Top Films of the 1970s (Calculated)

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The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
The Heartbreak Kid
伊莲·梅 actor: Charles Grodin / 斯碧尔·谢波德 …
other title: 青涩恋情 / 心碎的孩子 …
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants to be with Kelly instead.

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King Lear (1970)
Король Лир
other title: Re Lear / König Lear …
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą
Wojciech Jerzy Has actor: Jan Nowicki / Tadeusz Kondrat …
other title: La clessidra / O Sanatório de Clepsidra …
Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.

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Face to Face (1976)
Ansikte mot ansikte
other title: L'immagine allo specchio / Von Angesicht zu Angesicht …
A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears.

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Night Moves (1975)
Night Moves
Arthur Penn actor: Gene Hackman / Jennifer Warren …
other title: 夜间行动 / 夜探毒龙潭 …
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case — a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

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Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
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Giuliano Montaldo actor: Gian Maria Volonté / Riccardo Cucciolla …
other title: Sacco e Vanzetti / Sacco und Vanzetti …
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.

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Padre Padrone (1977)
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Paolo Taviani / Vittorio Taviani actor: Omero Antonutti / Saverio Marconi …
other title: Padre padrone / Padre Padrone – Mein Vater, mein Herr …
The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.

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The Shootist (1976)
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Don Siegel actor: John Wayne / Lauren Bacall …
other title: Il pistolero / Seksløberen Som Blev Tavs …
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.

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The Chaos Class Is on Vacation (1977)
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other title: Hababam Sınıfı Tatilde
Lazy, uneducated male students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. Because of the financial crisis, the headmaster agrees to enroll female students. As the new students try to fit in, a struggle between both parties start, trying to prank the other part away. The prank war continues until PE-Teacher decides to take the class out on a trip for a becoming scouts.

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The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Muppet Movie
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James Frawley actor: Jim Henson / Frank Oz …
other title: Ecco il film dei Muppet / As Aventuras dos Marretas …
The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

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The Ear (1970)
Ucho
Karel Kachyňa actor: Radoslav Brzobohatý / Jiřina Bohdalová …
other title: Orelha / L'Oreille …
Upon returning home from an official party, a Czech government official and his wife discover it bugged and surveilled by mysterious figures, driving them to paranoia and intensifying their discontents with one another.

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Witchhammer (1970)
Kladivo na čarodějnice
Otakar Vávra actor: Elo Romančík / Vladimír Šmeral …
other title: Una vergine per l'inquisitore / Die Hexenjagd …
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.

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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
other title: Domenica, maledetta domenica / Domingo, Maldito Domingo …
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

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One Way or Another (1978)
De cierta manera
萨拉·戈麦斯 actor: 马里奥·巴尔马塞达 / Yolanda Cuéllar …
other title: De cierta manera / Sort Of …
Film about Miraflores, a housing development built in 1962.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young actor: Neil Young / Ralph Molina …
other title: Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Concert film covering Neil Young's October 22 1978 concert performance at the Cow Palace with nearly 20 songs (including two versions of "Hey Hey, My My," his nod to the punk movement), acoustic and electric (with long-time companions Crazy Horse), dating back to his Buffalo Springfield days ("I Am a Child") and continuing through popular solo numbers like "Cinnamon Girl" and the extended "Like a Hurricane."

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Get Carter (1971)
Get Carter
Mike Hodges actor: Michael Caine / Ian Hendry …
other title: Carter / Gør Carter Kold …
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

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Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo actor: Timothy Bottoms / Kathy Fields …
other title: E Johnny prese il fucile / E Deram-lhe Uma Espingarda... …
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
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