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Defining Era
1970 — 1979

THE 1970S

NEW HOLLYWOOD
Coppola, Scorsese, Friedkin, Polanski, Altman. Directors ran the asylum and the asylum produced masterpieces.
1970 — 1979
4,072
Films Catalogued
66.3
Avg Master Score
6.3
Avg IMDb
JESÚS FRANCO
Top Director
103
Oscar-Nominated
The Defining Three

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.

No.01
MS94.1
GEORGE LUCAS|1977
STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE

“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...”

No.02
MS93.5
TERRY GILLIAM, TERRY JONES|1975
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

“And now! At Last! Another film completely different from some of the other films which aren't quite the same as this one is.”

No.03
MS93.4
MARTIN SCORSESE|1976
TAXI DRIVER

“On every street in every city in this country, there's a nobody who dreams of being somebody. He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive.”

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977 · George Lucas · 7 Oscars
94.1
02
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 · Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
93.5
03
Taxi Driver
1976 · Martin Scorsese
93.4
04
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · Milos Forman · 5 Oscars
93.2
05
Young Frankenstein
1974 · Mel Brooks
93.1
06
The Godfather
1972 · Francis Ford Coppola · 3 Oscars
93.0
07
The Sting
1973 · George Roy Hill · 7 Oscars
92.8
08
Halloween
1978 · John Carpenter
92.8
09
Stalker
1979 · Andrei Tarkovsky
92.5
10
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Stanley Kubrick
92.3
11
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Francis Ford Coppola · 6 Oscars
92.3
12
Blazing Saddles
1974 · Mel Brooks
91.7
13
Enter the Dragon
1973 · Robert Clouse
91.3
14
National Lampoon's Animal House
1978 · John Landis
91.0
15
Dawn of the Dead
1978 · George A. Romero
90.9
16
The Chaos Class
1975 · Ertem Egilmez
90.9
17
Tosun Pasha
1976 · Kartal Tibet
90.8
18
A Woman Under the Influence
1974 · John Cassavetes
90.8
19
A Special Day
1977 · Ettore Scola
90.8
20
The Last Waltz
1978 · Martin Scorsese
90.6
21
Jeremiah Johnson
1972 · Sydney Pollack
90.3
22
The Message
1976 · Moustapha Akkad
90.2
23
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · Tobe Hooper
90.1
24
The French Connection
1971 · William Friedkin · 5 Oscars
90.1
25
Eraserhead
1977 · David Lynch
90.0
26
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 · Jim Sharman
89.8
27
Badlands
1973 · Terrence Malick
89.8
28
Cabaret
1972 · Bob Fosse · 8 Oscars
89.8
29
Le cercle rouge
1970 · Jean-Pierre Melville
89.8
30
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 · Clint Eastwood
89.7
31
What's Up, Doc?
1972 · Peter Bogdanovich
89.7
32
Jaws
1975 · Steven Spielberg · 3 Oscars
89.7
33
Solaris
1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky
89.6
34
Dirty Harry
1971 · Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood
89.6
35
Patton
1970 · Franklin J. Schaffner · 7 Oscars
89.5
36
Annie Hall
1977 · Woody Allen · 4 Oscars
89.4
37
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 · Robert Benton · 5 Oscars
89.4
38
Harold and Maude
1971 · Hal Ashby
89.3
39
Monty Python's Life of Brian
1979 · Terry Jones
89.3
40
The Way of the Dragon
1972 · Bruce Lee
89.1
41
Love and Death
1975 · Woody Allen
89.1
42
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974 · Joseph Sargent
89.0
43
Fist of Fury
1972 · Wei Lo
89.0
44
The Foster Brothers
1976 · Ertem Egilmez
89.0
45
Carrie
1976 · Brian De Palma
88.9
46
The Spirit of the Beehive
1973 · Víctor Erice
88.9
47
Play It Again, Sam
1972 · Herbert Ross
88.7
48
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1977 · John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Ben Sharpsteen
88.6
49
The Muppet Movie
1979 · James Frawley
88.5
50
Stroszek
1977 · Werner Herzog
88.4
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