Favorite Films of 1970
Updated: 07/28/2022
I have watched 51 films with a 1970 release date. I have listed them here ranked from best to worst (in my opinion).
I have watched 51 films with a 1970 release date. I have listed them here ranked from best to worst (in my opinion).
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- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDonald SutherlandElliott GouldTom SkerrittThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
- DirectorJaromil JiresStarsJaroslava SchallerováHelena AnýzováPetr KoprivaSurreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsDustin HoffmanFaye DunawayChief Dan GeorgeJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé LegarretaA mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn WayneJorge RiveroJennifer O'NeillAfter the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsBruce BaldenJacqueline BassettSymon BasterfieldDirector Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
- DirectorBob RafelsonStarsJack NicholsonKaren BlackBilly Green BushA dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsTony MusanteSuzy KendallEnrico Maria SalernoAn American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
- DirectorJules BassArthur Rankin Jr.StarsFred AstaireMickey RooneyKeenan WynnA mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus.
- DirectorMichio YamamotoStarsKayo MatsuoAkira NakaoYukiko KobayashiKeiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsAlan ArkinMartin BalsamRichard BenjaminA man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsRichard HarrisJudith AndersonJean GasconIn 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader.
- DirectorWolfgang ReithermanStarsPhil HarrisEva GaborSterling HollowayWith the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsJohn WayneForrest TuckerChristopher GeorgeCattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
- DirectorMichael ArmstrongAdrian HovenStarsHerbert LomUdo KierOlivera KatarinaIn 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
- DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsClint EastwoodTelly SavalasDon RicklesA group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
- DirectorLuciano ErcoliStarsDagmar LassanderPier Paolo CapponiSimón AndreuThe wife of a struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic affair with him, or he will leak evidence implicating her husband of murder.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsIngrid PittPippa SteelMadeline SmithSeductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusKim HunterMaurice EvansThe 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 telepathic humans.
- DirectorDavid E. DurstonStarsBhaskar Roy ChowdhuryJadin WongRhonda FultzA group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsMick JaggerKeith RichardsMick TaylorWhen three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.
- DirectorJean RollinStarsCaroline CartierOlivier RollinMaurice LemaîtreA young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsClint EastwoodShirley MacLaineManolo FábregasWhen a former Civil War soldier saves a nun from a gang of bandits, they team up to help the Mexicans in their war against the French.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsStephen ForsythDagmar LassanderLaura BettiA cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsVincent PriceChristopher LeePeter CushingA serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
- DirectorRobert FuestStarsPamela FranklinMichele DotriceSandor ElèsTwo young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsVincent PriceElisabeth BergnerEssy PerssonIn 1500s England, a cruel witch-hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family.
- DirectorJimmy SangsterStarsRalph BatesKate O'MaraVeronica CarlsonBrilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
- DirectorChuck JonesBen WashamStarsHans ConriedJune ForayChuck JonesHorton The Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbours who refuse to believe it exists.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsBob CorffElaine GiftosBud CortA gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsJulie ShawBerwick KalerElaine ShoreWhile living rough on the streets of London's East End, a young man, Dink encounters the mysterious Dee and they begin a relationship. When tenderness gives way to cruelty they become consumed by darkness.
- DirectorSantos AlcocerEdward MannStarsJean-Pierre AumontBoris KarloffViveca LindforsA blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
- DirectorJohn HayesStarsEdmond O'BrienBrooke MillsMarc LawrenceA young orphan girl obsessed with finding her father gets adopted by a traveling church. She grows up and gets engaged, but her obsession with locating her father is about to turn deadly.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsChristopher LeeHerbert LomKlaus KinskiCount Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsJohn MirandaAnnabella WoodBerwick KalerA murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, the barber and baker hatch a plan to murder and make human pies to be sold in his shop.
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsGerald JacuzzoSusan CassidyPatricia DillonIn Medival England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne of England so he can claim the title crown for himself.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsShelley WintersDon StroudPat HingleA psychologically disturbed matriarch presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsBud SpencerFranco NeroRichard JohnsonAt the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Germans.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsStefanie PowersJames OlsonMargaretta ScottA young American woman Susan Roberts goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer, staying with his eccentric relatives.
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsGavin ReedJackie SkarvellisBerwick KalerA family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. Since inbreeding is destroying the family line, they need new blood to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.
- DirectorRay LaurentStarsIsaac BonewitsAnton LaVeyDiane LaVeyA documentary that takes a look inside the "Church of Satan", founded in California in the 1960s by Anton Szandor LaVey, a former circus lion tamer.
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsNeil FlanaganJaqueline WebbJudith IsraelA deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.
- DirectorDaniel HallerStarsSandra DeeDean StockwellEd BegleyWilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon. But, little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorTom MooreStarsRobert ElstonAnitra WalshDarryl WellsA 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnthony PerkinsJulie HarrisJoan HackettAfter an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
- DirectorRobert Vincent O'NeilStarsPeter CarpenterMaria De AragonVicki PetersA sex-crazed nympho helps speed along her father's death so she can use the inheritance to help out her depraved boyfriend.
- DirectorJosé Luis MadridStarsWal DavisBarta BarriAnastasio CampoyPeople start getting murdered, and the coroner is convinced the killings are the workings of a reclusive odd baron who died decades ago. The baron's great grandson arrives to stay at his ancestor's castle as the strange murders continue.
- DirectorTom MooreStarsRobert ElstonAnitra WalshDarryl WellsA 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
- DirectorAl AdamsonStarsRobert DixScott BradyJim DavisA former Civil War soldier returns to take revenge from a Yaqui chief who killed his wife in the marriage night. Death plays with both men, plus gun-runners and gold-runners, as her emissaries on Earth, to do a large harvest of souls.