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.
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.
Norman
Directed by: Jonathan Segal
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Kleiner König Kalle Wirsch
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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.
UFO
Written by: Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson
Starring: Ed Bishop, Dolores Mantez, Michael Billington, Ayshea Brough
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Outline: The missions of the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization, which defends Earth from extra-terrestrial threats.
Timeslip
Written by: James Boswell, Ruth Boswell
Starring: Cheryl Burfield, Spencer Banks, Denis Quilley, Iris Russell
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Outline: Simon and Liz were teenage friends who fell into a time hole and found themselves trapped in various periods of the 20th century, where they encounter all sorts of adventures. Many of them ...
Borsalino
Directed by: Jacques Deray
Starring: Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Arnoldo Foà, Laura Adani, Catherine Rouvel, Corinne Marchand, Françoise Christophe
Country: Italy
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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.
For the Love of Ada
Directed by: Ronnie Baxter
Outline: Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles are two senior citizens who find that as romance blossoms, so too does emotional turmoil. The series gently charts the relationship between Yorkshireman ...
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.
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