The 1970s were particularly fertile for all these unique ingredients. Police detectives, Westerns, horror based on classic plots and joyful melodramas were in vogue then. In these genres, too, there were excellent successes, but masterpieces of other themes began to appear as well.
List of films in the selection
The Godfather (1972)
Drama, Crime
A crime story-saga about the Sicilian Corleone Mafia family based on the famous novel by Mario Puzo. The action takes place in 1945-1955. The head of the family, Don Vito Corleone, is no longer young and is gradually giving up his position in the criminal world. He is not as influential as he used to be, which only benefits his rivals. Don Corleone is forced to pass all his business to his beloved son Michael, the pride of the family and a war hero, who at first is not eager to take the brutal family business into his own hands.
The Affair (1973)
Drama, Crime, Comedy
Young Johnny Hooker and his older partner Luther Coleman are two con man friends making their way through the streets of suburban Chicago. One day they steal from a courier working for a big mafioso, but they have no idea what they are mixed up in. The mobster could not forgive them, found them out and killed Coleman, and Johnnie managed to escape. Determined to avenge his partner’s death, Johnny goes to the experienced con man Henry Gondorff.
Chinatown (1974)
Thriller, Detective, Drama
Jake Gittes is a Los Angeles private investigator who makes his living by exposing family cheating. One day he is approached by a woman calling herself Evelyn Mulray, she suspects her husband of cheating. Mr. Mulray holds quite a high position in Los Angeles, he is an engineer in charge of the city’s water supply. Gittes confirms the woman’s suspicions and photographs her husband with his young mistress.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Drama
Criminal Randle McMurphy is transferred from his prison cell to a psychiatric clinic for evaluation, where he encounters cruel rules and does not understand why patients are treated this way. But Randle learns the horrible thing about the fact that he might be left in the clinic for a long time, so he decides to escape.
Cab Driver (1976)
Drama, Crime
Travis Bickle is only 26, and he already feels like an old man: lonely, dejected, and unwanted by anyone. His only activities are going to the movie theater to see porn movies and driving through the streets of New York at night. This whole city is steeped in sin. This becomes clearer to Travis every day. It all started with a businessman getting a ride from Bickle, jokingly talking about plotting to kill his wife. And then a young nymphet in love with her pimp.
Amarcord (1973)
Drama, Comedy
A captivating and elegant señorita dressed in red is an object of lust and wild admiration. The tavern hostess with lush breasts inhabits all the fantasies of teenage boys… Hormones from such forms overwhelm the minds of young boys. They dream of this beauty day and night. Family, friendship, and church are the unshakable foundations of a small town with sex and passion on the streets.
