1970 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1970, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Borsalino
Directed by: Jacques Deray
Starring: Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Arnoldo Foà, Laura Adani, Catherine Rouvel, Corinne Marchand, Françoise Christophe
Country: Italy
Waterloo
Directed by: Sergey Bondarchuk
Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins
Country: United States of America
Outline: Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
Metello
Directed by: Mauro Bolognini
Starring: Renzo Montagnani, Gabriele Lavia, Lucia Bosè, Ottavia Piccolo, Massimo Ranieri, Mariano Rigillo, Pino Colizzi, Franco Balducci, Luigi Diberti, Tina Aumont, Frank Wolff, Steffen Zacharias
Country: Italy
La pacifista
Directed by: Miklós Jancsó
Starring: Monica Vitti, Gino Lavagetto, Francesco Carnelutti, Pierre Clémenti, Sergio Tramonti, Piero Faggioni, Daniel Pommereulle, Peter Pasetti
Country: Italy
Patton
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong
Country: United States of America
Outline: The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.
Little Big Man
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam
Country: United States of America
Outline: Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Directed by: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Starring: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten
Country: United States of America
Outline: In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a preventive strike on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Ryan's Daughter
Directed by: David Lean
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Christopher Jones
Country: United States of America
Outline: Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Catch-22
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Starring: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel
Country: United States of America
Outline: A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
Love Story
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland
Country: United States of America
Outline: A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.
Airport
Directed by: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg
Country: United States of America
Outline: A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Woodstock
Directed by: Michael Wadleigh
The Conformist
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
Country: United States of America
Outline: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Le cercle rouge
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand
Country: United States of America
Outline: After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
The White Sun of the Desert
Directed by: Vladimir Motyl
Starring: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze
Country: United States of America
Outline: At the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
Kelly's Heroes
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor
Country: United States of America
Outline: A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
The Things of Life
Directed by: Claude Sautet
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Gérard Lartigau, Jean Bouise
Outline: A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.
The Boys in the Band
Directed by: William Friedkin
Starring: Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey, Frederick Combs
Outline: Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.
MASH
Directed by: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Country: United States of America
Outline: The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Le Boucher
Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone
Outline: An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
The Wild Child
Directed by: François Truffaut
Starring: François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Françoise Seigner, Jean Dasté
Outline: In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.
Five Easy Pieces
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg
Country: United States of America
Outline: A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
El Topo
Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau
Country: United States of America
Outline: A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
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