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1970s Independent Movies (Indie)

Public list by WPS with 279 movies or TV shows/series

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Halloween(1978)

R
| 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.

Dawn of the Dead(1978)

NR
| 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.

Rabid(1977)

R
| 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.

Eraserhead(1977)

NR
| 1h 29min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 1,110 votes)

First time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. David Lynch arrived on the scene in 1977, almost like a mystical UFO gracing the landscape of LA with its enigmatic radiance. His inaugural work, "Eraserhead" (1977), stood out as a cinematic anomaly, painting a surreal narrative of a young man navigating a dystopian, industrialized America, grappling not only with his tumultuous home life but also contending with an irate girlfriend and a mutant child.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre(1974)

R
| 1h 23min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 1,368 votes)

When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975)

1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 2,548 votes)

King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".

A Bridge Too Far(1977)

PG
| 2h 55min | Drama, History, War
3.6/5 (with 327 votes)

Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

Day of the Woman(1978)

R
| 1h 41min | Horror, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 243 votes)

After a young writer is brutally gang-raped and left for dead by four men, she systematically hunts them down one by one to exact a terrible vengeance.

Directed by Meir Zarchi - With Camille Keaton

Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

PG
| 2h 8min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 600 votes)

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Assault on Precinct 13(1976)

R
| 1h 31min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.6/5 (with 443 votes)

The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.

Orca(1977)

PG
| 1h 32min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 162 votes)

After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

Midnight Express(1978)

R
| 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".

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Mean Streets(1973)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 922 votes)

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

Death Race 2000(1975)

R
| 1h 20min | Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 196 votes)

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

Papillon(1973)

PG
| 2h 31min | Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 807 votes)

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.

Piranha(1978)

R
| 1h 34min | Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 262 votes)

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

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.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975)

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'.

The Last House on the Left(1972)

R
| 1h 24min | Horror, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 275 votes)

Two teenage girls try to buy marijuana in the city - where they get kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.

Straw Dogs(1971)

R
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 388 votes)

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Black Christmas(1974)

R
| 1h 38min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 310 votes)

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger who leaves them threatening phone calls.

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".

Don't Look Now(1973)

R
| 1h 50min | Thriller, Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 428 votes)

Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

Dark Star(1974)

G
| 1h 23min | Comedy, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 223 votes)

A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Dan O'Bannon, Nick Castle, John Carpenter, Brian Narelle

The Crazies(1973)

3.0/5 (with 146 votes)

Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.

Directed by George A. Romero - With Lynn Lowry, Richard Liberty, Bill Hinzman, George A. Romero, Richard Thomas France

Sisters(1973)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 153 votes)

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

Frenzy(1972)

R
| 1h 56min | Crime, Thriller, Horror
3.6/5 (with 364 votes)

After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.

Watership Down(1978)

PG
| 1h 28min | Adventure, Animation, Drama
3.6/5 (with 264 votes)

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

The Hills Have Eyes(1977)

R
| 1h 30min | Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 363 votes)

On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.

Fritz the Cat(1972)

NC-17
| 1h 18min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 134 votes)

A swinging, hypocritical college student cat raises hell in a satirical vision of the 1960s.

Directed by Ralph Bakshi
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