| Control (2007) | 7.6 | |
| Zodiac (2007) | 7.7 | |
| What's Up, Doc? (1972) | 7.6 | |
| Boogie Nights (1997) | 7.9 | |
| The Deuce (2017) | 8.1 |
70s movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant 70s movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, interesting, realistic, intense, suspense and talky films and TV shows about / with mentor, dialogue, storytelling, runaway, catastrophe, chase, friendship, brutality, murder and death plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, Ireland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 70s: Almost Famous (2000), Boogie Nights (1997), The Deuce (2017), Donnie Brasco (1997), Dazed and Confused (1993), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The Runaways (2010), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Argo (2012).
Best films
New films
| Made in Korea (2025) | 7.3 | |
| The Secret Agent (2025) | 7.4 | |
| Asura (2025) | 7.6 | |
| Peter Hujar's Day (2025) | 6.3 | |
| Duster (2025) | 7.2 |
List of 70s movies
313K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, teen, road movie, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, rock music, on the road, musician, musician's life, music, rock, fame, manic pixie dream girl, road trip ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
california, new york, san francisco, phoenix arizona, seattle ...
Is relevant?
303K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, erotic, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
sex, porn industry, drug abuse, multiple storylines, addiction, drug, cocaine, adult filmmaking, adultery, drug addiction, voyeurism, nudity ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant?
35K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the ...
Style:
sexy, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, sensual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
porn industry, prostitution, sex, female nudity, closeted homosexual, porn actor, bare breasts, sleaze, society, sex scene, rivalry, porn ...
Time:
70s, year 1984, year 1985, year 1971, year 1972 ...
Place:
usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, new york
Is relevant?
354K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style:
neo noir, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, undercover, organized crime, mobster, mentor, fbi, working undercover, italian mafia, fbi agent, undercover agent, law enforcement, friends ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1978
Place:
new york, new jersey, miami, florida, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum ...
Style:
teen, cult classic, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, adolescence, teenager, friendship, stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, party, last day of school, bullying, student, drug ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 90s, year 1993, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, seattle, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style:
touching, sentimental, surreal, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transvestism, transgender, gay, lgbtq, adoption, homosexual, gay slur, gender bending, coming of age, priest, friendship, ira ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place:
ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
courtroom, divorce, lawyer, marriage, custody battle, father son relationship, single father, family drama, courtroom drama, legal, family relations, court ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, california, usa, persia, new york state ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of ...
Style:
sexy, teen, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rock music, lesbian, music band, music, teenage girl, coming of age, lesbian love, sex scene, teenage sexuality, teenager, biopic, revisionist history ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, japan, usa, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Style:
political thriller, tense, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
conspiracy, espionage, cia, uncover truth, fighting the system, political conspiracy, life turned upside down, who to trust, hitman, manhunt, politics, photograph ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
new york, middle east, persia, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant?
663K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Style:
clever, tense, captivating, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
cia, secret agent, politics, rescue mission, revolution, u.s. embassy, secret mission, propaganda, danger, hostage, undercover, espionage ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1979, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place:
middle east, iran, tehran iran, los angeles, istanbul turkey ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, grindhouse, cult classic, grim ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gangster, hitman, organized crime, investigation, british gangster, mafia, violent, murder, assassin, gangsta, vigilante ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
england, northern england, britain, europe, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, realistic, depressing, psychological ...
Plot:
prison, brutality, torture, injustice, lawyer, escape, prison life, prison escape, drug, drug smuggling, court, violent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1978, year 1975 ...
Place:
turkey, brooklyn new york city, greece, istanbul turkey, europe ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, massacre, cannibalism, chainsaw, masked killer, murder, homicidal maniac, psychopath, danger, macabre, killer, maniac ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, north america
Is relevant?
379K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, entertaining, retro ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
childhood, small town, monster, ufo, creature, alien, friendship, coming of age, train crash, young heroes, investigation, youth ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 1979, future, year 2011 ...
Place:
ohio, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Supernatural drama based on real-life events that took place in an ordinary North London home in 1977. During the autumn of that year, novice paranormal researcher Maurice Grosse hears of a family reported to be terrorised by supernatural forces. ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, terrifying, spooky ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, family in danger, single mother, adult child friendship, family relations, loss of daughter, paranormal investigator, british, poltergeist, possessed girl, folk horror ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
england, london
Is relevant?
800
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
filmmaking, amateur detective, danger, male male relationship, murder, investigation, who done it, stuntman, twists and turns, swing, violent content, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
65K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Style:
suspenseful, political, intense, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, soldier, war, survival, ira, military, british soldier, combat, riot, wartime, chase, british military ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971, year 2014
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, britain, belfast, london ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both ...
Style:
intelligent, philosophical, apocalyptic, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, computer, evil computer, cold war, scientist, dystopia, science runs amok, cyborgs, cyberpunk, mathematics, super computer, talking computer ...
Time:
future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
colorado, rome italy, canada, ussr, washington d.c. ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.
Style:
tense, period piece, cerebral, suspense, cynical ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
partners in crime, mafia, scam, fbi, cons and scams, organized crime, fbi investigation, deception, con artists, politics, twists and turns, strip club ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 1978, year 2013, 90s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, boston, atlantic city new jersey, new york ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, love and romance, save the day, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Is relevant?
21K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
Style:
road movie, dark comedy, surprise ending, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
truck, car chase, on the road, chase, rebellion, on the run, desert, police brutality, highway, car, corrupt sheriff, state trooper ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, arizona, new mexico, austin texas, albuquerque new mexico ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
conspiracy, astronaut, conspiracy theory, nasa, spacecraft, paranoia, mars, whistleblower, investigative reporter, survival, desert, chase ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, future
Place:
houston texas, texas, arizona, usa
Is relevant?
2.5M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe -- '70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world ...
Style:
parody, humorous, spoof, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
time travel, spy spoof, spy, undercover, father son relationship, james bond spoof, female assassin, satire, dumb, disorder, master villain, good versus evil ...
Time:
70s, year 2002, 60s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place:
japan, belgium, tokyo
Is relevant?
279K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, period piece, road movie ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, marriage, addiction, biopic, accident, prison, drug, concert ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 50s, 1950s, 2000s ...
Place:
memphis, tennessee, southern usa, usa, arkansas ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop ...
Style:
perverse, suspenseful, tense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilantism, vigilante, police corruption, police, police detective, serial killer, female nudity, murder of a nude woman, visceral, violent, brutality, police investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Is relevant?
185K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who became an outspoken agent for change, seeking equal rights and opportunities for all. His great love for the city and its people brought him backing from young and ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, sad, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
gay, politics, homosexuality, murder, homosexual, protest, gays and lesbians, male homosexuality, glbt, discrimination, gender, lgbtqi ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1973 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, new york, north america, idaho ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
racism, high school, african american, american football, civil rights, racial tension, racial prejudice, against the odds, high school football, football, prejudice, life lesson ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place:
virginia, boston, usa, america, africa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the 1970s, and San Diego super-sexist anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, spoof, hilarious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
journalism, workplace, battle of the sexes, stupidity, satire, sexism, farce, nervous breakdown, news anchor, cat, rivalry, friendship ...
Time:
70s, year 2004, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, north america, san diego california
Is relevant?
71K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Australia, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Style:
atmospheric, depressing, sad, cult classic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
music, suicide, punk, singer, musician's life, depression, musician, punk rock, rock and roll, biopic, epilepsy, music band ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, y2k, year 1980, year 1973 ...
Place:
england, london, manchester, northern england, europe
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