Allegro non Troppo (1976), F for Fake (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), A Special Day (1977), Harold and Maude (1971), Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1980), The Conversation (1974), Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1970s Cinema movies.
Storyline: Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang (Peter Firth), the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.—Serenleono <verax@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, play adaptation, psychoanalysis, human nature exploration, criminal psychology, ethical dilemma, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Driver and The Mechanic are 2 car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy through the southwestern U.S., looking for other cars to race. They're totally dedicated to their car, and speak with each other only when necessary. At a gas station, the pair (along with a girl who's ingratiated herself into their world) meet G.T.O; a middle-aged man who fabricates stories and. It's decided to have a race to Washington, D.C., where the winner will get the loser's car.—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Plot Keywords: road movie, car culture, existentialism, counterculture, 1970s cinema, alienation, minimalism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift'...—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, redemption, existentialism, antihero, black comedy, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to realize that the assassination was part of a conspiracy somehow involving the Parallax Corporation, an enigmatic training institute. He then decides to enroll for the Parallax training himself to discover the truth.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, conspiracy, assassination, investigative journalist, corruption, suspense, psychological warfare ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown.—David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: supernatural, mystery, suspense, dreams, prophecy, indigenous culture, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Who's rock opera follows a mute, deaf and blind, boy (Roger Daltrey) who becomes a pinball wizard.
Plot Keywords: psychedelic, cult film, 1970s cinema, visual spectacle, experimental film, drug culture, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Claude Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to remain dignified even in the face of bitter disappointment and defeat; Mai Zetterling's dramatic exploration of the world of weightlifting; and Michael Pfleghar's piece on young Russian gymnast Ludmilla Tourischev's majestic performance on the uneven bars.
Plot Keywords: documentary, olympics, sports, anthology, sportsmanship, competition, historical record ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.—Carl Seiler <lcs9549@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, colonialism, race relations, comedy, satire, world war i, africa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young American boy unable to overcome a speech defect is disturbed by the constant bickering of his parents, and when they get divorced, he slides into an emotional breakdown.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, french film, black comedy, animal protagonist, twisted relationships, child's perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1908, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race through the desert: 700 miles to run in a few days. Nine adventurers are competing, among them a woman with unclear motives, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young gunfighter, an old cowboy and two friends from their days with the Rough Riders in Cuba, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews - all matched against a thoroughbred backed by the race's sponsor. These individualists will be challenged to respect each other as the competition becomes increasingly brutal and strenuous.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, action, drama, historical, american west, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) goes on a job interview at a British insane asylum, he learns that he must interview the asylum's inmates in order to be considered for the position. Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee), who is wheelchair-bound because of an assault by an inmate, tells Dr. Martin that he will consider him for the position if he can discover which of the inmates is Dr. Starr, a former head doctor at the asylum who suffered a nervous breakdown.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mental asylum, gothic horror, supernatural phenomenon, 1970s cinema, british horror, psychological distortion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. The brutal Vic cuts the throat of one bloke who has been a little too loose-lipped, afraid that his gossiping may turn into a grand operatic performance for the coppers. Vic, who enjoys playing at rough trade with his sidekick Wolfe, plans a payroll robbery and directs the blackmailing of Members of Parliament with a taste for unorthodox sex. Scotland Yard Police Inspector Matthews, playing Javert to Vic's Jean Valjean, is moving in on him and the gang. Gang-member Edgar is hospitalized for an ulcer, and Inspector Matthews might be able to make him sing. Will Edgar spill the beans to the coppers before Vic can silence him?—Jon C. Hopwood
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, british film, film noir, violence, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Plot Keywords: western, crime, drama, revenge, montana, 19th century, bounty hunter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a futuristic society where corporations have replaced countries, the violent game of Rollerball is used to control the populace by demonstrating the futility of individuality. However, one player, Jonathan E., rises to the top, fights for his personal freedom, and threatens the corporate control.
Plot Keywords: dystopian, action film, science fiction, social critique, totalitarianism, human struggle, class conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The inhabitants of the Welsh village of Llareggub offer their impressions on life's absurdities and longings.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, adaptation, village life, surrealism, black comedy, narration ...
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