Year 1970 movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1970 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, talky, suspense, dramatic, captivating and clever films and TV shows about / with dialogue, mentor, storytelling, nude, catastrophe, culture clash, female nudity, runaway, brutality and suprisingly clever plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1970: Claire's Knee (1970), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Apollo 13 (1995), Now and Then (1995), Misbehaviour (2020), The Christmas Tango (2011), Odessa (2019), Le Mans (1971), American Gangster (2007), Little Big Man (1970).
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List of year 1970 movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, relaxing, sensitive, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
summer, teenage girl, older man young girl relationship, french girl, glamour, age difference, male female relationship, forbidden love, lolita, older man younger woman relationship, countryside, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her ...
Style:
sentimental, epic, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
world war one, forbidden love, village, catholic, impotent husband, orgasm, village idiot, political unrest, soldier, fall in love, love triangle, couples ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1970, 70s
Place:
ireland, england, europe, california
Is relevant?
334K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style:
factual, realistic, inspirational, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
astronaut, nasa, survival, space travel, moon, disaster, rescue, space program, space exploration, race against time, trapped in space, against the odds ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 20th century, year 1969, 60s ...
Place:
houston texas, usa, north america, texas, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, small town, women, childhood, adolescence vs adulthood, female friendship, youth, teenage life, adolescence, friends, children ...
Time:
90s, year 1970, year 1991, 70s, year 1995 ...
Place:
usa, indiana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Style:
stylized, captivating, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
feminist, feminism, beauty pageant, racism, misogyny, sexism, contests and competitions, against the odds, farce, woman, relationships, lifestyle change ...
Time:
year 1970, 2020s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, los angeles, london, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
Style:
captivating, emotional, psychological, sentimental, romantic
Plot:
tango, christmas, gay, man dances with a man, soldier, lieutenant, dance lesson, love triangle, military, military camp, illness, couples ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
greece, europe, balkan
Is relevant?
630
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Odessa, August 1970. A heat wave. The city is full of tourists. Boris, a journalist and foreign affairs specialist, and his eight-year-old son Valeri arrive from Moscow to visit Boris’ in-laws, Grigori Iosifovich and Raisa Irovna Davidov. But on ...
Style:
talky, ambiguous ending, realistic, emotional, social ...
Plot:
ordinary people, family problems, family drama, parents and children, husband wife relationship, love interest, brawl, parent child relationship, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, cholera, heat wave ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
ussr, odessa ukraine, soviet union, ukraine
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Steve McQueen is ideally cast as a champion race car driver, participating in the famed 24-hour race headquartered in Le Mans, France. Though dedicated to Going for the Gold, McQueen finds time to romance widowed Elga Andersen. The dramatic angle to ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, tense, factual, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
racing, race, car, car racing, driving, speed, racecar driver, competition, driver, race car, car chase, auto racing ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, maine, europe
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style:
tense, realistic, clever, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, mob boss, drug traffic, heroin, violence, smuggling, crime boss, ghetto, police ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 1968, year 1970, year 2007 ...
Place:
new jersey, new york, vietnam, brooklyn new york city, cuba ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
Style:
epic, humorous, sentimental, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
native american, cowboy, racism, revenge, culture clash, voice over narration, massacre, interview, orphan, old west, american history, bigotry ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 1860s, year 1970, 70s ...
Place:
montana, south dakota, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
70's drama about a cock fighter and his son and the goings on of the cockfighting industry.
Style:
cynical, period piece, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cockfight, father son relationship, gambling, character study, coming of age, family drama, male bonding, frustration, moral ambiguity, violence, bird, exploitation ...
Time:
year 1970
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A wealthy middle-aged man tries to seduce younger women at an oceanfront resort.
Style:
period piece, romantic comedy, retro, lighthearted, sex comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nude beach, beach, nudism, holiday romance, seaside town, seduction, vacation, flirting, casanova, tourism, escapism, unhappiness ...
Time:
year 1970
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Director François Truffaut makes a rare on-screen appearance in one of his most unusual films. Based on a true story, the film follows the discovery of a feral child (Jean-Pierre Cargol) who's grown up wild in the forest in late-18th-century ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, black and white, anthropological, historical drama ...
Plot:
education, feral child, coming of age, children, doctor, youth, deaf, boy, teacher, nudity, scientist, countryside ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 1970, 1790s, 70s ...
Place:
paris france, france, south of france, europe, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and ...
Style:
talky, humorous, retro, funny, anime ...
Plot:
prostitute, desert, left to die, loner, survival, death of protagonist, rags to riches, oasis, water, great ending, rattlesnake, homeless ...
Time:
1900s, year 1970, 19th century, 70s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, america, nevada, san francisco, new orleans ...
Is relevant?
28K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, surreal, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, anti war, satire, military, bomber, male nudity, soldier, aviation, social commentary, literary, wartime, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970, year 1944, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, alexandria egypt, sardinia, mediterranean sea, new york ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style:
political, art house, visual, breathtaking, sexual ...
Plot:
fascism, assassination, childhood trauma, italian fascism, fascist, professor, murder, betrayal, politics, homosexuality, chauffeur, honeymoon ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place:
italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, character study, alienation, dysfunctional family, drifter, piano, pianist, father son relationship, hitchhiker, oil field, diner ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
california, usa, washington state, oregon, northern california ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A chief of detectives, homicide section, commits a murder and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Style:
surreal, bleak, psychological, political, satirical ...
Plot:
murder, politics, police investigation, police, courtroom drama, satire, gay husband, years of lead, extramarital affair, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Style:
entertaining, light, semi serious, cynical, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, world war two, tank, caper, heist, gold, bank robbery, machine gun, behind enemy lines, robbery, world war, hippie ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, america, europe, germany
Is relevant?
82K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Style:
satirical, humorous, black comedy, witty, talky ...
Plot:
satire, military, nurse, medical, surgeon, korean war, surgery, american football, dark humor, sexual harassment, irreverence, sexism ...
Time:
1950s, year 1970, 20th century, 50s, year 1951 ...
Place:
north korea, korea, south korea, canada, vietnam
Is relevant?
114K
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side ...
Style:
dramatic, realistic, epic, historical drama, aesthetic ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
world war two, world war, u.s. army, biopic, business, wartime, tank, military, u.s. military, allies, battle of the bulge, ego ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1970, year 1942 ...
Place:
london, italy, africa, north africa, america ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Charismatic criminal Paris Pitman ends up in jail, then attempts to escape the prison of warden Lopeman.
Style:
dark comedy, funny, realistic, semi serious, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, escape, prison escape, criminal, warden, jail, sex scene, female nudity, gay couple, snake, homosexual, voyeur ...
Time:
1880s, year 1970, 20th century, 60s, 19th century
Place:
arizona, yuma arizona, paris france, usa, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the ...
Style:
road movie, erotic, surreal, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, crazy love, rebellion, sex orgy, male nudity, outdoor sex, politics, pink floyd, materialism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, phoenix arizona, italy ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
At 13 years old and the eldest of three kids, Lane struggles to keep her family together as her iconoclast mother moves without warning through the communes and dusty back woods of Northern California.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
commune, coming of age, parent child relationship, teenage life, family relations, grownups, family problems, dream, parents and children, brother sister relationship, teenager, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, year 2017
Place:
northern california, california
Is relevant?
139
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 37 min.
TV show
Story:
The plot brings fiction and reality together to show how a country's political context affects the lives, dreams and paths of ordinary people.
Style:
sexy, novela, psychological, unusual plot structure, sentimental ...
Plot:
love, politics, husband wife relationship, hiv, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, couples, youth, dishonesty, friends, family relations ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
brazil
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Christine is an ambitious 29-year-old news reporter, in Sarasota, FL, circa 1974. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1970s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition ...
Style:
sad, melancholic, depressing, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, female reporter, loneliness, female journalist, television reporter, television, employer employee relationship, workplace, existentialism, self discovery, journalism ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
florida, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Roza has an affair with her boyfriend's father. Soon after, she is found dead from a fall. Was it suicide, or was she pushed?
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, atmospheric, noir, period piece
Plot:
murder, love triangle, whodunit, investigation, father son relationship, affair, forbidden romance, suspicion, secrets, jealousy, passion, scandal ...
Time:
year 1970
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An episode film initiated by Erik Borge, the fresh director of Norwegian Film, giving fresh film makers a chance of being seen by a big audience. Anja Breien, Egil Kolstø and Espen Thorstensons got the chance with very diverse films.An episode film ...
Style:
anthology, independent film, art house, experimental, period piece ...
Plot:
slice of life, intimate, identity, social realism, festival, satire, director, black death, legend, plague, past, village ...
Time:
year 1970, 14th century, future
Place:
scandinavia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, slapstick, lighthearted, absurd ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mistaken identity, demotion, farce, incompetence, irreverent, spy spoof, satire, espionage, small town, mediterranean, urban, agent ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
italy, napoli italy, naples italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and ...
Style:
sex comedy, parody, slapstick, lighthearted, raunchy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
farce, medieval, mistaken identity, royalty, damsel in distress, twins, palace intrigue, sexual repression, satire, robin hood, burlesque, screwball ...
Time:
year 1970
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