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How many of the best movies of the 1970s did you see in theaters?
Story by Jason Kessler
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50 best movies from the 1970s©Screen Archives // Getty Images
The 1970s were a magical time for movies, with a whole new crop of stars and directors becoming household names, from Robert Redford and Al Pacino to Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen. After the tumultuous ’60s that included the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and the Vietnam War, America was a different place, and Hollywood reflected the changing culture like a cinematic mirror.
Films started exploring new ground with evolving gender roles, political mistrust, and more subversive forms of comedy. The result was a new era, both in American cinema and around the world. This particular decade was led by the film school generation. These filmmakers—which included George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese—challenged the traditional, stagnant perspective of Hollywood.
The best movies of the 1970s have resonated long past the close of their decade to captivate audiences even in the 2020s. Just take a look at classics like “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Chinatown,” and “Young Frankenstein“—these films, and many more, are all turning 50 years old in 2024. Yet they’ve stayed culturally relevant over the course of half a century, an impressive feat for any piece of media.
To celebrate the cinematic heyday of the 1970s, Stacker compiled a list to rank the 50 best movies of the decade by collecting data on all ’70s movies to come up with a Stacker score—a weighted index split evenly between IMDb and Metacritic scores. To qualify, the film had to have a premiere date between 1970 and 1979, have a Metascore, and have at least 1,000 IMDb user votes. Ties were broken by votes. All data is up-to-date as of January 2023.
Keep reading to discover the Italian American films that cleaned up at the Oscars and find out which controversial director appeared on the list multiple times.
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Liam Neeson’s ‘remarkable’ gritty new thriller set in rural Ireland that divided critics is now available online
Story by Fionnuala Boyle
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Liam Neeson’s most recent thriller has just landed online. In the Land of Saints and Sinners is set in Ireland and stars a host of familiar Irish faces alongside the Taken star including Kerry Condon, Colm Mean, and Ciaran Hinds.
Neeson takes the lead role of former assassin Finbar Murphy in the crime thriller which premiered in September 2023 at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and was later released in Ireland on April 26, 2024.
Finbar, who lives a quiet life in a rural seaside Irish village, hopes to leave his troubled past behind and stay far away from The Troubles in 1970s Ireland. However, he soon discovers that a member of the newly arrived group of sketchy men has been abusing a local girl and he is drawn into a vicious game of cat and mouse.
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The film divided critics. Many reviews slammed it for its portrayal of Irish stereotypes. The Hollywood Reporter’s unapologetically said “the paddywhackery’s as thick as the Oirish brogues and flavorful caricatures” and that the flick “leaned hard into Emerald Isle stereotypes, which made it remarkable that Neeson…managed to play it straight.”
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