70 Best Films of the 1970s

The 70s was the Golden Age of Cinema. From The Godfather to Chinatown, Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson, wild horror films to all time classics. There has never been a decade like it. Let's break down the very best from the 1970s!

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Table of Contents:
0:00 (Intro)
4:00 (Lady Snowblood)
5:00 (Duel)
6:40 (Superman)
9:30 (All That Jazz)
11:00 Papillon)
13:30 (Three Days of the Condor)
15:00 (Deep Red)
17:00 (Badlands)
19:30 (Animal House)
21:30 (Phantom of the Paradise)
24:00 (Mean Streets)
29:40 (The Wicker Man)
33:00 (Dirty Harry)
37:00 (Ryan's Daughter)
40:00 (Aguirre: The Wrath of God)
42:00 (The Mirror)
44:00 (Marathon Man)
46:00 (Intermission)
58:00 (American Graffiti)
1:01:00 (The Conversation)
1:04:00 (Days Of Heaven)
1:08:00 (Eraserhead)
1:12:00 (Serpico)
1:16:00 (All The President's Men)
1:22:00 (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
1:24:00 (Top 10)

Audio Engineer:
Jacob Kossler

Opening Music:
Chase Jackson

[hereforit]

In the 70s, the staff at the Culver theatre (now the Kirk Douglas Theater) in Culver City, CA, would let kids in to see R-rated films unchaperoned.

By the time I was 11 or 12, my friends and I would walk there and sometimes I went by myself. Kids had freedom and autonomy back then. Without our parents, we saw movies like:

Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Saturday Night Fever
Jaws
Ode to Billy Joe

The Culver was an ornate, Art Deco-era theater with red velvet curtains in front of the screen, colored light bulbs across the stage, red velvet seats with ashtrays in the arms, and a ticket booth out front.

Every movie was a double feature, usually preceded by a cartoon. If I was by myself and it had gotten dark by the time I left, I’d call my mom to come get me.

Movie theatres, restaurants, bars, courthouses, hospitals, and pretty much every public space had pay phones and there were phone booths on virtually every corner, usually with a phone book inside attached to a little shelf by a chain. 📞

[moonwalker]

Hi guys not long discovered you and making my way through your vids. Thank you for this list. After the 80s. Video where I had seen 97% of the films listed I was grateful for this list where I have only seen 10/15% of the films listed so now I have a place to start on a new decade 😁. Thank you again

[andrewburgemeister]

Ah the 70’s!!!

Probably the greatest decade for film!!

[batteredaggie]

I think a good idea for these type of lists would be to create a Letterboxd list for people to then use to track their watches and log them! Keep up the great work

[sconni]

Francis Ford Coppola won a Oscar for writing Patton.

[shawnpoirier]

New Subscriber, you guys are awesome! Super entertaining and it's like I'm talking movies with friends. Thanks for the content!!

[peterga]

almost 38k sub nice ... i remember the first popular video on tiktok

[bradythurman]

Good, I need more 70s movies recommendations!!!

[dereksupernaut]

40:00 THE BOAT IS FROM FITZCARALDO, also by Hertzog in the Amazon.... you silly fools, great podcast overall...

[patrickc]

The best decade for films.
My personal top list for the 70s would be, in no particular order:
The Godfather, Godfather Part II, Rocky, Rocky II, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Escape From Alcatraz, Jaws, Big Jake, Outlaw Josey Wales, & Willy Wonka.

[hereforit]

L.A.’s Crenshaw district was a predominantly Japanese neighborhood in the decades following WWII.

There was a movie theater on Crenshaw Blvd. called the Kokusai that exclusively showed Japanese films. It was there I had my first experience with subtitles.

In the 70s, our mom would take us there to see Kurosawa films and movies like Kwaidan and the Zatōichi and Lone Wolf and Cub movies. 🗡️

[GuyLovesAnOnion]

Question where can you find your lists??? I don’t know if yous post em anyway but it would definitely help my watch lists! Great episode guys

[DanAvenell]

Did I miss Dog Day Afternoon? King Of Comedy? Thunderbolt and Lightfoot? Awesome list, I've seen problabkly 95% of them, they're all classics that everyone should see.

[adwmfilms]

Anthony says “you’ve never seen a film like it before” so much I swear to god this mf has never seen a movie before in his life



All jokes aside you guys are awesome

[domwalker]

No cabaret?!?! Come on boys!!!

Great video and list a few I haven’t seen I added to my watchlist

[Not_So_Slim_Shady]

The smile I had when Lady Snowblood was on the list. I fucking love that movie and it doesn't get enough love.

[spurriousgod]

Love '70s films. My top 7:
1. Taxi Driver
2. Godfather Part 2
3. Jaws
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Chinatown
6. Apocalypse Now
7. The Godfather

[danbeerbeard]

Great List! A hard decade to rank due to personal favorites and actual best movies of the time!

[JohnDoe-cdro]

The 70s were arguably just the best decade for films in general.

[hereforit]

My siblings and I were born in L.A. at the tail end of the Baby Boom (my younger sister is technically Generation X). Believe me, the 1970s was everything it was cracked up to be and more.

My mom was a film buff and took us to see a bunch of R-rated movies when we were kids. Among them:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Rosemary’s Baby
Planet of the Apes
Billy Jack
Papillon
The Exorcist
Marathon Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Last Picture Show
The French Connection
Fiddler on the Roof
Easy Rider
A Man Called Horse
Patton
Enter the Dragon
The Yakuza

We saw a few kid’s movies too, like:

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Aristocats

It was the “grownup” films that had a huge impact on me and gave me a love of cinema.