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

The Act of the Heart, starring Geneviève Bujold and Donald Sutherland - (Canada)

The Adventurers, starring Candice Bergen, Bekim Fehmiu, Olivia de Havilland, Ernest Borgnine

The Adventures of Gerard, starring Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins

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

The American Soldier (Der amerikanische Soldat), diredted by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)

And Soon the Darkness, starring Pamela Franklin - (U.K.)

The Angel Levine, starring Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte

The Aristocats - an animated Disney film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, starring Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Gary Dubin, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Roddy Maude-Roxby, and Liz English

Awakening of the Beast (O Ritual dos Sádicos) - (Brazil)

The Baby Maker, starring Barbara Hershey and Sam Groom

The Ballad of Cable Hogue, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Jason Robards and Stella Stevens

The Bear and the Doll (L'ours et la poupée), starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Pierre Cassel - (France)

Bed and Board (Domicile Conjugal), directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud - (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)

Black Brigade, starring Stephen Boyd and Richard Pryor

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 Brotherhood of the Bell, starring Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth and Maurice Evans

The Butcher (Le Boucher), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne - (France)

Cannon for Cordoba, starring George Peppard

Carry On Up the Jungle, starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Frankie Howerd - (U.K.)

Case for a Rookie Hangman

Catch-22, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Richard Benjamin, Bob Newhart, Charles Grodin, Orson Welles, Art Garfunkel

C.C. and Company, starring Joe Namath, Ann-Margret and William Smith

Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volontè - (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

Count Dracula, starring Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski and Herbert Lom- (Italy)

Country Dance, starring Peter O'Toole

Crescendo, starring Stefanie Powers

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.)

The Cross and the Switchblade, starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada

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

The Demise of Father Mouret, directed by Georges Franju - (France)

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

Dodes'ka-den, directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)

The Dunwich Horror, starring Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee

Eden and After (L'Eden et après / Eden a potom), directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet - (France/Czechoslovakia)

El Condor, starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef

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

Eugenie the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion, starring Marie Liljedahl, Maria Rohm and Christopher Lee - (Spain)

Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)

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)

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)

Getting Straight, starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen

Gimme Shelter, a documentary featuring The Rolling Stones

Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest), diredted by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)

Goodbye Gemini, starring Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave and Alexis Kanner- (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)

Halls of Anger , starring Calvin Lockhart and Jeff Bridges

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 Shohei Imamura - (Japan)

Hoffman, starring Peter Sellers and Sinéad Cusack - (U.K.)

Hornets’ Nest, starring Rock Hudson

The Horror of Frankenstein, starring Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara and Veronica Carlson- (U.K.)

Horton Hears a Who!, TV animated film

House of Dark Shadows, directed by Dan Curtis, starring Jonathan Frid and Grayson Hall

How Do I Love Thee?, starring Jackie Gleason and Maureen O'Hara

Husbands, directed by and starring John Cassavetes, with Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk

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

The Intruders, starring Don Murray, John Saxon and Anne Francis

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, directed by Elio Petri, starring Gian Maria Volontè - 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

El jardín de las delicias (The Garden of Delights), directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)

Jenny, starring Marlo Thomas and Alan Alda

Joe, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Peter Boyle and Susan Sarandon

Julius Caesar, directed by Stuart Burge, starring Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud - (U.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

The Landlord, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Landscape After the Battle (Krajobraz po bitwie), directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)

The Last Grenade, directed by Gordon Flemyng, starring Stanley Baker, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Alex Cord

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, starring James Coburn

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

MASH, directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, Michael Murphy, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann 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

The Man Who Haunted Himself, starring Roger Moore, Anton Rodgers and Hildegarde Neil - (U.K.)

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.)

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, starring Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood and Vanessa Howard- (U.K.)

Myra Breckinridge, starring Raquel Welch, Mae West, John Huston, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed

The Nameless Knight - (Turkey)

Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger - (U.K.)

Norwood, starring Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath

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)

On the Comet

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

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, Geneviève Page, Colin Blakely - (U.K.)

Pufnstuf (AKA Pufnstuf Zaps the World) starring Van Snowden and Jack Wild

Purab Aur Paschim (East and West), starring Ashok Kumar - (India)

Puzzle of a Downfall Child, starring Faye Dunaway

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, starring Gene Wilder and Margot Kidder - (Ireland)

¡Qué hacer! (What to Do?) - (Chile)

Rabbit, Run, directed by Jack Smight, starring James Caan

The Railway Children, directed by Lionel Jeffries, starring Jenny Agutter - (U.K.)

The Rebel Rousers, starring Jack Nicholson

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

Reza Motorcyclist (Reza Motori) (1970) - directed by Masoud Kimiai (Iran)

Ryan's Daughter, directed by David Lean, starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills (Oscar winner) - (U.K.)

Salt of the Black Earth (Sól ziemi czarnej) - (Poland)

Scars of Dracula, starring Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman and Jenny Hanley - (U.K.)

Scream and Scream Again, starring Vincent Price, Alfred Marks and Christopher Lee- (U.K.)

Scrooge, directed by Ronald Neame, with Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans - (U.K.)

Skullduggery, starring Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark

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

Strange Holiday

The Strawberry Statement, starring Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort

Street Scenes, directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)

Strogoff

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)

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 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

Ucho (The Ear) - (Czechoslovakia)

La última aventura del Zorro

Up in the Cellar, starring Joan Collins and Larry Hagman

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů) - (Czechoslovakia)

The Vampire Lovers, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)

Vengeance (Bao chou) - (Hong Kong)

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)

Weekend With the Babysitter starring George E Carey and Susan Romen

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

White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) - (USSR)

Whale (Kit), directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Georgi Kaloyanchev, Dimitar Panov, Georgi Partsalev - (Bulgaria)

The Window - starring Behrouz Vossoughi and Googoosh - Iran

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)

Wood Pigeon (Toghi) - directed by Ali Hatami (Iran)

Woodstock, a musical documentary featuring Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Santana, Jefferson Airplane and others

WUSA, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Zig Zag, starring George Kennedy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson

Short film series

• The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–71)

• Roland and Rattfink (1968–71)

• Tijuana Toads (1969–72)

• Woody Woodpecker (1941–49, 1951–72)

• Chilly Willy (1955–72)

• The Beary Family (1962–72)

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1970 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: