Favorite Films of the 1970s

By: Ryan Clark

In alphabetical order.

• 01
  3 Women
  Robert Altman
• 02
  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  Martin Scorsese
• 03
  Alice, Sweet Alice
  Alfred Sole
• 04
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 05
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 06
  All the Colors of the Dark
  Sergio Martino
• 07
  Andy Warhol's Bad
  Jed Johnson
• 08
  Assault on Precinct 13
  John Carpenter
• 09
  The Baby
  Ted Post
• 10
  A Bay of Blood
  Mario Bava
• 11
  The Beguiled
  Don Siegel
• 12
  Beyond the Darkness
  Joe D'Amato
• 13
  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  Russ Meyer
• 14
  The Big Racket
  Enzo G. Castellari
• 15
  The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 16
  Black Christmas
  Bob Clark
• 17
  Blood for Dracula
  Paul Morrissey
• 18
  Bloodsucking Freaks
  Joel M. Reed
• 19
  Blue Sunshine
  Jeff Lieberman
• 20
  The Brood
  David Cronenberg
• 21
  Carrie
  Brian De Palma
• 22
  Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
  Bob Clark
• 23
  The China Syndrome
  James Bridges
• 24
  Chinese Roulette
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 25
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 26
  Coffy
  Jack Hill
• 27
  Coma
  Michael Crichton
• 28
  The Confessional
  Pete Walker
• 29
  Daughters of Darkness
  Harry Kümel
• 30
  Dawn of the Dead
  George A. Romero
• 31
  Day for Night
  François Truffaut
• 32
  Dead of Night
  Bob Clark
• 33
  Deep Red
  Dario Argento
• 34
  Deep Throat
  Gerard Damiano
• 35
  Deranged
  Jeff Gillen
• 36
  Desperate Living
  John Waters
• 37
  Devil in Miss Jones
  Gerard Damiano
• 38
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 39
  Don't Torture a Duckling
  Lucio Fulci
• 40
  The Driller Killer
  Abel Ferrara
• 41
  Emanuelle in America
  Joe D'Amato
• 42
  The Exorcist
  William Friedkin
• 43
  Exposé
  James Kenelm Clarke
• 44
  Family Plot
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 45
  Female Trouble
  John Waters
• 46
  Flesh for Frankenstein
  Paul Morrissey
• 47
  Frenzy
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 48
  Frightmare
  Pete Walker
• 49
  The Fury
  Brian De Palma
• 50
  Ganja & Hess
  Bill Gunn
• 51
  The Gore Gore Girls
  Herschell Gordon Lewis
• 52
  The Grapes of Death
  Jean Rollin
• 53
  Grease
  Randal Kleiser
• 54
  Halloween
  John Carpenter
• 55
  Harold and Maude
  Hal Ashby
• 56
  Hi, Mom!
  Brian De Palma
• 57
  Hollywood Boulevard
  Allan Arkush
• 58
  The Honeymoon Killers
  Leonard Kastle
• 59
  House
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• 60
  Interiors
  Woody Allen
• 61
  In the Realm of the Senses
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 62
  I Spit on Your Grave
  Meir Zarchi
• 63
  Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  Chantal Akerman
• 64
  Klute
  Alan J. Pakula
• 65
  La luna
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 66
  The Last Detail
  Hal Ashby
• 67
  The Last House on the Left
  Wes Craven
• 68
  Last Tango in Paris
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 69
  Lipstick
  Lamont Johnson
• 70
  The Long Goodbye
  Robert Altman
• 71
  Looking for Mr. Goodbar
  Richard Brooks
• 72
  Love and Death
  Woody Allen
• 73
  Marathon Man
  John Schlesinger
• 74
  Martha
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 75
  Martin
  George A. Romero
• 76
  The Merchant of Four Seasons
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 77
  Midnight Express
  Alan Parker
• 78
  Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 79
  Multiple Maniacs
  John Waters
• 80
  Nashville
  Robert Altman
• 81
  Night Moves
  Arthur Penn
• 82
  Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night
  Werner Herzog
• 83
  Obsession
  Brian De Palma
• 84
  The Omen
  Richard Donner
• 85
  Opening Night
  John Cassavetes
• 86
  Phantom of the Paradise
  Brian De Palma
• 87
  Pink Flamingos
  John Waters
• 88
  Play It Again, Sam
  Herbert Ross
• 89
  Play Misty for Me
  Clint Eastwood
• 90
  The Premonition
  Robert Allen Schnitzer
• 91
  Rabid Dogs
  Mario Bava
• 92
  Rock 'n' Roll High School
  Allan Arkush
• 93
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  Jim Sharman
• 94
  Rolling Thunder
  John Flynn
• 95
  Salem's Lot
  Tobe Hooper
• 96
  Secrets of a Call Girl
  Giuliano Carnimeo
• 97
  Seven Notes in Black
  Lucio Fulci
• 98
  Sex and Fury
  Noribumi Suzuki
• 99
  She Killed in Ecstasy
  Jesús Franco
• 100
  Shivers
  David Cronenberg
• 101
  Shock
  Mario Bava
• 102
  The Silent Partner
  Daryl Duke
• 103
  Sisters
  Brian De Palma
• 104
  Sleeper
  Woody Allen
• 105
  Starting Over
  Alan J. Pakula
• 106
  The Stepford Wives
  Bryan Forbes
• 107
  Straw Dogs
  Sam Peckinpah
• 108
  Street Law
  Enzo G. Castellari
• 109
  Suspiria
  Dario Argento
• 110
  Tales from the Crypt
  Freddie Francis
• 111
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 112
  The Tenant
  Roman Polanski
• 113
  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  Tobe Hooper
• 114
  Theater of Blood
  Douglas Hickox
• 115
  Thriller: A Cruel Picture
  Bo Arne Vibenius
• 116
  Time After Time
  Nicholas Meyer
• 117
  Tourist Trap
  David Schmoeller
• 118
  Vampyros Lesbos
  Jesús Franco
• 119
  A Virgin Among the Living Dead
  Jesús Franco
• 120
  What Have You Done to Solange?
  Massimo Dallamano
• 121
  When a Stranger Calls
  Fred Walton
• 122
  The Wicker Man
  Robin Hardy
• 123
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Mel Stuart
• 124
  A Woman Under the Influence
  John Cassavetes
• 125
  Young Frankenstein
  Mel Brooks
• 126
  Your Vice Is a Locked Room And Only I Have the Key
  Sergio Martino
• 127
  Zombie
  Lucio Fulci