Best Movies of 1970-1979

#1 The Godfather 1972

An offer you can't refuse

Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, Richard Conte, Al Lettieri, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Talia Shire, Gianni Russo, John Cazale, John Marley, Rudy Bond.

Overview: The story spans the years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the fictional Italian American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael, steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Countries: Italy, United States of America. Runtime: 2h 55m. Rated: R.

#2 The Godfather: Part II 1974

I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Gazzo, G.D. Spradlin, Richard Bright, Francesca De Sapio, Oreste Baldini, Gastone Moschin, Giuseppe Sillato, Kelly Williams.

Overview: The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Countries: Dominican Republic, Italy, United States of America. Runtime: 3h 20m. Rated: R.

#3 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975

If he's crazy, what does that make you?

Director: Milos Forman. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers, Mwako Cumbuka, Danny DeVito, William Duell, Josip Elic, Lan Fendors, Nathan George, Ken Kenny.

Overview: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse Mildred Ratched.

Genre: Drama. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 13m. Rated: R.

#4 Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope 1977

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

Director: George Lucas. Cast: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Cushing, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Alec Guinness, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Phil Brown, Shelagh Fraser, Roger Lloyd-Pack.

Overview: Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

Genres: Action, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction. Countries: Tunisia, United States of America. Runtime: 2h 1m. Rated: PG.

#5 Apocalypse Now Redux 2001

The Horror. . . The Horror. . .

Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, G.D. Spradlin, Jerry Ziesmer, Scott Glenn, Francis Ford Coppola.

Overview: Apocalypse Now Redux is an extended version of the 1979 epic war film Apocalypse Now. Unlike other new cuts of the film, Redux is usually considered by fans and critics, as well as director Coppola, as a completely new movie altogether. The movie adds 49 minutes of all-new material, and represents a significant re-edit of the original Apocalypse Now. The movie came into production when Coppola concluded that his original cut was tame by today's standards. Coppola, along with editor/long-time collaborator Walter Murch, then added several scenes that enhanced the surrealism in the original story.

Genres: Action, Drama, War. Runtime: 3h 22m. Rated: R.

#6 Taxi Driver 1976

On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.

Director: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, Albert Brooks, Diahnne Abbott, Frank Adu, Gino Ardito.

Overview: Robert De Niro stars as Travis Bickle in this oppressive psychodrama about a Vietnam veteran who rebels against the decadence and immorality of big city life in New York while working the nightshift as a taxi driver.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 53m. Rated: R.

#7 Alien 1979

In space no one can hear you scream.

Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton.

Overview: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 57m. Rated: R.

#8 A Clockwork Orange 1971

Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, James Marcus, Michael Tarn, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Miriam Karlin, Sheila Raynor, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Clive Francis, Richard Connaught.

Overview: A Clockwork Orange is one of Stanley Kubrick’s greatest works about a gang of dangerous teenagers in future Britain. One member tries to get out and is beaten up and left for the police. He’s given the option to help the police find his old gang or stay in jail for a long time. Based on a novel, the film was personally put into theatres by Kubrick adding to the film's importance and strength.

Genres: Crime, Foreign, Science Fiction. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 2h 16m. Rated: R.

#9 Chinatown 1974

Director: Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Roy Jenson, Roman Polanski, Richard Bakalyan, Bruce Glover.

Overview: A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 11m. Rated: R.

#10 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975

Makes Ben Hur look like an Epic

Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Graham Chapman, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, John Cleese, John Cleese, John Cleese, John Cleese, Eric Idle.

Overview: The King Arthur and The Round Table saga about the search for the Holy Grail is portrayed a bit differently in this comedy from Monty Python. With a killer monster rabbit and many outrageous encounters this smart comedy has become a cult classic.

Genres: Action, Comedy, Foreign. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 31m. Rated: PG.

#11 Scenes from a Marriage 1973
Scener ur ett äktenskap

Director: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjö.

Overview: Follows the relationship of Marianne and Johan as they separate, engage in extramarital affairs, bond, re-bond and eventually divorce.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Romance. Country: Sweden. Runtime: 2h 47m.

#12 The Sting 1973

Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning.

Overview: Set in the 1930's this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 9m. Rated: PG.

#13 The Rascals' Class Misses its Grades 1975
Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı

Director: Ertem Eğilmez. Cast: Kemal Sunal, Münir Özkul, Semra Ozdamar.

Overview: Hababam Sinifi is basically a movie based on the novel by Rifat Ilgaz, telling the story about a class of lazy high school pranksters. The movie just presents the most entertaining moments of high school years; which we have all been there once, and feel deep down a nostalgia for the days when life was fun and we were teenagers, going only after fun and entertainment. Cheating in Literature exams, smoking in the mens room, playing hookey from school for a football game; those were the best days of our lives. While the movie is brilliantly and incredibly funny; it contains some heart breaking emotional moments as well.

Country: Turkey. Runtime: 1h 31m.

#14 Jaws 1975

Don’t go in the water.

Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Jonathan Filley, Chris Rebello, Jay Mello, Lee Fierro, Jeffrey Voorhees, Craig Kingsbury, Dr. Robert Nevin.

Overview: An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.

Genres: Thriller, Horror. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 4m. Rated: PG.

#15 Annie Hall 1977

A nervous romance.

Director: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken, Donald Symington, Helen Ludlam, Mordecai Lawner, Joan Neuman, Jonathan Munk, Dick Cavett.

Overview: The neurotic New Yorker Woody Allen tells one of the greatest romantic comedies to be set in the city of New York.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 33m. Rated: PG.

#16 The Deer Hunter 1978

Winner of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture 1978

Director: Michael Cimino. Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza, Chuck Aspegren, Shirley Stoler, Rutanya Alda, Pierre Segui, Mady Kaplan, Amy Wright, Mary Ann Haenel, Richard Kuss, Joe Grifasi.

Overview: The Deer Hunter is a 1978 war drama film about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War.

Genres: Drama, War. Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America. Runtime: 3h 2m. Rated: R.

#17 Dersu Uzala 1977
Dersu Uzala / Дерсу Узала

Director: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Maksim Mounzouk, Youri Solomine, Svetania Daniltchenko.

Overview: A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilization.

Genres: Drama, Action, Foreign. Countries: Russian Federation, Japan. Runtime: 2h 24m. Rated: G.

#18 Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979

Director: Terry Jones. Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terence Bayler, Carol Cleveland, Kenneth Colley, Gwen Taylor, Sue Jones-Davies, John Case.

Overview: A brilliant parody from the British comedy group Monty Python about the history of (not Jesus but the boy born right next door to The Manger, Brian). A Terry Jones directed film from 1979 that has since gained cult status. What many fans don't know is that this movie might never have happened if not for the financial assistance of George Harrison (of The Beatles).

Genres: Comedy, Foreign. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 34m. Rated: R.

#19 Dog Day Afternoon 1975

Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, William Bogert, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, Beulah Garrick, Carol Kane, Sandra Kazan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Amy Levitt, John Marriott, Estelle Omens.

Overview: Dog Day Afternoon is a film based on true events and directed by Sidney Lumet. The film stars Al Pacino as a robber who held a bank hostage in Brooklyn, New York.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 4m. Rated: R.

#20 Network 1976

Not since the dawn of time has America experienced a man like Howard Beale!

Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Conchata Ferrell.

Overview: Not since the dawn of time has America experienced a man like Howard Beale!

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 1m. Rated: R.

#21 Sleuth 1972

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews, Eve Channing, Teddy Martin.

Overview: Sleuth is a thriller from director Joseph L. Mankiewicz starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.

Genres: Foreign, Thriller. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 2h 18m.

#22 Paper Moon 1973

Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman.

Overview: During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Genres: Comedy, Drama. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 42m.

#23 The Conformist 1970
Il Conformista

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, José Quaglio, Pierre Clémenti, Yvonne Sanson.

Overview: A killer leaves his Italian homeland to arrange the assassination of his former teacher.

Genres: Drama, Foreign. Country: Italy. Runtime: 1h 47m.

#24 The Red Circle 1970
Le Cercle rouge

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cast: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet, André Ekyan.

Overview: Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a heist against impossible odds, their trail is pursued by a relentless inspector, and fate seals their destinies.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Countries: France, Italy. Runtime: 2h 20m. Rated: NR.

#25 The Last Picture Show 1971

Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms.

Overview: The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.

Genre: Drama. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 58m. Rated: R.

#26 Сталкер 1979

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Cast: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova.

Overview: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's numerous objections, a man rises in the dead of night: he's a stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller. Country: Russian Federation. Runtime: 2h 43m.

#27 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
Angst essen Seele auf

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Gusti Kreissl, Doris Mattes, Margit Symo, Katharina Herberg, Lilo Pempeit, Walter Sedlmayr, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl Scheydt, Peter Gauhe.

Overview: A simple, delicate, melodramatic German film about a loneliness. With a double moral story about the tainted love between an old woman and a younger dark-colored immigrant worker.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Romance. Country: Germany. Runtime: 1h 33m.

#28 Autumn Sonata 1978
Höstsonaten

Director: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen.

Overview: The story of a celebrated classical pianist who is confronted by her neglected daughter.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Indie. Countries: Germany, France, Sweden. Runtime: 1h 39m.

#29 Barry Lyndon 1975

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Hardy Krüger, Diana Körner, Frank Middlemass, Arthur O'Sullivan, Godfrey Quigley, Patrick Magee, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton, Marie Kean, Murray Melvin, André Morell, Leonard Rossiter, Leon Vitali.

Overview: In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love of his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War.

Genres: Drama, History, Romance. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 3h 4m. Rated: PG.

#30 Manhattan 1979

Directors: Woody Allen, Frederic B. Blankfein. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Anne Byrne Hoffman, Karen Ludwig, Michael O'Donoghue.

Overview: Manhattan is an expression of love of the city of New York and the drama of the erratic character Isaac Davis, played by the director Woody Allen, and the conclusion of a neurotic city.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Indie, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 36m. Rated: R.

#31 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

Director: Werner Herzog. Cast: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera, Edward Roland, Daniel Ades, Armando Polanah, Alejandro Repulles.

Overview: A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirres, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to "the golden city", or to certain destruction

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Foreign, Indie. Countries: Germany, Peru. Runtime: 1h 33m.

#32 Patton 1970

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong.

Overview: "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

Genres: Action, Drama, History, War. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 52m. Rated: PG.

#33 The Exorcist 1973

Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of darkness.

Director: William Friedkin. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Linda Blair, William O'Malley, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Barton Heyman, Peter Masterson, Rudolf Schündler, Robert Symonds, Titos Vandis, Donna Mitchell, Robert Gerringer.

Overview: Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house. A man has been called for as a last resort to try and save her. That man is The Exorcist.

Genres: Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 12m. Rated: R.

#34 Rocky 1976

His whole life was a million-to-one shot.

Director: John G. Avildsen. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, Bill Baldwin, Al Silvani, George Memmoli, Jodi Letizia, Diana Lewis, George O'Hanlon, Larry Carroll.

Overview: A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 59m. Rated: PG.

#35 A Woman Under the Influence 1974

Director: John Cassavetes. Cast: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Laborteaux.

Overview: Peter Falk is a blue collar man trying to deal with his wife's mental instability. He fights to keep a semblance of normality in the face of her bizarre behavior, but when her actions affect their children, he has her committed

Genres: Drama, Indie. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 35m. Rated: R.

#36 The Conversation 1974

Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr, Allen Garfield, Elizabeth MacRae.

Overview: The Conversation is a Francis Ford Coppola thriller from 1974 about a professional surveillance man who is hired to record the conversations between two workers. Yet it looks like he’s gotten into more than he’s getting paid for as information about a murder may have been recorded.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 53m. Rated: PG.

#37 All the President's Men 1976

Director: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jane Alexander, Meredith Baxter, Ned Beatty, Jason Robards, Stephen Collins, Penny Fuller, John McMartin, Robert Walden, David Arkin, Henry Calvert.

Overview: All the President’s Men is a political thriller from director Alan J. Pakula based on the Watergate scandal and starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 18m. Rated: R.

#38 Day for Night 1973
La nuit Américaine

Director: François Truffaut. Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, François Truffaut, Jean Champion, Nike Arrighi, David Markham, Bernard Menez, Jean-François Stévenin, Walter Bal, Gaston Joly, Zénaïde Rossi.

Overview: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Foreign. Countries: France, Italy. Runtime: 1h 55m.

#39 Cries and Whispers 1972
Viskningar och rop

Director: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Liv Ullmann.

Overview: When a woman dying of cancer in turn-of-the century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

Genres: Drama, Foreign. Country: Sweden. Runtime: 1h 31m.

#40 Harold and Maude 1971

Director: Hal Ashby. Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Ellen Geer, Eric Christmas, G. Wood, Judy Engles, Shari Summers, Vivian Pickles.

Overview: The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.

Genres: Comedy, Drama. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 31m.

#41 Papillon 1973

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Woodrow Parfrey, Robert Deman, Anthony Zerbe, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Bill Mumy.

Overview: A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 25m. Rated: PG.

#42 Dawn of the Dead 1978

Director: George A. Romero. Cast: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, David Crawford, David Early, Richard France, Howard Smith, Daniel Dietrich, Fred Baker, James A. Baffico, Rod Stouffer.

Overview: An American horror movie from 1978 about a group of four people who are hiding out in a shopping center after the city has been over run with zombies. This low budget film has gained a cult statues in the horror genre.

Genres: Action, Horror. Countries: Italy, United States of America. Runtime: 2h 6m. Rated: R.

#43 Being There 1979

Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!

Director: Hal Ashby. Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden.

Overview: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house 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.

Genres: Comedy, Drama. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 10m. Rated: PG.

#44 Young Frankenstein 1974

The scariest comedy of all time!

Director: Mel Brooks. Cast: Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr.

Overview: Mel Brooks takes on the classic horror flick in this comedic retelling of the Frankenstein story.

Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 46m. Rated: PG.

#45 Days of Heaven 1978

Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Linda Manz, Sam Shepard.

Overview: In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating at once a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.

Genres: Drama, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 34m. Rated: PG.

#46 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
Kaspar Hauser - Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

Director: Werner Herzog. Cast: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge.

Overview: The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, History. Country: Germany. Runtime: 1h 50m.

#47 Solaris 1972
Solyaris

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Cast: Natalya Bondarchuk, Jüri Järvet, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Nikolai Grinko, Sos Sargsyan, Olga Barnet, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Georgi Tejkh, Donatas Banionis.

Overview: Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. Based on the novel by the same name from Polish author Stanislaw Lem.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Indie, Science Fiction. Country: Russian Federation. Runtime: 2h 47m.

#48 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

Director: Luis Buñuel. Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Julien Bertheau, Claude Piéplu, Michel Piccoli, François Maistre, Pierre Maguelon, Maxence Mailfort, Milena Vukotic, Maria Gabriella Maione, Muni.

Overview: A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

Genres: Comedy, Foreign. Countries: Spain, France, Italy. Runtime: 1h 41m.

#49 The Man Who Would Be King 1975

Director: John Huston. Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Doghmi Larbi, Jack May, Karroom Ben Bouih, Mohammad Shamsi, Albert Moses, Paul Antrim.

Overview: The Man Who Would Be King is an adventure film from John Huston starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. The film is based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling and describes the history of two adventurers in British Indian at the end of the 19th Century.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama. Countries: United States of America, United Kingdom. Runtime: 2h 9m. Rated: PG.