Carlos (2010), Flammable Children (2018), Brubaker (1980), The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), The Murri Affair (1975), Om Shanti Om (2007), Spetters (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1970s Setting movies.
Storyline: Young Venezuelan Marxist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (Edgar Ramírez) is recruited by the leader of a Palestinian terrorist organization (Ahmad Kaabour) to perform several jobs in Europe in the early 1970s, culminating in the audacious kidnapping of several OPEC oil ministers. From that small-scale beginning, he becomes an infamous international terrorist for hire, known in the media as Carlos the Jackal, who performs violent acts across the globe for a wide variety of nations and organizations.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical drama, crime film, terrorism, based on true events, international conspiracy, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Local kids get a dose of excitement when a 200-ton blue whale washes up on a beach in 1970s Australia, and their parents find their own good time by drinking and playing games behind closed doors.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, australian film, coming of age, family, adolescence, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the new warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees firsthand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials are running. When he reveals himself and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local business community, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt prison system starts making political trouble for the new warden.
Plot Keywords: prison, corruption, reform, justice, abuse, system, exposé ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In mid-1970s Savannah, two bright but rebellious boys, Francis Doyle and Tim Sullivan, fight boredom, hormones and harsh teachers as they struggle to find something meaningful beyond the walls of their parish school. Francis, an exceptional artist whose imaginative forays into a fictional universe of good and evil fill his notebooks with comic-book imagery, creates a netherworld of superhero alter egos for the two boys. When the ultra-strict Sister Assumpta seizes their artwork one day, the boys embark upon an obsessed trail of revenge that ultimately changes their lives.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, rebellion, friendship, school life, sexual awakening, artistic expression, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, adolescence, sexual awakening, female perspective, mother-daughter relationship, san francisco, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical event, based on true story, judicial injustice, social criticism, conspiracy theory, courtroom drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Om Prakash Makhija is a Junior Artist in the 1970's hindi film industry, who is in love with actress Shantipriya. Om rescues Shanti from a fire scene where the fire has escaped control, and they become friends. His hopes seems to be coming true, but shortly thereafter he finds out that she is married to a film producer, Mukesh Mehra, and is expecting his child. He then watches in horror as Mukesh, after luring her in an abandoned studio, sets it on fire to prevent a financial loss and protect his career. Om attempts to rescue her in vain, and he eventually is killed. 30 years later, Om has reincarnated as the only son of a Bollywood actor, Rajesh Kapoor, and is himself an actor. His memories start to return when he meets with his widowed mother, Bela, from his previous birth. He also meets with Mukesh and together they decide to make a movie 'Om Shanti Om'. Om then hires a look-alike of Shantipriya, and hopes to force a confession out of Mukesh - but things go awry and Om finds his ...
Plot Keywords: bollywood, musical, drama, romance, reincarnation, fantasy, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life. The young woman wants out of the business and away from her brother. The motocross racers want to make their marks as professional racers, like their hero, Gerrit Witkamp (Rutger Hauer).—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: coming of age, sexual awakening, working class, small town life, controversial film, male friendship, social outcasts ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she's flung into a parallel place; a world that's weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous - only there can she find herself. Based on the critically acclaimed production by Windmill Theatre, GIRL ASLEEP is a journey into the absurd, scary and beautiful heart of the teenage mind.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, coming of age, comedy, drama, teen, australian, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, coming of age, art, identity, cultural clash, black culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, surrealism, horror, sound design, identity crisis, hallucination, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nancy Drew accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles California. Nancy booked an abandoned house for them to stay in hiding the mystery of a movie star's murder from her father as a promise that she would stay out of trouble and be normal. Fitting into high school as a normal teen turns out to be harder than it sounds, for Nancy Drew. She soon befriends a younger boy and determines that the sleuthing world is where she belongs. While snooping through the attic, she finds a letter from the Hollywood star, Dehlia Draycott, written to someone named 'Z'. This leads Nancy on a wild goose chase as she comes to find out that Dehlia has a secret daughter, her daughter is to inherit everything and someone killed Dehlia because they were written out of the will.
Plot Keywords: mystery, adventure, teen, adaptation, book adaptation, crime, puzzle solving ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
Plot Keywords: dystopian, satire, social hierarchy, class struggle, architecture, isolation, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, noir, detective, murder, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It's the notorious "Summer of Sam" and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife's edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, suspense, crime, drama, independent film, female lead, new york ...
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