# The best movies of the 1970s

The decade of The Godfather, Taxi Driver and Jaws: the 70s films at the top on Filmstarts, Inside Digital and Popkultur.de.

- 33 votes · 16 items
- Aug 8, 2023 · Thorsten Klein
- https://even.best/en/l/4319/the-best-movies-of-the-1970s

## Top 15

1. **The Godfather (1972)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Francis Ford Coppola: the Corleone family and Marlon Brando as Don Vito.
2. **One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Miloš Forman: Jack Nicholson against Nurse Ratched.
3. **Apocalypse Now (1979)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Francis Ford Coppola: up the river to Colonel Kurtz.
4. **Jaws (1975)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Steven Spielberg: a shark off Amity Island and the first summer blockbuster.
5. **Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Monty Python in search of the Holy Grail.
6. **The Godfather Part II (1974)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Michael at the top and young Vito, played by Robert De Niro.
7. **Rocky (1976)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sylvester Stallone: an underdog gets his shot at the world champion.
8. **All the President's Men (1976)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Alan J. Pakula: Woodward and Bernstein uncover Watergate.
9. **Alien (1979)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Ridley Scott: Ripley and a stowaway on the Nostromo.
10. **A Clockwork Orange (1971)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Stanley Kubrick: Alex and his droogs.
11. **The Exorcist (1973)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — William Friedkin: the possessed Regan.
12. **Taxi Driver (1976)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Martin Scorsese: Travis Bickle in New York's nights.
13. **Star Wars (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — George Lucas: Luke, Leia, Han and the Death Star.
14. **Papillon (1973)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman escaping from French Guiana.
15. **My Name Is Nobody (1973)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Terence Hill and Henry Fonda in a late western.
16. **Chinatown (1974)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Roman Polanski: Jack Nicholson as a private eye in Los Angeles' water war.

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