I hope no one minds, but I'm having lots of fun revisiting all these movies and trying to rank them. This decade, however, is not very familiar to me, for whatever reason. My fault, so I'm sure some great film will have been left out of my list. So, again, top three each year highlighted, with the ranking to come:
Bed and Board (1970)
Dodes'ka-den (1970)
El Topo (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Joe (1970)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
MASH (1970)
Patton (1970)
The Conformist (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Mon oncle Antoine (1971)
Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Telephone Book (1971)
THX 1138 (1971)
Trafic (1971)
Walkabout (1971)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
Frenzy (1972)
Fritz the Cat (1972)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Solaris (1972)
Sounder (1972)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Ruling Class (1972)
Amarcord (1973)
Badlands (1973)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
Papillon (1973)
Soylent Green (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
The Sting (1973)
Turkish Delight (1973)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
Mame (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Keetje Tippel (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Nashville (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
1900 (1976)
All the President's Men (1976)
Black and White in Color (1976)
Family Plot (1976)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
King Kong (1976)
Network (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
The Omen (1976)
The Tenant (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Eraserhead (1977)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
The Duellists (1977)
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Coma (1978)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
Midnight Express (1978)
Superman (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Alien (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Caligula (1979)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Life of Brian (1979)
Love on the Run (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
Stalker (1979)
Tess (1979)
The China Syndrome (1979)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Time After Time (1979)