Best movies of the 70s (Jürgen Müller - TASCHEN)

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.

In a future where all flora are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.

A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.

A film critic obsessed with Casablanca (1942) seeks to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

A recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist.

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.

A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.