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Cinema Seeker's Top 100 Films of the 1970s

IndieWire came out with a list of the 100 Best Movies of the 1970s on August 18th. There was a decent amount of discussion about it on so-called "Film Twitter." I decided to make my own Top 100 list for the decade in which I was born. For whatever it is worth, my list shares 27 titles with the IndieWire list.
I did go all the way and rank all of these. Usually when I make a list like this, I will rank the top 10 or 20 and just put the rest in chronological order. However, I actually tried to bother to sort through the minutia of very slight preferences and rank everything on my list.
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
1
96%8.2
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
2
96%9.0
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
3
97%9.2
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
4
88%7.4
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
5
100%8.0
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
6
98%8.4
The Conformist (1970)
The Conformist (1970)
7
98%8.0
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
8
91%8.1
Nashville (1975)
Nashville (1975)
9
91%7.7
Chinatown (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
10
99%8.2
Days of Heaven (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
11
92%7.8
Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai Du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai Du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
12
94%7.7
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
13
100%7.3
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
14
67%6.9
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
15
97%7.3
Claire's Knee (1970)
Claire's Knee (1970)
16
96%7.5
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)
17
88%7.6
Summer of '42 (1971)
Summer of '42 (1971)
18
79%7.2
The Candidate (1972)
The Candidate (1972)
19
88%7.0
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
20
82%6.8
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
21
88%7.4
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
22
92%8.6
Breezy (1973)
Breezy (1973)
23
63%7.0
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972)
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972)
24
5.8
Solaris (1972)
Solaris (1972)
25
92%8.0
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
26
94%8.0
Glass Houses (1972)
Glass Houses (1972)
27
New York, New York (1977)
New York, New York (1977)
28
57%6.6
Hair (1979)
Hair (1979)
29
82%7.6
The Last Waltz (1978)
The Last Waltz (1978)
30
98%8.2
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
31
All the President's Men (1976)
All the President's Men (1976)
32
94%8.0
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
33
92%7.7
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
34
67%7.4
All That Jazz (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
35
87%7.9
The Butcher (1970)
The Butcher (1970)
36
100%7.3
The Passenger (1975)
The Passenger (1975)
37
91%7.6
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
38
89%8.1
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
39
96%8.0
Saint Jack (1979)
Saint Jack (1979)
40
72%7.0
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