Biggest 80 Films of the 60s and 70s

Buy The Godfather: Part II

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The stars in this hilarious, spoof western deliver great performances for director Mel Brooks. A black sheriff is accidentally sent to the wildest west where he succeeds in quelling the bad guys with the help of an unlikely gun slinger.

Buy Blazing Saddles

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Jack Nicholson is at his best as private eye Jake Gittes in this tale of adultery that turns into high level corruption about the Los Angeles water supply. Great support from Faye Dunaway and John Huston.

Buy Chinatown

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Steven Spielberg's first big movie was based on Peter Benchley's novel of a great white shark bringing terror to a New England resort. The three Oscars were more for John Williams' music but the acting from Robert Shaw was also excellent.

Buy Jaws

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After taking TV comedy by storm the Pythons' first film pokes fun at the tales of the knights of King Arthur and medieval chivalry. Like all their work, when it works it is very funny indeed. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.

Buy Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Adapted from Rudyard Kipling's tale of two veteran British soldiers who con themselves wealth and power in 19th Century India by director John Huston. Great performances from stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine.

Buy The Man Who Would Be King

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Five top Oscars including best picture, director, screenplay, actor (Jack Nicholson as the rebel patient) and actress (Louise Fletcher as the domineering ward sister). Milos Forman directed this comic tragedy about a mental institution.

Buy One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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The film won four Oscars, notably a posthumous best actor award for Peter Finch as the impotent TV frontman who raves madly against the media. Directed by Sidney Lumet as a stinging attack on American TV networks.

Buy Network

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This was the first of the five in the series about boxer Rocky Balboa played by Sylvester Stallone. The story of the unknown dreamer who went on to be heavyweight champion of the world won three Oscars, including best picture.

Buy Rocky

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Starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who dig up the truth about the Watergate break-in and topple President Nixon in this real life tale of American politics.

Buy All the President's Men

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The seven Oscars this landmark film won were for stunning effects, music and design. Yet it is the "boy's own" adventure story of a plot about a princess rescued and good against evil that made George Lucas's sci-fi masterpiece.

Buy Star Wars

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Woody Allen directed and starred in this funny story that is often uncomfortably close to the real relationship between Allen and Diane Keaton, the two leads. It picked up four Oscars, including best film and best director for Allen. 

Buy Annie Hall

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Steven Spielberg's command of some astonishing special effects and sounds enliven this tale of visiting UFOs and their impact on both governments and everyday citizens - starring Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary.

Buy Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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One of the most successful of Hollywood musicals, this nostalgic trip back to Fifties America starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as teenage lovers at Rydell High School dominated the cinema and music scene of the time.

Buy Grease

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Director Michael Cimino made one of the first major pictures about the Vietnam War winning five Oscars, including best picture. A long and powerful movie with strong performances from Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro.

Buy The Deer Hunter

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The comic book legend of Superman is well worn but this modern version had the money and technology to be spectacular and believable. Christopher Reeve is a terrific Clark Kent and Gene Hackman is both funny and evil as Lex Luthor.

Buy Superman

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Although not nearly as scary or well-paced as the original, this tale of another shark attacking swimmers off the New England coast was a big box office winner. Roy Scheider stars again as the local police chief whose warnings are ignored.

Buy Jaws 2

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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who ran famously well over budget, this tale of Martin Sheen as a US government assassin out to kill Marlon Brando's rebel colonel in deepest Vietnam jungle is a masterpiece of cinema.

Buy Apocalypse Now

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A shockingly scary sci-fi classic, first of a series of starring roles for Sigourney Weaver taking on one of the most terrifying space monsters ever invented. Director Ridley Scott's skill is in keeping the tension going right to the end.

Buy Alien

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The Monty Python team courted religious controversy in this story set against the background of Christ's rise to importance in Roman Judaea. However, it is a confident and very funny spoof on earlier, pompous Christian era Hollywood epics.

Buy Life of Brian

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The Bond movie tradition continued with this space shuttle hokum starring Roger Moore and Richard Kiel, back as Jaws. However, it turned into one of the biggest box office successes for the 007 series.

Buy Moonraker