Best 1970 Movies

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Best 1970 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1970 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

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#20. Hercules in New York

- Stacker score: 31.8
- IMDb user rating: 3.3 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 23
- Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
- Actors: Arnold Stang, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Deborah Loomis
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: N/A

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#19. Beneath the Planet of the Apes

- Stacker score: 60.2
- IMDb user rating: 6.0 (votes: 56,000)
- Metascore: 46
- Director: Ted Post
- Actors: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $18,999,718

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#18. Airport

- Stacker score: 61.4
- IMDb user rating: 6.6 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 42
- Director: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
- Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy
- Runtime: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $100,489,151

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#17. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

- Stacker score: 68.8
- IMDb user rating: 6.1 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 60
- Director: Russ Meyer
- Actors: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom
- Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
- Rating: NC-17
- Box office: N/A

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#16. Tora! Tora! Tora!

- Stacker score: 68.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 39,000)
- Metascore: 46
- Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
- Actors: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards
- Runtime: 2 hours 24 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: N/A

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#15. Rio Lobo

- Stacker score: 69.3
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 55
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: N/A

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#14. Kelly's Heroes

- Stacker score: 71.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 57,000)
- Metascore: 50
- Director: Brian G. Hutton
- Actors: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles
- Runtime: 2 hours 24 minutes
- Rating: GP
- Box office: $5,200,000

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#13. Two Mules for Sister Sara

- Stacker score: 75.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 33,000)
- Metascore: 62
- Director: Don Siegel
- Actors: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fábregas
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rating: GP
- Box office: $5,050,000

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#12. Scrooge

- Stacker score: 75.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 58
- Director: Ronald Neame
- Actors: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans
- Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $3,698,009

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#11. Performance

- Stacker score: 77.3
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 69
- Director: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
- Actors: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

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#10. The Aristocats

- Stacker score: 77.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 122,000)
- Metascore: 66
- Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
- Actors: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway
- Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $59,000,000

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#9. Little Big Man

- Stacker score: 78.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 39,000)
- Metascore: 63
- Director: Arthur Penn
- Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George
- Runtime: 2 hours 19 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $31,559,552

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#8. Catch-22

- Stacker score: 80.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Actors: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin
- Runtime: 2 hours 2 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

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#7. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

- Stacker score: 82.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Actors: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely
- Runtime: 2 hours 5 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: N/A

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#6. Love Story

- Stacker score: 86.9
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 39,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Arthur Hiller
- Actors: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $106,550,690

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#5. MAS*H

- Stacker score: 86.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 81,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Robert Altman
- Actors: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $81,600,000

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#4. Five Easy Pieces

- Stacker score: 90.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 43,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Bob Rafelson
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
- Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

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#3. Gimme Shelter

- Stacker score: 92.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
- Actors: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor
- Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
- Rating: GP
- Box office: $252,570

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#2. Patton

- Stacker score: 93.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 112,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
- Actors: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young
- Runtime: 2 hours 52 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $61,749,765

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#1. Woodstock

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Michael Wadleigh
- Actors: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey
- Runtime: 3 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $126,562

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