100 лучших фильмов в истории по версии издания Slant Magazine (2003):

Top-100:
• Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
• Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
• Foolish Wives (Erich Von Stroheim, 1922)
• Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)
• Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927)
• The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick, 1928)
• The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928)
• Spies (Fritz Lang, 1928)
• Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)

• An American Tragedy (Josef Von Sternberg, 1931)
• ¡Que Viva México! (Sergei Eisenstein, 1931)
• Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
• Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
• The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
• The Crime of Monseiur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936)
• Gueule D’Amour (Jean Grémillon, 1937)
• Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
• Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937)
• Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)

• The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940)
• To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
• The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
• Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)
• Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)
• The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
• In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
• Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
• The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
• Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952)

• I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, 1952)
• Ensayo de Un Crimen (Luis Buñuel, 1955)
• Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich, 1956)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957)
• Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
• Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
• The Ladies’ Man (Jerry Lewis, 1961)
• Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
• Confessions of an Opium Eater (Albert Zugsmith, 1962)
• Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)

• Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
• Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
• Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
• 7 Women (John Ford, 1966)
• Kill, Baby, Kill! (Mario Bava, 1966)
• Masculin Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
• Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
• The Shooting (Monte Hellman, 1967)
• Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

• Hi Mom! (Brian De Palma, 1970)
• The Lickerish Quartet (Radley Metzger, 1970)
• Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
• A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
• Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
• Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
• Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

• The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
• Xala (Ousmane Sembène, 1975)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, 1976)
• F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1976)
• The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
• Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
• In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
• Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
• The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)
• Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)

• Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
• Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982)
• The Ballad of Narayama (Shôhei Imamura, 1983)
• The Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985)
• Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg, 1987)
• Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé, 1987)
• Distant Lives, Still Voices (Terence Davies, 1988)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
• A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988)
• Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
• A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)

• Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
• Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
• The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1993)
• Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
• Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
• Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
• Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
• Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)

• Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
• Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1997)
• Beloved (Jonathan Demme, 1998)
• The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998)
• Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)
• Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
• Platform (Jia Zhang-ke, 2000)
• Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
• Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
• Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003)

Лучшие ленты 1970-х годов по версии издания White City Cinema:

Top-10:
1. A New Leaf (May, USA, 1970)
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, Belgium, 1975)
3. Out 1 (Rivette/Schiffman, France, 1971)
4. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, USA, 1974)
5. A Touch of Zen (Hu, Taiwan, 1971)
6. Wanda (Loden, USA, 1970)
7. The Mother and the Whore (France, 1973)
8. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, France, 1972)
9. Chinatown (Polanski, USA, 1974)
10. Stalker (Tarkovsky, Russia, 1979)

11-25:
11. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, USA, 1971)
12. Le Boucher (Chabrol, France, 1970)
13. The Long Goodbye (Altman, USA, 1973)
14. Vengeance is Mine (Imamura, Japan, 1979)
15. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette France, 1974)
16. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, Germany, 1974)
17. The Passenger (Antonioni, Italy, 1975)
18. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, USA, 1976)
19. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman, USA, 1971)
20. The Ascent (Shepitko, Russia, 1977)
21. Touki Bouki (Mambety, Senegal, 1973)
22. The Emigrants / The New Land (Troell, Sweden, 1971)
23. Killer of Sheep (Burnett, USA, 1978)
24. Days of Heaven (Malick, USA, 1978)
25. Renaldo and Clara (Dylan, USA, 1978)

Лучшие ленты 1970-х годов по версии издания Slash Films:

Top-14:
The Day of the Jackal (1975)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The Ascent (1977)
Wake in Fright (1971)
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Charley Varrick (1973)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Frenzy (1972)
Shampoo (1975)
Night Moves (1975)
Hardcore (1979)
The American Friend (1977)
Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
The Black Panther (1977)

10 лучших хорроров 70-х годов по версии издания CBR:

Top-10:
1. Jaws
2. Alien
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
5. The Exorcist
6. Frenzy
7. Don't Look Now
8. Carrie
9. Suspiria
10. Halloween

Лучшие фильмы 1970-х годов по версии Jonathan Rosenbaum:

1970.
Le cochon (Jean Eustache / Jean-Michel Barjol)
Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
L'enfant sauvage (Truffaut)
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle)
Performance (Nicolas Roeg / Donald Cammell)
Le petit theatre de Jean Renoir (Renoir)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Wilder)
Scenes from Under Childhood (Stan Brakhage)
The Spider's Strategem (Bertolucci)
Tristana (Bunuel)
Vampir (Pedro Portabella)
Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
Zabriskie Point (Antoinioni)

1971.
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Brakhage)
The Death of Maria Malibrun (Werner Schroeter)
Deux fois (Jackie Raynal)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira Dos Santos)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton)
Out 1 (Rivette)
Petit a petit (Rouch)
Red Psalm (Jancso)
La region centrale (Snow)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
Trafic (Tati)
Two Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
Walkabout (Roeg)
Wanda (Barbara Loden)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Makavejev)

1972.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog)
Avanti! (Wilder)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
Fat City (Huston)
Fellini Roma (Fellini)
The Heartbreak Kid (May)
Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci)
Out 1: Spectre (Rivette)
Solaris (Tarkovsky)

1973.
Badlands (Terrence Malick)
F for Fake (Welles)
The Long Goodbye (Altman)
Martha (Fassbinder)
The Mongols (Parviz Kimiavi)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
Narita: Heta Village (Shinsuke Ogawa)
Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
Parade (Tati)
Salome (Carmelo Bene)
Some Call It Loving (James B. Harris)
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mamberty)
What? (Polanski)

1974.
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
Benilde ou a virgem-mae (Manoel de Oliveira)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
Cockfighter (Hellman)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen)
La gueule ouverte (Maurice Pialat)
Lancelot du lac (Bresson)
Occasional Work of a Female Slave (Alexander Kluge)
The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel)
Reason, Debate and a Tale (Ghatak)
Stavitsky... (Resnais)
The Traveler (Kiarostami)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)

1975.
Anatomie d'un rapport (Luc Mollet)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
India Song (Duras)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes)
Mandingo (Richard Fleischer)
Mikey and Nicky (May)
Night Moves (Penn)
Numero deux (Godard)
The Passenger (Antonioni)
Two Solutions for One Problem (Kiarostami)
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman)

1976.
Breakfast (Snow)
Edvard Munch (Watkins)
11 x 14 (James Benning)
Family Plot (Hitchcock)
Ici et ailleurs (Godard / Anne-Marie Mieville)
L'Innocente (Visconti)
In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima)
Obsession (Brian De Palma)
Wide Angle Saxon (George Landow)

1977.
Annie Hall (Allen)
Le camion (Duras)
Citizen's Band (Jonathan Demme)
Colloque de chiens (Dog's Dialogue) (Raul Ruiz)
The Devil, Probably (Bresson)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
Hitler, a Film from Germany (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg)
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Jon Jost)
One Way Boogie Woogie (Benning)
Passing Through (Larry Clark)
Providence (Resnais)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)
Valse Triste (Conner)

1978.
La chambre verte (Truffaut)
The Discipline of DE (Gus Van Sant)
Doomed Love (de Oliveira)
Filming Othello (Welles)
France / tour / detour / deux / enfants (Godard / Mieville)
From the Cloud to the Resistance (Straub / Huillet)
Genese d'un repas (Moullet)
Incontinence (Manuel De Landa)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
LMNO (Robert Breer)
Martin (George Romero)
Mongoloid (Conner)
Les rendez-vous d'Anna (Akerman)
The Scenic Route (Mark Rappaport)

1979.
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (Russ Meyer)
1941 (Spielberg)
Percival de gallois (Rohmer)
Real Life (Albert Brooks)
Richard Pryor - Live in Concert (Jeff Margolis)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Ticket of No Return (Ulrike Ottinger)
Wise Blood (Huston)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1970-х по версии Vadim Rizov:

1970.
1. GIMME SHELTER (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
2. LE CERCLE ROUGE (Jean-Pierre Melville)
3. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
4. VENGEANCE! (Chang Cheh)
5. THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (Dario Argento)
6. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
7. MASH (Robert Altman)
8. FIVE EASY PIECES (Bob Rafelson)
9. OTHON (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet)
10. TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel)

Also: KES (Ken Loach ), THE BABY MAKER (James Bridges), BED AND BOARD (François Truffaut), WANDA (Barbara Loden), HI, MOM! (Brian De Palma), LOVING (Irvin Kershner), THE STUDENT NURSES (Stephanie Rothman), ZABRISKIE POINT (Michelangelo Antonioni), AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE (Emile de Antonio), DEADLOCK (Roland Klick), CLAIRE'S KNEE (Eric Rohmer), TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (Don Siegel), PATTON (Franklin J. Schaffner), HOSPITAL (Frederick Wiseman), DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski), REENACTMENT (Lucian Pintilie), THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Billy Wilder), BEING GYPSY (Peter Nestler), COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Joseph Sargent), AIRPORT (George Seaton), ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (James William Guercio)

1971.
1. BANG BANG (Andrea Tonacci)
2. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (William Friedkin)
3. THE BEGUILED (Don Siegel)
4. LONG GOODBYES (Kira Muratova)
5. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
6. BLAISE PASCAL (Roberto Rossellini, TV)
7. TAKING OFF (Milos Forman)
8. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May)
9. WAKE IN FRIGHT (Ted Kotcheff)
10. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)

Also: TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut), SOCRATES (Roberto Rossellini, TV), LA RÉGION CENTRALE (Michael Snow), TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Monte Hellman), 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (Richard Fleischer), LA MAISON DES BOIS (Maurice Pialat, TV), DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel), SUCH GOOD FRIENDS (Otto Preminger), THE VELVET VAMPIRE (Stephanie Rothman), BORN TO WIN (Ivan Passer), TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE (Mario Bava), MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (John Cassavetes), DEATH IN VENICE (Luchino Visconti), AGNUS DEI (Miklos Jancsó), JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol), MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman), THE CEREMONY (Nagisa Oshima), THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (Jerry Schatzberg), LIVED ONCE A SONG-THRUSH (Otar Iosseliani), BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE (Rainer Warner Fassbinder), A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick), THE DECAMERON (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

1972.
1. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
3. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel)
4. FRENZY (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. FAT CITY (John Huston)
6. THE CANDIDATE (Michael Ritchie)
7. THE OUTSIDE MAN (Jacques Deray)
8. COUSIN JULES (Dominique Benicheti)
9. DOWNPOUR (Bahram Beizai)
10. EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, TV)

Also: TOP OF THE HEAP (Christopher St. John), LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Eric Rohmer), THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin), DEAR MOTHER, I'M ALL RIGHT (Christian Ziewer), THE GETAWAY (Sam Peckinpah), WHAT'S UP, DOC? (Peter Bogdanovich), CHUNG KUO CINE (Michelangelo Antonioni), UNHOLY ROLLERS (Vernon Zimmerman), THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel), BLOODY FRIDAY (Rolf Olsen), EIGHT DEADLY

1973.
1. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
2. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
3. THE HOMECOMING (Peter Hall)
4. PAPER MOON (Peter Bogdanovich)
5. THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman)
6. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut
7. CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel)
8. TOUKI BOUKI (Djibril Diop Mambety)
9. THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (Fred Zinnemann)
10. THROUGH AND THROUGH (Grzegorz Królikiewicz)

Also: THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (Peter Yates), DU COTE D'OROUET (Jacques Rozier), ISRAEL, WHY? (Claude Lanzmann), WESTWORLD (Michael Crichton), FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN (Paul Morrissey), SERPICO (Sidney Lumet), AMERICAN GRAFFITI (George Lucas), BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY (John D. Hancock), MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese), THE LAST DETAIL (Hal Ashby), LA LIGNE D'OMBRE (Georges Franju, TV), GANJA & HESS (Bill Gunn)

1974.
1. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent)
2. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski)
3. CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Robert Altman)
4. THE GODFATHER, PART II (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (Steven Spielberg)
6. THE TRAVELER (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma)
8. FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. THIEVES LIKE US (Robert Altman)
10. CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)

Also: THE CLOCKMAKER (Bertrand Tavernier), CARTESIUS (Roberto Rossellini, TV), THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat), MADE IN GERMANY AND USA (Rudolf Thome), THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (Guy Debord), ‘RAMEAU’S NEPHEW’ BY DIDEROT (THANX TO DENNIS YOUNG) BY WILMA SCHOEN (Michael Snow), A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes), ZARDOZ (John Boorman), THE PELICAN (Gérard Blain), SUPERMARKET (Roland Klick), ARABIAN NIGHTS (Pier Paolo Pasolini), MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Sidney Lumet), MY LITTLE LOVES (Jean Eustache), STAVISKY (Alain Resnais)

1975.
1. GREY GARDENS (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer)
2. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (John Huston)
3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
4. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. WELFARE (Frederick Wiseman)
6. SMILE (Michael Ritchie)
7. THE MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky)
8. BENILDE OR THE VIRGIN MOTHER (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick)
10. HARD TIMES (Walter Hill)

Also: MANDINGO (Richard Fleischer), THE STORY OF ADELE H. (François Truffaut), INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras), MANILA IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT (Lino Brocka), THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHERINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta), DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet), JAWS (Steven Spielberg), MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam), NIGHT MOVES (Arthur Penn), SHAMPOO (Hal Ashby)

1976.
1. THE WEDDING SUIT (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. MATINEE (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo)
3. THE BAD NEWS BEARS (Michael Ritchie)
4. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DE COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
5. A CHILD IN THE CROWD (Gérard Blain)
6. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
7. NOT A PRETTY PICTURE (Martha Coolidge)
8. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
9. CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
10. OBSESSION (Brian De Palma)

Also: CAR WASH (Michael Schultz), ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (Nicolas Roeg)

1977.
1. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg)
2. NEWS FROM HOME (Chantal Akerman)
3. ABIGAIL'S PARTY (TV) (Mike Leigh)
4. STAR WARS (George Lucas)
5. LOCAL COLOR (Mark Rappaport)
6. 11 x 14 (James Benning)
7. ROLLING THUNDER (John Flynn)
8. CANAL ZONE (Frederick Wiseman)
9. SEMI-TOUGH (Michael Ritchie)
10. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson)

Also: ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (James Benning), CAMOUFLAGE (Krysztof Zanussi), NEW YORK, NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese), RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen), THE RUBBER GUN (Allan Moyle), ARMAGEDDON (Alain Jessua), LE CAMION (Marguerite Duras), BETWEEN THE LINES (Joan Micklin Silver), ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen), THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel), SOLDIER OF ORANGE (Paul Verhoeven), SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 (James Bridges)

1978.
1. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-Leung)
2. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter)
3. THE FURY (Brian De Palma)
4. BLUE COLLAR (Paul Schrader)
5. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George Romero)
6. THE DRIVER (Walter Hill)
7. AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Paul Mazursky)
8. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill)
9. SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW (Yuen Woo-ping)
10. GRADUATE FIRST (Maurice Pialat)

Also: STRAIGHT TIME (Ulu Grosbard), THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut), GRAND OPERA: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE (James Benning), I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND (Robert Zemeckis), COMING HOME (Hal Ashby)

1979.
1. ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
2. SAINT JACK (Peter Bogdanovich)
3. ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (Allan Arkush)
4. ALL THAT JAZZ (Bob Fosse)
5. THE CHINA SYNDROME (James Bridges)
6. REAL LIFE (Albert Brooks)
7. OVER THE EDGE (Jonathan Kaplan)
8. THE WOMAN WITH RED HAIR (Tatsumi Kumashiro)
9. QUADROPHENIA (Franc Roddam)
10. SOFT FICTION (Chick Strand)

Also: THE JERK (Carl Reiner), THE BROOD (David Cronenberg), THE WARRIORS (Walter Hill), SCUM (Alan Clarke), DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung), BEING THERE (Hal Ashby), 1941 (Steven Spielberg), MANHATTAN (Woody Allen), ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (Don Siegel), CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (Joan Micklin Silver), THE BLACK HOLE (Gary Nelson)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1970-х по версии Dave Kehr (Chicago Reader):

1974.
01. Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir)
02. Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
03. The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards)
04. Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)
05. The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester)
06. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
07. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
08. Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle)
09. The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Juggernaut (Richard Lester)

1975.
01. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
02. The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner)
03. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
04. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
05. La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)
06. Love Among the Ruins (George Cukor)
07. Fist-Right of Freedom (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
08. The Romantic Englishwoman (Joseph Losey)
09. Hard Times (Walter Hill)
10. Supervixens (Russ Meyer)

1976.
01. Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)
02. The Age of Medici and Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini)
03. Robin and Marian (Richard Lester)
04. Jonah---Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
05. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
06. The Shootist (Don Siegel)
07. Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol)
08. Mother Kuster's Trip to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
09. French Provincial (Andre Techine)
10. Allegro Non Troppo (Bruno Bozzetto)

1977.
01. F for Fake (Orson Welles)
02. The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
03. The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)
04. A Piece of Pleasure (Claude Chabrol)
05. Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard)
06. Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet)
07. Islands in the Stream (Franklin Schaffner)
08. The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood)
09. Padre, Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
10. The Rescuers (Wolfgang Reitherman/John Lounsbery/Art Stevens)

1978.
01. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
02. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
03. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
04. Meetings with Anna (Chantal Akerman)
05. The Messiah (Roberto Rossellini)
06. The Driver (Walter Hill)
07. Halloween (John Carpenter)
08. Big Wednesday (John Milius)
09. Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
10. Filming Othello (Orson Welles)

1979.
01. 10 (Blake Edwards)
02. The Left Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
03. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
04. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)
05. The Warriors (Walter Hill)
06. Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
07. Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
08. In a Year With Thirteen Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
09. Fedora (Billy Wilder)
10. Angi, Vera (Pal Gabor)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1970-х по версии Andrew Sarris (Village Voice):

1970.
01. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
02. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
03. Tristana (Luis Bunuel)
04. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Vincente Minnelli)
05. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg)
06. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
07. This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol)
08. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)
09. There Was a Crooked Man (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel)

1971.
01. The Taira Clan (Kenji Mizoguchi)
02. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
03. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
04. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
05. The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
06. The Touch (Ingmar Bergman)
07. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
08. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
09. Such Good Friends (Otto Preminger)
10. Derby (Robert Kaylor)

1972.
01. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
02. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
03. Travels with My Aunt (George Cukor)
04. Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
05. Two English Girls (Francois Truffaut)
06. The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
07. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
08. Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich)
09. Duck, You Sucker (Sergio Leone)
10. The Carey Treatment (Blake Edwards)
11. Mon Oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
12. Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
13. Bad Company (Robert Benton)
14. Bartleby (Anthony Friedman)
15. Images (Robert Altman)
16. Superfly (Gordon Parks Jr.)

1973.
01. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
02. A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
03. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
04. The Mattei Affair (Francesco Rosi)
05. The Spider's Strategem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
06. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
07. The Mackintosh Man (John Huston)
08. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Gilbert Cates)
09. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. Kid Blue (James Frawley)

1974.
01. Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)
02. Juggernaut (Richard Lester)
03. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
04. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir)
05. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
06. Ali--Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
07. Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev)
08. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
09. The Front Page (Billy Wilder)
10. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)

1975.
01. La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)
02. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
03. Nashville (Robert Altman)
04. Shampoo (Hal Ashby)
05. The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester)
06. Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
07. French Connection II (John Frankenheimer)
08. The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman)
09. Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
10. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)

1976.
01. A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin)
02. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
03. A Piece of Pleasure (Claude Chabrol)
04. The Marquise of O... (Eric Rohmer)
05. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
06. The Last Woman (Marco Ferreri)
07. Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
08. Robin and Marian (Richard Lester)
09. Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman)

1977.
01. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
02. Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
03. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
04. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
05. The Late Show (Robert Benton)
06. A Woman's Decision (Krzysztof Zanussi)
07. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Richard Brooks)
08. Outrageous! (Richard Benner)
09. Cria! (Carlos Saura)
10. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)

1978.
01. An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)
02. Dossier 51 ()
03. California Suite (Herbert Ross)
04. Women ()
05. The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray)
06. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)
07. Violette (Claude Chabrol)
08. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
09. King, Queen, Knave (Jerzy Skolimowski)
10. The Medusa Touch (Jack Gold)

1979.
(note: #1-5 are in a tie for first; #6-12 are in a tie for second; lists are alphabetical)
01. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
02. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
03. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
04. "10" (Blake Edwards)
05. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
06. Being There (Hal Ashby)
07. Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
08. Don Giovanni (Joseph Losey)
09. Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
10. North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff)
11. Orchestra Rehearsal (Federico Fellini)
12. The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)