I don’t care if some of these films did not win a string of Academy Awards or even if they were nominated. They are the ones that I keep going back to when I want to relax as if I’m seeing an old friend. All films not produced in the USA are marked.
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50. The Last Picture Show – d. Peter Bogdonovich
49. Black & White in Color – d. Jean-Jacques Annaud (Ivory Coast)
48. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – d. Dario Argento (Italy)
47. Norma Rae – d. Martin Ritt
46. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – d. Luis Buñuel (France)
45. All The President’s Men – d. Alan J. Pakula
44. The Conversation – d. Francis Ford Coppola
43. Dog Day Afternoon – d. Sidney Lumet
42. The Man Who Fell to Earth – d. Nicolas Roeg (UK)
41. 1776 – d. Peter H. Hunt
40. Animal House – d. John Landis
39. Magnum Force – d. Ted Post
38. Barry Lyndon – d. Stanley Kubrick (UK / USA)
37. Last Tango in Paris – d. Bernardo Bertolucci (France / Italy)
36. Woodstock – d. Michael Wadleigh
35. Rocky – d. John G. Avildsen
34. The Outlaw Josey Wales – d. Clint Eastwood
33. The Seven-Ups – d. Phillip D’Antoni
32. Vanishing Point – d. Richard C. Sarafian
31. Alien – d. Ridley Scott
30. Close Encounters of the Third Kind – d. Stephen Spielberg
29. Jaws – d. Stephen Spielberg
28. Soylent Green – d. Richard Fleischer
27. The Song Remains the Same – d. Peter Clifton / Joe Massot
26. Mean Streets – d. Martin Scorsese
25. High Plains Drifter – d. Clint Eastwood
24. Murder on the Orient Express – d. Sidney Lumet
23. The Last Waltz – d. Martin Scorsese
22. The Sting – d. George Roy Hill
21. Smokey and the Bandit – d. Hal Needham
20. Superman – d. Richard Donner
19. Nosferatu the Vampyre – d. Werner Herzog (West Ger. / France)
18. Macbeth – d. Roman Polanski (UK / USA)
17. Monty Python and the Holy Grail – d. Terry Gillian / Terry Jones (UK)
16. Star Wars – d. George Lucas
15. Blazing Saddles – d. Mel Brooks
14. Patton – d. Franklin J. Schaffner
13. Serpico – d. Sidney Lumet
12. Young Frankenstein – d. Mel Brooks
11. Scrooge – d. Ronald Neame (UK)
10. Apocalypse Now – d. Francis Ford Coppola
09. Taxi Driver – d. Martin Scorsese
08. The French Connection – d. William Friedkin
07. The Day of the Jackal – d. Fred Zinneman
06. Swept Away – d. Lina Wertmuller (Italy)
05. Day For Night – d. Francois Truffaut (France)
04. Jeremiah Johnson – d. Sydney Pollack
03. Let It Be – d. Michael Lindsay-Hogg (UK)
02. The Godfather Pt. II – d. Francis Ford Coppola
01. The Godfather – d. Francis Ford Coppola
Are any of your favorites here? Feel free to comment 🙂
I love this list! Brings back so many memories 🙂
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Hi Nick! I should’ve started with the 60’s but hey, there’s always room for another list. 🙂
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Absolutely! Looking forward to the 80s, when you do that 😀
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Oh lot’s of goodies from the 80’s.
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When movies were still worth the price of a ticket! I would have put LAST PICTURE SHOW and THE CONVERSATION much closer to the top, though!
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Funny that you mentioned those two. They were originally higher up but I swapped them out for others that I watch more often and have a “feel good” flair.
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“Jeremiah Johnson” has to be my most favourite on this list, though “The Outlaw Josey Wales” and “Star Wars” are a close second and third.
Everything I watch “Jeremiah Johnson” I can’t help but feel good…and to laugh. I should have watched it today; the weather is certainly fitting. I was, however, shovelling most of the day because of the heavy snowfall yesterday and today. And now that I’m thawed out and fed, I’m simply too tired to stay up and watch a movie.
I don’t see “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” on the list. I think I’ve seen that movie a hundred times, and it still impresses me. But then again, I don’t know when that movie came out, so maybe it wasn’t the 1970s.
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Hi Diane! Thanks for reading along. “Jeremiah Johnson” is such a different film that stands out from among others.
“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” will be on my 1960’s list…you can count on it.
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Wow, I must have been living under a rock! I’ve only heard of about half of these, and only seen about half of those.
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Most of them are actually bargain DVD’s now. I picked up “Jeremiah Johnson” for $6.99. Go collect and enjoy Rachel.
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I’ll have to do that. 🙂
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