Category:1970, Top Films

1966 -- 1967 -- 1968 -- 1969

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1971 -- 1972 -- 1973 -- 1974

Ranking

My Picks

-- #22. The Wild Child -- #28. Little Big Man -- #50+. The Angel Levine

-- #4. M*A*S*H (Altman) -- #17. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Petri) <Best International> -- #25. Patton (Schaffner) <Best Picture & Director> -- #34. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (De Sica) <Best International> -- #49. The Go-Between

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

50 Top Films of 1970

-- #22. The Wild Child -- #28. Little Big Man

-- #1. El Topo -- #2. The Conformist -- #3. Le Cercle rouge -- #4. M*A*S*H -- #5. Five Easy Pieces -- #6. Claire's Knee -- #7. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders -- #8. Gimme Shelter -- #9. Zabriskie Point -- #10. Husbands

-- #11. Bed and Board -- #12. Woodstock -- #13. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage -- #14. The Aristocats -- #15. The Grandmother -- #16. Tristana -- #17. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion -- #18. Even Dwarfs Started Small -- #19. Performance -- #20. Deep End

-- #21. A Swedish Love Story -- #24. Dodes'ka-den -- #25. Patton -- #34. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis -- #35. Vampir -- #36. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes -- #41. 7 Plus Seven -- #42. The Clowns -- #47. The Spider's Stratagem -- #49. The Go-Between

Oscar, Best Films

-- Patton -- Airport -- Five Easy Pieces -- Love Story -- M*A*S*H -- Fellini Satyricon -- Women in Love -- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italy)

Golden Globe, Best Films

-- Love Story -- M*A*S*H -- Women in Love (United Kingdom) -- Rider on the Rain (France)

Top Grossing Films

-- Love Story -- Airport -- M*A*S*H -- Patton -- Woodstock -- Little Big Man -- Tora! Tora! Tora! -- Ryan's Daughter -- Catch-22 -- The Owl and the Pussycat

National Board of Review

-- Patton -- Kes -- Women in Love -- Five Easy Pieces -- Ryan's Daughter -- I Never Sang for My Father -- Diary of a Mad Housewife -- Love Story -- The Virgin and the Gypsy -- Tora! Tora! Tora!

National Film Registry

-- Five Easy Pieces -- Little Big Man -- M*A*S*H -- Patton -- Wanda -- Hospital <doc> -- I Am Somebody <doc> -- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis <doc> -- Multiple SIDosis <short> -- Requiem-29 <doc> -- Serene Velocity <short> -- Woodstock <doc>

NYT, Best Films

-- M*A*S*H -- Patton -- The Wild Child -- Le Boucher -- Loving -- The Ballad of Cable Hogue -- Tristana -- Woodstock -- Catch-22 -- The Conformist -- King Lear -- Deep End -- Bed & Board -- Five Easy Pieces -- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis -- Gimme Shelter -- Claire's Knee -- Little Big Man -- The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

TSPDT, Best Films

-- The Conformist -- Performance -- Husbands -- Wanda -- Tristana -- Five Easy Pieces -- Gimme Shelter -- The Red Circle -- The Wild Child -- Claire's Knee -- Dodes'ka-den -- Deep End -- M*A*S*H -- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes -- The Hart of London -- Le Boucher -- Zabriskie Point

Top10ner, Best Films

-- Patton -- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion -- The Conformist -- Five Easy Pieces -- Le Cercle Rouge

Film101, Best Films

-- Little Big Man -- The Conformist -- M*A*S*H -- Five Easy Pieces -- Tristana -- Le Boucher -- Patton -- Woodstock -- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis -- Claire's Knee -- Performance -- Gimme Shelter-- The Spider's Stratagem -- Bed and Board

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- #12. Woodstock -- #22. The Wild Child -- Multiple Maniacs

ChildActors, Best Films

-- The Railway Children (UK)

-- De 5 i fedtefadet / Famous Five Get in Trouble (Denmark) -- Abel, twój brat / Abel, Your Brother (Poland) -- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant -- Druzba Pere Kvrzice (Yugoslavia) -- Egghead's Robot (UK) -- Eyewitness (UK) -- Heintje - Mein bester Freund (West Germany) -- Hoa-Binh (France) -- Hornets' Nest -- Lassie: Well of Love -- Lisáci-Mysáci a Sibenicák (Czechoslovakia) -- Menace on the Mountain -- Meu Pé de Laranja-Lima (Brazil) -- Ministern / Good-Bye Nana (Sweden) -- Moy dobryy papa (URSS) -- La muralla verde / The Green Wall (Peru) -- På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump / Pippi on the Run (Sweden) -- Le petit bougnat (France) -- Priklyucheniya zhyoltogo chemodanchika / The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase (URSS) -- Robinson Crusoe / Robinson Crusoe and the Tiger (Mexico) -- Shag s kryshi (URSS) -- Strange Holiday / Boys of Lost Island (Australia) -- Tayna zheleznoy dveri / The Secret of the Iron Door (URSS) -- El Topo (Mexico) -- Uz zase skácu pres kaluze / Jumping Over Puddles Again (Czechoslovakia) -- Vnimanie, cherepakha! / Attention, Turtle! (URSS) -- The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City -- The Wild Country -- Yumurcak (Turkey)

Best International Films

{France} -- Le passager de la pluie / Rider on the Rain (GoldenGlobe)

{Italy} -- They Call Me Trinity -- Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto / Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Oscar) -- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Oscar) -- The Conformist -- The Spider's Stratagem -- I girasoli

{Japan} -- Heroic Purgatory -- This Transient Life

{Russia} -- White Sun of the Desert -- King Lear

{Spain} -- Tristana