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Best 1970s Movies Ever!

posted 7 years ago by BillHicksFan (10223)
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Doesn't have to be popular, can be from any country... Just as long as it's great!

In order...

Harry and Tonto
Nashville
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Network
Harold and Maude
Annie Hall
Taxi Driver
The Conversation
A Clockwork Orange
Dog Day Afternoon
Five Easy Pieces
Sunflower
Last Tango In Paris
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Next Stop Greenwich Village
Opening Night
Whity
Papillon
Lies My Father Told Me
The Godfather I and II
Chinatown
Barry Lyndon
A Special Day
Sounder
The Working-Class Goes To Heaven
The Deer Hunter
Joe
Rocky
Paper Moon
Alice In The Cities
The Getaway
Love Story
Apocalypse Now
Serpico
Norma Rae
I Never Sang For My Father
My Brilliant Career

[–] TexasJack (12515) 7 years ago

Star Wars
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[–] magek (9) 7 years ago

That's when Australian movies rocked!

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Wake in Fright
Walkabout
The Last Wave
Long Weekend

[–] Professional Tourist (37) 7 years ago

Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Cria Cuervos
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Exorcist
1776
Fiddler on the Roof
All the President's Men
Murder on the Orient Express
Heaven Can Wait
Sleuth
Superman
Tommy
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
All That Jazz
An Unmarried Woman
La grande bouffe
Deliverance
Coming Home
MASH

[–] AS117 (246) 7 years ago

The Exorcist. +1

[–] godewey (16472) 7 years ago

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[–] Drmccormack (743) 7 years ago

The French Connection
Mean Streets
Carrie
Kramer vs Kramer
Aguirre, Wrath of God
The Garden of the Finnish-Continis
Sunday Bloody Sunday

[–] godewey (16472) 7 years ago

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[–] Drmccormack (743) 7 years ago

You are in luck! TCM is showing it some time soon, I think Friday. They're playing this and Fitzcaraldo. Set your DVR. Oh and I see autocorrect made Fitzi into Finnish. Hahaha! My God, I should proofread.

[–] godewey (16472) 7 years ago

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[–] BillHicksFan (10223) 7 years ago

I think they are playing a handful of movies by Werzog..

Btw, since you mention Finnish, do you like Aki Kaurismaki? Or Matti Pellonpaa --- some of my favorites.

[–] Drmccormack (743) 7 years ago

I had to do a search to see who these guys are. I only recognized one movie that Matti Pellonpa was in- Night on Earth. When I was looking at all the movies Aki did, they all look like they have been rated fairly well. Is there a movie you could recommend? Looks like the actor died very young-44.

[–] BillHicksFan (10223) 7 years ago

I've never rated any of his dramas under an 8.5/10 --- hope you enjoy! Please let me know if you see any of them, very curious what you think... Aki and his brother Mika (separately) made 18 movies with Pellonpaa.. Speaking of "Night on Earth", it's going to come on TCM in a day or so, I remember seeing it on my DVR futures.

Shadows In Paradise - 9/10
Ariel - 9/10
La Vie de Boheme -9/10
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana

I was thinking of watching them again at night -- great humor, great stories, great acting and writing..

[–] Drmccormack (743) 7 years ago

Thank you for the recommendation! I appreciate it very much. I'm always looking for something good especially foreign films. I've only heard of their most popular movies and not all the little gems that are available. So, I'll see if I can find these and we'll chat!

[–] godewey (16472) 7 years ago

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[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

Rocky
Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Dirty Harry

Bruce Lee's movies:
The Big Boss
Fist of Fury
The Way of the Dragon
Enter the Dragon
The Game of Death

[–] AS117 (246) 7 years ago

Dirty Harry -love those movies. Have they had a proper blu ray release?

[–] Stratego (29455) 7 years ago

The Godfather and Star Wars are among my favourites. But the 70s are not my favourite movie decade, to be honest.

[–] mplo (2305) 7 years ago

You've got some interesting list here, BillHicksFan(34).

The 1970's movies that I like best are as follows, in no particular order:

Norma Rae

Serpico

Apocalypse Now

Sounder

Rocky (the first one)

Godfather I and II

Paper Moon

Dog Day Afternoon

Jaws (the first one)

Dirty Harry (the first one)

Taxi Driver