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American cinema: 1970s
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Richard Attenborough
September, 1944. D-Day has come and gone but the allied advance has slowed to a crawl owing to over-extended supply lines...
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Richard Attenborough
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stanley Kubrick
Alex DeLarge is a Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent who spends his evenings indulging in orgies of violence with his droogies...
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Stanley Kubrick
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Robert Fuest
England, 1925. When several eminent doctors die in mysterious and horrific circumstances it soon becomes clear that the murders are linked...
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Robert Fuest
Alien (1979)
Ridley Scott
Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women - is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure...
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Ridley Scott
American Graffiti (1973)
George Lucas
Modesto, California, 1962. After a party to celebrate the end of term, a group of high school graduates go cruising about town, and end up having a far more eventful night than they planned...
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George Lucas
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Sidney Lumet
Once he has completed a ten year stretch in prison for burglary, John Anderson returns to his girlfriend Ingrid, who now resides in an upmarket New York apartment block, at the expense of her latest admirer... [More...]
Sidney Lumet
Once he has completed a ten year stretch in prison for burglary, John Anderson returns to his girlfriend Ingrid, who now resides in an upmarket New York apartment block, at the expense of her latest admirer... [More...]
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Robert Wise
Returning to Earth after probing the dark reaches of space, a satellite drifts off course and crashes into Piedmont, a small town in New Mexico... [More...]
Robert Wise
Returning to Earth after probing the dark reaches of space, a satellite drifts off course and crashes into Piedmont, a small town in New Mexico... [More...]
Annie Hall (1977)
Woody Allen
Alvy Singer is a New York stand-up comedian who is still obsessed with his former girlfriend Annie Hall, a year after their relationship ended... [More...]
Woody Allen
Alvy Singer is a New York stand-up comedian who is still obsessed with his former girlfriend Annie Hall, a year after their relationship ended... [More...]
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola
Vietnam, 1969. Captain Willard, an American special operations agent, is in Saigon recuperating after a successful mission when intelligence officers approach him with a new assignment... [More...]
Francis Ford Coppola
Vietnam, 1969. Captain Willard, an American special operations agent, is in Saigon recuperating after a successful mission when intelligence officers approach him with a new assignment... [More...]
Badlands (1973)
Terrence Malick
Some time in the 1950s... In a small South Dakota town, 15-year-old Holly lives a dull but contented life with her father, a sign painter... [More...]
Terrence Malick
Some time in the 1950s... In a small South Dakota town, 15-year-old Holly lives a dull but contented life with her father, a sign painter... [More...]
Being There (1979)
Hal Ashby
Chance is a middle-aged man who has spent his entire life in a large house in Washington D.C. The only two people he knows are his benefactor, a successful business man, and a black woman who brings him his meals... [More...]
Hal Ashby
Chance is a middle-aged man who has spent his entire life in a large house in Washington D.C. The only two people he knows are his benefactor, a successful business man, and a black woman who brings him his meals... [More...]
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Mel Brooks
In 1874, construction work on a new U.S. railroad is halted when it runs into an area of quicksand. The State Attorney General, Hedley Lamarr, persuades Governor LePetomane to authorise a change of route that will see the railroad redirected through the town of Ridge Rock... [More...]
Mel Brooks
In 1874, construction work on a new U.S. railroad is halted when it runs into an area of quicksand. The State Attorney General, Hedley Lamarr, persuades Governor LePetomane to authorise a change of route that will see the railroad redirected through the town of Ridge Rock... [More...]
Cabaret (1972)
Bob Fosse
Berlin, 1931. Sally Bowles is a feisty young American who performs a popular cabaret act at the Kit Kat Club, one of the city's hottest nightspots, although she dreams of one day becoming a successful film actress... [More...]
Bob Fosse
Berlin, 1931. Sally Bowles is a feisty young American who performs a popular cabaret act at the Kit Kat Club, one of the city's hottest nightspots, although she dreams of one day becoming a successful film actress... [More...]
Chinatown (1974)
Roman Polanski
Jake Gittes is a Los Angeles private investigator who specialises in adultery cases. He is hired by Mrs Mulwray to provide her with evidence that her husband, who happens to be the head of the city's water department, is having an affair with a young woman... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Jake Gittes is a Los Angeles private investigator who specialises in adultery cases. He is hired by Mrs Mulwray to provide her with evidence that her husband, who happens to be the head of the city's water department, is having an affair with a young woman... [More...]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Steven Spielberg
The scattered inhabitants of Muncie, a small rural community in Indiana, are visited by strange lights in the night sky. One evening, a mother watches in horror as her small child is abducted by a flying saucer... [More...]
Steven Spielberg
The scattered inhabitants of Muncie, a small rural community in Indiana, are visited by strange lights in the night sky. One evening, a mother watches in horror as her small child is abducted by a flying saucer... [More...]
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
George A. Romero
The world is in the grip of an unexplained pandemic. The bodies of the dead have become reanimated and are preying on the flesh of the living, creating worldwide pandemonium... [More...]
George A. Romero
The world is in the grip of an unexplained pandemic. The bodies of the dead have become reanimated and are preying on the flesh of the living, creating worldwide pandemonium... [More...]
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Michael Cimino
A small working class town in Western Pennsylvania in the late 1960s. Michael, Nick and Steven are three close friends, in their late twenties, early thirties, who work at a steel mill... [More...]
Michael Cimino
A small working class town in Western Pennsylvania in the late 1960s. Michael, Nick and Steven are three close friends, in their late twenties, early thirties, who work at a steel mill... [More...]
Dirty Harry (1971)
Don Siegel
When a young woman is shot dead by a rooftop sniper, San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan is tasked with finding the killer... [More...]
Don Siegel
When a young woman is shot dead by a rooftop sniper, San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan is tasked with finding the killer... [More...]
Duel (1971)
Steven Spielberg
David Mann is driving his red Plymouth Valiant through the California desert on his way to a business meeting. The only other vehicle on the otherwise empty highway is a lumbering tanker truck which is expelling noxious black exhaust fumes in his direction... [More...]
Steven Spielberg
David Mann is driving his red Plymouth Valiant through the California desert on his way to a business meeting. The only other vehicle on the otherwise empty highway is a lumbering tanker truck which is expelling noxious black exhaust fumes in his direction... [More...]
Equus (1977)
Sidney Lumet
Martin Dysart is a middle-aged psychiatrist who reluctantly takes on the case of Alan Strang, a withdrawn 17-year old who has recently blinded six horses for no apparent reason... [More...]
Sidney Lumet
Martin Dysart is a middle-aged psychiatrist who reluctantly takes on the case of Alan Strang, a withdrawn 17-year old who has recently blinded six horses for no apparent reason... [More...]
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Don Taylor
In the early 1970s, a spaceship lands off the coast of California. As a party of US marines watch in anticipation, three astronauts emerge... [More...]
Don Taylor
In the early 1970s, a spaceship lands off the coast of California. As a party of US marines watch in anticipation, three astronauts emerge... [More...]
The Exorcist (1973)
William Friedkin
Whilst making a film in Georgetown, Washington DC, the actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly concerned over her 12-year-old daughter, Regan, who is exhibiting strange psychological and physical changes... [More...]
William Friedkin
Whilst making a film in Georgetown, Washington DC, the actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly concerned over her 12-year-old daughter, Regan, who is exhibiting strange psychological and physical changes... [More...]
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Norman Jewison
Ukraine, 1905. Tevye is a Jewish milkman who lives in Anatevka, a village in Tsarist Russia. His five daughters are a constant cause of anxiety to him, but one day his burden is eased slightly when the butcher Lazar Wolf, a comparatively wealthy man, offers to marry his eldest, Tzeitel... [More...]
Norman Jewison
Ukraine, 1905. Tevye is a Jewish milkman who lives in Anatevka, a village in Tsarist Russia. His five daughters are a constant cause of anxiety to him, but one day his burden is eased slightly when the butcher Lazar Wolf, a comparatively wealthy man, offers to marry his eldest, Tzeitel... [More...]
The Getaway (1972)
Sam Peckinpah
Carter McCoy is serving a ten-year stretch in prison. After he is refused parole, he sends his wife Carol to make a deal with crooked businessman Jack Benyon... [More...]
Sam Peckinpah
Carter McCoy is serving a ten-year stretch in prison. After he is refused parole, he sends his wife Carol to make a deal with crooked businessman Jack Benyon... [More...]
The Godfather (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola
Summer, 1945. Don Vito Corleone is the head of one of five gangster families operating in New York, known to his associates as The Godfather... [More...]
Francis Ford Coppola
Summer, 1945. Don Vito Corleone is the head of one of five gangster families operating in New York, known to his associates as The Godfather... [More...]
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Francis Ford Coppola
Sicily, 1901. When Antonio Andolini is killed by Mafia chief Don Ciccio, his wife pleads with the latter to spare her only remaining son Vito... [More...]
Francis Ford Coppola
Sicily, 1901. When Antonio Andolini is killed by Mafia chief Don Ciccio, his wife pleads with the latter to spare her only remaining son Vito... [More...]
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
Gordon Hessler
Sinbad is out sailing one sunny afternoon when a strange bat-like creature appears from nowhere and accidentally drops a gold ornament at his feet... [More...]
Gordon Hessler
Sinbad is out sailing one sunny afternoon when a strange bat-like creature appears from nowhere and accidentally drops a gold ornament at his feet... [More...]
Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter
On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers stabs his older sister to death at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois... [More...]
John Carpenter
On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers stabs his older sister to death at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois... [More...]
High Anxiety (1977)
Mel Brooks
Dr Richard H. Thorndyke, an esteemed Harvard psychiatrist, is proud to take up the post of director at the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous... [More...]
Mel Brooks
Dr Richard H. Thorndyke, an esteemed Harvard psychiatrist, is proud to take up the post of director at the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous... [More...]
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)
Federico Fellini
The debauched life of Giacomo Casanova is legendary, a succession of erotic adventures with women who are no more to him than instruments of pleasure... [More...]
Federico Fellini
The debauched life of Giacomo Casanova is legendary, a succession of erotic adventures with women who are no more to him than instruments of pleasure... [More...]