Top Ten Movies of the Seventies

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By: Richard
  • 10. Dirty Harry
    The Best Dirty Harry Movie A Classic!
  • 9. Halloween
    A truly scary horror movie a classic!
  • 8. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
    A Outstanding Movie!
  • 7. Star Wars
    A Classic Sci Fi film best ever made!
  • 6. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
    Nicholsons best movie!
  • 5. The Las Picture Show
    A True Classic!
  • 4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
    A Great Western!
  • 3. The Shootist
    A Fitting Tribute To The Duke
  • 2. Patton
    A classic movie all the way
  • 1. JAWS
    A outstanding movie A Spielberg Classic!

By: nick
  • 10. Grease
  • 9. Star Wars
  • 8. The Man With The Golden Gun
  • 7. Rocky
  • 6. The Deer Hunter
  • 5. The French Connection
  • 4. Rocky II
  • 3. Saturday Night Fever
  • 2. Jaws
  • 1. The Godfather

By: Melanie
  • 10. Xanadu
  • 9. Rocky
    Yo Adriene!!!
  • 8. That's The Way It Is
    The way Elvis should be remembered. An artist at his best.
  • 7. Little Mo
    Glynnis O' Connor plays Maureen Connolly; the first woman to win the grand slam of Tennis,all four major international championships in a single year.(age 18) Good movie!
  • 6. American Graffiti
    Great Soundtrack!!
  • 5. Star Wars
    Two words - Harrison Ford!!!
  • 4. Smokey And The Bandit
    Jackie Gleason was halarious!!
  • 3. Grease
  • 2. Saturday Night Fever
    The Music! The Music! The Music!
  • 1. The Way We Were

By: Keith
  • 10. Jaws
  • 9. Patton
  • 8. Network
  • 7. Young Frankenstein
  • 6. Godfather
  • 5. American Graffiti
  • 4. Monty Python And The Holy Grail
  • 3. Chinatown
  • 2. The Spy Who Loved Me
  • 1. Star Wars

By: Zach
  • 10. The Godfather, Part II
    Although a great movie and continuation, I enjoyed the first much more than this one.
  • 9. Apocalypse Now
    Francis Ford Coppola is one of my favorites, and he makes a great movie here.
  • 8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Good movie. Definitely one of the best of the seventies.
  • 7. Chinatown
    This P.I. detective style movie is very entertaining. Jack Nicholson is one of my favorites.
  • 6. Rocky
    Adrian! This is another great that defined an era of moviemaking.
  • 5. The Deer Hunter
    For some reason I really like this movie, but I can't quite pinpoint why. Sounds strange, I know.
  • 4. Fiddler On The Roof
    This is my favorite musical of all-time!
  • 3. Star Wars: A New Hope
    The biggest cult movie of all time and ingenious storytelling from George Lucas, "May the force be with you"
  • 2. Jaws
    This was a toss-up with Star Wars, but I chose Jaws. Really great movie, and quite spooky still today!
  • 1. The Godfather
    This is my favorite movie of all-time! What's not to love about it? Brilliant.
Keep in mind these are all movies I have seen. I'm sure there are others(The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange) that deserve a spot but I just haven't seen yet.
By: Ben
  • 10. Star Wars (1977)
    I'll just put it on here because it's STAR WARS. I couldn't think of anything else.
  • 9. Superman (1979)
    Creates the comic book hero without flaws
  • 8. Carrie (1976)
    This movie makes me so sad. You really feel sorry for this girl. Sissy gave a great performance in this flick.
  • 7. One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest (1975?)
    Great movie. Jack Nicholson is amazing. Nurse Ratchet is such a bitch!
  • 6. Exorcist (1973)
    SCARY! SCARY! SCARY! NEVER WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN!
  • 5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
    Scared the crap out of me! Marilyn Burns is awesome at the end. SCARY AS HELL!
  • 4. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
    John Travolta is awesome in this flick. The dancing and music are outstanding as well.
  • 3. Grease (1978)
    Damn, what a good year (1978) John & Olivia are THE best onscreen couple. Whenever I see this on stage I think they are nothing compared to John & Olivia.
  • 2. Animal House (1978)
    Classic! Hilarious! John Belushi at his best. Sums up college perfectly.
  • 1. Halloween (1978)
    My favorite movie of all time! Jamie Lee Curtis is flawless in this as Laurie. I love you Jamie. And, Michael is the ultimate serial killer. I like horror movies with more suspense than gore, and this is it!

By: Jedi Riff
  • 10. Godfather 2
    I hated this movie, same as 1 but the 70's sucked for movies
  • 9. Godfather
    Whatever...
  • 8. Jaws
    What do you get when you take a giant shark...
  • 7. The Shining
    Come and play with us
  • 6. Greese
    Did i spell that right?
  • 5. Month Python And The Holy Grail
    John Cleese is a funny guy
  • 4. Rocky
    ADRIAN!!!
  • 3. The Exorcist
    I peed my pants my first time
  • 2. Star Wars
    What can i say, im a S.W. Freak, this one was a definate contendor for #1
  • 1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    I dident expect this one to be on theses as much as i t was, check out my Rocky Horror Web site, www.rockyinsac.org
Rocky Horror Best movie of the 70's, Star wars at a very close 2nd
By: scot
  • 10. The French Connection
  • 9. The Deer Hunter
  • 8. The Godfather II
  • 7. The Godfather
  • 6. The Sting
  • 5. Raging Bull
  • 4. Rocky
  • 3. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
  • 2. Star Wars
  • 1. Jaws

By: doofy
  • 10. Saturday night fever
  • 9. French Connection
  • 8. Star Wars
  • 7. Taxi Driver
  • 6. Deer Hunter
  • 5. Halloween
  • 4. Jaws
  • 3. Dirty Harry
  • 2. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  • 1. Godfather

By: Sarah
  • 10. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • 9. Halloween
    Cool horror film. Not that scary, but entertaining
  • 8. Superman
    Amazing! It gave hope that you too could fly.
  • 7. Vanishing Point
    Cool car chasing scenes
  • 6. Rocky
    Best Movie of Sylvester's career
  • 5. Two Lane Blacktop
    Cool Movie! Great car chases
  • 4. Logans Run
    I thought this was a great sci-fi film of the decade!
  • 3. American Graffiti
    This is the best nostligic movie ever made!
  • 2. Saturday Night Fever
    Once again, John Travolta is still hot! this movie had the coolest soundtrack.
  • 1. Grease
    I thought Sandy and Danny looked so cute together! Cool musical! John Travolta was totally hot!

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