Keil's Forty Favorite Films of the 1970s (alphabetical)

  • Alien
  • All the President's Men
  • Annie Hall
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Badlands
  • Being There
  • Breaking Away
  • Chinatown
  • Clockwork Orange, A
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Conversation, The
  • Days of Heaven
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Five Easy Pieces
  • Gates of Heaven
  • Gimme Shelter
  • Godfather, The
  • Godfather Part II, The
  • Halloween
  • Harold and Maude
  • Jaws
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Last Picture Show, The
  • Long Goodbye, The
  • Manhattan
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • Mean Streets
  • Nashville
  • Network
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Play It Again, Sam
  • Rocky
  • Saturday Night Fever
  • Star Wars
  • Straight Time
  • Taxi Driver
  • 3 Women
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  • Woman Under the Influence, A
  • Woodstock
Author Comments: 

This list will obviously change over time as I see more films. I may also make a separate list of the same films, but ranked in order of preference.