1970s LGBT-related Movies

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Women in Cellblock 9(1978)

2.2/5 (with 12 votes)

A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison, located somwhere in the South American jungle. None of them will reveal the secrets of their organisation or the names of their collaborators in the cities, so they are handed over to Dr. Costa who, after four years inactivity in Europe, is delighted to be able to practice his torture techniques once more. Laverne fails to resist the inhuman treatments and reveals all. The only hope of saving the organization is for the girls to warn the city cell before it's too late. They trick the prison guard into having sex with them, knock him out and break out of prison. The warden and Dr. Costa must prevent them from revealing the practices inside the prison. The hunt is on and it's shoot to kill...

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Howard Vernon, Susan Hemingway, Karine Gambier

Diamonds Are Forever(1971)

| 2h | Adventure, Action, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 882 votes)

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

Directed by Guy Hamilton - With Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, ...

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Emanuelle in America(1977)

1h 40min | Drama, Mystery

2.5/5 (with 30 votes)

An American journalist travels throughout the world in search of a good story by joining a modern-day harem and traveling to Venice to see what really goes on at diplomatic parties. While trying to expose a corrupt government official, Emanuelle stumbles upon a group that uses kidnapped girls to make and sell snuff films.

Directed by Joe D'Amato - With Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Riccardo Salvino, Lars Bloch, Paola Senatore, Lorraine De Selle, ...

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom(1976)

1h 57min | Drama, Horror

3.2/5 (with 913 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, ...

Cabaret(1972)

| 2h 4min | Music, Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 375 votes)

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

Directed by Bob Fosse - With Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, ...

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Dog Day Afternoon(1975)

| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 1,262 votes)

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon, Lance Henriksen, ...

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask(1972)

| 1h 28min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 396 votes)

A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasser, Gene Wilder, Tony Randall, ...

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Midnight Express(1978)

| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime

3.8/5 (with 726 votes)

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Directed by Alan Parker - With Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Paul L. Smith, Irene Miracle, Paolo Bonacelli, ...

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The Conformist(1971)

1h 48min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 282 votes)

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Gastone Moschin, Pierre Clémenti, Enzo Tarascio, ...

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975)

| 1h 40min | Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

3.8/5 (with 1,228 votes)

Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rockv'.

Directed by Jim Sharman - With Tim Curry, Nell Campbell, Peter Hinwood, Barry Bostwick, Charles Gray, Jonathan Adams, ...

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Salon Kitty(1976)

2h 10min | Drama, War

2.8/5 (with 50 votes)

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

Directed by Tinto Brass - With Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy, Margherita Horowitz, John Steiner, Sara Sperati, ...

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(1974)

| 1h 55min | Crime, Comedy, Action

3.4/5 (with 212 votes)

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

Directed by Michael Cimino - With Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, ...

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Satanic Pandemonium(1975)

1h 29min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!

Directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares - With Delia Magaña, Enrique Rocha, Cecilia Pezet

The Holy Mountain(1973)

| 1h 54min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 383 votes)

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky - With Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Richard Rutowski, David Silva, Juan Ferrara, Blanca Sánchez, ...

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Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan(1972)

1h 37min | Action, Drama

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draw the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Chun Yi. Chun Yi teaches Ai nu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ai nu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.

Directed by Chor Yuen - With Betty Pei Ti, Corey Yuen, Lily Ho, Yueh Hua

Immoral Tales(1973)

NC-17

| 1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 98 votes)

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.

Directed by Walerian Borowczyk - With Fabrice Luchini, Paloma Ruiz Picasso, Charlotte Alexandra, Marie Forså, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Lisa Danvers, ...

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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion(1972)

1h 27min | Crime, Thriller, Action

3.6/5 (with 59 votes)

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

Directed by Shunya Itō - With Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Yōko Mihara, Akemi Negishi, Isao Natsuyagi, Yayoi Watanabe, ...

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Deep Red(1975)

| 2h 7min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 616 votes)

A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

Directed by Dario Argento - With David Hemmings, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Daria Nicolodi, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra, ...

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Pink Flamingos(1972)

1h 32min | Comedy, Crime

3.1/5 (with 203 votes)

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Directed by John Waters - With Divine, Danny Mills, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, ...

Anita, Swedish Nymphet(1973)

| 1h 35min | Drama

2.6/5 (with 29 votes)

Anita, a young woman with a troubled childhood and a hunger for love, finds a soul mate in Erik, a kindly college student.

Directed by Torgny Wickman - With Christina Lindberg, Stellan Skarsgård, Arne Ragneborn, Danièle Vlaminck

Vanishing Point(1971)

| 1h 39min | Action, Drama

3.6/5 (with 189 votes)

Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian - With Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Karl Swenson, Robert Donner, Charlotte Rampling, ...

Bananas(1971)

PG-13

| 1h 22min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 306 votes)

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán, Dan Frazer, Allen Garfield, Howard Cosell, ...

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The Decameron(1971)

| 1h 52min | History, Drama, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 127 votes)

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - With Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Angela Luce, Giuseppe Zigaina, Guido Alberti, ...

The Night Porter(1974)

1h 58min | War, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 134 votes)

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

Directed by Liliana Cavani - With Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Isa Miranda, Giuseppe Addobbati, ...

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The Tenant(1976)

| 2h 5min | Thriller, Horror

3.8/5 (with 474 votes)

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin, ...

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Arabian Nights(1974)

2h 11min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 77 votes)

The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - With Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Franca Sciutto, ...

The Cat o' Nine Tails(1971)

1h 52min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 172 votes)

A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.

Directed by Dario Argento - With James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Tino Carraro, Pier Paolo Capponi, Aldo Reggiani, ...

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Bilitis(1977)

| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 34 votes)

A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.

Directed by David Hamilton - With Patti D'Arbanville, Bernard Giraudeau, Mathieu Carrière, Gilles Kohler, Irka Bochenko, Mona Kristensen, ...

A Special Day(1977)

| 1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 279 votes)

In Rome, fascist supporter Emanuele attends a parade commemorating Adolf Hitler's historic meeting with Italian leader Benito Mussolini, leaving his apolitical wife, Antonietta, to tend to household duties. Antonietta encounters a man, Gabriele, who appears surprisingly nonplussed by the political event. Over the course of the day, the two forge a close friendship that will forever change their perceptions of life, love and politics.

Directed by Ettore Scola - With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Alessandra Mussolini, Françoise Berd, Vittorio Guerrieri, ...

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Daughters of Darkness(1971)

| 1h 40min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 70 votes)

Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.

Directed by Harry Kümel - With Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Andrea Rau, Paul Esser, Fons Rademakers, Danielle Ouimet, ...

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1970s LGBT-related Movies

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Women in Cellblock 9(1978)

Diamonds Are Forever(1971)

Emanuelle in America(1977)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom(1976)

Cabaret(1972)

Dog Day Afternoon(1975)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask(1972)

Midnight Express(1978)

The Conformist(1971)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975)

Salon Kitty(1976)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(1974)

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Satanic Pandemonium(1975)

The Holy Mountain(1973)

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan(1972)

Immoral Tales(1973)

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion(1972)

Deep Red(1975)

Pink Flamingos(1972)

Anita, Swedish Nymphet(1973)

Vanishing Point(1971)

Bananas(1971)

The Decameron(1971)

The Night Porter(1974)

The Tenant(1976)

Arabian Nights(1974)

The Cat o' Nine Tails(1971)

Bilitis(1977)

A Special Day(1977)

Daughters of Darkness(1971)

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