The Best Movies of 1970   (119) Most Notable
Sorted by Rank
 RATING   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 1970, # 37 Overall The Conformist 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France / West Germany BDS
# 2 for 1970, # 103 Overall M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA BD
# 3 for 1970, # 158 Overall Five Easy Pieces 1970 Rafelson, Bob USA BD
# 4 for 1970, # 227 Overall Tristana 1970 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy / Spain D
# 5 for 1970, # 278 Overall Le Boucher 1970 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
# 6 for 1970, # 293 Overall Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA BDS
# 7 for 1970, # 408 Overall Woodstock 1970 Wadleigh, Michael USA BDS
# 8 for 1970, # 417 Overall The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / West Germany Y
# 9 for 1970, # 560 Overall Claire's Knee 1970 Rohmer, Eric France BD
# 10 for 1970, # 610 Overall Little Big Man 1970 Penn, Arthur USA BD
# 11 for 1970, # 719 Overall Performance 1970 Cammell, Donald / Roeg, Nicolas UK D
# 12 for 1970, # 733 Overall Gimme Shelter 1970 Maysles, Albert / Maysles, David / Zwerin, Charlotte USA BY
# 13 for 1970, # 820 Overall The Spider's Stratagem 1970 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy Y
# 14 for 1970, # 844 Overall Bed and Board 1970 Truffaut, François France / Italy D
# 15 for 1970, # 1044 Overall The Wild Child 1970 Truffaut, François France D
# 16 for 1970, # 1072 Overall El Topo 1970 Jodorowsky, Alejandro Mexico BD
# 17 for 1970, # 1075 Overall The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Wilder, Billy UK BDS
# 18 for 1970, # 1146 Overall Love Story 1970 Hiller, Arthur USA BD
# 19 for 1970, # 1239 Overall Deep End 1970 Skolimowski, Jerzy Poland / UK / West Germany
# 20 for 1970, # 1303 Overall Zabriskie Point 1970 Antonioni, Michelangelo USA D
# 21 for 1970, # 1386 Overall Airport 1970 Seaton, George / Hathaway, Henry USA BDS
# 22 for 1970, # 1493 Overall Lovers and Other Strangers 1970 Howard, Cy USA BY
# 23 for 1970, # 1534 Overall Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 1970 Petri, Elio / Kresel, Lee Italy BDS
# 24 for 1970, # 1536 Overall Le Cercle rouge 1970 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy BD
# 25 for 1970, # 1760 Overall The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 Peckinpah, Sam USA BD
# 26 for 1970, # 1824 Overall The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Argento, Dario Italy / West Germany BDS
# 27 for 1970, # 1860 Overall I Never Sang for My Father 1970 Cates, Gilbert USA Y
# 28 for 1970, # 1912 Overall Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir 1970 Renoir, Jean Italy / France Y
# 29 for 1970, # 1947 Overall Ryan's Daughter 1970 Lean, David UK DS
# 30 for 1970, # 2002 Overall Days and Nights in the Forest 1970 Ray, Satyajit India
# 31 for 1970, # 2025 Overall Loving 1970 Kershner, Irvin USA Y
# 32 for 1970, # 2098 Overall Scenes from under Childhood 1970 Brakhage, Stan USA BD
# 33 for 1970, # 2108 Overall Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Fleischer, Richard / Fukasaku, Kinji / Masuda, Toshio USA / Japan BDS
# 34 for 1970, # 2109 Overall Catch-22 1970 Nichols, Mike USA D
# 35 for 1970, # 2121 Overall Goin' Down the Road 1970 Shebib, Donald Canada
# 36 for 1970, # 2134 Overall The Boys in the Band 1970 Friedkin, William USA D
# 37 for 1970, # 2191 Overall Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Meyer, Russ USA BDS
# 38 for 1970, # 2232 Overall King: A Filmed Record...
Montgomery to Memphis		 1970 Lumet, Sidney / Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA D
# 39 for 1970, # 2244 Overall Trash 1970 Morrissey, Paul USA D
# 40 for 1970, # 2273 Overall Dodes'ka-Den 1970 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 41 for 1970, # 2301 Overall The Confession 1970 Costa-Gavras France / Italy BD
# 42 for 1970, # 2327 Overall 7 Plus Seven 1970 Apted, Michael UK D
# 43 for 1970, # 2350 Overall Too Late the Hero 1970 Aldrich, Robert USA D
# 44 for 1970, # 2363 Overall Ucho 1970 Kachyna, Karel Czechoslovakia
# 45 for 1970, # 2383 Overall Borsalino 1970 Deray, Jacques France / Italy Y
# 45 for 1970, # 2383 Overall Darling Lili 1970 Edwards, Blake USA DS
# 45 for 1970, # 2383 Overall Scrooge 1970 Neame, Ronald UK BD
# 46 for 1970, # 2399 Overall Brewster McCloud 1970 Altman, Robert USA VS
# 47 for 1970, # 2409 Overall The Twelve Chairs 1970 Brooks, Mel USA BD
# 48 for 1970, # 2434 Overall Husbands 1970 Cassavetes, John USA BD
# 49 for 1970, # 2437 Overall The Policeman 1970 Kishon, Ephraim Israel
# 50 for 1970, # 2441 Overall 4 Clowns 1970 Youngson, Robert USA
# 50 for 1970, # 2441 Overall Three Sisters 1970 Olivier, Laurence / Sichel, John UK BD
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall The Angel Levine 1970 Kadár, Ján USA D
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall End of the Road 1970 Avakian, Aram USA
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall Hi, Mom! 1970 De Palma, Brian USA D
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall The Landlord 1970 Ashby, Hal USA BD
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall The Mind of Mr. Soames 1970 Cooke, Alan UK
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx 1970 Hussein, Waris Ireland D
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon 1970 Preminger, Otto USA BD
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall There Was a Crooked Man ... 1970 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA D
# 51 for 1970, # 2488 Overall Tropic of Cancer 1970 Strick, Joseph USA D
# 52 for 1970, # 2505 Overall Diary of a Mad Housewife 1970 Perry, Frank USA BD
# 52 for 1970, # 2505 Overall The Virgin and the Gypsy 1970 Miles, Christopher UK D
# 53 for 1970, # 2535 Overall The Revolutionary 1970 Williams, Paul USA
# 54 for 1970, # 2546 Overall The Green Wall 1970 Robles-Godoy, Armando Peru Y
# 55 for 1970, # 2579 Overall Dougal and the Blue Cat 1970 Danot, Serge France
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall The Aristocats 1970 Reitherman, Wolfgang / Kahl, Milt / Lounsbery, John USA BDS
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 Post, Ted USA DS
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970 Sargent, Joseph USA D
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Cotton Comes to Harlem 1970 Davis, Ossie USA BD
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall The Great White Hope 1970 Ritt, Martin USA D
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Joe 1970 Avildsen, John G. USA BD
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Kelly's Heroes 1970 Hutton, Brian G. Yugoslavia / USA BDS
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall A Man Called Horse 1970 Silverstein, Elliot USA BD
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Myra Breckinridge 1970 Sarne, Michael USA D
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 1970 Minnelli, Vincente USA BDS
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall The Owl and the Pussycat 1970 Ross, Herbert USA D
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Rio Lobo 1970 Hawks, Howard USA BDS
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Start the Revolution Without Me 1970 Yorkin, Bud USA D
# 56 for 1970, # 2580 Overall Where's Poppa? 1970 Reiner, Carl USA BD
# 57 for 1970, # 2582 Overall Entertaining Mr. Sloane 1970 Hickox, Douglas UK / Austria
# 58 for 1970, # 2583 Overall The Honeymoon Killers 1970 Kastle, Leonard / Volkman, Donald USA BD
# 59 for 1970, # 2626 Overall First Love 1970 Schell, Maximilian West Germany / Switzerland / Hungary D
# 59 for 1970, # 2626 Overall Hoa-Binh 1970 Coutard, Raoul France
# 59 for 1970, # 2626 Overall Paix Sur Les Champs 1970 Boigelot, Jacques Belgium
# 59 for 1970, # 2626 Overall White Bim Black Ear 1970 Rostotsky, Stanislav Soviet Union
# 60 for 1970, # 2631 Overall Film Portrait 1970 Hill, Jerome USA
# 60 for 1970, # 2631 Overall Hospital 1970 Wiseman, Frederick USA
# 60 for 1970, # 2631 Overall I Am Somebody 1970 Anderson, Madeline USA
# 60 for 1970, # 2631 Overall Multiple Sidosis 1970 Lavarents, Sid USA
# 60 for 1970, # 2631 Overall Requiem-29 1970 Garcia, David USA
# 60 for 1970, # 2631 Overall Serene Velocity 1970 Gehr, Ernie USA
# 61 for 1970, # 2648 Overall Soldier Blue 1970 Nelson, Ralph USA BD
# 62 for 1970, # 2658 Overall One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 Wrede, Caspar UK / Norway Y
# 62 for 1970, # 2658 Overall Uncle Vanya 1970 Konchalovsky, Andrei Soviet Union
# 63 for 1970, # 2660 Overall Alex in Wonderland 1970 Mazursky, Paul USA
# 63 for 1970, # 2660 Overall Monte Walsh 1970 Fraker, William A. USA BDS
# 64 for 1970, # 2667 Overall Act of the Heart 1970 Almond, Paul Canada
# 64 for 1970, # 2667 Overall To Die of Love 1970 Cayatte, André Italy / France
# 64 for 1970, # 2667 Overall The Traveller 1970 Mizrahi, Moshé Israel / France
# 64 for 1970, # 2667 Overall The Walking Major 1970 Larsen, Keith / Senno, Koji / Shirai, Nobuaki Japan
# 65 for 1970, # 2670 Overall The Grandmother 1970 Lynch, David USA
# 65 for 1970, # 2670 Overall Ice 1970 Kramer, Robert USA
# 65 for 1970, # 2670 Overall Le Cochon 1970 Barjol, Jean-Michel / Eustache, Jean France
# 65 for 1970, # 2670 Overall Vampir 1970 Portabella, Pere Spain
# 66 for 1970, # 2679 Overall The Falcons 1970 Gaál, István Hungary
# 66 for 1970, # 2679 Overall The Strawberry Statement 1970 Hagmann, Stuart USA Y
# 67 for 1970, # 2680 Overall Darker Than Amber 1970 Clouse, Robert USA
# 67 for 1970, # 2680 Overall The People Next Door 1970 Greene, David USA
# 68 for 1970, # 2687 Overall The Original Amateur Hour 1970 unknown USA D
# 69 for 1970, # 2721 Overall Trog 1970 Francis, Freddie UK D
# 69 for 1970, # 2721 Overall Zorn's Lemma 1970 Frampton, Hollis USA
# 70 for 1970, # 2724 Overall The American Soldier 1970 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany D
# 70 for 1970, # 2724 Overall Le Vent d'est 1970 Vertov, Groupe Dziga / Godard, Jean-Luc / Gorin, Jean-Pierre / Martin, Gérard France / Italy / West Germany
# 70 for 1970, # 2724 Overall Purab Aur Pachhim 1970 Kumar, Manoj India
NR The Molly Maguires 1970 Ritt, Martin USA BD
NR The Out-of-Towners 1970 Hiller, Arthur USA D
NR Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970 Siegel, Don USA / Mexico BDS
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Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T   Theaters (US)
B   Blu-ray Disc
D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S   Soundtrack