70s movies recommendations

[Kryton]

Heh...I'm in the midst of re-watching Fear & Loathing... I always get distracted by Christina Richie.

 

[Harvey]

Plenty of good recommendations here. I don't know if I can add anything new, but here are a few of my favorites:

Mean Streets
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
The Last Picture Show
Papillon
The Getaway
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
THX 1138

 

[Orintho]

Rocky

Enter the Dragon

Jaws

Dirty Harry

Logan's Run - decent 70s (pre-Star Wars) scifi.

The Three Musketeers with Michael York and a large cast. Very fun movie and a hell of a lot better than that later Charlie Sheen version.

 

[Borjis]

Andromeda Strain

China Syndrome

West World

Duel

Rollercoaster

Any of the Airport movies.

 

[Emher]

Wait, are you asking for 70's movies or movies set in the 70's?

Both, but more the first one.

 

[John Picard]

9 to 5. An absolute CLASSIC.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I would add:
Apocalypse Now

I especially agree about this one.

This movie and Platoon (which I think is an early 80's film) are two of the most horrifying Vietnam War movies ever made, IMO. And from what I've read, are well thought of by Vietnam War vets, who say they are the closest portrayals to what it was really like.

Anyone who would glorify war should be made to watch these two movies until they 'get it'.

Also cool that Martin Sheen and Charlie Sheen are the two stars of these films.

Both films will stick with you for days after watching them...but Apocalypse Now is downright haunting. It sticks with you for weeks.

 

[Kryton]

9 to 5. An absolute CLASSIC.

You mean THIS one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080319/ which was released just a couple of weeks before 1981?

 

[John Picard]

9 to 5. An absolute CLASSIC.

You mean THIS one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080319/ which was released just a couple of weeks before 1981?

SHIT! 1980 is close enough to the 70's.

 

[Gertch]

9 to 5. An absolute CLASSIC.

You mean THIS one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080319/ which was released just a couple of weeks before 1981?

SHIT! 1980 is close enough to the 70's.

If it is then you can include Midnight Madness with Michael Fox. Thought it was hilarious back then.

Lot of good mentions in this thread. I forgot there were so many.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

Also this sidenote: do not under any circumstances miss the Paul Newman cult classic, Slapshot

I wouldn't call it a cult classic, just a classic

 

[John Picard]

The Poseiden Adventure
A Bridge Too Far
Convoy

 

[Barbados Slim]

Set in the 70s
Carrie
Smokey & the Bandit
Annie Hall
Shaft
Which Way Is Up
Uptown Saturday Night
The Exorcist
Dirty Harry
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Black Sunday
The Conversation
Harold & Maude
Hardcore

Made in 70s but set in another time
Godfather Parts I & II
Badlands
Blazing Saddles
MASH
Chinatown


Set in the 70s made in a different time
The Ice Storm
Dazed & Confused
City of God (70s Brazil)
Almost Famous
Casino
Blow
Boogie Nights
Donnie Brasco
Remember the Titans
Jacob's Ladder
The Virgin Suicides
Nixon
Crooklyn
Hoffa
54
Roll Bounce

 

[John Picard]

Every Which Way But Loose
The Enforcer
Magnum Force
Dirty Harry

 

[HobartFloyt]

Very good movies mentioned here, a couple of omissions I noted though. The Sting is a must-see, and to a lesser extent Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Gumball Rally is a fun couple of hours.

If I think of something else, I'll post up.

 

[Kryton]

Oh...for OUTRAGEOUSNESS, don't overlook:

Where's Poppa?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Rock 'n' Roll Highschool

Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia

Americathon (personal guilty pleasure)

 

[nx1701g]

I have to add it in - it was made in and is set in the 70's - the original Dawn of the Dead.

 

[Bad Bishop]

The Paper Chase
Silver Streak
The In-Laws

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Animal House!!!
They Took The Bar!!
or
Zit!

 

[Bloodwhiner]

Greatest double feature ever = the original Shake & Bake

Earthquake
The Towering Inferno