Best Movies of 1970

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Best Movies of 1970
Best Movies of 1970
TOP Movies: Count Yorga, Vampire (1970), Love Story (1970), Patton (1970), Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970), MASH (1970), The AristoCats (1970), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Little Big Man (1970), Cry of the Banshee (1970), Airport (1970), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Scrooge (1970), Catch-22 (1970), A Swedish Love Story (1970), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Zabriskie Point (1970), Chisum (1970).
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Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are ...
Style: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary ...
Plot: vampire, castle, supernatural, dracula, mansion, seance, bloodsucker, doctor, murder, hypnosis, bad guys win, folk horror ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: innocence, teenage girl, magic realism, folk horror, coming of age, surrealism, supernatural, menstruation, wedding night, occult, seductive behavior, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 1970, near future, 19th century
Place: central europe, eastern europe, czech republic
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 6.9
 37K
Love Story (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, fall in love, tragedy, death, college, love story, cancer, tragic love, ice hockey, graduation, young love, class differences ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, massachusetts, paris france, boston, harvard university
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 7.9
 107K
Patton (1970)
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: breathtaking, realistic, historical drama, patriotic, epic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, biopic, world war, u.s. army, wartime, great war, allies, u.s. military, rudeness, ego, business, politics ...
Time: year 1945, year 1943, 20th century, 1940s, year 1970 ...
Place: africa, london, america, italy, normandy ...
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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 48 min.
Story: A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a small baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle. When Kris grew up, he wanted to deliver toys to the ...
Style: christmas classics, feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, mischievous children, stop motion, family relations, escapades, danger, good versus evil, imaginary, rescue, friendship ...
Time: 70s
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 77K
MASH (1970)
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, nurse, medical, military, dark humor, anti war, surgeon, korean war, sexism, american football, war, conflict ...
Time: 1950s, year 1970, 50s, 20th century, year 1951
Place: korea, north korea
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 7.1
 114K
The AristoCats (1970)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children -- Bonfamille's prize family of domesticated house cats -- the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the heirs, leaving them out on a country road. All seems ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot: cat, animal life, talking animal, animal, getting home, friendship, social differences, butler, mischievous children, danger, animal protagonist, kitten ...
Time: 1910s, 70s, year 1970, 20th century, edwardian era
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
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, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: road trip, character study, dysfunctional family, on the road, drifter, alienation, hitchhiker, working class, piano, self discovery, pianist, bowling ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: california, usa, oregon, washington state, northern california ...
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 7.5
 38K
Little Big Man (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, 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, indians, american history, orphan, chief, injustice, escapades, imperialism, wild west, salesman, thief, society ...
Time: 19th century, year 1970, 70s, 20th century, 1870s ...
Place: montana, south dakota, usa
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Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting ...
Style: classic horror, grindhouse, satanic, gothic, scary ...
Plot: witchcraft, witch, folk horror, occult, tudors, murder, edgar allan poe, revenge, massacre, torture, rape, virus ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century
Place: england, europe
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 6.6
 22K
Airport (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: airport, disaster, airplane, aviation, bomb, passenger, survival, natural disaster, danger, panic, stewardess, flying ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: chicago, minnesota, milwaukee wisconsin, atlantic ocean, detroit ...
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had ...
Style: epic, factual, intense, talky, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: world war two, war, navy, fighter plane, u.s. navy, aviation, battles, military life, military, world war, wartime, air raid ...
Time: year 1970, 1940s, 20th century, year 1941
Place: hawaii, japan, pearl harbor, washington d.c., asia ...
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Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, 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, village, political unrest, soldier, fall in love, forbidden love, catholic, village idiot, orgasm, love triangle, couples, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1970
Place: ireland, europe, england
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 7.6
 53K
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
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, heist, world war two, tank, caper, robbery, world war, behind enemy lines, army, nazi, bank robbery, treasure hunt ...
Time: 1940s, year 1970, 20th century
Place: france, america, europe
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 7.5
 13K
Scrooge (1970)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The classic Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost tale told in musical form.
Style: christmas horror, christmas classics, hilarious, christmas special, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, scrooge, christmas carol, ghost, dancing, broadway, xmas, redemption, charles dickens, destiny, christmas season ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s
Place: london
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 7.1
 26K
Catch-22 (1970)
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, surreal, black comedy, absurd, cult classic ...
Plot: world war two, anti war, satire, military, aviation, bomber, social commentary, literary, wartime, world war, rebellion, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1970, year 1944, 20th century
Place: new york, rome italy, italy, mediterranean sea, alexandria egypt ...
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A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The youngsters puppy love is set against a backdrop of adults that struggle with their own lives. Her fathers feeling of misery and failure at work, her aunts unhappiness as an unmarried woman without kids of her own. His father work at the ...
Style: aesthetic, powerful, sentimental, erotic
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, teenager, coming of age, young love, fight, love, adolescence, first love, love story, nordic, summer, teenage love ...
Time: year 1970, near future
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Astronaut Brent is sent to rescue Taylor but crash lands on the Planet of the Apes, just like Taylor did in the original film. Taylor has disappeared into the Forbidden Zone so Brent and Nova try to follow and find him. He discovers a cult of humans ...
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, depressing, allegory, psychotronic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, dystopia, post apocalyptic, time travel, space and aliens, gorilla, space travel, astronaut, monkey ...
Time: future, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
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: desert, prostitute, left to die, death of protagonist, loner, survival, oasis, rags to riches, water, great ending, vengeance, homeless ...
Time: 1900s, year 1970, 19th century
Place: arizona, america, nevada, new orleans, san francisco
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Zabriskie Point (1970)
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, surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, sex orgy, rebellion, politics, materialism, love and romance, rebelliousness, twentysomething life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, italy, phoenix arizona ...
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 11K
Chisum (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
Style: harsh, rough, serious, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: old west, bounty hunter, cattle, betrayal, justice, gunfight, aging, shootout, cons and scams, corrupt law enforcer, dishonesty, elderly ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: new mexico, yuma arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico, arizona ...
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 7K
Cromwell (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Style: epic, realistic, factual, talky, serious ...
Plot: revolution, british history, battles, royal family, political unrest, society, medieval, tyranny, military, against the odds, rivalry, rebellion ...
Time: 17th century, victorian era, middle ages
Place: england, ireland, britain, europe, america ...
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
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, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, computer, cold war, dystopia, scientist, cyberpunk, evil computer, mathematics, science runs amok, super computer, cyborgs, robot ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: colorado, canada, ussr, rome italy, washington d.c. ...
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Wanda (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Wanda, after a string of abusive relationships, abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal (Michael Higgins).
Style: independent film, depressing, road movie, existential, serious ...
Plot: low self esteem, feminist, women, female protagonist, poverty, loneliness, drug addiction, social outcast, addiction, affair, girl, sex crime ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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The Out of Towners (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Style: funny, witty, humorous, laugh out loud, road movie ...
Plot: travel, culture clash, chase, bad luck, marriage, railway, discovery, journey, meme, pilgrimage, pilgrim, train ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, boston, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
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Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden ...
Style: spaghetti western, light, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nun, gunfight, cowboy, cowboys and outlaws, heroes, rescue, danger, partner, gunslinger, rivalry, rebelliousness, indians ...
Time: 19th century, year 1970, 1860s
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora
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The Boys in the Band (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate ...
Style: intense, realistic, witty, powerful, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, homosexuality, homosexual, gay lead character, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay slur, lgbtqi, lgbtq, glbt, friendship ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 7K
Husbands (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
Style: independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, hotel, friends, marriage, aging, alcoholic, grief, unhappy ending, minimalism, time travel, divorce ...
Time: year 1970
Place: new york, london, long island, usa, europe ...
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The Railway Children (1970)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Waterbury family are completely happy until mysterious men take their father away and they have to move up to Yorkshire without him. The three open-hearted children soon make many friends including their Old Gentleman whom they regularly wave to ...
Style: emotional, touching, feel good, semi serious, family saga ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: teenage girl, child's point of view, countryside, train, friendship, railway, children, human spirit, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, missing person ...
Time: edwardian era, 1800s, 20th century, 19th century, 1900s ...
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, europe ...
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 6K
Soldier Blue (1970)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US ...
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, controversial ...
Plot: native american white relationships, native american, native american attack, soldier, massacre, village, survival, military, fall in love, wild west, society, opposites attract ...
Time: 1860s, 1870s, 19th century
Place: persia, usa, colorado
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