The
1970’s started with a feeling of disillusionment
due to the war. Movies seemed to echo this
in their often violent and military themes.
However, towards the end of the decade, audiences
welcomed the "Blockbuster" with a renewed
sense of hope for the future. Below are
a
selection of the most influential films of
this time period.
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Five
Easy Pieces -
by Bob Rafelson
Once a concert pianist, Robert
now works on an oil rig. Tired
of his dumb girlfriend he tries to
get her to end the relationship. Then when
his father has a stroke he's
forced to
go home and face the life he left behind.
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MASH -
by Robert Altman
Two surgeons find themselves working
for a Mobile
Army Surgical Hospital. Duke
and Hawkeye joke around and use other humorous
antics to keep them from losing their sanity.
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Little
Big Man -
by Arthur Penn
An extremely old man recalls
his youth where he was raised by indians
and served as a scout for General
Custer
at little big horn.
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A
Clockwork Orange -
by Stanley Kubrick
After a number of violent
criminal acts, Alex Delarge
is arrested.
In prison he submits to an experimental
technique to "cure" his violent
tendencies and is left unable to protect
himself from his past victims.
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The
French Connection -
by William Friedkin
Tough New York cops Popeye
Doyle and Buddy
Russo uncover a large
shipment of Heroin coming in
from France. The climax comes with
a suspenseful car chase and a face
off between cops and mobsters.
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McCabe
& Mrs. Miller- by Robert Altman
In the old west, John McCabe
comes to a small town
to set up a brothel.
Ms. Miller (a madam) offers to
help
him run the business. Things
go well until a large corporation offers
to buy their place.
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Klute -
by Alan J. Pakula
Detective John Klute begins
an investigation when his friend disappears.
Lead to a call girl named
Bree, Klute discovers that she's being
followed by a mysterious and deadly
stalker.
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Straw
Dogs - by Sam Peckinpah
David an American mathematician,
goes on sabbatical
to England with his wife Amy. Once
there, the locals attack them and David
is forced to stand up and face them
in a vicious climax.
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Shaft
- by Gordon Parks
Shaft is a tough detective
who is helping a local kingpin named
Bumpy find his kidnapped daughter.
Then when
he discovers the Mafia is
behind the kidnapping he leads an assault
to get the girl back.
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The
Godfather Parts 1, 2 & 3 -
by Francis Ford Coppola
The story of the rise of a new "godfather" of the Corleone
crime family. Although reluctant at first, Michael Corleone takes command
of his new role with the goal of making
the family "legit".
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Serpico
- by Sidney Lumet
Serpico is an idealistic undercover
cop who
discovers his fellow officers
are being paid off. Refusing to take
bribes himself, no one trusts him.
Serpico risks his life when he tries
to blow
the whistle on corrupt cops.
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Chinatown
- by Roman Polanski
P.I. Jake Gettis is hired
by Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her suspected
cheating husband. When the Mr. Mulwray
winds up dead, Gettis investigates
even further and uncovers a lot more
than he bargained for.
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The
Conversation
- by Francis Ford Coppola
Surveillance expert Harry
Caul takes a job recording employee
conversations for a large company. Soon
he fears that the people he's recording
will be murdered.
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Lenny -
by Bob Fosse
The story of Lenny Bruce,
a provocative stand up comedian who's
antiestablishment humor not only made
him popular with the underground crowd
but kept him constantly in trouble
as well.
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One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- by Milos Forman
McMurphy gets the idea to
act crazy to stay out of
the joint.
Unfortunately it lands him in a mental
hospital where his rebellious tendencies
aren't much
appreciated.
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All
the President’s Men
- by Alan J. Pakula
Newspaper reporters Bob Woodward
and Carl Berstein discovers a cover
up run by the White House to hide it's
involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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Taxi
Driver -
by Martin Scorsese
Travis Bickle (a New York
city cab driver) meets an underage
hooker and decides to help get her
out of the business. His distaste for
the scum of the city leads to an extremely
violent act
of retribution.
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Cabaret
- by Bob Fosse
Sally Bowles is a cabaret
singer in the hot Kit Kat Klub
in Berlin.
She meets a number of male admirers
but has difficulty getting involved
them mostly because she's Jewish
during the rise of the Nazi party.
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The
Deer Hunter
- by Michael Cimino
Three friends from a small
steel mill town leave their normal
lives to fight in the Vietnam war.
Surviving the horrors of being captured,
they eventually return home
and are
forever changed.
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American
Graffiti -
by George Lucas
Two friends take to the streets
one last time before going off to college.
Between chasing girls, car races and
run
ins with gang members, the teens
and their friends live
the night
to the fullest.
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Young
Frankenstein -
by Mel Brooks
A humorous version of the
Frankenstein story where
a young neurosurgeon
inherits his grandfathers castle.
After
finding his grandfathers diary, Frankenstein
creates
a monster of his own.
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Dirty
Harry - by Don Siegel
A tough San Francisco cop
is on the hunt for a sniper who's killing
people at random. Frustrated with all
the red tape that is keeping him from
doing his job, Harry has to break some
rules to get the job done.
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Star
Wars -
by George Lucas
An epic futuristic battle
of good vs. evil where Luke Skywalker
learns to become a Jedi and joins the
rebellion led by Princess Leia to
fight the evil Darth Vader and the
oppressive empire.
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Jaws
- by Steven Spielberg
In Amity, tourists are threatened
with recent evidence of shark
attacks. Shark
expert Matt Hooper and police chief
Martin Brody go on a hunt for the shark
and find out that the problem is bigger
than they expected.
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Close
Encounters of the Third Kind
-
by Steven Spielberg
One night on an emergency
repair job, Roy Neary has an encounter
with a UFO. Obsessed
with what he saw, Neary is suddenly
compelled to a strange mountain top
where he'll meet the mysterious visitors.
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Manhattan -
by Woody Allen
A recently divorced writer
is writing a book based on his failed
marriage. While dating a teenage girl
he's not that interested in, he begins
having an affair with his best friends
mistress.
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Alien
- by Ridley Scott
A commercial spaceship intercepts
a distress call from
a local planet.
When they investigate the signal they
discover a life form that incubates
inside of a human
host and then grows
to become a unstoppable killer.
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Apocalypse
Now
- by Francis Ford Coppola
Captain Willard is sent on
a mission to find and assassinate a
renegade Colonel. But his journey in
the jungle brings him to the brink
of insanity and leaves him
a prisoner
under the Colonel's control.
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