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1970s American Movies

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Alien(1979)

K-16
| 1h 57min | Horror, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 6,482 votes)

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.

Directed by Ridley Scott - With Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Helen Horton, ...
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The Omen(1976)

1h 51min | Horror, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 855 votes)

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Spencer Stephens, Patrick Troughton, ...

Star Wars(1977)

2h 1min | Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 9,443 votes)

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.

Directed by George Lucas - With Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Peter Cushing, Peter Mayhew, ...
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The Godfather(1972)

16
| 2h 55min | Drama, Crime
4.4/5 (with 9,480 votes)

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of 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.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, ...
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Taxi Driver(1976)

1h 54min | Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 5,628 votes)

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, ...
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Rocky(1976)

PG
| 2h | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 3,488 votes)

An uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the world heavyweight boxing champion.

Directed by John G. Avildsen - With Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Sylvester Stallone, Tony Burton, ...
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Superman(1978)

2h 23min | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 1,751 votes)

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Ned Beatty, ...

The Godfather Part II(1974)

16
| 3h 22min | Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 5,728 votes)

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, Morgana King, ...
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory(1971)

1h 40min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 1,467 votes)

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.

Directed by Mel Stuart - With Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Julie Dawn Cole, Denise Nickerson, Ed Peck, ...
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Maid in Sweden(1971)

1h 20min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Schoolgirl Inga goes to visit her sister in Stockholm and is shocked to find her living with her boyfriend, Casten.

Directed by Dan Wolman - With Christina Lindberg

Caligula(1979)

18
| 2h 36min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 326 votes)

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

Directed by Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione - With Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy, Giancarlo Badessi, ...

Jaws(1975)

2h 4min | Horror, Thriller, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 4,828 votes)

When 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 blood-thirsty beast.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, ...
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Halloween(1978)

1h 31min | Horror, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 2,374 votes)

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, Nancy Kyes, Nick Castle, Charles Cyphers, ...

The Exorcist(1973)

2h 2min | Horror
3.9/5 (with 3,444 votes)

12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

Directed by William Friedkin - With Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Linda Blair, ...

Grease(1978)

G
| 1h 50min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 3,259 votes)

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

Directed by Randal Kleiser - With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci, ...
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Chinatown(1974)

16
| 2h 10min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 1,631 votes)

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Jack Nicholson, John Huston, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, Diane Ladd, Roman Polanski, ...
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The Conversation(1974)

13
| 1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 707 votes)

Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple is in danger.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Cindy Williams, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest, ...

Apocalypse Now(1979)

K-17
| 2h 27min | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 3,606 votes)

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, ...

Supervixens(1975)

1h 46min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 50 votes)

Clint Ramsey has to leave his job working at Martin Bormann's gas station and flee after his wife is murdered by psycho cop Harry Sledge, who tries to pin the murder on Clint. Crossing America, Clint gets sexually harassed on all sides by various voluptuous nymphomaniacs, and it all ends in a literally explosive climax.

Directed by Russ Meyer - With Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, Shari Eubank, Christy Hartburg, Haji, Colleen Brennan, ...

Battle for the Planet of the Apes(1973)

1h 33min | Action, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 375 votes)

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams, ...
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Moonraker(1979)

2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 898 votes)

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles, Richard Kiel, Bernard Lee, Corinne Cléry, ...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

13
| 2h 13min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 4,744 votes)

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

Directed by Miloš Forman - With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, ...
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Dawn of the Dead(1978)

2h 7min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 915 votes)

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Directed by George A. Romero - With Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross, David Emge, Scott Reiniger, James A. Baffico, Tom Savini, ...

Damien: Omen II(1978)

1h 47min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 282 votes)

Since the sudden and highly suspicious death of his parents, 12-year-old Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire—and the world. Anyone attempting to unravel the secrets of Damien's sinister past or fiendish future meets with a swift and cruel demise.

Directed by Don Taylor - With William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Nicholas Pryor, Lew Ayres, Sylvia Sidney, ...

Carrie(1976)

1h 38min | Horror, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,748 votes)

In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross, Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

Directed by Brian De Palma - With John Travolta, William Katt, Betty Buckley, Nancy Allen, Priscilla Pointer, P. J. Soles, ...
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Rabid(1977)

1h 31min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 196 votes)

After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood—the only nourishment that will now sustain her.

Directed by David Cronenberg - With Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Susan Roman, Patricia Gage, Frank R. Moore, Allan Moyle, ...

Logan's Run(1976)

1h 59min | Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 419 votes)

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

Directed by Michael Anderson - With Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Ustinov, ...

Crazy Mama(1975)

1h 23min | Crime, Action, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.

Directed by Jonathan Demme - With Cloris Leachman, Ann Sothern, Bill Paxton, Carmen Argenziano, Dennis Quaid, Dick Miller, ...

Animal House(1978)

1h 49min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 654 votes)

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Directed by John Landis - With John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hulce, Donald Sutherland, ...
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The Poseidon Adventure(1972)

1h 57min | Adventure, Thriller, Action
3.5/5 (with 399 votes)

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Directed by Ronald Neame - With Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, ...
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