# Top 25 Movies of the 1970s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1970s/841330 "2019-10-05T21:44:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1970s/841330/21 "2019-10-07T18:48:30Z")
I really liked Paper Moon. Still do. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1970s/841330/22 "2019-10-07T20:57:46Z")
> [@eunoia](#): > > What a difference a decade makes! If France owned the 60s, the US owned the 70s. > [@Lantern](#): > > Undoubtedly a great decade for American cinema and quite remarkable how so many young filmmakers emerged at the same time: Coppola, Scorcese, Spielberg, Lucas, Woody Allen, along with Robert Altman who was a bit older but emerged then. Also remarkable that Scorcese and Spielberg in particular are still going quite strong. Not so remarkable in that the Hays Code ended in 1968, which had stifled Hollywood movies with moral requirements since the 30s. Of course the 70s saw an explosion of creativity and quality. How many of the movies listed in this thread would have passed muster under the Hays Code? It essentially required every movie to be rated G. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1970s/841330/23 "2019-10-11T13:55:25Z")
I’d add _The Spy Who Loved Me_ to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1970s/841330/24 "2019-10-14T15:37:54Z")
These are the 1970’s films among my 100 favorite films: _Alien_ (1979, U.S., dir. Ridley Scott) _Amarcord_ (1974, Italy, dir. Federico Fellini) _Annie Hall_ (1977, U.S., dir. Woody Allen) _Apocalypse Now_ (1979, U.S., dir. Francis Ford Coppola) _Barry Lyndon_ (1975, U.K., dir. Stanley Kubrick) _Carrie_ (1976, U.S., dir. Brian De Palma) _Chinatown_ (1974, U.S., dir. Roman Polanski) _Chungking Express_ (1994, Hong Kong, dir. Kar Wai Wong) _A Clockwork Orange_ (1971, U.K./U.S., dir. Stanley Kubrick) _Dark Star_ (1974, U.S., dir. John Carpenter) _Fantastic Planet_ (1973, France, dir. Rene Laloux) _The Godfather_ (1972, U.S., dir. Francis Ford Coppola) _The Godfather Part II_ (1974, U.S., dir. Francis Ford Coppola) _The Last Picture Show_ (1971, U.S., dir. Peter Bogdanovich) _A Little Romance_ (1979, U.S., dir. George Roy Hill) _Macbeth_ (1971, U.K./U.S., dir. Roman Polanski) _McCabe & Mrs. Miller_ (1971, U.S., dir. Robert Altman) _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ (1975, U.K., dir. Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) _Monty Python’s Life of Brian_ (1979, U.K., dir. Terry Jones) _My Brilliant Career_ (1979, Australia, dir. Gillian Armstrong) _Nashville_ (1975, U.S., dir. Robert Altman) _One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest_ (1975, U.S., dir. Milos Forman) _Play it Again, Sam_ (1972, U.S., dir. Herbert Ross) _The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes_ (1970, U.K./U.S., dir. Billy Wilder) _Saturday Night Fever_ (1977, U.S., dir. John Badham) _Seven Beauties_ (1976, Italy, dir. Lina Wertmuller) _Star Wars_ (1977, U.S., dir. George Lucas) _Starting Over_ (1979, U.S., dir. Alan J. Pakula) _Taxi Driver_ (1976, U.S., dir. Martin Scorsese) _The Tree of Wooden Clogs_ (1978, Italy, dir. Ermanno Olmi) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1970s/841330/25 "2019-10-14T21:59:29Z")
Some good movies of the 1970’s not yet mentioned: _Marathon Man The Conversation Cabaret Mean Streets Serpico_ With the possible exception of _Marathon Man_, none of these would make my Top Hundred All Time list, but all five would likely make my Top 25 of the 1970’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-25-movies-of-the-1970s/841330.md?page=1)