Beauties
• Shampoo
• Sheba, Baby
• Shivers
• Sholay
• Slade in Flame
• The Stepford Wives
• The Story of Adele H
• 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
• 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

• White Line Fever
• The Wind and the Lion
• The Young Rebel
• Zorro (1975)

1976

• 1900
• 7 Man Army
• Allegro non Troppo — Italian Affectionate Parody of Fantasia
• All the President's Men
• A*P*E — South Korean King Kong mockbuster
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
• At the Earth's Core
• The Bad News Bears
• The Big Bus
• Black and White in Color
• Bloodsucking Freaks
• The Blue Bird
• Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw
• Boxer Rebellion
• Bound for Glory
• The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
• Breaking Point (1976)
• Brotherhood of Death
• Bugsy Malone
• Burnt Offerings
• Carrie — Cinematic adaptation of the Stephen King classic.
• Car Wash
• La Casa Dalle Finestre Che Ridono
• Fellini's Casanova
• The Cassandra Crossing
• Chinesisches Roulette
• Cría Cuervos
• Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
• Don's Party
• The Drug Connection
• The Eagle Has Landed
• Exposé
• Family Plot — Alfred Hitchcock's last movie
• The First Nudie Musical
• The Food of the Gods
• Freaky Friday — The first adaptation of the book.
• The Front
• Futureworld
• God's Gun
• God Told Me To
• The Great Houdinis
• Grizzly
• The Gumball Rally
• Gus
• Harlan County U.S.A.

• Heart of Glass
• Hollywood on Trial
• Insiang
• In the Realm of the Senses
• The Irony of Fate
• Island of Death
• Jack the Ripper (1976)
• The Judge and the Assassin
• Keoma
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
• King Kong — Ill-regarded remake.
• Kiss of the Tarantula
• The Last Hard Men
• Letters From Marusia
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
• Logan's Run
• Mad Dog Morgan
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• Marathon Man
• Martin
• Midway
• Mikey and Nicky
• Mohammad, Messenger of God AKA The Message
• Mother, Jugs & Speed
• Mr Rossi Looks For Happiness
• Murder by Death
• Network — "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
• Next Stop, Greenwich Village
• No Deposit, No Return
• Obsession
• Oily Maniac - Shaw Brothers dabbles in Malaysian Folk Horror. It's so not cool.
• The Outlaw Josey Wales — It's Clint Eastwood's favourite film by him
• The Ritz — One of the first gay-themed comedies released by a major studio.
• Robin and Marian
• Robot Taekwon V
• Satansbraten
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
• The Shaolin Temple (1976)
• Shaolin Wooden Men
• Sherlock Holmes in New York
• The Shootist
• Shout at the Devil
• 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 Snake Prince
• The Song Remains the Same
• Sparkle
• Squirm — The film that almost made Sylvester Stallone famous.
• A Star Is Born
• Survive!
• Swashbuckler
• Sybil
• Taxi Driver — "Someday a real rain will come and wash the scum off the streets..."
• The Tenant
• Tora's Pure Love
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown
• Track of the Moon Beast
• Tunnelvision
• The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
• Two-Minute Warning
• Up (1976)
• Web Of Death
• The Wing or the Thigh
• Who Can Kill a Child?

1977

• 3 Women
• ABBA: The Movie
• Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
• Alice, Sweet Alice
• Amar Akbar Anthony
• The American Friend
• Andy Warhol's Bad
• Annie Hall — Woody Allen's most famous film. Sometimes derided by Star Wars fans for winning Best Picture.
• Apaches
• The Ascent
• Audrey Rose
• 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
• Crippled Avengers
• Cross of Iron
• Damnation Alley
• Day of the Animals
• Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
• Death Duel
• 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.
• Executioners From Shaolin
• Fight for Your Life
• Fraulein Devil
• Full Circle
• Fun with Dick and Jane
• The Gauntlet
• The Goodbye Girl
• Grand Theft Auto — A movie Directed by Ron Howard which is unrelated to the video game series.
• 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
• Iphigenia
• The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Jabberwocky
• Jade Tiger
• Judgement of an Assassin
• 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
• The Little Witch
• Looking For Mr Goodbar
• The Magic Blade - the entire trilogy uses the same page
• Madame Rosa
• The Man Who Loved Women
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• The Mighty Peking Man
• Mimino
• The Mouse and His Child
• The Naval Commandos
• New York, New York
• Office Romance
• Oh, God!
• Operation Thunderbolt
• Orca: The Killer Whale
• Padre Padrone
• Pete's Dragon (1977) — A live-action film with a cel-animated dragon.
• Rabid
• Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
• Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
• The Rescuers
• Rollercoaster
• Rolling Thunder
• Saturday Night Fever
• The Sentimental Swordsman - entire trilogy, with the second film released in 1981
• The Sentinel
• Shock Waves
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
• Slap Shot
• Sleeping Dogs
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Soldier of Orange
• Sorcerer - a remake of 1953's The Wages of Fear
• Soul of the Sword
• A Special Day
• SST: Death Flight
• Starship Invasions
• Stroszek — Werner Herzog's last movie starring Bruno S.
• Stunts
• Suspiria (1977)
• Telefon
• That Obscure Object of Desire
• The Turning Point (1977)
• 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
• August Without Emperor
• Autumn Sonata
• Avalanche
• The Avenging Eagle
• La Ballade des Dalton
• Batalha dos Guararapes
• The Bermuda Depths
• Blue Sunshine
• The Boys from Brazil
• The Boys in Company C
• Brass Target
• The Buddy Holly Story
• Building Sites Bite
• La Cage aux folles
• California Suite
• Capricorn One
• The Cat from Outer Space
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
• The Cheap Detective
• Child of Glass
• Circle of Iron
• Coma

• Coming Home
• Convoy
• Corvette Summer
• Crocodile
• D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
• Days of Heaven
• Death on the Nile
• 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
• Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
• Girlfriends
• Go Tell the Spartans
• Gray Lady Down
• Grease
• The Great Santa Claus Caper
• Halloween — The film that began the craze of 70s and 80s Slasher Movies.
• Heaven Can Wait
• Hot Lead and Cold Feet
• Hungarians
• 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
• King of the Gypsies
• KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
• Laserblast
• The Last Waltz
• The Legacy
• Long Weekend
• Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings
• Magic
• The Magic of Lassie
• The Manitou
• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• The Medusa Touch
• Message from Space — Japan's answer to Star Wars.
• Midnight Express — The Turkish Prison film.
• Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
• Money Movers
• The Mountain of the Cannibal God
• Mr. No Legs

• Panna a netvor
• Patrick
• Piranha
• Planet of the Dinosaurs
• Pretty Baby
• Return from Witch Mountain
• Ringing Bell
• Satyam Shivam Sundaram
• Sextette
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Shaolin Mantis
• The Shout
• Siberiade
• The Silent Partner
• 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 Time Machine (1978)
• The Toolbox Murders
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs
• An Unmarried Woman
• Up in Smoke
• Vengeful Beauty
• Watership Down

• The Wild Geese
• The Wiz
• La Zizanie

1979

• 10
• 1941
• Abbot Of Shaolin
• All That Jazz
• Americathon
• The Amityville Horror
• An American Christmas Carol
• ...And Justice for All
• ...And Your Name Is Jonah
• 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
• The Brothers (1979)
• Caligula
• Captain America — Reb Brown takes on the role of the star-spangled superhero
• The Castle of Cagliostro — Hayao Miyazaki does Lupin III.
• The Cat and the Canary
• Chilly Scenes of Winter — Released as Head Over Heels, then re-released in a slightly different edit under a new title in 1982.
• The China Syndrome
• City on Fire
• Clonus
• Cop or Hood
• The Cuenca Crime
• The Dark
• Disaster on the Coastliner
• 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
• The Frisco Kid
• Full Moon Scimitar
• Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres
• Giallo in Venice
• Going in Style
• Hair
• Hardcore - a controversial film directed by Paul Schrader (screenplay writer of Taxi Driver), starring George C. Scott
• The Human Factor
• HG Wells' The Shape of Things to Come — In Name Only remake

• The In-Laws
• Island of the Fishmen
• The Jerk
• Jesus
• J-Men Forever
• The Kids Are Alright
• The Kid With The Golden Arm
• Killer Fish
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• The Kung Fu Instructor
• Life Gamble
• Like Normal People
• Love at First Bite
• Mad Max
• Mad Monkey Kung Fu
• The Maids of Wilko
• Mama Turns 100
• Manhattan
• Meatballs
• Meteor
• Mistress of the Apes
• 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
• My Brilliant Career
• Norma Rae
• The North Avenue Irregulars
• North Sea Hijack
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• The Odd Angry Shot
• 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 (1979)
• 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.
• Série noire
• Seven
• Snapshot
• Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
• Stalker
• Starcrash
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Brought back the entire original cast (plus two more), ten years after the series ended.

• Supersonic Man
• Tess
• 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 Visitor
• Vlad Tepes
• The Wanderers
• The Warriors
• When a Stranger Calls
• Winter Kills
• Wise Blood
• The Wizard of Speed and Time
• Wolfman
• Woyzeck
• Zombi 2

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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
• Balablok
• 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)
• Closed Mondays (1974)
• The Crunch Bird (1971)
• The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978)
• A Doonesbury Special (1977)
• Dream Doll (1979)
• Every Child (1979)
• Evolution (1971)
• The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973)
• Firing Range (1977)
• Frank Film (1973)
• Fuji (1974)
• The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam (1970)
• Harpya (1979)
• Heron And Crane (1974)
• Hot Stuff (1971)
• Hunger (1974)
• Icarus and Wisemen (1976)
• Is It Always Right to Be Right? (1970)
• It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House (1979)
• Jimmy The C (1977)
• Kama Sutra Rides Again (1973)
• Kick Me (1975)
• The Killing of an Egg (1977)
• Lautrec (1974)
• Leisure (1976)
• The Legend of John Henry (1974)
• Monsieur Pointu (1975)
• Oh My Darling (1978)
• Ostrov (1973)
• The Pink Panther: Theatrical cartoons ran from 1971 to 1977; some episodes of the 1978-1980 TV show later got shown in theaters.
• Pulcinella (1973)
• Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
• Rip Van Winkle (1978)
• The Sand Castle (1977)
• The Selfish Giant (1972)
• The Small One (1978)
• Special Delivery (1978)
• The Street (1976)
• Tup Tup (1971)
• Voyage to Next (1974)
• Woody Woodpecker: One of the last holdovers from The Golden Age of Animation, the series finally ended in 1972.

Live-Action Shorts

• The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977)
• All the Troubles of the World (1978)
• Angel and Big Joe (1975)
• Board and Care (1979)
• A Different Approach (1978)
• Doubletalk (1975)
• The Finishing Line (1977)
• Frog Story (1972)
• The Grandmother (1970)
• Hardware Wars (1978)
• I Am Somebody (1970)
• I, an Actress (1977)
• I'll Find a Way (1977)
• Life Times Nine (1973)
• Mandy's Grandmother (1978)
• Multiple SIDosis (1970)
• Nostalgia (1971)
• One-Eyed Men Are Kings (1974)
• Peege (1973)
• Powers of Ten (1977)
• Progress Island U.S.A. (1973)
• Recorded Live (1975)
• The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970)
• Solly's Diner (1979)
• Teenage Father (1978)

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