What are your top ten favorite movies from the 70s?

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• 10. Gone In Sixty Seconds
  Can only remember the 45 minute car chase
• 9. Dule
  One of Speilbergs first films,funny how many are in my top ten
• 8. Omega Man
  could have happend
• 7. Alien
  Saw only stills of this film when it came out and did not sleep again for a year
• 6. Life Of Brian
  Another pythonesk veiw on life
• 5. The Holy Grale
  Monty python veiw of life
• 4. American Grafitti
  Ace feel good film a Lucas classic that started that 50,s 70,s thing
• 3. Jaws
  I loved the sea now i hate it
• 2. Close Encounters Of The 3'rd Kind
  To good for words
• 1. Starwars
  What can one say about this movie, only the best

• 10. American Graffiti
  
• 9. The Deer Hunter
  
• 8. Live and Let Die
  
• 7. Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
• 6. Superman
  
• 5. The Omen
  
• 4. Saturday Night Fever
  
• 3. Jaws
  
• 2. Exorcist
  
• 1. Star Wars
  

• 10. Rock And Roll Suicide
  
• 9. One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest
  
• 8. The Man Who Fell To Earth
  BOWIE*******BOWIE*********BOWIE******BOWIE********BOWIE*******
• 7. Barbarella
  I'm not sure if it was made in '69 or '70 so Iput it later on the list even though it is one of my favorites
• 6. Godfather
  
• 5. Taxi Driver
  
• 4. Exorcist
  
• 3. Rockey Horror Picture Show
  
• 2. Clockwork Orange
  
• 1. Harold And Maud
  

• 10. Godfather Part II
  Not as good as the original but pretty damn good!
• 9. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  Great movie. Awesome performances and just really funny.
• 8. Grease
  I hate to admit it but I do really enjoy this film. Even though it is a little over played.
• 7. Willy Wonka
  Still one of my favorites. Can't wait till the remake!
• 6. M*A*S*H*
  Just hilarious. Much much better than the television show.
• 5. The Deer Hunter
  One of the most harrowing movies ever. Christopher Walken is a strange one, but he won his well deserved Oscar. Just amazing performances by everyone in the cast and Micheal Cimino does a great job directing, too bad he couldn't make another good movie.
• 4. Rocky Horror Picture Show
  This movie will always have fans. This is just a classic, I am sure that Susan Sarandon is really proud she was in this one, I am just joking.
• 3. Star Wars
  What can I say? Just fantastic!
• 2. Godfather
  By far the best movie Francis Ford-Coppola made and the best mob movie ever made. Great cast and great directing.
• 1. Clockwork Orange
  The best Kubrick movie, even though he had a lot of really great ones. Just amazing, I adore this movie and the book. One of the best of all time.

• 10. Elisa, Vida Mia (Elisa, My Love)
  This little known film made by spanish director Carlos Saura (Cria!,Carmen)in 1976 is full of beautiful visual imagery,and features a screenplay with a mesmerizing dialogue a complex but carefully made structure and two masterful lead performances by Fernando Rey and Geraldine Chaplin
• 9. The Magic Flute
  Who knew opera could be so entertaining? in fact in Ingmar Bergman?s hand this opera is pure magic, and a delight to all senses.
• 8. Badlands
  Terrence Malick?s flim debut is one of the most visually arresting films ever made. Also is a parable about the uninspired and troubled youth of the 70's. Sissy Spacek in her first big flim role is brilliant as a naive but beautiful southern girl.
• 7. Seven Beauties
  Lina Wertmuller?s film about a lowlife casanova in the Italy of the 1940?s that ends up in a fascist concentration camp is a total delight and one of the funniest films of all time. Giancarlo Giannini is unforgetable as Pasqualino
• 6. Manhattan
  Woody Allen?s most visually beautiful film, a great tribute to New York City and a very funny and ironic look at New York?s intelectual circle. A great closing to the 70?s. Mariel Hemingway has not been this great since and Diane Keaton gives one of the best performances of her career.
• 5. Chinatown
  Even if his last efforts have been erratic, Roman Polanski remains one of cinema?s most brilliant filmakers, this movie proves it. Great performances by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway
• 4. The Last Waltz
  Martin Scorsese filming Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, life and film doesn?t get any better than that. Probably the best concert film ever made
• 3. A Woman Under The Influence
  John Cassavettes is for me one of the most brilliant and underestimated filmakers in the history of movies. This is his masterpiece. A haunting drama about the mental breakdown of a woman caused by her alienation from society. Gena Rowlands in what is maybe one of the best female performances ever captured on film.
• 2. The Conversation
  Forget The Godfather films, this is the best film by Francis Ford Coppola, the best paranoia thriller ever filmed and a great performance by Gene Hackman
• 1. Nashville
  Robert Altman?s best movie. A great cast filled the screen with fabulous performances. A dark, brilliant and funny satiric look at american society and culture that stand still today

• 10. Every Which Way But Loose
  
• 9. Deliverance
  
• 8. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
• 7. Star Wars
  
• 6. The Outlaw Josey Wales
  
• 5. Alien
  
• 4. Death Wish
  
• 3. Rocky
  
• 2. Smokey And The Bandit
  
• 1. Dirty Harry
  

• 10. Duel
  
• 9. Magnum Force
  
• 8. Shaft
  
• 7. Halloween
  
• 6. Jaws
  
• 5. Enter The Dragon
  
• 4. Dirty Harry
  
• 3. Star wars
  
• 2. Smokey And The Bandit
  
• 1. The Warriors
  

• 10. Star Wars
  
• 9. Superman
  
• 8. Halloween
  
• 7. Rocky
  
• 6. Saturday Night Fever
  
• 5. Jaws
  
• 4. Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
• 3. The Exorcist
  
• 2. The Godfather
  
• 1. Grease
  

• 10. Dog Day Afternoon
  
• 9. Star Wars
  
• 8. The Deer Hunter
  
• 7. Mean Streets
  
• 6. Cabaret
  
• 5. Annie Hall
  
• 4. Godfather 2
  
• 3. Jaws
  
• 2. Godfather
  
• 1. Taxi Driver
  

• 10. Star Wars
  I know, but this is the special effects bible.
• 9. The Shining
  It's not about murder in a hotel, it's about the murder(genocide) of the American Indian. Try and figure that out.
• 8. The Godfather
  I got a real kick recently. I saw this classic on the AMC channel. They censored John Marley's line, "She was the best piece of ass I ever had!" But they still let him wake up with a bloody horse's head! Am I missing something?
• 7. The Last Picture Show
  I've been to Archer City. Bogdonovich didn't quite capture its essence. The film is much too cheerful!
• 6. The Exorcist
  Can you believe REAL PRIESTS read and approved this plot?
• 5. A Clockwork Orange
  Critics complained Kubric's view of the future was too BLEAK. Guess what?
• 4. Apocolypse Now
  Vietnam was a nightmare...get it!
• 3. Jaws
  Shaw/Quint says, "We have a taxadermist in town who is going to have a heart attack when he sees what I'm bringin' 'im!" and the actor really dies of a heart attack not long after.
• 2. Halloween
  MICHAEL! The first real and accurate sibling rivalry movie.
• 1. Alien
  No one can hear your scream in Space. First true woman lib movie!

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