The Seventies Pantheon

By: Jaspar Lamar Crabb

No..not The Godfather films…but these…

• 01
  Hair
  Miloš Forman
• 02
  The Parallax View
  Alan J. Pakula
• 03
  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
  Joseph Sargent
• 04
  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  Russ Meyer
• 05
  Even Dwarfs Started Small
  Werner Herzog
• 06
  Drive, He Said
  Jack Nicholson
• 07
  Child's Play
  Sidney Lumet
• 08
  Trash
  Paul Morrissey
• 09
  High Anxiety
  Mel Brooks
• 10
  The Hills Have Eyes
  Wes Craven
• 11
  Figures in a Landscape
  Joseph Losey
• 12
  Where's Poppa?
  Carl Reiner
• 13
  The Sugarland Express
  Steven Spielberg
• 14
  Slaughterhouse-Five
  George Roy Hill
• 15
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Mel Stuart
• 16
  Saturday Night Fever
  John Badham
• 17
  Andy Warhol's Bad
  Jed Johnson
• 18
  Demon Seed
  Donald Cammell
• 19
  Halloween
  John Carpenter
• 20
  Deep End
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• 21
  The Phantom Tollbooth
  Chuck Jones
• 22
  Tropic of Cancer
  Joseph Strick
• 23
  The Landlord
  Hal Ashby
• 24
  Piranha
  Joe Dante
• 25
  Dirty Harry
  Don Siegel
• 26
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  Vittorio De Sica
• 27
  The Longest Yard
  Robert Aldrich
• 28
  Savages
  James Ivory
• 29
  The Three Musketeers
  Richard Lester
• 30
  The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge
  Richard Lester
• 31
  Scarecrow
  Jerry Schatzberg
• 32
  Straight Time
  Ulu Grosbard
• 33
  11 Harrowhouse
  Aram Avakian
• 34
  Cabaret
  Bob Fosse
• 35
  Nashville
  Robert Altman
• 36
  10 Rillington Place
  Richard Fleischer
• 37
  Leo the Last
  John Boorman
• 38
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 39
  Let's Do It Again
  Sidney Poitier
• 40
  A New Leaf
  Elaine May
• 41
  Paper Moon
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 42
  Zardoz
  John Boorman
• 43
  Smile
  Michael Ritchie
• 44
  The Bad News Bears
  Michael Ritchie
• 45
  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  Tobe Hooper
• 46
  Tristana
  Luis Buñuel
• 47
  Catch-22
  Mike Nichols
• 48
  The Man with the Golden Gun
  Guy Hamilton
• 49
  Bananas
  Woody Allen
• 50
  Female Trouble
  John Waters
• 51
  Being There
  Hal Ashby
• 52
  The Conversation
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 53
  Carnal Knowledge
  Mike Nichols
• 54
  Lisztomania
  Ken Russell
• 55
  Race With the Devil
  Jack Starrett
• 56
  The Music Lovers
  Ken Russell
• 57
  Red Sun
  Terence Young
• 58
  Brewster McCloud
  Robert Altman
• 59
  Tales from the Crypt
  Freddie Francis
• 60
  The Hospital
  Arthur Hiller
• 61
  The Shout
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• 62
  The Brood
  David Cronenberg
• 63
  The Nightcomers
  Michael Winner
• 64
  Over the Edge
  Jonathan Kaplan
• 65
  Scrooge
  Ronald Neame
• 66
  Shampoo
  Hal Ashby
• 67
  Quadrophenia
  Franc Roddam
• 68
  The Go-Between
  Joseph Losey
• 69
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  Peter Weir
• 70
  The Wild Child
  François Truffaut
• 71
  Klute
  Alan J. Pakula
• 72
  Eraserhead
  David Lynch
• 73
  The Day of the Locust
  John Schlesinger
• 74
  Winter Kills
  William Richert
• 75
  The Day of the Jackal
  Fred Zinnemann
• 76
  The Spy Who Loved Me
  Lewis Gilbert
• 77
  The Honeymoon Killers
  Leonard Kastle
• 78
  Julia
  Fred Zinnemann
• 79
  Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  Robert Stevenson
• 80
  Manhattan
  Woody Allen
• 81
  Going in Style
  Martin Brest
• 82
  Summer of '42
  Robert Mulligan
• 83
  Rabid
  David Cronenberg
• 84
  Looking for Mr. Goodbar
  Richard Brooks
• 85
  Deliverance
  John Boorman
• 86
  The Grissom Gang
  Robert Aldrich
• 87
  Lacombe, Lucien
  Louis Malle
• 88
  China 9, Liberty 37
  Monte Hellman
• 89
  Prime Cut
  Michael Ritchie
• 90
  The Outfit
  John Flynn
• 91
  Black Sunday
  John Frankenheimer
• 92
  Up the Sandbox
  Irvin Kershner
• 93
  The Last of Sheila
  Herbert Ross
• 94
  Car Wash
  Michael Schultz
• 95
  The Heartbreak Kid
  Elaine May
• 96
  The Getaway
  Sam Peckinpah
• 97
  Behind the Green Door
  Artie Mitchell
• 98
  El Topo
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• 99
  The Cat o' Nine Tails
  Dario Argento
• 100
  Wanda
  Barbara Loden
• 101
  The Boys from Brazil
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 102
  Marathon Man
  John Schlesinger
• 103
  Dog Day Afternoon
  Sidney Lumet
• 104
  The Tin Drum
  Volker Schlöndorff
• 105
  What's Up, Doc?
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 106
  Carrie
  Brian De Palma
• 107
  Taking Off
  Miloš Forman
• 108
  Husbands
  John Cassavetes
• 109
  Chinese Roulette
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 110
  Cisco Pike
  Bill L. Norton
• 111
  Last Tango in Paris
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 112
  Slap Shot
  George Roy Hill
• 113
  The Poseidon Adventure
  Ronald Neame
• 114
  The Aristocats
  Wolfgang Reitherman
• 115
  Little Big Man
  Arthur Penn
• 116
  The Outlaw Josey Wales
  Clint Eastwood
• 117
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 118
  WUSA
  Stuart Rosenberg
• 119
  The Fifth Cord
  Luigi Bazzoni
• 120
  The Other
  Robert Mulligan
• 121
  The Boatnicks
  Norman Tokar
• 122
  Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• 123
  Freebie and the Bean
  Richard Rush
• 124
  Mean Streets
  Martin Scorsese
• 125
  Grey Gardens
  Albert Maysles
• 126
  Best Boy
  Ira Wohl
• 127
  Night Moves
  Arthur Penn
• 128
  Get Carter
  Mike Hodges
• 129
  Papillon
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 130
  Lenny
  Bob Fosse
• 131
  A Woman Under the Influence
  John Cassavetes
• 132
  Next Stop, Greenwich Village
  Paul Mazursky
• 133
  The Rescuers
  John Lounsbery
• 134
  The Anderson Tapes
  Sidney Lumet
• 135
  The Beguiled
  Don Siegel
• 136
  When a Stranger Calls
  Fred Walton
• 137
  Family Plot
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 138
  Interiors
  Woody Allen
• 139
  Mr. Klein
  Joseph Losey
• 140
  Tentacles
  Ovidio G. Assonitis
• 141
  National Lampoon's Animal House
  John Landis
• 142
  Moonraker
  Lewis Gilbert
• 143
  Born to Win
  Ivan Passer
• 144
  Bloody Mama
  Roger Corman
• 145
  Heat
  Paul Morrissey
• 146
  Play It Again, Sam
  Herbert Ross
• 147
  'Doc'
  Frank Perry
• 148
  The House That Dripped Blood
  Peter Duffell
• 149
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  Werner Herzog
• 150
  Fun with Dick and Jane
  Ted Kotcheff
• 151
  Americathon
  Neal Israel
• 152
  The King of Marvin Gardens
  Bob Rafelson
• 153
  Dillinger
  John Milius
• 154
  The Killer Elite
  Sam Peckinpah
• 155
  Le cercle rouge
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 156
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 157
  Badlands
  Terrence Malick
• 158
  The Driver
  Walter Hill
• 159
  Murder by Death
  Robert Moore
• 160
  The Serpent's Egg
  Ingmar Bergman
• 161
  Horror Express
  Eugenio Martín
• 162
  Loot
  Silvio Narizzano
• 163
  Who'll Stop the Rain
  Karel Reisz
• 164
  All the President's Men
  Alan J. Pakula
• 165
  Flesh for Frankenstein
  Paul Morrissey
• 166
  Rock 'n' Roll High School
  Allan Arkush
• 167
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Terry Gilliam
• 168
  Blazing Saddles
  Mel Brooks
• 169
  Such Good Friends
  Otto Preminger
• 170
  The Out of Towners
  Arthur Hiller
• 171
  Nicholas and Alexandra
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 172
  Performance
  Donald Cammell
• 173
  Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night
  Werner Herzog
• 174
  The Tenant
  Roman Polanski
• 175
  Sunday Bloody Sunday
  John Schlesinger
• 176
  Saint Jack
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 177
  Fellini's Casanova
  Federico Fellini
• 178
  Assault on Precinct 13
  John Carpenter
• 179
  Gargoyles
  Bill L. Norton
• 180
  Valentino
  Ken Russell
• 181
  Caged Heat
  Jonathan Demme
• 182
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 183
  The Sting
  George Roy Hill
• 184
  The Wanderers
  Philip Kaufman
• 185
  99 and 44/100% Dead
  John Frankenheimer
• 186
  The Boys in the Band
  William Friedkin
• 187
  Mary, Queen of Scots
  Charles Jarrott
• 188
  Jaws
  Steven Spielberg
• 189
  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  Martin Scorsese
• 190
  The Late Show
  Robert Benton
• 191
  Koko: A Talking Gorilla
  Barbet Schroeder
• 192
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 193
  Mother, Jugs & Speed
  Peter Yates
• 194
  Pink Flamingos
  John Waters
• 195
  Enter the Dragon
  Robert Clouse
• 196
  Joe Kidd
  John Sturges
• 197
  The Canterbury Tales
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 198
  Dirty Money
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 199
  Asylum
  Roy Ward Baker
• 200
  Desperate Living
  John Waters
• 201
  Shock Waves
  Ken Wiederhorn
• 202
  Live and Let Die
  Guy Hamilton
• 203
  The Long Goodbye
  Robert Altman
• 204
  The Paper Chase
  James Bridges
• 205
  Theater of Blood
  Douglas Hickox
• 206
  The Friends of Eddie Coyle
  Peter Yates
• 207
  The Vault of Horror
  Roy Ward Baker
• 208
  Farewell, My Lovely
  Dick Richards
• 209
  Cleopatra Jones
  Jack Starrett
• 210
  Switchblade Sisters
  Jack Hill
• 211
  Murder on the Orient Express
  Sidney Lumet
• 212
  The Last House on the Left
  Wes Craven
• 213
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 214
  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  John Cassavetes
• 215
  Coma
  Michael Crichton
• 216
  A Wedding
  Robert Altman
• 217
  Le sauvage
  Jean-Paul Rappeneau
• 218
  1900
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 219
  Love and Death
  Woody Allen
• 220
  Across 110th Street
  Barry Shear
• 221
  The Buddy Holly Story
  Steve Rash
• 222
  Goin' South
  Jack Nicholson
• 223
  Z.P.G.: Zero Population Growth
  Michael Campus
• 224
  Duel
  Steven Spielberg
• 225
  Sacco and Vanzetti
  Giuliano Montaldo
• 226
  Freaky Friday
  Gary Nelson
• 227
  Real Life
  Albert Brooks
• 228
  The Panic in Needle Park
  Jerry Schatzberg
• 229
  Marjoe
  Sarah Kernochan
• 230
  The Apple Dumpling Gang
  Norman Tokar
• 231
  Harry and Tonto
  Paul Mazursky
• 232
  The Jerk
  Carl Reiner
• 233
  Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
  Dick Richards
• 234
  Straw Dogs
  Sam Peckinpah
• 235
  Keoma
  Enzo G. Castellari
• 236
  Revolver
  Sergio Sollima
• 237
  Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
  Elio Petri
• 238
  The Sunshine Boys
  Herbert Ross
• 239
  Four of the Apocalypse
  Lucio Fulci
• 240
  The Outside Man
  Jacques Deray