Top Ten Movies of the Seventies

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

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By: Debbie Davis
  • 10. Halloween
  • 9. Saturday Night Fever
  • 8. Star Wars
  • 7. Stripes
  • 6. The Godfather
  • 5. Grease
  • 4. American Graffiti
  • 3. Smokey And The Bandit
    Awesome car!
  • 2. Coal Miners Daughter
    The Loretta Lynn story
  • 1. Urban Cowboy!

By: mir
  • 10. The Amityville Horror
    all time grerist horror movue
  • 9. The Shining
    grat scary movie
  • 8. Jaws
    great movie
  • 7. Freaky Friday
    awesome kool great mpovie
  • 6. Starwars
    great eciting breath taking movie
  • 5. Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
    grat imagination kool dancing movie
  • 4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    great freaky hooror movie
  • 3. Halloween
    great horror anf freak ou movie
  • 2. Satursay Night Fever
    great movement and dance
  • 1. Grease
    best movie of the 70s amazing musical

By: Justin
  • 10. Bucktown
  • 9. Lady Sings The Blues
  • 8. The Wiz
  • 7. Claudine
  • 6. Scream Blacula Scream
  • 5. Blacula
  • 4. Car Wash
  • 3. Let's Do It Again
  • 2. Uptown Saturday Night
  • 1. Which Way Is Up?
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By: jimmy shimmy
  • 10. Kelly's Heroes
    My second guilty pleasure. Who wouldn't want to go to war with these guys?
  • 9. Rolling Thunder
    My guilty pleasure.
  • 8. The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie
    John Cassavetes was the first and still best American independant filmmaker.
  • 7. The Last Detail
    An underrated classic.
  • 6. The Godfather Part II
    Superior and grander in scale compared to the original.
  • 5. Nashville
    The Great American Novel
  • 4. Apocalypse Now
    The Great Journey
  • 3. The Deer Hunter
    Intense and sad.
  • 2. Taxi Driver
    The best film ever made about alienation
  • 1. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
    Not the best of the decade, but my personal favorite. The last great western.

By: Jeanette
  • 10. Duel
    Made for TV, but great suspense.
  • 9. Three Days of the Condor
  • 8. The Sting
  • 7. High Anxiety
  • 6. What's Up, Doc?
  • 5. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
  • 4. Animal House
  • 3. The French Connection
  • 2. The Great Santini
    Robert Duvall...the Paul Muni of our time.
  • 1. The Conversation
    I agree with the ones already brought up, I'm just picking movies that haven't been mentioned yet...

By: WAYNE W.
  • 10. Enter The Dragon (1973)
  • 9. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
  • 8. Deliverance
  • 7. Saturday Night Feaver
  • 6. American Graffiti
  • 5. Taxi Driver
  • 4. The God Father
  • 3. Exorcist
  • 2. Jaws
  • 1. The Warriors !
    THIS MOVIE ROCKED ! WHOLE LOTTA MAJIC !!

By: dany
  • 10. The Enforcer
  • 9. Magnum Force
  • 8. Escape From Alcatraz
  • 7. Apocalypse Now
  • 6. The Godfather(1&2)
  • 5. Dirty Harry
  • 4. Rocky
  • 3. Jaws
  • 2. Taxi Driver
  • 1. The Deer Hunter
    A great movie!The best...

By: dan
  • 10. Jaws
  • 9. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
  • 8. Monty Python And The Holy Grail
  • 7. Cannonball Run
  • 6. The Godfather II
  • 5. The Godfather
  • 4. Star Wars
  • 3. Blazing Saddles
  • 2. Deer Hunter
  • 1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

By: Clayton West
  • 10. A Clockwork Orange
  • 9. Marathon Man
  • 8. The Omega Man
  • 7. Logan's Run
    Michael York!
  • 6. The Warriors
  • 5. The Three Musketeers
    Michael York!
  • 4. The Magnificent Butcher/ Drunken Master
    Some of the finest martial art debacles of the last century. Spectacularly ridiculous.
  • 3. Live And Let Die
    Roger Moore, deadpan isn't yet a dying art.
  • 2. KES
    Fine dialogue.
  • 1. High Plains Drifter
    Eastwood's sheriff, enough said!

By: Shawn Watson
  • 10. Alien
  • 9. A Clockwork Orange
  • 8. The Exorcist
  • 7. Annie Hall
  • 6. Star Wars
  • 5. Jaws
  • 4. The Godfather Part II
  • 3. American Graffiti
  • 2. Superman
  • 1. The Godfather
For the worst: Evel Knievel starring George Hamilton, and Viva Knievel starring Evel himself.

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