The Top 250 Movies of the 1970s

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The Top 250 Movies of the 1970s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas PG -
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola R -
12 The Godfather Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola R -
18 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott R -
30 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones PG -
32 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman R -
49 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese R -
61 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola R -
67 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg PG -
71 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski R -
76 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick R -
91 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
100 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen PG -
106 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet R -
109 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
128 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick PG -
134 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog NR -
144 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick PG -
177 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen PG -
181 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula PG -
182 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill PG -
184 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet R -
194 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart G -
201 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman R -
215 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick PG -
218 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin R -
220 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks PG -
232 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones R -
239 Paper Moon 1973 Peter Bogdanovich PG -
254 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen R -
255 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich R -
260 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin PG -
268 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin R -
272 Le Cercle Rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville R -
273 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento R -
274 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman R -
276 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino R -
278 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks R -
289 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky PG -
299 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
302 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman R -
315 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby PG -
319 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby PG -
323 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese R -
327 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes R -
329 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent R -
330 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky R -
335 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg PG -
352 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman R -
357 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci R -
385 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood PG -
404 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby R -
410 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel R -
417 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse R -
426 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel NR -
432 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood R -
456 The Man Who Would Be King 1975 John Huston PG -
461 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner PG -
491 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento R -
493 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse R -
495 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson R -
500 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles NR -
504 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut PG -
510 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman PG -
512 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet R -
523 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg R -
537 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah R -
539 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill R -
542 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini R -
548 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman NR -
554 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger R -
556 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich G -
558 Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen PG -
559 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder NR -
561 Animal House 1978 John Landis R -
568 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero NR -
578 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack R -
583 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch NR -
590 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir PG -
593 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 Ingmar Bergman PG -
597 House 1977 Nobuhiko Ôbayashi NR -
603 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy R -
611 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter R -
620 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner R -
622 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz PG -
623 Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg PG -
646 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman PG -
647 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner PG -
656 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg PG -
664 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill R -
665 Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark R -
713 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice NR -
721 The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann PG -
733 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates PG -
736 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse PG -
738 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas PG -
742 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper R -
747 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah R -
751 Superman 1978 Richard Donner PG -
778 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman R -
781 MASH 1970 Robert Altman R -
785 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter R -
801 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell NR -
821 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma PG -
822 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky NR -
836 Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman NR -
854 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges R -
857 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley G -
868 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton PG -
875 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa G -
882 Kelly's Heroes 1970 Brian G. Hutton PG -
884 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog PG -
901 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Peter Yates R -
909 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 Sydney Pollack PG -
910 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma R -
927 Duck, You Sucker 1971 Sergio Leone PG -
938 The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese PG -
943 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Don Siegel PG -
944 Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro 1979 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
947 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel NR -
956 Lady Snowblood 1973 Toshiya Fujita NR -
965 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner R -
995 Mad Max 1979 George Miller R -
1011 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese PG -
1017 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn R -
1024 The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 1978 Chia-Liang Liu R -
1027 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski R -
1038 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Dario Argento NR -
1047 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah PG -
1052 Rocky II 1979 Sylvester Stallone PG -
1056 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula R -
1070 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel PG -
1071 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen PG -
1082 Wake in Fright 1971 Ted Kotcheff R -
1083 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison NR -
1097 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes R -
1115 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974 Werner Herzog NR -
1121 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker R -
1143 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula R -
1146 Stroszek 1977 Werner Herzog NR -
1147 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni PG -
1173 Play It Again, Sam 1972 Herbert Ross PG -
1177 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah R -
1179 Sisters 1972 Brian De Palma R -
1200 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges PG -
1203 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough R -
1213 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet PG -
1224 Frenzy 1972 Alfred Hitchcock R -
1242 Magnum Force 1973 Ted Post R -
1259 The Duellists 1977 Ridley Scott PG -
1277 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn PG13 -
1295 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser PG -
1298 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes PG13 -
1309 Lenny 1974 Bob Fosse R -
1314 Robin Hood 1973 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
1344 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman R -
1345 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill R -
1346 The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg R -
1386 Drunken Master 1978 Woo-ping Yuen PG13 -
1391 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko NR -
1408 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer NR -
1412 Fantastic Planet 1973 René Laloux PG -
1413 Vanishing Point 1971 Richard C. Sarafian R -
1415 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin R -
1418 Bananas 1971 Woody Allen PG13 -
1423 Harlan County U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple PG -
1425 Time After Time 1979 Nicholas Meyer PG -
1482 And Now for Something Completely Different 1971 Ian MacNaughton PG -
1496 Zombie 1979 Lucio Fulci R -
1510 ...and justice for all. 1979 Norman Jewison R -
1519 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen PG -
1526 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder R -
1545 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh R -
1550 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton PG -
1570 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Lewis Gilbert PG -
1575 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg R -
1588 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross PG -
1606 Murder by Death 1976 Robert Moore PG -
1621 Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel R -
1639 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols R -
1651 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 Robert Fuest PG13 -
1669 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson PG -
1685 Live and Let Die 1973 Guy Hamilton PG -
1697 Blue Collar 1978 Paul Schrader R -
1698 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci NC17 -
1706 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer PG -
1713 Scarecrow 1973 Jerry Schatzberg R -
1725 Theater of Blood 1973 Douglas Hickox R -
1730 Martin 1977 George A. Romero R -
1736 Phantasm 1979 Don Coscarelli R -
1760 Smokey and the Bandit 1977 Hal Needham PG -
1766 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 1970 Elio Petri R -
1777 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame PG -
1780 THX 1138 1971 George Lucas R -
1785 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff R -
1795 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu NR -
1823 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer PG -
1827 A New Leaf 1971 Elaine May G -
1848 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette NR -
1866 Play Misty for Me 1971 Clint Eastwood R -
1878 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 Michael Cimino R -
1883 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Luis Buñuel R -
1908 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby R -
1919 The Longest Yard 1974 Robert Aldrich R -
1923 The Bad News Bears 1976 Michael Ritchie PG -
1931 The Cowboys 1972 Mark Rydell PG -
1938 The Big Boss 1971 Wei Lo R -
1941 Silent Running 1972 Douglas Trumbull PG -
1976 The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 Sam Peckinpah NR -
1980 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman R -
1982 The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 Guy Hamilton PG -
1992 Hardcore 1979 Paul Schrader R -
1996 The Last of Sheila 1973 Herbert Ross PG -
1997 The Way of the Dragon 1972 Bruce Lee R -
1998 The Andromeda Strain 1971 Robert Wise G -
2008 Death Race 2000 1975 Paul Bartel R -
2020 Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970 Don Siegel PG -
2021 Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance 1972 Kenji Misumi NR -
2032 My Name Is Nobody 1973 Tonino Valerii NR -
2050 Carnal Knowledge 1971 Mike Nichols R -
2059 The Boys From Brazil 1978 Franklin J. Schaffner R -
2069 The In-Laws 1979 Arthur Hiller PG -
2082 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wim Wenders NR -
2101 The Front 1976 Martin Ritt PG -
2105 California Split 1974 Robert Altman R -
2116 Fist of Fury 1972 Wei Lo R -
2135 The Legend of Hell House 1973 John Hough PG -
2154 Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah R -
2159 World on a Wire 1973 Rainer Werner Fassbinder NR -
2166 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett NR -
2168 Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Guy Hamilton PG -
2184 Mikey and Nicky 1976 Elaine May R -
2192 The Enforcer 1976 James Fargo R -
2224 Death Wish 1974 Michael Winner R -
2242 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders NR -
2251 Don't Torture a Duckling 1972 Lucio Fulci NR -
2253 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer PG -
2254 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin PG -
2261 Straight Time 1978 Ulu Grosbard R -
2263 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx 1972 Kenji Misumi NR -
2272 Interiors 1978 Woody Allen PG -
2288 Real Life 1979 Albert Brooks PG -
2289 Gates of Heaven 1978 Errol Morris PG -
2293 Death on the Nile 1978 John Guillermin PG -
2302 Norma Rae 1979 Martin Ritt PG -
2312 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1977 Wolfgang Reitherman G -
2324 High Anxiety 1977 Mel Brooks PG -
2326 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller PG -
2334 Coffy 1973 Jack Hill R -
2344 Rolling Thunder 1977 John Flynn R -

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