Sci-Fi Cinema in the 1970s

Notable science fiction movies from the seventies (1970-1979). List order is chronological.

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1.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
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The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telekinetic humans. (95 mins.)
Director: Ted Post
 
2.
Chariots of the Gods (1970 Documentary)
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Documentary based on the book by Erich Von Daniken concerning the ancient mysteries of the world, such as the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico... (92 mins.)
 
3.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
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An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own. (100 mins.)
Director: Joseph Sargent
 
4.
Crimes of the Future (1970)
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(70 mins.)
 
5.
Hauser's Memory (1970 TV Movie)
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A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets... (96 mins.)
Director: Boris Sagal
 
6.
Iron Bread (1970)
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(80 mins.)
Director: Vivian Peï
 
7.
Na komete (1970)
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When a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people... (74 mins.)
Director: Karel Zeman
 
8.
The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970)
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A man who has been in a coma since infancy is awakened. (92 mins.)
Director: Alan Cooke
 
9.
No Blade of Grass (1970)
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When a deadly virus strikes London, John Custane takes his family to hoped-for safety in Scotland. (96 mins.)
Director: Cornel Wilde
 
10.
La ragazza di latta (1970)
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Mr. Rossi lives in a small town. He works in a large financial company and is considered to be rather... (95 mins.)
 
11.
Il seme dell'uomo (1969)
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A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population. (113 mins.)
Director: Marco Ferreri
 
13.
The Time to Die (1970)
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A woman witnesses a video taped murder and is marked for elimination by the killer. (80 mins.)
Director: André Farwagi
 
14.
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
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A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread. (131 mins.)
Director: Robert Wise
 
15.
The Big Mess (1971)
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Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking. (86 mins.)
Director: Alexander Kluge
 
16.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan. (136 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
 
17.
Earth II (1971 TV Movie)
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Story of the daily operations of a space station called Earth II. (100 mins.)
Director: Tom Gries
 
18.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
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The world is shocked by the appearance of two talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society; but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race. (98 mins.)
Director: Don Taylor
 
19.
Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich (1971)
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Set in the near future, Brandner's village is populated by emotionless citizens, kept in place with pills and pleasures... (94 mins.)
Director: Uwe Brandner
 
20.
Alien Terror (1971)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.6/10 X  
In the European village of Gudenberg in 1890, Prof. Mayer and his assistant Isabel have created a powerful ray machine... (90 mins.)
 
21.
The Last Child (1971 TV Movie)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  
In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65... (73 mins.)
 
22.
The Omega Man (1971)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  
Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race. (98 mins.)
Director: Boris Sagal
 
23.
Quest for Love (1971)
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After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself... (87 mins.)
Director: Ralph Thomas
 
24.
THX 1138 (1971)
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Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society. (86 mins.)
Director: George Lucas
 
25.
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972 TV Movie)
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A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself... (90 mins.)
Director: Fred Barzyk
 
26.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
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In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity. (88 mins.)
Director: J. Lee Thompson
 
27.
Doomwatch (1972)
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The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent. (92 mins.)
Director: Peter Sasdy
 
28.
The People (1972 TV Movie)
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A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure... (74 mins.)
Director: John Korty
 
29.
Silent Running (1972)
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In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant life being kept in a greenhouse on board a spacecraft. (89 mins.)
 
30.
Kadoyng (1972)
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An alien spaceship lands on earth, and its inhabitants decide to help a poor family. (60 mins.)
Director: Ian Shand
 
31.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
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A man tells his story of how he became unstuck in time and abducted by aliens. (104 mins.)
Director: George Roy Hill
 
32.
Solaris (1972)
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The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence... (167 mins.)
 
33.
Z.P.G. (1972)
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In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation... (97 mins.)
Director: Michael Campus
 
35.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
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Ten years after conquering the Earth, ape leader Caesar wants the ruling apes and enslaved humans to live in peace. But warring factions of apes led by a militant gorilla general as well as various human groups threaten the stability. (93 mins.)
Director: J. Lee Thompson
 
36.
The Clones (1973)
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A scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather. (95 mins.)
 
37.
Fantastic Planet (1973)
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Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam. Set around the lifespan of Ter... (72 mins.)
Director: René Laloux
 
38.
Idaho Transfer (1973)
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A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find... (86 mins.)
Director: Peter Fonda
 
39.
Az idö ablakai (1973)
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Five social misfits undergo cryogenic suspension. When they awake in the far distant future, they find a world devastated by nuclear war...
Director: Tamás Fejér
 
40.
The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973)
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After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled... (81 mins.)
Director: Robert Fuest
 
41.
Genesis II (1973 TV Movie)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.8/10 X  
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future. (74 mins.)
 
42.
Sleeper (1973)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government. (89 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
 
43.
Soylent Green (1973)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.0/10 X  
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. (97 mins.)
 
44.
The Stranger (1973 TV Movie)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.6/10 X  
TV series pilot (series never launched). After a freak mishap, an astronaut finds himself on an almost... (100 mins.)
Director: Lee H. Katzin
 
45.
World on a Wire (1973 TV Movie)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality... (212 mins.)
 
46.
Westworld (1973)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.0/10 X  
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park. (88 mins.)
 
47.
Who? (1973)
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After American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once back in the States no one can tell if it's really him so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask". (93 mins.)
Director: Jack Gold
 
48.
Chosen Survivors (1974)
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A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert... (130 mins.)
Director: Sutton Roley
 
49.
Dark Star (1974)
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In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong. (83 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
 
50.
Phase IV (1974)
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Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants... (93 mins.)
Director: Saul Bass
 
51.
Teens in the Universe (1974)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  
Interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts) reached Alpha Kassiopea and found that smart robots took control on hole planet... (84 mins.)
 
52.
The Terminal Man (1974)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7/10 X  
Hoping to cure his violent seizures, a man agrees to a series of experimental microcomputers inserted into his brain but inadvertently discovers that violence now triggers a pleasurable response his brain. (107 mins.)
Director: Mike Hodges
 
53.
UFO: Target Earth (1974)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2.3/10 X  
An electronics expert searching for evidence of aliens picks up signals that he believes are from an alien spacecraft--and they are coming from a lake near town. (80 mins.)
 
54.
Zardoz (1974)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.6/10 X  
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements. (105 mins.)
Director: John Boorman
 
55.
Black Moon (1975)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality... (95 mins.)
Director: Louis Malle
 
56.
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  
A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex... (91 mins.)
Director: L.Q. Jones
 
57.
Death Race 2000 (1975)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  
In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kills brutality. (80 mins.)
Director: Paul Bartel
 
58.
Hu-Man (1975)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.5/10 X  
An actor is placed in dangerous situations and his fear will be broadcast to the television audience. The audience's emotions will determine whether he is sent into the future or the past. (105 mins.)
 
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60.
The Noah (1975)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  
Noah, the sole remaining survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to to accept his unique predicament... (107 mins.)
Director: Daniel Bourla
 
61.
Rollerball (1975)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5/10 X  
In a corporate controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of it's powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game. (125 mins.)
Director: Norman Jewison
 
62.
The Stepford Wives (1975)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. (115 mins.)
Director: Bryan Forbes
 
63.
Strange New World (1975 TV Movie)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.0/10 X  
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth. (100 mins.)
Director: Robert Butler
 
64.
The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.6/10 X  
Atomic holocaust is not the only plague that threatens our future. New York City, 2012 A.D.: In a devastated world, one tired man finds a reason to fight. (94 mins.)
Director: Robert Clouse
 
65.
Embryo (1976)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.9/10 X  
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days... (104 mins.)
Director: Ralph Nelson
 
66.
Futureworld (1976)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7/10 X  
Two reporters, Tracy and Chuck, get a message from a third one who discovered something about "Futureworld"...
 
67.
Logan's Run (1976)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30. (119 mins.)
 
68.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts... (139 mins.)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
 
69.
Alternative 3 (1977 TV Movie)
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World ecological collapse; the next ice-age has already begun! Lucky for us, governments know what to do... (56 mins.)
 
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71.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
 
72.
Damnation Alley (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.9/10 X  
In an post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles. (91 mins.)
Director: Jack Smight
 
73.
Demon Seed (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  
A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife. (94 mins.)
Director: Donald Cammell
 
74.
End of the World (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2.7/10 X  
After witnessing a man's death in a bizzare accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where... (88 mins.)
Director: John Hayes
 
75.
The Glitterball (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.1/10 X  
Two teenage boys try to help a tiny spherical alien get back to its mothership, while the army and a devious petty crook pursue the creature for its wonderful powers. (56 mins.)
Director: Harley Cokliss
 
76.
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.1/10 X  
An executive in charge of a Middle Eastern nuclear plant discovers that his son is the Anti Christ and... (106 mins.)
 
77.
The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.3/10 X  
An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage. (84 mins.)
Director: William Sachs
 
78.
Operation Ganymed (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  
A spaceship returns to Earth after several years of space exploration and finds it desolate. Landing in what they believe is Mexico... (118 mins.)
Director: Rainer Erler
 
79.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.8/10 X  
A spirited farm boy, Luke Skywalker, joins rebel forces to save the Princess from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's planet-destroying Death Star. (121 mins.)
Director: George Lucas
 
80.
Starship Invasions (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.9/10 X  
An advance team from a dying, far-off civilization seeks a new world to conquer and inhabit -- Earth! (89 mins.)
Director: Ed Hunt
 
81.
Wakusei daisenso (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.8/10 X  
Earth is attacked by alien spacecraft from Venus. But a Japanese scientist has constructed a space craft, the Gohten, with which he may save humanity. (85 mins.)
Director: Jun Fukuda
 
82.
Starcrash (1978)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.8/10 X  
Epic action in outer space when the good guys set out to track the evil Count's secret weapon. (92 mins.)
Director: Lewis Coates
 
83.
Capricorn One (1977)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  
A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret... (123 mins.)
Director: Peter Hyams
 
84.
The Alpha Incident (1978)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.3/10 X  
A microorganism from Mars, brought to Earth by a space probe, terrorizes passengers in a railroad office. (95 mins.)
Director: Bill Rebane
 
85.
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.6/10 X  
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that has special powers... (104 mins.)
Director: Norman Tokar
 
86.
Deathsport (1978)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.3/10 X  
Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles". (82 mins.)
 
88.
A Hitch in Time (1978)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  
(57 mins.)
 
89.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. (115 mins.)
Director: Philip Kaufman
 
90.
Laserblast (1978)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2.3/10 X  
A teenager stumbles upon an alien weapon, which transform him into a grotesque killer. (85 mins.)
Director: Michael Rae
 
91.
Message from Space (1978)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.6/10 X  
In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas... (105 mins.)
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
 
92.
Alien (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
 
93.
The Black Hole (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7/10 X  
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole. (98 mins.)
Director: Gary Nelson
 
94.
The Clonus Horror (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.4/10 X  
Politicians scheme to clone themselves, assuring immortal life. (90 mins.)
 
95.
The Dark (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.8/10 X  
An alien mutilator stalks and kills human prey during the night. (92 mins.)
 
96.
The Day It Came to Earth (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.8/10 X  
A glowing meteor falls into a secluded pond into which Mafia hitmen have dumped the body of one of their victims...
Director: Harry Thomason
 
97.
The Humanoid (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.7/10 X  
Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr... (100 mins.)
Director: George B. Lewis
 
98.
M-3: The Gemini Strain (1979)
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(88 mins.)
Director: Ed Hunt
 
99.
Mad Max (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.0/10 X  
In a dystopic future Australia, a vicious biker gang murder a cop's family and make his fight with them personal. (88 mins.)
Director: George Miller
 
100.
Meteor (1979)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.7/10 X  
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth... (108 mins.)
Director: Ronald Neame
 

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