1970s Political Movies

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All the President's Men(1976)

| 2h 18min | Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 501 votes)

In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National Headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. After the editor of the Post runs with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it, they find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party—and eventually into the White House itself.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook, Jane Alexander, ...

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom(1975)

| 1h 57min | War, Drama, Horror

3.3/5 (with 463 votes)

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - With Paolo Bonacelli, Caterina Boratto, Aldo Valletti, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Elsa De Giorgi, ...

MAS*H(1970)

| 1h 56min | Comedy, Drama, War

3.6/5 (with 269 votes)

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Directed by Robert Altman, Fred Williamson - With Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, ...

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The Day of the Jackal(1973)

| 2h 23min | Action, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 141 votes)

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann - With Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair, Derek Jacobi, Jean Martin, Olga Georges-Picot, ...

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles(1975)

3h 22min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 47 votes)

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

Directed by Chantal Akerman - With Delphine Seyrig, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Chantal Akerman, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck

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The Travelling Players(1975)

3h 43min | Drama, War, History

3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra (Eva Kotamanidou) plots revenge on her mother (Aliki Georgouli) for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes (Petros Zarkadis), a young anti-fascist rebel.

Directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos - With Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Vangelis Kazan, Maria Vassiliou, Petros Zarkadis, Giorgos Tzifos, ...

The Man Who Stole the Sun(1979)

2h 27min | Action, Crime, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 7 votes)

A high-school teacher builds an atomic bomb to hold Tokyo hostage, then cannot decide what he wants.

Directed by Kazuhiko Hasegawa - With Kenji Sawada, Bunta Sugawara, Kimiko Ikegami, Kazuo Kitamura, Kei Satō, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, ...

State of Siege(1972)

2h 2min | Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Directed by Costa-Gavras - With Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O. E. Hasse, Maurice Teynac, Harald Wolff, Jacques Weber, ...

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The Bead Game(1977)

6min | Animation

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

To a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach man, who develops ever more sophisticated forms of war.

Directed by Ishu Patel

End of the Game(1975)

| 1h 46min | Mystery, Drama, Crime

2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.

Directed by Maximilian Schell - With Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti, ...

Balablok(1972)

7min | Animation

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Blocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape.

Directed by Břetislav Pojar

Polygon(1977)

10min | Animation

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A Russian scientist creates a mind-reading weapon for his generals on a remote island. After the demonstration, the generals are pleased. Little do they realize, both the weapon, and the creator of the weapon have a mind of their own.

Directed by Anatoly Petrov

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Not Now, Comrade(1976)

1h 29min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Not Now, Comrade tells the story of Rudi, a Russian ballet star who defects to the West, and the chaos that befalls those who try to help him... not least London stripper Barbara, with whom he decides to take refuge!

Directed by Ray Cooney - With Leslie Phillips, Windsor Davies, Carol Hawkins

Operación Masacre(1973)

1h 55min | Drama, Thriller

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story.

Directed by Jorge Cedrón - With Norma Aleandro, Pachi Armas, Rodolfo Brindisi, Carlos Carella, Martín Coria, Oscar Ferreiro, ...

The Shiranui Sea(1975)

Documentary

4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The sea was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory in MinamataTemplate:Yoshida 2006. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in the Yatsushiro Sea which, when eaten by the local populace, gave rise to Minamata disease. The pollution disease was responsible for the deaths and disabling of thousands of residents, all around the Yatsushiro Sea. The marine ecosystem was also extensively damaged.

Directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto

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1970s Political Movies