Film Index

American cinema: 1970s

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Woody Allen

This helpful guide to sex will address some of the burning questions you have long pondered but have been too nervous to seek answers to...   [More...]

The Exorcist (1973)
William Friedkin

Whilst making a film in Georgetown, Washington DC, the actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly concerned over her 12-year-old daughter, Regan, who is exhibiting strange psychological and physical changes...   [More...]

Family Plot (1976)
Alfred Hitchcock

Anxious to find an heir for her vast fortune, the aged Miss Julia Rainbird hires psychic Blanche Tyler to track down her long-lost nephew...   [More...]

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Norman Jewison

Ukraine, 1905. Tevye is a Jewish milkman who lives in Anatevka, a village in Tsarist Russia. His five daughters are a constant cause of anxiety to him, but one day his burden is eased slightly when the butcher Lazar Wolf, a comparatively wealthy man, offers to marry his eldest, Tzeitel...   [More...]

The Getaway (1972)
Sam Peckinpah

Carter McCoy is serving a ten-year stretch in prison. After he is refused parole, he sends his wife Carol to make a deal with crooked businessman Jack Benyon...   [More...]

The Godfather (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola

Summer, 1945. Don Vito Corleone is the head of one of five gangster families operating in New York, known to his associates as The Godfather...   [More...]

The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Francis Ford Coppola

Sicily, 1901. When Antonio Andolini is killed by Mafia chief Don Ciccio, his wife pleads with the latter to spare her only remaining son Vito...   [More...]

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
Gordon Hessler

Sinbad is out sailing one sunny afternoon when a strange bat-like creature appears from nowhere and accidentally drops a gold ornament at his feet...   [More...]

The Great Gatsby (1974)
Jack Clayton

In 1922, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who earns a modest income selling bonds, moves into a bungalow between two mansions on Long Island in New York...   [More...]

Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter

On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers stabs his older sister to death at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois...   [More...]

High Anxiety (1977)
Mel Brooks

Dr Richard H. Thorndyke, an esteemed Harvard psychiatrist, is proud to take up the post of director at the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous...   [More...]

The Hindenburg (1975)
Robert Wise

May, 1937. The German embassy in Washington D.C. has received a letter warning that the Hindenburg, the pride of the German Zeppelin Airline Company, will explode over New York in the near future...   [More...]

Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)
Federico Fellini

The debauched life of Giacomo Casanova is legendary, a succession of erotic adventures with women who are no more to him than instruments of pleasure...   [More...]

Interiors (1978)
Woody Allen

Arthur, a wealthy corporate lawyer, and Eve, an interior designer, have three grown-up daughters who are all obsessed with making a success of their lives...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Philip Kaufman

Government scientist Elizabeth Driscoll becomes concerned when her partner starts to behave strangely, doing odd things like getting up early and emptying the dustbins...   [More...]

Jaws (1975)
Steven Spielberg

When the mutilated body of a young woman is washed up on the shore of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody fears that a killer shark may be stalking the coastline...   [More...]

Klute (1971)
Alan J. Pakula

When Tom Gruneman, an important research engineer, goes missing his friend John Klute agrees to go looking for him, at the behest of Peter Cable, a senior executive in Gruneman's company...   [More...]

Logan's Run (1976)
Michael Anderson

In the 23rd Century, their world ravaged by war and pollution, the last survivors of the human race live in a great domed city...   [More...]

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Richard Brooks

Theresa Dunn is a university student who is physically and emotionally scarred by surgery she underwent in childhood. As she battles against her poor self-esteem and the righteous tyranny of her Catholic father, she begins an illicit love affair with her teacher, a married man...   [More...]

Love and Death (1975)
Woody Allen

A condemned man, about to be executed for a crime he did not commit, Boris Grushenko looks back on his short life, conscious that Death is even now beating a path in his direction...   [More...]

M.A.S.H. (1970)
Robert Altman

During the Korean War (1950-53), Captains Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest create a stir the moment they arrive at the American Mobile Army Surgical Hospital to which they have been assigned...   [More...]

Magnum Force (1973)
Ted Post

Shortly after being acquitted of a murder charge, the high-profile gangster Carmine Ricca is shot dead by a man dressed as a motorcycle traffic cop...   [More...]

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
John Huston

Rudyard Kipling is working in his office in Lahore, where he is employed as a newspaper correspondent, when he is visited by a dishevelled wreck of a man...   [More...]

Manhattan (1979)
Woody Allen

Isaac Davis is a television comedy writer who is so disgusted with his milieu that he decides to chuck it and start a new career as a serious writer...   [More...]

Marathon Man (1976)
John Schlesinger

Babe Levy is a graduate student at Columbia University who is still haunted by the suicide of his father, an alleged victim of the McCarthy witchhunts...   [More...]

Mean Streets (1973)
Martin Scorsese

Charlie works as a debt collector for his gangster uncle Giovanni in the Little Italy district of New York City. A devout Catholic, he has difficulty reconciling his criminal ambitions with his religious beliefs and constantly wonders how he is to atone for his sins...   [More...]

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
John Landis

Faber College, 1962. Two freshman, Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman, roam their campus in search of a fraternity that will accept them...   [More...]

New York, New York (1977)
Martin Scorsese

V-J Day, 1945. At a wild party in New York City to celebrate the end of the war, saxophone player Jimmy Doyle tries and fails to talk Francine Evans, a small-time singer, into spending the night with him...   [More...]

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Franklin J. Schaffner

In 1904 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia ignores the advice of his closest allies and launches a war against Japan to protect his nation's interest in Korea...   [More...]

The Nickel Ride (1974)
Robert Mulligan

Cooper is a middle-aged crime boss who successfully manages a number of warehouses in Los Angeles which store stolen goods...   [More...]



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