To ask what are the best 70s films?

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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.

Some Bertolucci and Fellini in the 70s if you like that stuff?

Also a film called, intriguingly, when women had tails...

Depends what mood you are in OP- are you feeling bookish ?(Annie Hall), misunderstood and constrained ?(Yentl), or perhaps in need of suspense and mystery (Tinker, tailor, Soldier, Spy.

I think the 70s did cinematography so well (now to Scorsese, of course) but The French Connection, Jaws all of those commercial films still told a story really well. And I love the settings of the European capitals in the 70s - quieter streets, the old grand buildings, the style of the men and the women. Underrated decade in film and music.

I’m about to watch The Godfather. It’s my mother’s favourite but I’ve never watched it I’ll update you all

Oh it’s so good. You will fall in love with young Al Pacino.

That will last until Godfather 2 when you discover a very young Robert de Niro

Enjoy!

"Looking for Mr. Goodbar" starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere. It's pretty dark but based on a true story and is very gripping.

Get Carter

These films are all so brilliant. I'd forgotten what a great era it was.

Midnight Cowboy and Don't Look Now are both brilliant. So are Rocky Horror and Cabaret.

Oh Day of the Jackal love it.

Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Grease, Saturday Night Fever...best of all Life of Brian.

One I always liked that nobody else ever seems to have heard of, is The Tamarind Seed. Partly set in Barbados, it’s a Cold War thriller with Julie Andrews in her first ‘non-sickly-sweet’ role, and Omar Sharif as the dodgy Russian - or is he? Very tense at times but no blood or gore, and a couple of excellent twists.

I need to rewatch The Conversation, I don’t think my DH has ever watched it.

You will love The Godfather, I recently rewatched it and it really holds up, timeless. Loads of other great suggestions here. You really can’t have a bad time if you’re watching the majority of these actors at their zenith.

Others I don’t think I’ve seen mentioned yet, Cabaret, The Last Picture Show, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Ordinary People might squeak in, released in 1980 but shot in ‘79 so I’m ruling it’s allowed.

Hope you feel better soon!

The 70s were the best era for Disaster Movies. The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake etc.

Glad someone said The Sting, what a great film.

Also Godfather/Godfather II, yy Kramer vs Kramer and Day of the Jackal.

Some great suggestions on here.

Don't Look Now is sooo scary tho!

My family groan when The Towering Inferno comes round, but I love it! Paul Newman and Steve McQueen together, mmmmm.

Has anyone mentioned The Omen? Absolute hokum, but enjoyable.

Don't Look Now is in another class. And talking of Donald Sutherland, there's also MASH, which is very much of its time, but watchable.

What about The amazing Mr Blunden? Was that the seventies? I suppose it’s a children’s film really but I think it’s marvellous.

I second the Stepford Wives.

Dr Zhivago
French Connection 1 and 2

That weird Polanski film The Tenant.

Rollerball - the original, absolutely cracking!

Chinatown ( also Polanski so feel rather uncomfortable mentioning it). Terrific film though.

Rocky! Come on, it's a classic

I'd recommend Boogie Nights, not a 70s film but a film about the 70s.

Godfather was my absolute first thought! Enjoy!
Annie Hall was my second suggestion.
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
2001
Apocalypse Now

The Taking of Pelham 123
The Conversation
Blow Out

I expected 'Harold and Maude' to be unbearable but it was really compelling.

www.movieofthenight.com/

This is handy for tracking down what films are available in Netflix/Prime/Disney and you can filter by date/genre etc.

Problem is Chinatown is such an amazing film. Everything is perfect.

Easy Rider or is that 60s?

I loved the disaster moveies too - The Cassandra Crossing left a real impression on me as a child