Reader Selection: The Top 50 Movies of the 1970s

Voted by our readers!

Back by popular demand, we put out a poll to our readers asking them for the best movies of the 1970s, and we have the results!

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#50: Sleuth (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

#49: Halloween (dir. John Carpenter)

#48: Saturday Night Fever (dir. John Badham)

#47: Solaris (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)

#46: Deliverance (dir. John Boorman)

#45: Sorcerer (dir. William Friedkin)

#44: Grease (dir. Randal Kleiser)

#43: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman and John Lounsbery)

#42: The Man Who Would Be King (dir. John Huston)

#41: Smokey and the Bandit (dir. Hal Needham)

#40: Kramer vs. Kramer (dir. Robert Benton)

#39: Dirty Harry (dir. Don Siegel)

#38: The Aristocats (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)

#37: What’s Up, Doc? (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)

#36: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (dir. Philip Kaufman)

#35: Nashville (dir. Robert Altman)

#34: Jesus of Nazareth (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)

#33: Breaking Away (dir. Peter Yates)

#32: Barry Lyndon (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

#31: Robin Hood (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)

#30: The Muppet Movie (dir. James Frawley)

#29: All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)

#28: Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)

#27: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (dir. Mel Stuart)

#26: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg)

#25: American Graffiti (dir. George Lucas)

#24: The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin)

#23: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)

#22: Dersu Uzala (dir. Akira Kurosawa)

#21: Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)

#20: Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)

#19: Patton (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)

#18: Superman (dir. Richard Donner)

#17: The Deer Hunter (dir. Michael Cimino)

#16: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (dir. Miloš Forman)

#15: Young Frankenstein (dir. Mel Brooks)

#14: Network (dir. Sidney Lumet)

#13: Fiddler on the Roof (dir. Norman Jewison)

#12: Blazing Saddles (dir. Mel Brooks)

#11: The Exorcist (dir. William Friedkin)

#10: Days of Heaven (dir. Terrence Malick)

#9: The Sting (dir. George Roy Hill)

#8: Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski)

#7: Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

#6: Alien (dir. Ridley Scott)

#5: Rocky (dir. John G. Avildsen)

#4: Jaws (dir. Steven Spielberg)

#3: The Godfather Part II (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

#2: Star Wars (dir. George Lucas)

#1: The Godfather (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)