 | The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.99 Bogdanovich's masterpiece. Love in a world that doesn't love back. Sad, lonely, but powerful.
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 | The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III)
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $15.49 Speaks for itself. A compendium of the best performances of the decade.
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 | Chinatown
Buy used from: $3.73 The most intricately plotted film of the 70s - the best LA movie ever.
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 | Nashville
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.13 The quintessential Altman piece: ensemble cast, floating story, fascinating characters
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 | Jaws (Widescreen Anniversary Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $1.92 Amazing visual storytelling. It should be a primer for anyone making an action movie.
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 | Deliverance
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.19 Scariest movie of the 70s is also one of the best man vs. nature films
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 | Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $2.00 More major themes of 70s: loneliness, urban setting, anti-hero driven by passion and madness
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 | Apocalypse Now
Buy used from: $5.95 HEART OF DARKNESS in Vietnam: so surreal its real
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 | Mean Streets (Special Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $3.22 A romantic journey through an romantic area with typically confused Scorsese characters
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 | The Long Goodbye
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.20 Hilarious - Marlowe as a nebbish, self-effacing Jew. 70s movies turned stereotypes on their heads.
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![Candidate [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21M3CSWAAHL._SL75_.jpg) | Candidate [VHS]
Buy used from: $0.99 The best political movie ever. To say to much would spoil its surprises.
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 | M*A*S*H (Five Star Collection)
Buy used from: $3.30 The antiwar movie as comedy - title song "Suicide is Painless" says it all.
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 | The Parallax View
Buy used from: $9.45 Political paranoia thriller is great because of what it doesn't show, doesn't tell
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 | Barry Lyndon
Buy used from: $5.00 Kubrick's adaptation of Thackeray's novel is better than the source: the best LOOKING movie of the decade
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 | Annie Hall
Buy used from: $12.95 The choice is between AH and Manhattan: I find AH less cinematic, less intellectual, more emotional, funnier
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 | Five Easy Pieces
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.75 The classic Jack Nicholson hero: the antihero with a cause that he doesn't want to fight for
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 | Network
Buy used from: $7.01 Too prophetic for its own good. Scarier because all its predictions have come true.
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 | The Man Who Would Be King
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $11.10 An amazing, underappreciated action movie - Connery and Caine are awesome.
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![Night Moves [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5154387TWFL._SL75_.jpg) | Night Moves [VHS]
Buy used from: $4.45 Existential detective flick is slow but rewarding - what is he really trying to find?
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 | Being There
Buy used from: $10.00 Peter Sellers' swan song. Seems more like an 80s movie, but great anyway.
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 | Klute
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.00 Dead color, sinister voices . . . a classic.
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 | The Gambler
Buy used from: $10.15 One of the best movies about compulsion ever made. Caan is great.
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 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.95 Sam Peckinpah's weird but amazing epic about disembodiment.
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 | Carnal Knowledge
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.50 Nicholson makes this movie with, quite possibly, the best acting of the decade.
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 | All the President's Men
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $2.70 Historical, anti-political, and always compelling.
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