Movies in the 1970s came in a wide variety, as the socially-conscious young directors that emerged in the late '60s grew in different directions, influenced by music, literature, and the nature of crime and war. The early part of the decade focused on increasingly realistic, gritty movies, including Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather pictures and Robert Altman's M*A*S*H. A trend that lasted through the decade was the popularity of disaster movies, starting with Airport in 1970. Another trend was the birth of the big-budget horror film, initiated by William Friedkin's The Exorcist which spawned numerous imitators. A pivotal moment in movies was the 1975 release of Steven Spielberg's first major hit, Jaws, widely regarded as the birth of the blockbuster motion picture (a trend sealed two years later with the release of Star Wars. The end of the decade saw the first Vietnam War movies, from directors Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Coppola (Apocalypse Now).

List 1970s Movies

Movies made in the 1970s include:

A-B

• Abby
• Airport
• Alien
• All That Jazz
• All the President's Men
• Amarcord
• American Graffiti
• Animal House
• Annie Hall
• Apocalypse Now
• The Aristocats
• Bananas
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Blazing Saddles
• Breaker Morant
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

C-G

• Carnal Knowledge
• Car Wash
• Carrie
• Charlie Muffin (aka A Deadly Game)
• The China Syndrome
• Chinatown
• A Clockwork Orange
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Coming Home
• The Conversation
• Convoy
• Days of Heaven
• Deadly Weapons
• The Deer Hunter
• Deliverance
• Diamonds Are Forever
• Dirty Harry
• Dog Day Afternoon
• The Eiger Sanction
• The Exorcist
• Five Easy Pieces
• The French Connection
• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• Grease

H-S

• Halloween
• Jaws
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• Live and Let Die
• The Man with the Golden Gun
• M*A*S*H
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Moonraker
• Nashville
• The Omen
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Patton
• Pink Flamingos
• The Poseidon Adventure
• The Rescuers
• Rocky
• Rocky II
• Saturday Night Fever
• Shaft
• Silver Streak
• Soldier Blue
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Wars
• The Sting
• Superman
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

T

• Taxi Driver
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• Three Days of the Condor
• The Towering Inferno
• The Greatest (Muhammad Ali's biography, with Ali playing himself)

Other Lists of Movies

• List of 'years in film' in the 1970s
  • 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
• Decades in Film:
  • 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
• List of movies
• See also History of cinema