Category: 1970s

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1970s / Comedy

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Three years before the trio of comedy writers of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (Top Secret!, Ruthless People) would score their mega-hit Airplane!, they made this sporadically funny, screwball vignette comedy flick which...

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1970s / Drama / Thriller

Taxi Driver (1976)

A discharged Vietnam vet (De Niro, The Godfather Part II) works as a cab driver in the tough streets of New York City. He’s antisocial and not very savvy about the way the world works, but...

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1970s / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

All the President’s Men (1976)

All the President’s Men is the well-known dramatic account about the cracking of the Watergate scandal and the reporters who scooped it, Woodward (Redford, Three Days of the Condor) and Bernstein (Hoffman, Agatha) of the Washington Post. What started...

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1970s / Action / Science Fiction / Sports / Thriller

Rollerball (1975)

In the future, corporations have taken over the world, and together they devise a game that is meant to teach the masses the values they want, namely the team and corporation is more important...

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1970s / Thriller

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

The plot: A book-reader (Redford) for the CIA steps out to lunch; upon his return he finds all of his colleagues gunned down for reasons unknown. He informs his superiors, who want him to come...

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1970s / Drama / Science Fiction / Thriller

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

In the near future of Great Britain, a band of teenage hooligans rape and torture citizens for pleasure, with no respect for elders or authority. One day the leader of the hooligans, Alex (McDowell, Caligula),...

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1970s / Comedy / Thriller

The Choirboys (1977)

Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard, The Frisco Kid) assembles a competent cast and makes an absolute mess.  He attempts to make an entertaining and humorous look at cops and their camaraderie with each...

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1970s / Horror / Science Fiction

Shivers (1975)

When a reputable scientist murders a young woman in his apartment by destroying her internal organs before taking his own life, it’s liable to raise a few questions. Enter Dr. Roger St. Luc, who...

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1970s / Drama / War

Patton (1970)

This is the much acclaimed biopic about WWII American General George S. Patton (Scott), who swept through Europe, inspiring fear by the Germans as well as his own men through his unflinching tactical command....

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1970s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction

Star Wars (1977)

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — oh, you know the rest. A couple of robots shuttle to a desert planet after their rebel spaceship is taken over by an...