These are my favorite films of the 1970s.
Rated 10/10
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970)
MASH (Altman, 1970)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (De Sica, 1970)
Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971)
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972)
Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972)
Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
Badlands (Malick, 1973)
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog, 1974)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
Swept Away (Wertmüller, 1974)
The Godfather: Part II (Coppola, 1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
Nashville (Altman, 1975)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
Taxi Driver (Scorcese, 1976)
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
3 Women (Altman, 1977)
Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1979)
Being There (Ashby, 1979)
Rated 9/10
The Wild Child (Truffaut, 1970)
Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970)
Gimme Shelter (Maysles, Maysles, Zwerin, 1970)
Le boucher (Chabrol, 1970)
Walkabout (Roeg, 1971)
Fata Morgana (Herzog, 1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog, 1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
Cabaret (Fosse, 1972)
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Heartbreak Kid (May, 1972)
Play It Again, Sam (Ross, 1972)
Mean Streets (Scorcese, 1973)
Don’t Look Now (Roeg, 1973)
Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973)
Sleeper (Allen, 1973)
Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
Shampoo (Ashby, 1975)
Three Days of the Condor (Pollack, 1975)
Grey Gardens (Maysles, Maysles, Hovde, Meyer, 1975)
All the President’s Men (Pakula, 1976)
Network (Lumet, 1976)
Heart of Glass (Herzog, 1976)
Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel, 1977)
Padre Padrone (Taviani & Taviani, 1977)
Saturday Night Fever (Badham, 1977)
The Last Waltz (Scorcese, 1978)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1978)
Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
Breaking Away (Yates, 1979)
My Brilliant Career (Armstrong, 1979)
All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)