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Best 70s Movies Ranked

The definitive ranked guide to the highest-rated films of the 70s. Uncover iconic classics, critically acclaimed gems, and audience favorites.

#1. Christmas at the Cupiello Household (1977)

★ 8.8/10 69 votes

Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.

#2. The Godfather (1972)

★ 8.7/10 23,891 votes

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

#3. The Godfather Part II (1974)

★ 8.6/10 14,546 votes

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

#4. The Message (1976)

★ 8.5/10 53 votes

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.

#5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

★ 8.4/10 11,931 votes

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

#6. My Dear Brother (1973)

★ 8.3/10 83 votes

Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.

#7. Jesus (1979)

★ 8.3/10 258 votes

Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.

#8. We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)

★ 8.3/10 672 votes

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

#9. Apocalypse Now (1979)

★ 8.3/10 9,519 votes

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

#10. Elvis - Aloha from Hawaii (1973)

★ 8.2/10 51 votes

A 1973 concert by Elvis Presley that was broadcast live via satellite on January 14, 1973. The concert took place at the Honolulu International Center in Honolulu and aired in over 40 countries across Asia and Europe. Viewing figures have been estimated at over 1 billion viewers world wide, and the show was the most expensive entertainment special at the time, costing $2.5 million.

#11. Neşeli Günler (1978)

★ 8.2/10 102 votes

Years after a divorce divides their family in half, six siblings encounter each other by chance and try to get their parents back together.

#12. Star Wars (1977)

★ 8.2/10 23,104 votes

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

#13. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

★ 8.2/10 912 votes

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

#14. Alien (1979)

★ 8.2/10 17,068 votes

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

#15. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

★ 8.2/10 14,270 votes

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?