Top Ten Movies of the Seventies

What are your top ten favorite movies from the 70s?

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By: Shannon
  • 10. Mean Streets
  • 9. The Godfather Part II
  • 8. The Godfather
  • 7. Deer Hunter
  • 6. Jaws
  • 5. . Star Wars
  • 4. Return Of The Jedi
  • 3. Taxi Driver
  • 2. The Princess Bride
    Good action film!! i love watcing it when some boy just dumped me!!
  • 1. Grease
    Grease is my all time favriote movie. I know all the words to evry song!! I love this movie!!! Grease all the way!!!!

By: Shane
  • 10. Mean Streets
  • 9. A Clockwork Orange
  • 8. Chinatown
  • 7. The Deer Hunter
  • 6. The Shining
    Jack is Great!
  • 5. Star Wars
  • 4. Apocolypse Now
  • 3. The Godfather II
    Best Sequal ever
  • 2. Taxi Driver
    DeNiro is my all time favorite
  • 1. The Godfather
    Maybe the best of all time
The 70's were the Greatest time for music and movies.
By: Rod Garcia
  • 10. Halloween
    one of the bedst movies of horror
  • 9. Taxi Driver
    The best of Robert deNiro
  • 8. Melody
    Lovely and unforgetabble
  • 7. The Exorcist
    Completly scary
  • 6. The Godfather
    Amazing movie
  • 5. The Longest Yard
    Great and funny
  • 4. Saturday Night Fever
    Unforgettable
  • 3. The Shining
    Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duval.....Amazing
  • 2. The Omen
    The great horror movie,
  • 1. The Warriors
    One of the best action movies, I liked very much

By: Mr. Mojo Rising
  • 10. Barry Lyndon
    Stanley Kubrick's dramatically compelling, visually stunning and dryly witty tale packed with sex, violence, gambling, war, family feuds, romantic betrayals, love and death.
  • 9. Aguirre: The Wrath Of God
    Werner Herzog's bizarre and epic historical drama, which deals with themes of obsession, greed and madness.
  • 8. Apocalypse Now
    Francis Ford Coppola's flawed but engaging surreal Vietnam epic, which depicts the war as a descent into primal madness.
  • 7. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
    Luis Bunuel's absurd and surreal satire, which pokes fun at upper-class mannerisms and societal conventions.
  • 6. A Clockwork Orange
    Stanley Kubrick's darkly ironic, near-future satire is used to dissect the nature of violence.
  • 5. Nashville
    Robert Altman's multi-character narrative presents a complex, critical portrait of the twin national obsessions with celebrity and power.
  • 4. The Mirror
    Andrei Tarkovsky's deeply personal autobiographical masterpiece features a nonlinear construction and a beautiful dreamlike narrative.
  • 3. Taxi Driver
    Martin Scorsese's chilling character study, which places an isolated and volatile man in New York City, depicted as a stylized hell-on-Earth filled with crime, rage, trash, noise and sex.
  • 2. The Godfather Part II
    Francis Ford Coppola's sprawling, multi-generational crime epics which explore the dark side of the capitalist American Dream.
  • 1. The Godfather

By: Dale Thomas
  • 10. Airport (1970)
    Far better than Poseidon Adventure. This film was the true start of the genre of the disaster film.
  • 9. Breaking Away (1979)
    Inspirational film about life and growing up.
  • 8. Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)
    "Stange women lyin' in ponds, distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government..."
  • 7. American Graffiti
    Lots of future superstars in this film.
  • 6. The Last Picture Show (1971)
    Small town Americanna captured beautifully in this film.
  • 5. Star Wars (1977)
    Great film making. Lucas should have quit with this one.
  • 4. The Godfather I and II(1972)
    Consider this a combined entry for Parts I and II.
  • 3. All The President's Men (1976)
    Incredible performances by an incredible cast.
  • 2. The Sting (1973)
    Greatest con film ever.
  • 1. Chinatown (1972)
    "It's Chinatown Jake." nuff said.

By: Ramsa
  • 10. Saturday Night Fever
  • 9. Annie Hall
  • 8. Star Wars
  • 7. Taxi Driver
  • 6. The Godfather Part 2
  • 5. Grease
  • 4. The Godfather
  • 3. Cabaret
  • 2. Apocalypse Now
  • 1. A Clockwork Orange

By: 1
  • 10. The Amityville Horror
  • 9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • 8. Apocolypse Now
  • 7. The Omen
  • 6. The Exorcist
  • 5. The Godfather 1&2
  • 4. Dog Day Afternoon
  • 3. Serpico
  • 2. Rocky 1&2
  • 1. The Warriors

By: dan
  • 10. Deer Hunter
    Deniro again!
  • 9. Taxi Driver
    Deniro rules
  • 8. One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest
    Jack for secretary of defense
  • 7. The Exorcist
    I think i need a priest after this one
  • 6. Saturday Night Fever
    Travolta for Vice President
  • 5. Star Wars
    Darth Vader for President
  • 4. Grease
    Hoo Hoo Hoo... Honey!
  • 3. Rocky
    Yo Adrian!
  • 2. Jaws
    Im still afraid of the sea
  • 1. Godfather
    How can this not be #1

By: Karl
  • 10. Young Frankenstein
  • 9. The Song Remains The Same
  • 8. Star Wars Alien
  • 7. The Warriors
  • 6. Easy Rider
  • 5. The Outlaw Josey Wales
  • 4. Monty Python And The Holy Grail
  • 3. Dirty Harry
  • 2. One Flew Over The Coo Coos Nest
  • 1. A Clockwork Orange

By: malinda
  • 10. Star Wars
    sort of scary
  • 9. Kngdom Of The Spiders
    ok wow
  • 8. Grease
    it was wow
  • 7. The Godfather
    it was good
  • 6. Carrie
    it was awesome
  • 5. Rock Horror Picture Show
    whose scarier meatloaf or young lovers in their underwear
  • 4. Rocky
    its good
  • 3. Halloween
    michael just keeps commin back
  • 2. Exorcist
    religion is so scary babby
  • 1. Jaws
    t was awesome babby
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