Crime: Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress
Gangster: Welfare
Drama: Everyday Life in a Syrian Village
Horror: Grin Without a Cat
Sci-fi: Minamata: The Victims and Their World
Courtroom: Juvenile Court
Rom-com: Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Comedy: O Dreamland
Adventure: The Battle of Chile
War: Apocalypse Now!
Crime: The Godfather
Drama: Nashville
Horror: The Exorcist
Sci-fi: Star Wars
Courtroom: Juvenile Court
Rom-com: Annie Hall
Comedy: Young Frankenstein
Adventure: Jaws
Cause it can’t be left out: Taxi Driver
Crime: Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
Gangster: Le Cercle Rouge (Jean Pierre Melville)
Drama: The Middleman (Satyajit Ray)
Horror: The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
Sci Fi: Alien (Ridley Scott)
Courtroom: Juvenile Court (Frederick Wiseman)
War: The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
Comedy: The Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
Crime: Charley Varrick (Siegel)
Gangster: The Godfather (Coppola)
Drama: Tristana (Bunuel)
Horror: Le Boucher (Chabrol)
Sc Fi: Silent Running (Trumbull)
Courtroom: can’t really choose one
War: Cross of Iron (Peckinpah)
Comedy: Discrete Charm of the Bourgoisie (Bunuel)
Crime: Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
Drama: Les Choses de la Vie (Claude Sautet)
Horror: Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
Sci-Fi: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
War: Cross of Iron (Samuel Peckinpah)
Comedy: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder)
Mystery: The Late Show (Robert Benton)
Political Thriller: Etat de Siege (Costa-Gavras)
Musical: All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Disaster Film: Black Sunday (John Frankenheimer)
I find it completely impossible to make. One of the reasons why I love 70s cinema so much is that so many of the great films from that era just can’t be simply categorized using one word. The Holy Mountain, A Clockwork Orange, I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse, Sweet Movie, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Eden and After, The Wicker Man and many many more. How can I categorize them? What genre is “The Holy Mountain”? Sci-Fi? Yes. Fantasy? Yes. Adventure? Mystery? Comedy? 3 times yes. etc. etc.
Gangster would be hard cannot bring myself to like The Godfather 1 or 2 (or 3 for that matter)
Not sure where Night Moves fits in but I would put it somewhere
re Jeremi’s point, most of my favourite films from the ‘70s I don’t think of as genre films at all. So I just didn’t consider them when making my list. If I was listing my top ten from that decade, very few of the films I posted above would make it.
Crime: Dog Day Afternoon
Horror: Halloween
Drama: Five Easy Pieces
Gangster: The Godfather
Musical: Cabaret
Sc-fi: Alien
Thriller: Marathon Man
RomCom: Annie Hall
War: Apocalypse Now
Comedy: High Anxiety
Urban Angst: The Landlord
Grindhouse: The Great Dixie Dynamite Chase
Animated: The Rescuers
Macaroni Mafia: I am the Law
Western: China 9, Liberty 37
Road Film: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
joey Noodles
Well, as Jazzahola said, we need a mubi revival and as I am a big lists person I thought I would make this thread, I hope it has never been done.
Crime: Chinatown
Gangster: The Godfather
Drama: Taxi Driver
Horror: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Sci Fi: A Clockwork Orange
Courtroom: Kramer Vs Kramer
Rom-Com:
Comedy:
Adventure: Star Wars
Feel free to add other categories.