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.

Love Story
Kramer v Kramer
Grease
The Railway Children
Saturday Night Fever
Alien
Rocky Horror
A Star is Born
The Way We Were
Dr Zhivago
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Life of Brian
MASH
10
Swallows and Amazons
Fiddler on the Roof
The Muppet Movie
Last Tango in Paris
Mad Max
Willy Wonka
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Sting

Dog Day Afternoon is one of my favourite films, glad it's had a few mentions. I looked up co star John Cazale a while back wondering why I hadn't seen him in much else given how good he was. Turns out he was only in a few films, all classics, filmed The Deer Hunter while terminally ill and died before it was finished.

I'll recommend Badlands. Like Dog Day Afternoon it's based on real life crime.
A bit marmite but a classic. Stylistically
great and probably quite an easy watch when you're ill. And at risk of boring with fact overload, it's an influence for Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska.

Yes, John Cazale's career in films is astonishing. The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, Dog Day Afternoon, The Conversation, The Deer Hunter and then he died. Meryl Streep was his partner and she nursed him to the end.

The Cassandra Crossing - deadly virus on a train!
Soylent Green
Don't Look Now
Midnight Cowboy
Serpico

Just reading back over these. It really was the most fantastic decade for cinema. Most of my all time favourites are from the seventies.

On the buses

@VeganVeal

On the buses

I've said it before and I'll say it again - the fact that 'Holiday On The Buses' was one of the highest-grossing films that year, tells us a lot about Britain in the 70s. It heavily outperformed the James Bond offering that year, although if as I suspect that was 'Live And Let Die' it's a bit less surprising.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - the fact that 'Holiday On The Buses' was one of the highest-grossing films that year, tells us a lot about Britain in the 70s. It heavily outperformed the James Bond offering that year, although if as I suspect that was 'Live And Let Die' it's a bit less surprising.

And dont forget it had a lot of crumpet in it as well. Corrrrr

Yep. Dear old Jane Seymour was about a six when compared to the 'HOTB' ladies. And they were much more prepared to show their knickers.

Days of Heaven

@FunnyWonder

There was a great quality to the films. I love that period and am actually really into the fashion now. ALthough that could be down to a childhood watching Charlie's Angels and Bionic Woman (like MNHQ, I suspect with their logo)

Play Misty for Me

Or if you want a good cry - Who Will Love My Children

The Way We Were. Not a perfect film, but Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford were great.

Also, What's Up Doc, if you like screwball comedies. I saw this recently with very low expectations, and it was far better than I had feared it would be. Very good comedy chase scene through San Francisco towards the end. Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.

I really want to know what OP thought of The Godfather.

I haven’t gone through all the suggestions but ‘3 days of the condor’ is good - with a young Robert Redford as an added bonus!

Shaft

@Fyredraca I love the rather sly, self mocking sense of humour that his characters' had.

It always surprised me, when he was interviewed, how articulate, personable and charming he is in reality, because he specialised in playing the terse "man with no name" sort of hero/anti-hero. I remember after we saw "The good, the bad and the ugly," discussing who was actually meant to be who.

I was a big, big fan. And yes, he was gorgeous.

Midnight Express and Papillon. Two of my favourite films of all time.

Original Starwars trilogy
Jaws

The stepford wives
Nashville
A star is born
There was one where a man cuts up a lorry driver and then gets chased along lonely highways by the lorry. Can't remember the name think it might be 'dual'
The China syndrome
What's up doc

A Clockwork Orange
If
Both starting Malcolm McDowell.

Dual was Stephen Spielbergs first film.

Play misty for me
Taxi driver
Midnight cowboy

One I've never seen but want to is called 'our mothers house' where a load of kids living with their mum in a run down Victorian terrace conceal the mums death so they don't get put into care. The ex husband finds out, moves himself in with his new girlfriend and manages to sign the house over to himself.
I don't know what happens in the end but it's made in England and the kids have cockney accents that sound odd as you don't hear their type of accent anymore. Made around early 70s I think.

Just thought of two more
Rosemary Baby
The Little Girl who lived down the Lane starting a 13 year old Jodie Foster.

@5SteppinOutwithMyBaby oh now I need to watch him!
Yes you are so right!