1970s in film
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Movies in the 1970s came in a wide variety, as the socially-conscious young directors that emerged in the late '60s grew in different directions, influenced by music, literature, and the nature of crime and war. The early part of the decade focused on increasingly realistic, gritty movies, including Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather pictures and Robert Altman's black comedy M*A*S*H. A trend that lasted through the decade was the popularity of disaster movies, starting with Airport in 1970. Another trend was the birth of the big-budget horror film, initiated by William Friedkin's The Exorcist which spawned numerous imitators. A pivotal moment in movies was the 1975 release of Steven Spielberg's first major hit, Jaws, widely regarded as the birth of the blockbuster motion picture (a trend sealed two years later with the release of Star Wars. The end of the decade saw two epic Vietnam War movies, from directors Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Coppola (Apocalypse Now).
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List 1970s Movies
Movies made in the 1970s include:
A-B
- Abby
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God
- Airport
- Alien
- All That Jazz
- All the President's Men
- Amarcord
- American Graffiti
- Animal House
- Annie Hall
- Apocalypse Now
- The Aristocats
- Bananas
- Barry Lyndon
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Blazing Saddles
- The Boys from Brazil
- Breaker Morant
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
C-G
- Capricorn One
- Carnal Knowledge
- Car Wash
- Carrie
- Charlie Muffin (aka A Deadly Game)
- The China Syndrome
- Chinatown
- A Clockwork Orange
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Coma
- Coming Home
- The Conversation
- Convoy
- Day for Night
- The Day of the Jackal
- Days of Heaven
- Deadly Weapons
- The Deer Hunter
- Deliverance
- Diamonds Are Forever
- Dirty Harry
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Don't Look Now
- The Eagle Has Landed
- The Exorcist
- Farewell My Lovely
- Five Easy Pieces
- The French Connection
- Get Carter
- The Go-Between
- The Godfather
- The Godfather Part II
- The Goodbye Girl
- Grease
H-S
- Halloween
- Jaws
- Julia
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Lacombe, Lucien
- Little Big Man
- Live and Let Die
- Mad Max
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- Marathon Man
- M*A*S*H
- Mean Streets
- Midnight Express'
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Moonraker
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Nashville
- New York, New York
- The Omen
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Patton
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Pink Flamingos
- The Poseidon Adventure
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
- Raging Bull
- The Railway Children
- The Rescuers
- Rocky
- Rocky II
- Saturday Night Fever
- Shaft
- Silver Streak
- Sleuth
- Soldier Blue
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Star Wars
- The Sting
- Superman
- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
T-Z
- The Taking of Pelham 123
- Taxi Driver
- Themroc
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- Three Days of the Condor
- The Towering Inferno
- The Greatest (Muhammad Ali's biography, with Ali playing himself)
- Walkabout
- Waterloo
- Watership Down
- The Wicker Man
- The Wild Geese
- The Wind and the Lion
- Yanks
- Zulu Dawn