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The Candidate (1972 film)
The Candidate is a 1972 American political satire directed by Michael Ritchie, written by Eugene McCarthy speechwriter Jeremy Larner, and starring Robert Redford as Bill McKay, an idealistic lawyer running a long-shot California US Senate campaign who wins after compromising his ideals.
The Ceremony (儀式)
The Ceremony (儀式, Gishiki) is Nagisa Oshima's 1971 Japanese drama, an ATG tenth-anniversary film telling postwar Japan's history through the Sakurada clan's weddings and funerals; it won Kinema Junpo Best Film.
The Conformist (1970 film)
The Conformist (Il conformista) is Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 adaptation of Alberto Moravia's novel, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as fascist agent Marcello Clerici, shot by Vittorio Storaro, with Berlin and David di Donatello awards and a 1972 Oscar nomination.
The Day the Clown Cried
The Day the Clown Cried (El día que el payaso lloró) is Jerry Lewis's unfinished, unreleased 1972 Holocaust drama about a clown leading children to the gas chambers; suppressed by Lewis, its footage opened for research at the Library of Congress in 2024.
The Devil in Miss Jones
The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) is a Gerard Damiano hardcore adult film starring Georgina Spelvin and Harry Reems, a porno chic landmark inspired by Sartre's No Exit and the subject of nationwide obscenity litigation.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) is Werner Herzog's 1974 West German film about the foundling Kaspar Hauser, starring non-actor Bruno S., which won the 1975 Cannes Special Jury Prize.
The Goat Horn
The Goat Horn (Козият рог, Koziyat rog) is a 1972 Bulgarian film directed by Metodi Andonov, based on Nikolay Haytov's short story, and widely ranked among the country's best films.
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams: 1974 Sunn Classic film and 1977-78 NBC series starring Dan Haggerty as a fugitive mountain man befriending the grizzly Ben, loosely based on John Capen Adams (1812-1860).
The Longest Yard (1974 film)
The Longest Yard (1974) is a Robert Aldrich prison football comedy-drama starring Burt Reynolds as quarterback Paul Crewe, with Eddie Albert as Warden Hazen; filmed at Georgia State Prison, remade in 2005.
The Lords of Flatbush
The Lords of Flatbush is a 1974 American coming-of-age drama directed by Stephen F. Verona and Martin Davidson, set in 1958 Brooklyn, starring Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Perry King, and Paul Mace as a teenage gang; Richard Gere was fired from the Chico role after clashing with Stallone.
The Mother and the Whore
The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la putain) is Jean Eustache's 1973 French black-and-white drama, about 217 minutes long, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, and Françoise Lebrun in a post-May 1968 Parisian love triangle; it won the 1973 Cannes Grand Prix Spécial du Jury.
The Panic in Needle Park
The Panic in Needle Park is Jerry Schatzberg's 1971 drama starring Al Pacino and Kitty Winn as addicts around Sherman Square, Manhattan, from James Mills's novel, scripted by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne; Winn won Best Actress at Cannes 1971.
The Paper Chase (film)
The Paper Chase (1973) is a James Bridges comedy-drama, adapted from John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and Oscar-winning John Houseman as Professor Kingsfield at Harvard Law School.
The Party at Kitty and Stud's
The Party at Kitty and Stud's, also known as The Italian Stallion, is a 1970 American softcore erotic film directed by Morton M. Lewis, starring Sylvester Stallone in his film debut as Stud, made for about $5,000 and re-released after Rocky.
The Reckoning
The Reckoning (1970) is a Jack Gold British drama, John McGrath screenplay from Patrick Hall's novel The Harp That Once, starring Nicol Williamson as London businessman Mick Marler returning to Liverpool to avenge his father's death; often compared with Get Carter.
The Spirit of the Beehive
The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) is Víctor Erice's 1973 Spanish debut drama, set in 1940 Castile, where young Ana becomes obsessed with Frankenstein's monster; it won the 1973 San Sebastián Concha de Oro and ranks in Sight and Sound's greatest films polls.
The Truce
The Truce (La tregua) is Francesco Rosi's 1997 film adaptation of Primo Levi's 1963 memoir, starring John Turturro as Levi journeying home to Turin after Auschwitz's liberation; it competed at Cannes 1997 and won three David di Donatello awards.
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso, aka Lulu the Tool) is Elio Petri's 1971 Italian drama starring Gian Maria Volonté as piece worker Lulù Massa; it shared the 1972 Cannes Palme d'Or with The Mattei Affair.
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (書を捨てよ町へ出よう)
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (書を捨てよ町へ出よう) is Shūji Terayama's 1971 ATG debut feature, adapted from his 1967 essay collection and Tenjō Sajiki stage musical, San Remo grand prize winner.
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki (Le Voyage de la hyène) is Djibril Diop Mambéty's 1973 Senegalese debut feature, 89 minutes in Wolof and French, following Mory and Anta as they scheme to leave Dakar for Paris.
Tout va bien
Tout va bien ("Everything's All Right") is a 1972 French-Italian political film by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand as a couple sequestered during a sausage-factory strike, a post-1968 class-struggle critique.
Tristana
Tristana (1970) is Luis Buñuel's drama adapted from Benito Pérez Galdós's 1892 novel, starring Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Franco Nero; filmed in Toledo after censorship battles, it earned Buñuel his first Oscar nomination.
Two English Girls
Two English Girls (Les deux Anglaises et le continent), François Truffaut's 1971 French romantic drama adapted from Henri-Pierre Roché's 1956 novel, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, and Stacey Tendeter in a turn-of-the-century love triangle; a 1971 box-office failure later reevaluated and restored in 4K in 2023.
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright (1971), also released internationally as Outback, is a Ted Kotcheff Australian thriller based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel, starring Gary Bond and Donald Pleasence; its negative was found in Pittsburgh and the film restored in 2009 and 2024.
Wanda (1970 film)
Wanda (1970) is Barbara Loden's only feature as director, an American independent drama she wrote, directed, and starred in; it won the International Critics' Prize at Venice 1970 and ranks joint 48th in the 2022 Sight and Sound critics' poll.
Zabriskie Point (film)
Zabriskie Point is Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 MGM drama, his first US-made feature, starring non-professionals Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin amid 1960s counterculture, with a Pink Floyd-linked soundtrack, a $7 million cost, commercial failure, and later cult status.