By decade
The 1970s on disc
The films of the 1970s worth owning, ranked by standing.
Assault on Precinct 13
1976 · John Carpenter
eBay from $27
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Richard Lester
eBay from $22
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Franklin J. Schaffner
eBay from $138
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · Blake Edwards
eBay from $60
Shaft
1971 · Gordon Parks
eBay from $40
Capricorn One
1977 · Peter Hyams
eBay from $160
Heaven Can Wait
1978 · Warren Beatty
eBay from $34
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970 · Vittorio De Sica
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 · Werner Herzog
Cross of Iron
1977 · Sam Peckinpah
eBay from $17
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · John Sturges
eBay from $9
Avanti!
1972 · Billy Wilder
eBay from $199
The Dawns Here Are Quiet 1972
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
1972 · Stanislav Rostotsky
Sleuth
1972 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
eBay from $32
The Muppet Movie
1979 · James Frawley
eBay from $38
Waterloo
1970 · Sergei Bondarchuk
eBay from $30
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1975 · Chantal Akerman
eBay from $39
The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
The Spirit of the Beehive
1973 · Víctor Erice
And Now for Something Completely Different
1971 · Ian MacNaughton
eBay from $46
Borsalino
1970 · Jacques Deray
eBay from $34
Pink Flamingos
1972 · John Waters
eBay from $48
The Long Goodbye
1973 · Robert Altman
eBay from $61
A Woman Under the Influence
1974 · John Cassavetes
eBay from $38
The Tenant
1976 · Roman Polanski
eBay from $25
Love on the Run 1979
Love on the Run
1979 · François Truffaut
The Night Porter
1974 · Liliana Cavani
eBay from $20
The Phantom of Liberty 1974
The Phantom of Liberty
1974 · Luis Buñuel
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
eBay from $76
The Front Page
1974 · Billy Wilder
eBay from $30
Breaking Away
1979 · Peter Yates
eBay from $767
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Silent Running
1972 · Douglas Trumbull
eBay from $46
The Omega Man
1971 · Boris Sagal
eBay from $25
Mimino 1977
Mimino
1977 · Georgiy Daneliya
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
1973 · Gordon Hessler
eBay from $35
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 · Robert Altman
eBay from $18
Dodes'ka-den
1970 · Akira Kurosawa
eBay from $61
Lacombe, Lucien
1974 · Louis Malle
eBay from $85
Drunken Master
1978 · Yuen Woo-ping
eBay from $40
Interiors
1978 · Woody Allen
eBay from $32
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972 · Yves Robert
eBay from $138
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973 · Gérard Oury
eBay from $42
Three Nuts for Cinderella 1973
Three Nuts for Cinderella
1973 · Václav Vorlíček
The Andromeda Strain
1971 · Robert Wise
eBay from $26
Dark Star
1974 · John Carpenter
eBay from $20
Smokey and the Bandit
1977 · Hal Needham
eBay from $20
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Play Misty for Me
1971 · Clint Eastwood
eBay from $35
The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Black Christmas
1974 · Bob Clark
eBay from $41