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Tell me your favourite 70s films

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ChiefWiggumsBoy · 09/03/2022 21:11

I'm watching The Towering Inferno and it's given me a hankering for more shag carpets and flares.

Bonus points if it's a disaster movie as I bloody love those. I'm also a YUGE fan of Alien (which just gets in at 1979) so anything similar I'm down for.

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PAFMO · 09/03/2022 21:15

All the Airport films.
Averted disasters AND snowstorms usually. Win-win.

For black eyeliner and Robert Redford etc Barefoot in the Park and The Way We Were.

For messy sobbing: Love Story.

LaQuern · 09/03/2022 21:16

Jaws

Greeceisthebest · 09/03/2022 21:20

Jaws
Buggy Malone
Star Wars
Grease
Logan’s Run
Soylent Green
The Godfather

Bromse · 09/03/2022 21:20

Saturday Night Fever.
Star Wars.

Clarabe1 · 09/03/2022 21:20

Dirty Harry. Do you feel lucky punk?? Well do ya???

Greeceisthebest · 09/03/2022 21:21

Oops loads of mine not actually set in the 70s!!

SorrelForbes · 09/03/2022 21:21

The Goodbye Girl.

Thoosa · 09/03/2022 21:22

Three days of the condor.
Parallax view.
Chinatown (although that’s set much earlier).

Mull · 09/03/2022 21:24

The Poseidon Adventure! Love that film.

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 09/03/2022 21:24

Taxi Driver

And I LOVE Harold and Maud!

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 09/03/2022 21:25

Rocky Horror

schroeder · 09/03/2022 21:25

The Poisiden Adventure obviously Grin

AnotherPoster · 09/03/2022 21:26

Another one for the Poseidon Adventure. I watched it the other day and I discovered it on Netflix or Prime, I forget which. I can't say how many times I've seen that film, first time was at the cinema when it first came out!

2catsandhappy · 09/03/2022 21:27

Ooh no brainer. Vanishing Point with Barry Newman. Hot 2nd, Silent Running. A space sci fi film. Damn, want to watch them both now!

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 09/03/2022 21:27

Sleuth with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine is absolute genius.

And Time Bandits, love that film!

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 09/03/2022 21:28

Clockwork Orange

wildthingsinthenight · 09/03/2022 21:28

Jaws
Saturday Night Fever

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 09/03/2022 21:29

Possibly my favourite film of all time, Cabaret (though it's set in 30's Berlin).

persephone19 · 09/03/2022 21:30

I came on here to say The Towering Inferno

But also Taxi Driver and Cabaret

Bollix · 09/03/2022 21:31

Grease 🙈 I was 14 when it came out so i'm allowed 🤷‍♀️

The Posieden Adventure is a classic - great film.

Jaws - I watched with subtitles in Hong Kong when first released and went swimming the next day at a beach with shark nets 😅

GreenCat44 · 09/03/2022 21:31

Looking for Mr Goodbar

Redshoeblueshoe · 09/03/2022 21:35

Don't Look Now
Harold and Maud

SwissCheeseRentedChildren · 09/03/2022 21:36

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sleeper
Love and Death
Star Wars

All made in the 70s but not set in the 70s.

DominickTheItalianXmasDonkey · 09/03/2022 21:38

Taxi Driver
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Mad Max
Soylent Green
The Deer Hunter
The Shining
And... Grease Grin

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ChiefWiggumsBoy · 09/03/2022 21:40

Making a note of them all - I actually already have The Poseidon Adventure lined up (son and I bond over disasters Grin) and Jaws, although he won't be watching that one it'll scare him senseless!

Loads of others here I can't wait to see - you know I've heard of most of them but not seen any?! What's all that about?

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