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Best Drama Movies of the 1970s
The Godfather (1972)
RCrime, Drama2h55An organized crime dynasty's aging patriarch transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
RCrime, Drama3h22The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
RDrama2h13A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
RDrama, Mystery, War2h27A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
RCrime, Drama, Sci-Fi2h16In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
The Sting (1973)
PGComedy, Crime, Drama2h09Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Stalker (1979)
Not RatedDrama, Sci-Fi2h42A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Taxi Driver (1976)
RCrime, Drama1h54A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
PGAdventure, Drama, History3h05An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Chinatown (1974)
RDrama, Mystery, Thriller2h10A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Network (1976)
RDrama2h01A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
Paper Moon (1973)
PGComedy, Crime, Drama1h42During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Rocky (1976)
PGDrama, Sport2h00A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Solaris (1972)
PGDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi2h47A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
The Deer Hunter (1978)
RDrama, War3h03An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Being There (1979)
PGComedy, Drama2h10A simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
RBiography, Crime, Drama2h05Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
GDrama, Family, Musical3h01In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Papillon (1973)
PGBiography, Crime, Drama2h31A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
The Last Picture Show (1971)
RDrama, Romance1h58In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
All the President's Men (1976)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h18"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Harold and Maude (1971)
PGComedy, Drama, Romance1h31Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Manhattan (1979)
RComedy, Drama, Romance1h36The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Patton (1970)
PGBiography, Drama, War2h52The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Badlands (1973)
PGAction, Crime, Drama1h34An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Cabaret (1972)
PGDrama, Music, Musical2h04A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
PGDrama1h45Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.
The Conversation (1974)
PGDrama, Mystery, Thriller1h53A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Deliverance (1972)
RAdventure, Drama, Thriller1h49Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Enter the Dragon (1973)
RAction, Crime, Drama1h42A secret agent comes to an opium lord's island fortress with other fighters for a martial-arts tournament.
Serpico (1973)
RBiography, Crime, Drama2h10An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
The French Connection (1971)
RAction, Crime, Drama1h44A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PGDrama, Sci-Fi2h18Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
GPAdventure, Drama, Western1h48A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
Midnight Express (1978)
RBiography, Crime, Drama2h01Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
High Plains Drifter (1973)
RDrama, Mystery, Western1h45A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
PGDrama, History, War2h55Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
American Graffiti (1973)
PGComedy, Drama1h50A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
MASH (1970)
PGComedy, Drama, War1h56The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
The China Syndrome (1979)
PGDrama, Thriller2h02A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.