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1970s Science Fiction Movies

Public list by WPS with 103 movies or TV shows/series

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Star Wars(1977)

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.

Superman(1978)

PG
| 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.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes(1973)

G
| 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.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes(1971)

G
| 1h 38min | Action, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 434 votes)

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

Godzilla vs. Megalon(1973)

G
| 1h 22min | Action, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 75 votes)

Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979)

3.2/5 (with 729 votes)

When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes(1972)

PG
| 1h 28min | Action, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 387 votes)

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.

Silent Running(1972)

G
| 1h 29min | Adventure, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 240 votes)

In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for commercial purposes, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going home. Not so for botanist Freeman Lowell who loves the forest and its creatures, so decides to take matters into his own hands to protect what he loves.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla(1974)

G
| 1h 24min | Action, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 92 votes)

An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further complicated when a second Godzilla emerges, revealing the doppelgänger as a mechanical weapon.

Godzilla vs. Gigan(1972)

G
| 1h 29min | Action, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 75 votes)

Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.

Terror of Mechagodzilla(1975)

3.5/5 (with 82 votes)

A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura's life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, Toru Kawai, Tatsumi Nikamoto, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, ...

The Little Prince(1974)

3.4/5 (with 48 votes)

Based on the story by Antoine deSaint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a pilot (Richard Kiley) makes a forced landing on the barren Sahara Desert. He is befriended by a "little" prince from the planet Asteroid B-612. In the days that follow, the pilot learns of the small boy's history and planet-hopping journeys in which he met a King, a businessman, an historian, and a general. It isn't until he comes to Earth that the Little Prince learns the secrets of the importance of life from a Fox (Gene Wilder), a Snake (Bob Fosse), and the pilot.

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The Star Wars Holiday Special(1978)

1.7/5 (with 199 votes)

Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!

THX 1138(1971)

R
| 1h 26min | Science Fiction, Action, Drama
3.2/5 (with 397 votes)

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Godzilla vs. Hedorah(1971)

G
| 1h 25min | Action, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 78 votes)

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.

Zardoz(1974)

3.0/5 (with 181 votes)

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park(1979)

2.8/5 (with 31 votes)

The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to uses the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world. KISS must use their special powers to stop him.

Fantastic Planet(1973)

PG
| 1h 12min | Animation, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 390 votes)

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

Directed by René Laloux

Damnation Alley(1977)

PG
| 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 39 votes)

Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.

Laserblast(1978)

1.5/5 (with 39 votes)

Loner teenager Billy Duncan stumbles across a lost alien ray gun while wandering the desert one day. Billy uses the destructive weapon to get revenge on his enemies, but quickly finds himself beginning to turn into a violent, alien creature who destroys anyone who offends him.

Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo(1978)

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

The world's most wanted master thief, Lupin the Third, is dead! Despite a coroner's report, Interpol Inspector Zenigata is sceptical and discovers that Lupin is actually alive and well and stealing. But who had set up Lupin's death and why?

Directed by Sōji Yoshikawa

Galaxy Express 999: The Movie(1979)

3.4/5 (with 29 votes)

In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.

Directed by Rintaro

Night of the Lepus(1972)

PG
| 1h 28min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.2/5 (with 42 votes)

Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!

The Shape of Things to Come(1979)

PG
| 1h 38min | Science Fiction
2.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on an anti-radiation drug only available on planet Delta Three, which has been taken over by Omus, a brilliant but mad mechanic who places no value on human life. Omus wants to come to the Moon to rule and intends to attack it by ramming robot-controlled spaceships into the domes. Dr. John Caball, his son Jason, Jason's friend, Kim, and a robot named Sparks embark on Caball's space battlecruiser on an unauthorized mission to Delta Three to stop Omus.

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel(1979)

3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things start happening.

Skullduggery(1970)

2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.

The Medusa Touch(1978)

3.4/5 (with 71 votes)

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth(1970)

3.1/5 (with 37 votes)

An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.

At the Earth's Core(1976)

2.5/5 (with 68 votes)

A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants.

Directed by Kevin Connor - With Peter Cushing, Doug McClure, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James, Sean Lynch, ...

The Humanoid(1979)

2.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Golob, turning the unsuspecting victim into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength. The people of Metropolis must somehow outwit Graal before he can create an army of these soldiers, or their planet will be destroyed.

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