Top 20 films of the 1970's POLL

[Abdrewes]

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What are your favorite films from the 1970s? Only lists with twenty choices will be taken to account for the poll.

#1 Spot is worth 20 points, #2 is worth 19, etc.


The Results



1. The Godfather 967
2. Taxi Driver 785
3. Apocalypse Now! 766
4. The Godfather Part II 742
5. Jaws 723
6. Star Wars 694
7. Alien 607
8. A Clockwork Orange 501
9. Chinatown 490
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 457
11. The Exorcist 342
12. The Conversation 309
13. Halloween 297
14. Barry Lyndon 286
15. Rocky 256
16. Dog Day Afternoon 246
17. The Deer Hunter 244
18. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 234
19. Annie Hall 230
20. Solaris 219

The Rest

[Show spoiler]
Manhattan 186
Days of Heaven 179
The French Connection 175
Network 164
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 153
The Sting 152
Dirty Harry 148
Badlands 143
All the President's Men 125
The Outlaw Josey Wales 124
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 124
Stalker 119
Young Frankenstein 118
Eraserhead 106
Superman 106
Dawn Of The Dead 105
Life of Brian 99
Patton 97
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 96
Aguirre, The Wrath of God 94
Deliverance 85
The Last Picture Show 84
Blazing Saddles 82
Sorcerer 75
The Warriors 73
Death Wish 70
Paper Moon 69
Carrie 65
Le Cercle Rouge 65
M*A*S*H 65
The Conformist 63
Hausu 62
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 61
Mean Streets 61
American Graffiti 59
Enter the Dragon 59
The Wicker Man 58
Walkabout 57
Five Easy Pieces 56
Animal House 52
The Spirit of the Beehive 51
Marathon Man 50
The Tenant 50
Three Days of the Condor 50
The Three Musketeers 50
El Topo 50
The Spy Who Loved Me 48
Saturday Night Fever 47
Robin Hood 46
Straw Dogs 45
Grease 43
Suspiria 43
Escape From Alcatraz 41
The Omen 41
Three Women 40
Serpico 39
Breaking Away 38
Empire of Passion 38
Nashville 38
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 38
Amarcord 37
The Holy Mountain 37
Kramer vs. Kramer 36
Last Tango in Paris 36
Pastoral: To Die in the Country 36
Quadrophenia 36
The Tin Drum 36
The Castle of Cagliostro 35
The Long Goodbye 34
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 33
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 33
High Plains Drifter 32
King Kong 31
Being There 30
Papillon 30
The Friends of Eddie Coyle 29
A Woman Under the Influence 29
Assault on Precinct 13 28
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser 28
That Obscure Object of Desire 28
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 27
Cries and Whispers 27
Dersu Uzala 27
The Devils 27
All That Jazz 26
The Bad News Bears 26
Stroszek 26
THX 1138 26
Beneath the Planet of the Apes 25
The Jerk 25
Phase IV 25
Salo: 120 Days of Sodom 25
World on a Wire 25
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 24
Day of the Jackal 24
Don’t Look Now 23
Day For Night (La Nuit Américaine) 22
Night Moves 22
1900 (Novecento) 22
Star Trek: the Motion Picture 22
The Aristocats 21
The Duellists 21
Get Carter 21
In the realm of the senses 21
The Man Who Would be King 21
Picnic at Hanging Rock 21
Soylent Green 21
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage 20
Harold & Maude 20
Heart of Glass 20
The Last Of Sheila 20
Logan's Run 20
Mirror 20
The Muppet Movie 20
Nickelodeon 20
This Transient Life 20
Two Mules for Sister Sara 20
Autumn Sonata 19
Death Race 2000 (1975) 19
Husbands 19
Jeremiah Johnson 19
Kelly's Heroes 19
The Omega Man 19
Scrooge 19
Vampire Circus 19
The Abominable Dr. Phibes 18
Chinese Roulette 18
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 18
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry 18
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium 18
I am Afraid 18
The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh 18
Smokey and the Bandit 18
The Ceremony 17
Heroic Purgatory 17
Images 17
Lady Snowblood 17
The Man with the Golden Gun 17
Nosferatu The Vampyre 17
Phantasm 17
Andromeda Strain 16
The Boss 16
The Devil, Probably 16
The Four Musketeers 16
In a Year with 13 Moons 16
Live and Let Die 16
Lone Wolf and Cub Sword of Vengeance 16
Martin 16
Murder By Death 16
Roma 16
Scarecrow 16
Twins of Evil 16
Vanishing Point 16
The American Friend 15
The Driver 15
Duck, You Sucker 15
The Insect Woman 15
The King of Marvin Gardens 15
McCabe and Mrs. Miller 15
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly 15
Turkish Delight 15
What's Up Doc? 15
Bed & Board 14
The Brood 14
Cabaret 14
The Christine Jorgensen Story 14
Dracula 14
Hardcore 14
The Last Wave 14
The Outfit 14
The Passenger 14
A Swedish Love Story 14
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 14
Touki Bouki 14
Woman of Fire 14
1776 13
Black Christmas 13
The Fate of Lee Khan 13
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion 13
Godzilla vs. Hedorah 13
Hair 13
Little Big Man 13
Midnight Express 13
Rocky II 13
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets 13
A Walk in the Spring Rain 13
Brian's Song 12
Damien: The Omen II 12
Macho Callahan 12
Mad Max 12
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven 12
No Blade of Grass 12
Padre Padrone 12
The Rescuers 12
Time After Time 12
Across 110th Street 11
Bananas 11
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 11
The Longest Yard 11
Lupin the Third: Secret of Mambo 11
Magnum Force 11
The Parallax View 11
Vengeance Is Mine 11
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? 11
Bedknobs and Broomsticks 10
Charley Varrick 10
Cria Cuervos 10
Day of The Locust 10
Deep End 10
Dodes'ka-den 10
Don 10
Frenzy 10
I Drink Your Blood 10
Kings of the Road 10
More American Graffiti 10
The Mother and the ***** 10
Prime Cut 10
Race With the Devil 10
Hercules in New York 9
The Ruling Class 9
Shura 9
Slap Shot 9
The Slipper and the Rose 9
Szerelem 9
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun 9
China Syndrome 8
Equinox 8
Foul Play 8
The Gumball Rally 8
House of Dark Shadows 8
Klute 8
Mandala 8
Monty Python: And Now for Something Completely Different 8
The Poseidon Adventure 8
The Silent Partner 8
Sympathy for the Underdog 8
Tess 8
Walking Tall 8
Cold Sweat 7
Colossus: The Forbin Project 7
Grey Gardens 7
Hearts and Minds 7
Martha 7
Unman, Wittering & Zigo 7
Woodstock 7
Battles Without Honour & Humanity 6
Brewster McCloud 6
The Candidate 6
Cousin, cousine 6
The Getaway 6
The Last Waltz 6
The Legend of Hell House 6
Love Story 6
A River Called Titas 6
The Twelve Tasks of Astrix 6
Alex in Wonderland 5
Diamonds Are Forever 5
Fantastic Planet 5
The In-Laws 5
Juvenile Court 5
The Last House on the Left 5
My Brilliant Career 5
Night of Dark Shadows 5
Salem's Lot 5
Seven Beauties 5
Sleuth 5
Trouble Man 5
Wake In Fright 5
Blood For Dracula 4
Bloody Mama 4
Cromwell 4
Family Plot 4
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 4
Grass Labyrinth 4
Joe 4
The lost honor of Katharina Blum 4
Mon oncle Antoine 4
Operation Daybreak 4
The Shootist 4
Silent Running 4
Tommy 4
Companeros 3
Flesh for Frankenstein 3
Little Fauss and Big Halsy 3
La Luna 3
Opening Night 3
Silver Streak 3
Tale of Tales 3
Terrifying Girls School: Lynch Law Classroom 3
Terror of MechaGodzilla 3
The Wind and the Lion 3
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 2
The Butcher 2
Duel 2
A Hatchet for the Honeymoon 2
Heaven Can Wait 2
The Hot Rock 2
I Spit on Your Grave 2
Love on the Run 2
Move 2
My Ain Folk 2
O lucky Man 2
Play it Again Sam 2
Rio Lobo 2
Santo & Blue Demon vs. Dracula & The Wolfman 2
Someone's Watching Me 2
That's Entertainment 2
Westworld 2
The Wolves 2
Catch-22 1
Coming Home 1
Gimme Shelter 1
Killer of Sheep 1
Maitresse 1
The Man Who Fell To Earth 1
The Man Who Stole the Sun 1
Snowbeast 1
The Towering Inferno 1

My List:

1. Solaris
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Walkabout
5. Days of Heaven
6. Turkish Delight
7. Nashville
8. The Conformist
9. The Conversation
10. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
11. Taxi Driver
12. 3 Women
13. The Godfather
14. Chinatown
15. A Woman Under the Influence
16. My Brilliant Career
17. Quadrophenia
18. In the Realm of the Senses
19. The Butcher
20. Network

[dallywhitty]

01. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
02. The Godfather Part II (1974)
03. Straw Dogs (1971)
04. The Godfather (1972)
05. Taxi Driver (1976)
06. Quadrophenia (1979)
07. The Devils (1971)
08. The Deer Hunter (1978)
09. Apocalypse Now (1979)
10. Chinatown (1974)
11. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
12. Alien (1979)
13. Tess (1979)
14. Don’t Look Now (1973)
15. Star Wars (1977)
16. The Last House on the Left (1972)
17. Tommy (1975)
18. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
19. Hausu (1977)
20. Maitresse (1975)

[Scottie]

No Annie Hall, Andrew?

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by iScottie

No Annie Hall, Andrew?

Great Movie! I expect it to make many lists, so do not fret.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Great Movie! I expect it to make many lists, so do not fret.

I don't care if others do or not, I care why YOU do or don't!

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I don't care if others do or not, I care why YOU do or don't!

There's never enough room for all my favorites on these lists.

[mjbethancourt]

The Seventy Greatest Films of the Seventies:
1. Star Wars
2. Network
3. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
4. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
5. The Godfather: Part II
6. THX 1138
7. World on a Wire
8. Alien
9. The French Connection
10. The Outlaw Josey Wales
11. Apocalypse Now
12. The Godfather
13. Star Trek: the Motion Picture
14. High Plains Drifter
15. The Getaway
16. Life of Brian
17. Get Carter
18. Papillon
19. Chinatown
20. Straw Dogs
===========================================
21. The Long Goodbye
22. Silver Streak
23. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
24. Tora! Tora! Tora!
25. The Conversation
26. Magnum Force
27. Family Plot
28. Dirty Harry
29. Patton
30. The Omega Man
31. Cross of Iron
32. Soylent Green
33. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
34. Lone Wolf and Cub 4: Baby Cart in Peril
35. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
36. Mean Streets
37. Serpico
38. Escape from Alcatraz
39. Blazing Saddles
40. The Shootist
41. Frenzy
42. Lone Wolf and Cub 3: Baby Cart to Hades
43. Live and Let Die
44. Lone Wolf and Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx
45. Deliverance
46. The End
47. Diamonds are Forever
48. Young Frankenstein
49. The Sting
50. The Lord of the Rings
51. Scum
52. 1776
53. The Jerk
54. Wizards
55. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
56. Marathon Man
57. Catch-22
58. Force 10 from Navarone
59. Westworld
60. Taxi Driver
61. Logan's Run
62. Foul Play
63. Superman
64. American Graffiti
65. Rocky
66. The In-Laws
67. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
68. A Clockwork Orange
69. The Hobbit
70. Walkabout

I can still think of some really good films that didn't make the cut; I started with a list of about 120.
The top four spots are virtually a tie.

... you know I'm doing eighty films for the eighties.

[Hucksta G]

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Taxi Driver
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. The Conversation
6. The Deer Hunter
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Mean Streets
9. Chinatown
10. Dirty Harry
11. The Outlaw Josey Wales
12. Solaris
13. A Clockwork Orange
14. Barry Lyndon
15. Star Wars
16. Alien
17. Life of Brian
18. Dog Day Afternoon
19. The Exorcist
20. The Last Picture Show

Need to see a lot more, I only have 61 I've seen on Letterboxd

[MifuneFan]

Hard to rank them, and there's a few that are probably equally deserving. Like usual, there are several greats that I haven't seen yet

1.) The Godfather
2.) The Godfather II
3.) Star Wars
4.) Jaws
5.) Apocalypse Now
6.) Alien
7.) Taxi Driver
8.) The Exorcist
9.) Annie Hall
10.) Patton
11.) All the President's Men
12.) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
13.) Halloween
14.) Dog Day Afternoon
15.) Rocky
16.) Serpico
17.) Monty Python's Life of Brian
18.) Network
19.) Dawn of the Dead
20.) Willy Wonka, and the Chocolate Factory

[SammymeBlu]

1. Star Wars (1977)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. Superman (1978)
4. Halloween (1978)
5. Alien (1979)
6. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
7. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
8. Rocky (1976)
9. The Exorcist (1973)
10. The Longest Yard (1974)
11. Taxi Driver (1976)
12. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1976)
13. The Warriors (1979)
14. Apocalypse Now (1979)
15. The Godfather (1972)
16. Patton (1970)
17. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
18. Papillon (1973)
19. Westworld (1973)
20. Dirty Harry (1971)

[chris_sc77]

Final list: Rather happy with it.

1. Dawn of the Dead
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Apocalypse Now Redux (never seen the original version and I dont really want to. Redux is Excellent)
4. The Deer Hunter
5. the Godfather
6. Star Wars
7. Alien
8. Dog Day Afternoon
9. 1900 (Novecento)
10. Duck, You Sucker (Giù la testa)
11. Network
12. The Ruling Class
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
14. Stroszek
15. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
16. The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
17. Taxi Driver
18. Hearts and Minds
19. O lucky Man
20. The Holy Mountain

runners up: El Topo, The Man who Fell to Earth

[Scottie]

From what I recall seeing / liking.

01. Paper Moon
02. Annie Hall
03. Taxi Driver
04. Robin Hood
05. Amarcord
06. Badlands
07. Chinatown
08. Days Of Heaven
09. 3 Women
10. The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh
11. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
12. All The President's Men
13. The Godfather
14. Le Cercle Rouge
15. Autumn Sonata
16. Death Wish
17. The Last Picture Show
18. Straw Dogs
19. Alien
20. Deliverance

[Mansinthe]

1.) Soylent green
2.) Days of Heaven
3.) Empire of Passion
4.) House
5.) Solaris
6.) Alien
7.) Taxi Driver
8.) The Exorcist
9.) In the realm of the senses
10.) Clockwork Orange
11.) Deep End
12.) Godfather
13.) Halloween
14.) Carrie
15.) Rocky
16.) Rocky Horror Picture Show
17.) Wicker Man
18.) Barry Lyndon
19.) Dawn of the Dead
20.) Dersu Uzala

[Dr. Feelgood]

1. Annie Hall
2. Taxi Driver
3. Manhattan
4. The Godfather
5. Apocalypse Now
6. The Godfather II
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. Star Wars
9. The Conversation
10. Bananas
11. Mean Streets
12. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
13. The French Connection
14. The Jerk
15. Chinatown
16. Day For Night (La Nuit Américaine)
17. Dog Day Afternoon
18. The Deer Hunter
19. Play it Again Sam
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[onetet]

Here's 70-some from me as well, with some approximate ranking. I limited myself to one by each director for variety's sake, but this is my favorite decade--and also the one in which my favorite directors had some incredible runs. I could easily fill a top 10 with just films by Fassbinder, Frederick Wiseman, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, Scorsese, and Hal Ashby (to name a few).

1)The Conformist
2)Husbands
3)Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
4)Le Cercle Rouge
5)The Long Goodbye
6)Aguirre
7)Touki Bouki
8)The Conversation
9)Manhattan
10)House (Hausu)
11)Don
12)Night Moves
13)The Devil, Probably
14)Dog Day Afternoon
15)The American Friend
16)Juvenile Court
17)The Silent Partner
18)A Swedish Love Story
19)Dawn of the Dead
20)Don't Look Now
________________________
Female Trouble
Charley Varrick
Prime Cut
Fat City
Car Wash
Five Easy Pieces
Graveyard of Honor
The Taking of Pelham 123
Over the Edge
Wanda
Cisco Pike
Deep Red
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Shampoo
Harlan County, USA
Wattstax
Vengeance Is Mine
Solaris
Frenzy
The Gambler
Straight Time
Payday
Two-Lane Blacktop
Straw Dogs
Alien
The Driver
French Connection
Punishment Park
Dusty and Sweets McGee
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Chinatown
Barry Lyndon
Deathdream
Murmur of the Heart
Taxi Driver
Scum
Warriors
Duel
Marathon Man
The Parallax View
THX 1138
3 Days of the Condor
Zardoz
Girlfriends
Bloody Kids
The Most Important Thing: Love
The Beguiled
Family Nest
Between the Lines
Sisters
Turkish Delight
Family Life
The Middleman
Carnal Knowledge
Who's Who
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Wicker Man
Get Carter

[Yami]

1. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
3. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
4. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
5. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shuji Terayama, 1974)
6. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
7. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
8. The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
9. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
10. A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson, 1970)
11. The Mother and the ***** (Jean Eustache, 1973)
12. The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima, 1971)
13. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
14. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
15. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
16. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
17. Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)
18. Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979)
19. My Ain Folk (Bill Douglas, 1973)
20. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1979)

Personal Also-Rans: My Little Loves (Jean Eustache, 1974), Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973), The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski, 1971)

I'm going to watch some Rivette before the end of the month so I suspect this list will change.

[duggie walker]

This is the one I've been dreading. So much good stuff...

1. The Godfather
2. Jaws
3. Chinatown
4. The Exorcist
5. Barry Lyndon
6. Don't Look Now
7. Last Tango in Paris
8. Alien
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
10. Superman The Movie
11. Dirty Harry
12. The Man Who Would be King
13. Manhattan
14. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
15. Marathon Man
16. Serpico
17. The Godfather Part II
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
19. Dawn of the Dead
20. The Omen

[Judex]

01. Halloween (1978)
02. Vampire Circus (1972)
03. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
04. Paper Moon (1973)
05. Twins of Evil (1971)
06. Stalker (1979)
07. Bed & Board (1970)
08. The Mirror (1975)
09. Phantasm (1979)
10. Damien: Omen II (1978)
11. Badlands (1973)
12. Szerelem (1971)
13. The Wicker Man (1973)
14. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
15. Love Story (1970)
16. Scrooge (1970)
17. Cromwell (1970)
18. The Omen (1976)
19. Love on the Run (1979)
20. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

[SimBelm]

01. This Transient Life (Jissoji)
02. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
03. Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder)
04. Heroic Purgatory (Yoshida)
05. In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
06. The Insect Woman (Kim)
07. Woman of Fire (Kim)
08. Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Terayama)
09. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder)
10. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Fassbinder)
11. Kings of the Road (Wenders)
12. Shura (Matsumoto)
13. Mandala (Jissoji)
14. Martha (Fassbinder)
15. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Terayama)
16. The Ceremony (Oshima)
17. Hausu (Obayashi)
18. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
19. The King of Marvin Gardens (Rafelson)
20. Gimme Shelter (Maysles)

[hagios]

1. The Exorcist
2. Outlaw Josey Wales
3. Death Wish
4. High Plains Drifter
5. Star Wars
6. The Godfather
7. The Godfather II
8. Taxi Driver
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
10. The Omen
11. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
12. Halloween
13. House of Dark Shadows
14. Scrooge
15. Dirty Harry
16. Night of Dark Shadows
17. Serpico
18. Two Mules for Sister Sarah
19. Rio Lobo
20. Rocky