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Best Movies of 1970, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
71 films from 1970 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Patton ('1970), at 7.9 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Tora! Tora! Tora!, 7.5 on IMDb against 46 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patton '1970 | War / Drama | 7.9 | 92% | 86 | 7.4 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 2 | Woodstock '1970 | Documentary / Musical | 8.1 | 100% | 95 | 7.6 | Michael Wadleigh |
| 3 | Le Cercle Rouge '1970 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 92 | 7.6 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 4 | Kes '1970 | Drama | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Ken Loach |
| 5 | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion '1970 | Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 100% | 89 | 8.2 | Elio Petri |
| 6 | Kelly's Heroes '1970 | Comedy / War | 7.6 | 79% | 50 | 7.4 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 7 | Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town '1970 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.7 | 93% | - | 7.2 | Jules Bass |
| 8 | Gimme Shelter '1970 | Documentary / Musical | 7.8 | 93% | 85 | 7.4 | Albert Maysles |
| 9 | Little Big Man '1970 | Western / Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 91% | 63 | 7.4 | Arthur Penn |
| 10 | Tora! Tora! Tora! '1970 | War / Drama | 7.5 | 57% | 46 | 7.2 | Toshio Masuda |
| 11 | They Call Me Trinity '1970 | Action / Comedy / Western | 7.4 | - | - | 7.6 | Enzo Barboni |
| 12 | Scrooge '1970 | Fantasy / Drama | 7.5 | 74% | 58 | 6.8 | Ronald Neame |
| 13 | The Confession '1970 | Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Costa-Gavras |
| 14 | Claire's Knee '1970 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 96% | - | 7.3 | Éric Rohmer |
| 15 | M*A*S*H '1970 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.3 | 86% | 80 | 6.9 | Robert Altman |
| 16 | Let It Be '1970 | Documentary / Musical | 7.6 | 81% | 69 | 7.7 | Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
| 17 | Five Easy Pieces '1970 | Drama | 7.3 | 89% | 85 | 7.1 | Bob Rafelson |
| 18 | A Touch of Zen '1970 | Action / Fantasy | 7.5 | 97% | - | 7.6 | King Hu |
| 19 | Tristana '1970 | Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 93 | 7.2 | Luis Buñuel |
| 20 | Ryan's Daughter '1970 | Romance / Drama | 7.4 | 47% | - | 7.1 | David Lean |
| 21 | Bed and Board '1970 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 75% | - | 7.1 | François Truffaut |
| 22 | The Wild Child '1970 | Drama | 7.4 | 100% | 94 | 7.1 | François Truffaut |
| 23 | Waterloo '1970 | Drama / War | 7.3 | 27% | - | 7.1 | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| 24 | The Butcher '1970 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Claude Chabrol |
| 25 | The Things of Life '1970 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Claude Sautet |
| 26 | El Topo '1970 | Drama / Western | 7.2 | 80% | 65 | 7.1 | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| 27 | Dodes'ka-den '1970 | Drama | 7.3 | 73% | - | 7.1 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 28 | A Swedish Love Story '1970 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Roy Andersson |
| 29 | Many Wars Ago '1970 | Drama / War | 7.6 | - | - | 7.3 | Francesco Rosi |
| 30 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue '1970 | Comedy / Western / Action | 7.2 | 94% | - | 7.0 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 31 | Sunflower '1970 | Drama / War | 7.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 32 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis '1970 | Drama | 7.2 | 94% | - | 7.0 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 33 | The Aristocats '1970 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | 64% | 66 | 7.3 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 34 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage '1970 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | 85% | - | 7.1 | Dario Argento |
| 35 | Catch-22 '1970 | War / Comedy | 7.1 | 81% | 70 | 6.7 | Mike Nichols |
| 36 | Colossus: The Forbin Project '1970 | Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.1 | 90% | - | 6.9 | Joseph Sargent |
| 37 | The Out-of-Towners '1970 | Comedy | 7.1 | 63% | 72 | 6.8 | Arthur Hiller |
| 38 | The Grandmother '1970 | Animation / Horror | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | David Lynch |
| 39 | Brancaleone at the Crusades '1970 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.2 | Mario Monicelli |
| 40 | Wanda '1970 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 92% | - | 6.8 | Barbara Loden |
| 41 | A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) '1970 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.1 | - | - | 7.2 | Ettore Scola |
| 42 | The Honeymoon Killers '1970 | Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.0 | 95% | 82 | 6.5 | Leonard Kastle |
| 43 | Donkey Skin '1970 | Fantasy / Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.0 | 89% | 70 | 7.2 | Jacques Demy |
| 44 | Husbands '1970 | Comedy / Drama | 7.0 | 68% | 66 | 6.7 | John Cassavetes |
| 45 | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders '1970 | Fantasy / Drama | 7.0 | 81% | - | 7.0 | Jaromil Jireš |
| 46 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes '1970 | Mystery / Crime / Comedy | 7.0 | 87% | 75 | 6.8 | Billy Wilder |
| 47 | Two Mules for Sister Sara '1970 | Western | 7.0 | 71% | 62 | 7.0 | Don Siegel |
| 48 | Pippi in the South Seas '1970 | - | 6.9 | - | - | 6.9 | Olle Hellbom |
| 49 | Soldier Blue '1970 | Western / Drama | 6.9 | 38% | - | 6.8 | Ralph Nelson |
| 50 | Borsalino '1970 | Crime / Comedy / Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 6.9 | Jacques Deray |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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