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TOP 10: 1970's

by zachcotteraschoff created 6 hours ago | last updated - 6 hours ago
these are the best of the 1970's..they carry entertainment value and importance...obviously every top movies list is carried with a bias, we can not truly define the "greatest"
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.6/10 X  
During the U.S.-Viet Nam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. (153 mins.)
Director: Francis Coppola
Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
 
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Taxi Driver (1976)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process. (113 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
 
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The Godfather (1972)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9.2/10 X  
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. (175 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
 
Image of Chinatown
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Chinatown (1974)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.4/10 X  
A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water. (130 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
 
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Annie Hall (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. (93 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane
 
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Badlands (1973)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  
Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands. (94 mins.)
Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri
 
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The Conversation (1974)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. (113 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest
 
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, after years of living down the family reputation, inherits granddad's castle and repeats the experiments. (106 mins.)
Director: Mel Brooks
Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle
 
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Mean Streets (1973)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  
A small-time hood struggles to succeed on the "mean streets" of Little Italy. (112 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson
 
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Alien (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
The crew of a commercial deep space mining ship, investigating a suspected S.O.S., lands on a distant planet and discovers a nest of strange eggs. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
 

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