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TOP FILMS OF THE 1970's (full results)

Rank Film Points L #1
#1 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) 44 11 5
#2 The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) 39 9 4
#3 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) 37 12 3
#4 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) 31 9 3
#5 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) 22 6 2
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971) 22 6 2
#7 Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) 21 8 -
#8 Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) 18 7 -
#9 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971) 13 5 1
#10 Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978) 12 3 -
#11 Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) 11 4 -
#12 Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972) 10 2 2
#13 Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) 9 4 -
#14 The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) 8 2 -
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974) 8 3 1
#16 Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Jacques Rivette, 1974) 7 3 -
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) 7 2 1
Zerkalo (Mirror) (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) 7 2 -
#19 Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979) 6 2 1
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973) 6 2 1
#21 All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) 5 1 1
American Hot Wax (Floyd Mutrux, 1978) 5 1 1
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973) 5 1 1
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) 5 1 1
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978) 5 1 1
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Joseph Sargent, 1974) 5 1 1
#27 The Dawns Here Are Quiet (Sergei Rostov, 1972) 4 1 -
Fat City (John Huston, 1972) 4 1 -
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) 4 1 -
Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson, 1974) 4 1 -
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) 4 3 -
The Pied Piper (Jacques Demy, 1972) 4 1 -
#33 Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, 1976) 3 1 -
Big Wednesday (John Milius, 1975) 3 1 -
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) 3 1 -
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) 3 2 -
China 9, Liberty 37 (Monte Hellman, 1978) 3 1 -
Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974) 3 1 -
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974) 3 1 -
F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1974) 3 1 -
The Foreigner (Amos Poe, 1978) 3 1 -
New York New York (Martin Scorcese, 1977) 3 1 -
Providence (Alain Resnais, 1977) 3 1 -
Requiem for a Vampire (Jean Rollin, 1971) 3 1 -
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) 3 1 -
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner, 1976) 3 1 -
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977) 3 1 -
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971) 3 1 -
We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat, 1972) 3 2 -
#50 Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) 2 2 -
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1974) 2 1 -
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) 2 1 -
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) 2 1 -
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, 1970) 2 1 -
Hard Times (Walter Hill, 1975) 2 1 -
Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer, 1978) 2 1 -
Performance (Nicholas Roeg, 1970) 2 1 -
#58 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1976) 1 1 -
Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970) 1 1 -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975) 1 1 -
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) 1 1 -
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973) 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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