1970s in film

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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 decade is most notable for excelling in the crime drama and horror genres. The early part of the decade focused on increasingly realistic, gritty movies, including Francis Ford Coppola's first two Godfather pictures and Robert Altman's black comedy M*A*S*H. A trend that lasted through the decade was the popularity of disaster films, 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 . The end of the decade saw two epic Vietnam War movies, from directors Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Coppola (Apocalypse Now). Blaxploitation films were also created and peaked during the 1970s.

Contents

1 List of 1970s movies

1.1 A-B
1.2 C-G
1.3 H-S
1.4 T-Z

2 Other lists of movies

List of 1970s movies

Movies made in the 1970s include:

A-B

C-G

H-S

T-Z

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Taxi Driver
Themroc
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Three Days of the Condor
The Towering Inferno
The Greatest (Muhammad Ali's biography, with Ali playing himself)
Walkabout
Waterloo
Watership Down
The Wicker Man
The Wild Geese
The Wind and the Lion
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Yanks
Zulu Dawn

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 The Seventies in Cinema
See also History of cinema
See also 1930s Nostalgia Films

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