Top 50 Movies of the 1970s

Even today, the films of the 70s have an astonishing potency. This applies not least to the American cinema of the decade, which experienced an unprecedented renewal that few would have considered possible. It was a time of unparalleled freedoms, and many felt they were living through a kind of revolution. By exploiting the possibilities of commercial cinema with a new vigor, and by examining the myths as critically as the social realities, cinematography achieved a new truthfulness, which emancipated it once more from the pre-eminence of TV.
50. The Yakuza - Sydney Pollack
49. The Driver - Walter Hill
48. The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Blake Edwards
47. Three Days Of The Condor - Sydney Pollack
46. Supervixens - Russ Meyer
45. Dirty Harry - Don Siegel
44. Soylent Green - Richard Fleischer
43. The China Syndrome - James Bridges
42. Live And Let Die - Guy Hamilton
41. Marathon Man - John Schlesinger
40. Superman - Richard Donner
39. The Great Gatsby - Jack Clayton
38. The Outlaw Josey Wales - Clint Eastwood
37. Halloween - John Carpenter
36. Mad Max - George Miller
35. The Last Waltz - Martin Scorsese
34. Enter The Dragon - Robert Clouse
33. Coming Home - Hal Ashby
32. Straw Dogs - Sam Peckinpah
31. The Tin Drum - Volker Schlondorff
30. 1900 - Bernardo Bertolucci
29. Don't Look Now - Nicolas Roeg
28. 3 Women - Robert Altman
27. Manhattan - Woody Allen
26. Little Big Man - Arthur Penn
25. Days Of Heaven - Terrence Malick
24. The Marriage Of Maria Braun - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
23. Picnic At Hanging Rock - Peter Weir
22. Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
21. The Exorcist - William Friedkin
20. The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich
19. Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson
18. Cabaret - Bob Fosse
17. Klute - Alan J. Pakula
16. Badlands - Terrence Malick
15. Vengeance Is Mine - Shohei Imamura
14. Mon Oncle Antoine - Claude Jutra
13. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Luis Bunuel
12. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman
11. The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino
10. The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci
09. Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky
08. The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola
07. Jaws - Steven Spielberg
06. Alien - Ridley Scott
05. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
04. Star Wars - George Lucas
03. The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
02. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
01. Chinatown - Roman Polanski