Top Movies of 1970


The top movies of 1970 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

21. Burn! ( Queimada )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Actors: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Norman Hill, Thomas Lyons, Renato Salvatore, Valeria Ferran Wanani
Plot: A British secret agent arrives in the Caribbean to take control of a sugar cane plantation. Exposed to the struggles of the locals, he insights a revolution, which spirals out of control.

22. Where's Poppa?

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carl Reiner
Actors: George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, Barnard Hughes

23. The Aristocats

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Liz English, Gary Dubin, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway
Plot: When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children (Bonfamille's prize family of domesticated house cats) the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the heirs, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O'Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the Aristocats's rescue.

24. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? ( Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Actors: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Franz Maron, Harry Baer, Peter Moland
Plot: A man is happy living a normal life - a dependable job as a technical draftsman, a loving marriage and caring father. But people push him - his colleges, his socially-mobile wife, parents, friends and neighbors alike - in many directions. A promotion is coming up - but as the pressure continues to build for Herr R. it may ultimately break him.

25. My Night at Maud's ( Ma nuit chez Maud )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Rohmer
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Guy Léger
Plot: A man wants a Catholic blonde, so he spends the night with a rowdy brunette.

26. Performance

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
Actors: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Anthony Valentine, Michèle Breton, Ann Sidney

27. Scrooge

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, David Collings, Suzanne Neve
Plot: A musical retelling of the classic Christmas tale of an unfeeling, old miser visited by three spirits who sees the error of his ways.

28. A Man Called Horse

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Actors: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou, James Gammon, Corinna Tsopei

29. Rio Lobo

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Jennifer O'Neill, Victor French
Plot: Following the Civil War Col. Cord McNally is on a mission to track down the traitor who sold information to the south and got a close friend killed. The information leads him to Rio Lobo where a ruthless gang controls the town... headed by the traitor.

30. topo, El

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Fantasy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Robert John, Brontis Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio, David Silva, Paula Romo
Plot: In this surreal film from Alejandro Jodorowsky, a gunfighter claiming to be God wanders the desert in search of the four masters, transforms his son from a boy to man and avenges a slaughtered village.

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