Top 70s Movies

256 Titles
Rocky Poster

Rocky

A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

666K votes
1. 8 imdb
% 70 metacritic
% 92 tomato meter
Sholay Poster

Sholay

Sholay means "embers" in Hindi. In this film, a police officer whose family was filled by a bandit named Gabbar Singh decides to fight fire with fire and requires two convicts, Jai and Veeru, to capture Gabbar. He approaches them in jail and puts the proposal in front of them, and they agree to bring in Gabbar Singh alive--for a hefty price. After their discharge from jail, they travel by train to the village where the police officer lives with his widowed daughter-in-law. The three band together to fight one of the most elusive and dreaded bandits of all time. Will the two ex-cons be able to bring Gabbar alive to the police officer?

61,039 votes
1. 8 imdb
% metacritic
% 93 tomato meter
Apocalypse Now Poster

Apocalypse Now

It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him. Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will Willard & the others be able to fulfill their mission?

747K votes
4. 8 imdb
% 94 metacritic
% 98 tomato meter
Dog Day Afternoon Poster

Dog Day Afternoon

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

283K votes
8 imdb
% 86 metacritic
% 96 tomato meter
Stalker Poster

Stalker

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

152K votes
8 imdb
% 85 metacritic
% 100 tomato meter
Star Wars Poster

Star Wars

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth ...

1.5M votes
6. 8 imdb
% 90 metacritic
% 93 tomato meter
Amarcord Poster

Amarcord

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

50,055 votes
8. 7 imdb
% metacritic
% 88 tomato meter
Escape from Alcatraz Poster

Escape from Alcatraz

The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island. Although no one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) masterminded this elaborately detailed, and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. In twenty-nine years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates who were never heard of again.

158K votes
5. 7 imdb
% 76 metacritic
% 97 tomato meter
Being There Poster

Being There

Simple-minded gardener Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. home of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run-in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

81,024 votes
9. 7 imdb
% 83 metacritic
% 95 tomato meter
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Poster

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

200K votes
4. 7 imdb
% 91 metacritic
% 89 tomato meter
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