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American cinema: 1970s

Taxi Driver (1976)
Martin Scorsese

Travis Bickle is a Vietnam War veteran whose return to civilian life in New York City is proving to be an ordeal. In a bid to cure himself of his insomnia, he finds work as a night time taxi driver, indifferent to the risks he runs as he covers the seedier districts of the city...   [More...]

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Tobe Hooper

Worried that their grandfather's grave may have been desecrated by a maniac, Sally Hardesty and her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin visit the Texas cemetery where he is buried...   [More...]

THX 1138 (1971)
George Lucas

The inhabitants of a futuristic underground city live a highly regimented existence, kept in a docile state by compulsory drug consumption...   [More...]

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Richard Fleischer

1941. In an attempt to weaken Japan after its seizure of Indochina, the United States imposes an embargo that will deprive the country of essential raw materials...   [More...]

The Towering Inferno (1974)
John Guillermin

The Glass Tower, San Francisco, is the crowning achievement in the career of architect Doug Roberts. At 138 storeys, it is the tallest building in the world, and to celebrate this fact an inaugural party is to be held at the top of the titanic superstructure...   [More...]

The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
Roman Polanski

Victorious in battle, the warriors Macbeth and Banquo are returning to their home in Scotland when they are met by three strange hags who greet them with fantastic prophesies...   [More...]

Up the Sandbox (1972)
Irvin Kershner

On the face of it, Margaret Reynolds has nothing to complain about. She is a happily married mother of two leading a comfortable, if slightly humdrum, existence in New York City...   [More...]

The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Roy Ward Baker

In the mid-1800s, General von Spielsdorf is hosting a ball at his mansion in the small European country of Styria. When one of his guests, an unnamed countess, is called away, the General gladly agrees to take care of her daughter Marcilla...   [More...]

Westworld (1973)
Michael Crichton

In the throes of a messy divorce, Peter Martin agrees to accompany his friend John Blane on a visit to Delos, an adult amusement park where the guests can live out their wildest fantasies for a thousand dollars a day...   [More...]

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Mel Stuart

Willy Wonka, the most famous confectionary maker in the world, creates worldwide pandemonium when he announces that he will admit five lucky people to his ultra-secret chocolate factory...   [More...]

Young Frankenstein (1974)
Mel Brooks

Dr Frederick Frankenstein is a medical school lecturer who just happens to be the grandson of the mad scientist Baron von Frankenstein, whose monster-making exploits have been widely reported in books, films and comic books by irresponsible sensationalists...   [More...]


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