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IMDB - Top 50 - 1970s Movies

The Top 50 1970s Movies as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database.

Updated: November 3, 2009

(found at: http://www.imdb.com/chart/1970s)
1. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
2. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Milos Forman
  
4. Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
by George Lucas
  
5. Apocalypse Now  
6. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)  
7. Alien (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Ridley Scott
  
8. A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
  
9. Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
by Roman Polanski
  
10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
by Terry Jones
  
11. The Sting
by George Roy Hill
  
12. Jaws (25th Anniversary Widescreen Collector's Edition) - DTS  
13. Annie Hall  
14. The Deer Hunter
by Michael Cimino
  
15. Sleuth
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
16. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection  
17. Dog Day Afternoon
by Sidney Lumet
  
18. The Conformist (Extended Edition)
by Bernardo Bertolucci
  
19. Paper Moon
by Peter Bogdanovich
  
20. The Conversation  
21. Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Sidney Lumet
  
22. Manhattan
by Woody Allen
  
23. The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)  
24. The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
by William Friedkin
  
25. Harold and Maude  
26. Patton
by Franklin J. Schaffner
  
27. Barry Lyndon
by Stanley Kubrick
  
28. Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
29. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
  
30. Rocky  
31. All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Alan J. Pakula
  
32. Papillon
by Franklin J. Schaffner
  
33.
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 Day for Night/ La Nuit Américaine (Truffaut)  
34. The Man Who Would Be King
by John Huston
  
35. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection
by Luis Buñuel
  
36. Dawn of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)  
37. Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)  
38. Solaris - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
39.
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 Days of Heaven - Criterion Collection  
40. Cries & Whispers - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
  
41. Message (30th Anniversary Edition)
by Moustapha Akkad
  
42. Halloween  
43. Badlands  
44. The French Connection
by William Friedkin
  
45. Being There  
46. That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection
by Luis Buñuel
  
47. Dersu Uzala
by Akira Kurosawa
  
48. Deliverance
by John Boorman
  
49. The Mirror
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
50. The Day of the Jackal
by Fred Zinnemann
  
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Created by Melissa B. on Aug 24, 2007.