Tell me your favourite 70s films

[ChiefWiggumsBoy]

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.

Poseidon adventure but can’t watch towering inferno anymore for obvious reasons.

Oops The Shining was 1980.

IMO the 70s had the best films. Cinema started going downhill after that.

I'll also add The Wicker Man to the list.

Oops The Shining was 1980

I'll allow it

Gene Hackman is mesmerising in the Poseidon Adventure.

Butch and Sundance
Dirty Harry
The Sting
Don't Look Now
Carrie

Duel

Dog Day Afternoon - possibly my favourite film, not just of the 70’s

And Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory of course!

Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is brilliant.

Deliverance is also absolutely brilliant.

And One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest has the best female villain ever (there's a spin off on Netflix about her currently called Ratched).

@SleepOhHowIMissYou

Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is brilliant.

I just watched the new one and it gave me nightmares . I have seen the original but so many years ago my only memory is of the white flares!

The most obvious one has to be Earthquake though (if you're after 70s disaster films specifically).

Harold and Maude

I couldn't watch the modern Texas Chainsaw, I'm not good with gore.

Thankfully, Tobe Hooper didn't have the budget for too much Kensington Gore in the 70s.

There's nothing else that feels like that film. Same with the 70s Wicker Man, they're in a league of their own.

Chinatown is such a fantastic film (shame it’s Polanski)

Towering Inferno - McQueen vs Newman - it’s just two hot professional men being heroes- I could watch it all day

Day of the Jackal

But I think my fave Is

Three days of the Condor with Faye Dunaway and Redford

The Odessa File - very well written

Barry Lyndon
The Way We Were
Chinatown
The Godfather
Annie Hall
Taxi Driver

The Wicker Man and Rocky Horror and Dirty Harry - all brilliant in very different ways, and I loved Towering Inferno.

Jesus Christ Superstar
The Naked Civil Servant starring the amazing Quentin Crisp

The Omen
The Omega Man

Was going to suggest 2001:A Space Odyssey and The Planet of the Apes, but they’re both, unbelievably, from 1968.

Cabaret was mentioned previously! Love that movie!

@Abracadabra12345

The Wicker Man and Rocky Horror and Dirty Harry - all brilliant in very different ways, and I loved Towering Inferno.

Jesus Christ Superstar
The Naked Civil Servant starring the amazing Quentin Crisp

That was John Hurt playing Quentin Crisp wasn't it?

@yodaforpresident

The Omen The Omega Man

Was going to suggest 2001:A Space Odyssey and The Planet of the Apes, but they’re both, unbelievably, from 1968.

Don't worry I have seen those ones already

And I have seen the other two as well - but well worth a rewatch.

Another vote for Poseidon.

Also Papillon, the original obviously. Dustin Hoffman is amazing in it. It's quite long, I think 2.5 hours, but an amazing story.

Papillon is fantastic.

Those films were so well made. I also love seeing the cities look so clean🤣

A Single Woman

Annie Hall

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

What a great decade for woman-centred films

Is it just me who feels like The Poseidon Adventure was on every weekend when I was a kid?!