1970 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1970

Notable Films Released in 1970

U.S.A. unless stated

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• 7 Plus Seven, a TV documentary directed by Michael Apted - (U.K.)

A

• The Act of the Heart, starring Genevieve Bujold and Donald Sutherland
• The Adventurers, starring Candice Bergen, Bekim Fehmiu, Olivia de Havilland, Ernest Borgnine
• Airport, directed by George Seaton, starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Van Heflin, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
• Alex in Wonderland, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Donald Sutherland
• And Soon the Darkness, starring Pamela Franklin - (U.K.)
• The Angel Levine, starring Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte
• The Aristocats - an animated Disney film featuring Phil Harris and Eva Gabor
• Awakening of the Beast (O Ritual dos Sádicos) - (Brazil)

B

• The Baby Maker, starring Barbara Hershey and Sam Groom
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Jason Robards and Stella Stevens
• Bed and Board (Domicile Conjugal), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Leaud - (France)
• Behold Homolka (Ecce homo Homolka) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Beloved, starring Raquel Welch - (U.K.)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes, starring James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, directed by Russ Meyer, starring Dolly Read
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo), directed by Dario Argento - (Italy)
• Bloody Mama, directed by Roger Corman, starring Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud, Robert De Niro
• The Boatniks, starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers and Phil Silvers
• The Body, a documentary narrated by Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave - (U.K.)
• Borsalino, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon - (France)
• El bosque del lobo (a.k.a. The Ancines Woods) - (Spain)
• The Boys in the Band, directed by William Friedkin
• Brancaleone at the Crusades (Brancaleone alle Crociate), starring Vittorio Gassman and Adolfo Celi - (Italy)
• The Breach, directed by Claude Chabrol - (France/Italy/Belgium)
• Brewster McCloud, directed by Robert Altman, starring Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, Shelley Duvall
• The Butcher (Le Boucher), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne - (France)

C

• Cannon for Cordoba, starring George Peppard
• Carry On Up the Jungle, starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Frankie Howerd - (U.K.)
• Catch-22, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Richard Benjamin, Bob Newhart, Charles Grodin, Orson Welles, Art Garfunkel
• Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté - (France)
• Chariots of the Gods (Erinnerungen an die Zukunft), documentary - (West Germany)
• The Cheyenne Social Club, directed by Gene Kelly, starring James Stewart and Henry Fonda
• Chisum, starring John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Glenn Corbett
• Claire's Knee (Le genou de Claire), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County, starring Dan Blocker and Nanette Fabray
• Colossus: The Forbin Project, starring Eric Braeden and Susan Clark
• Compañeros, starring Franco Nero and Jack Palance - (Italy)
• The Confession (L'Aveu), directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret - (France/Italy)
• The Conformist (Il conformista), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli - (Italy/France)
• Connecting Rooms, starring Bette Davis and Michael Redgrave - (U.K.)
• Cotton Comes to Harlem, starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Redd Foxx
• Country Dance, starring Peter O'Toole
• Crime and Punishment (Prestuplenie i nakazanie) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Crimes of the Future, directed by David Cronenberg - (Canada)
• Cromwell, directed by Ken Hughes, starring Richard Harris and Alec Guinness - (U.K.)

D

• Darker than Amber, starring Rod Taylor and Jane Russell
• Darling Lili, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson
• Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Deep End, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jane Asher - (U.K./West Germany)
• The Delta Factor, starring Yvette Mimieux and Christopher George
• Diary of a Mad Housewife, directed by Frank Perry, starring Carrie Snodgress (Golden Globe winner), Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella
• Dirty Dingus Magee, starring Frank Sinatra
• Dodesukaden, directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• The Dunwich Horror, starring Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee

E

• Eden and After (L'Eden et après / Eden a potom), directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet - (France/Czechoslovakia)
• El Topo (The Mole) - (Mexico)
• Elise, or Real Life (Élise ou la vraie vie) - (France)
• End of the Road, starring Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, James Earl Jones
• Entertaining Mr Sloane, starring Beryl Reid and Harry Andrews - (U.K.)
• Equinox, starring Frank Bonner
• Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)

F

• Figures in a Landscape, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Robert Shaw - (U.K.)
• Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jack Nicholson, Susan Anspach and Karen Black
• The Flight (Beg) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (Čtyři vraždy stačí, drahoušku) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Fragment of Fear, starring David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt - (U.K.)
• Fruit of Paradise (Ovoce stromů rajských jíme) - (Czechoslovakia)

G

• Gamera vs. Jiger - (Japan)
• The Games, directed by Michael Winner, starring Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Aznavour - (U.K.)
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, directed by Vittorio de Sica - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1971 and Golden Bear winner - (Italy)
• Gimme Shelter, a documentary featuring The Rolling Stones
• The Go-Between, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Julie Christie, Edward Fox, Alan Bates - (U.K.)
• Goin' Down the Road - (Canada)
• The Great White Hope, directed by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander
• The Green Wall (La muralla verde) - (Peru)

H

• The Hawaiians, starring Charlton Heston
• Hello-Goodbye, starring Michael Crawford
• Hercules in New York, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu onboro no Seikatsu), directed by Shōhei Imamura - (Japan)
• Hoffman, starring Peter Sellers and Sinéad Cusack - (U.K.)
• Hornets' Nest, starring Rock Hudson
• Horton Hears a Who!, TV animated film
• Husbands, directed by and starring John Cassavetes, with Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk

I

• I Love My Wife, directed by Mel Stuart, starring Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Angel Tompkins
• I Never Sang for My Father, directed by Gilbert Cates, starring Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Melvyn Douglas
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, directed by Elio Petri, starring Gian Maria Volonté - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1970 - (Italy)
• The Invincible Six, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Stuart Whitman and Elke Sommer
• I Walk the Line, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld

J

• El jardín de las delicias (The Garden of Delights), directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
• Joe, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Peter Boyle
• Julius Caesar, directed by Stuart Burge, starring Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud - (U.K.)

K

• Kati Patang, starring Rajesh Khanna - (India)
• Kazoku - (Japan)
• Kelly's Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles
• Khilona (Toy) - (India)
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a documentary on Martin Luther King, Jr. directed by Sidney Lumet
• The Kremlin Letter, directed by John Huston, starring Patrick O'Neal, Barbara Parkins, Bibi Andersson, Nigel Green, Orson Welles

L

• The Landlord, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Landscape After Battle (Krajobraz po bitwie), directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)
• The Last Warrior, aka Flap, starring Anthony Quinn, Shelley Winters, Tony Bill
• Leo the Last, directed by John Boorman, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Billie Whitelaw - (U.K.)
• Let It Be - documentary film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and featuring The Beatles - (U.K.)
• The Liberation of L.B. Jones, directed by William Wyler, starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Anthony Zerbe, Lee J. Cobb, Lola Falana, Barbara Hershey
• Little Big Man, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George
• Little Fauss and Big Halsy, starring Robert Redford and Michael J. Pollard
• The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir, a TV film - (France/Italy/West Germany)
• Loot, directed by Silvio Narizzano, starring Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel Bennett - (U.K.)
• Lost in the Desert (a.k.a. Dirkie), directed by Jamie Uys - (South Africa)
• Love Story, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal - winner of 5 Golden Globes including best picture and best director
• Lovers and Other Strangers, starring Cloris Leachman, Beatrice Arthur, Richard Castellano, Diane Keaton
• Loving, starring George Segal and Eva Marie Saint

M

• MASH, directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, Michael Murphy, Sally Kellerman, Joann Pflug
• Macho Callahan, starring Jean Seberg, David Janssen, Lee J. Cobb
• Maidstone, written, directed by and starring Norman Mailer
• A Man Called Horse, starring Richard Harris
• Metello - (Italy)
• Michael the Brave (Mihai Viteazul) - (Romania)
• The Molly Maguires, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris
• Monte Walsh, starring Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau
• The Moonshine War, starring Alan Alda, Richard Widmark, Patrick McGoohan
• Move, starring Paula Prentiss and Elliott Gould
• The Music Lovers, directed by Ken Russell, starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
• Myra Breckinridge, starring Raquel Welch, Mae West, John Huston, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed

N

• Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger - (U.K.)
• Norwood, starring Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath

O

• o.k., directed by Michael Verhoeven - (West Germany)
• Of Gods and the Undead (Os Deuses e os Mortos) - (Brazil)
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand, songs by Alan Jay Lerner
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, starring Tom Courtenay - (U.K./Norway)
• One More Time, directed by Jerry Lewis, starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford
• One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (Tko pjeva zlo ne misli) - (Yugoslavia)
• The Out-of-Towners, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis
• The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again, starring Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, Fred Astaire
• The Owl and the Pussycat, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal

P

• The Palace of Angels (O Palácio dos Anjos) - (Brazil)
• The Past-Master (Bash Maystorat), directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Kiril Gospodinov and Yuriy Yakovlev - (Bulgaria)
• Patton, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring George C. Scott - winner of 7 Academy Awards for 1971 including best picture, director and actor
• Peace in the Fields (Paix sur les champs) - (Belgium)
• Peau d'Âne (Donkey Skin), directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais - (France)
• The People Next Door, starring Eli Wallach and Julie Harris
• Perfect Friday, starring Ursula Andress and Stanley Baker
• Performance (filmed in 1968), directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, starring James Fox and Mick Jagger - (U.K.)
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Pizza Triangle (Dramma della gelosia), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Monica Vitti - (Italy)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Robert Stephens, Genevieve Page, Colin Blakely - (U.K.)
• Purab Aur Paschim (East and West), starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
• Puzzle of a Downfall Child, starring Faye Dunaway

Q

• Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, starring Gene Wilder and Margot Kidder - (Ireland)
• ¡Qué hacer! (What to Do?) - (Chile)

R

• Rabbit, Run, directed by Jack Smight, starring James Caan
• The Railway Children, directed by Lionel Jeffries, starring Jenny Agutter - (U.K.)
• The Revolutionary, starring Jon Voight
• Rio Lobo, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Sherry Lansing
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, starring Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Arthur Lowe - (U.K.)
• R. P. M., directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margret
• Ryan's Daughter, directed by David Lean, starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills (Oscar winner) - (U.K.)

S

• Salt of the Black Earth (Sól ziemi czarnej) - (Poland)
• Scrooge, directed by Ronald Neame, with Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans - (U.K.)
• Soldier Blue, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss
• Something for Everyone, directed by Harold Prince, starring Angela Lansbury and Michael York
• Space Amoeba, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• The Spider's Stratagem (Strategia del ragno), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - (Italy)
• Spring and Port Wine, starring James Mason and Susan George - (U.K.)
• Start the Revolution Without Me, directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith
• The Strawberry Statement, starring Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort
• Street Scenes, directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)
• Sunflower (I girasoli), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren - (Italy)
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came, starring Brian Keith, Don Ameche, Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette
• A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria) - (Sweden)

T

• Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (Zhi qu wei hu shan) - (China)
• Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Liza Minnelli
• There's a Girl in My Soup, starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn - (U.K.)
• There Was a Crooked Man..., starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda
• They Call Me Trinity (Lo chiamavano Trinità), starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer - (Italy)
• The Things of Life (Les choses de la vie) - (France)
• Three Sisters, by Cedric Messina, starring Eileen Atkins, Janet Suzman, Michele Dotrice - (U.K.)
• Three Sisters, by Laurence Olivier, starring Joan Plowright and Olivier - (U.K.)
• ...tick...tick...tick..., starring Jim Brown and George Kennedy
• Too Late the Hero, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Tora! Tora! Tora!, co-directed by Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku, starring Martin Balsam and Takahiro Tamura - (U.S./Japan)
• The Traveling Executioner, starring Stacy Keach, Bud Cort
• Tristana, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero - (Spain/France/Italy)
• The Twelve Chairs, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise
• Two Mules for Sister Sara, directed by Don Siegel, starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood

U

• Ucho (The Ear) - (Czechoslovakia)

V

• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Vampire Lovers, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
• Vengeance (Bao chou) - (Hong Kong)

W

• A Walk in the Spring Rain, starring Anthony Quinn and Ingrid Bergman
• The Wandering Swordsman (You xia er), directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)
• Waterloo, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles - (U.S.S.R./Italy)
• Where's Poppa?, directed by Carl Reiner, starring George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman
• Which Way to the Front?, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
• Whale (Kit), directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Georgi Kaloyanchev, Dimitar Panov, Georgi Partsalev - (Bulgaria)
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
• The Wild Child (L'Enfant sauvage), directed by François Truffaut - (France)
• Woodstock, a musical documentary featuring Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Santana, Jefferson Airplane and others
• WUSA, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Z

• Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
• Zigzag, starring George Kennedy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson