To ask what are the best 70s films?

[Yesmycatisanutter]

In bed, waiting for results of a covid test and feel horrid.
I want to watch a film (I have Netflix) I want something from the 70s as it’s my favourite decade.
Sadly I wasn’t able to experience it (I’m 38)
Could I get some film recommendations? I never watch films it’s mostly tv shows. Never seen any of the classics either.

So many great films on this thread, and you must see Day of the Jackal.

Cabaret

The Last Picture Show
Blue Collar
Dog Day Afternoon
Cabaret

For light entertainment, Hair
If you're not as screamish as me Carrie or Rosemary's Baby
Or Apocalypse Now.

But yes yes to Taxidriver, Deer hunter.

Network

The Italian Job

Nashville

I will think of some that aren't 2-syllables & one word beginning with N in a mo

The Godfather

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Oops sorry LunaNorth beat me to it with Francis Ford Coppola

Oh, I forgot The Conversation. I absolutely love that film.

Jaws
The Wicker Man
The Towering Inferno
The Poseidon Adventure

Christine (1983, but set in 1978/9)

Something lighter

The Black Stallion
The Jazz Singer

The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
Best films ever made, IMHO

The French Connection
Dog Day Afternoon
Get Carter
The Taking of Pelham 123 (don't get caught out by the more recent version - the 1974 one is better)
The Sting
(Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is 1969, but you might feel able to stretch a point.)

Dirty Harry
Play Misty for Me
The Outlaw Josey Wales
(it was a busy decade for Clint Eastwood - those are arguably his three best films of the 70s)

Chinatown
Taxi Driver
The Shining (1980, but I expect it was filmed in the 70s)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sunday Bloody Sunday - I love this film, but it seems to have been mostly forgotten. Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head.

@ScribblingPixie

Oh, I forgot The Conversation. I absolutely love that film.

So do I!

East Is East

Made in the 90's I think, but set in 70's Manchester.

Great film, very funny, but very poignant too.

Car wash

Totally forgot about Star Wars, but that's probably not quite what you had in mind! If you were in the mood, though, there's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Superman as well.

Yes also to The Towering Inferno and Life of Brian.

Jaws.

Day of the jackal. So beautifully French!

If Christine is allowed, I'm having The Long Good Friday.
And its not a film but Salem's Lot is still creepy.

The Go-Between.

The 1974 (I think) version of Murder on the Orient Express.

Both have fantastic music as well as stellar casts.

Looking for Mr Goodbar

I have found my people...

Three days of the condor - my favourite film

The Odessa file - superb
Day of the jackal - also superb

Rest have been mentioned

Close encounters of the third kind (Richard Dreyfus) was 80s o think but it’s a good one

Papillon

Deer Hunter

Clockwork Orange
Mean streets

Serpico

Sergio Leones once upon a time in America was 1984? but it is set in the 20/30s so still worth watching as it is fantastic.

The American hustle is set in the 70s and I really enjoyed it - Christian bale and Amy adams?

@Yesmycatisanutter

I want something that can really grip me in

The Wicker Man 1973 version, Director's cut