فیلم هایی بهتر، فیلمسازانی تازه از راه رسیده با دستانی پر و بازیگرانی که مخاطب سینما را شگفتزده کردند.
در ادامه ۳۴ فیلم از بین ۵۰ فیلم برتر دهه ی هفتاد را معرفی می کنیم:

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)/The Godfather (1972)/Taxi Driver (1976)/Alien (1979)/A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Jaws (1975)/Apocalypse Now (1979)/The Godfather: Part II (1974)/One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)/Halloween/ (1978)The Exorcist (1973)

Suspiria (1977)/Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)/Eraserhead (1977) /Chinatown (1974)/Rocky (1976)/The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Carrie (1976)/Annie Hall (1977)/Stalker (1979)/The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)/Barry Lyndon (1975)/Grease (1978)/Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)/Dog Day Afternoon (1975)/Solaris (1972)/Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)/The Deer Hunter (1978)
Badlands (1973)/House (1977)/Mad Max (1979)/Network (1976)

The Conversation (1974)/Mean Streets (1973)/The Mirror (1975)/Manhattan (1979)/Dawn of the Dead (1978)/Days of Heaven (1978)/Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Wicker Man (1973)/All the President's Men (1976)/Harold and Maude (1971)/Don't Look Now (1973)/Blazing Saddles (1974)

The French Connection (1971)/Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)/The Holy Mountain (1973)/A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)