A list of American films released in 1970.
Patton won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre/Note |
|
| Adam at Six A.M. |
Robert Scheerer |
Michael Douglas, Lee Purcell, Joe Don Baker, Louise Latham |
Drama |
|
| Airport |
George Seaton |
Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton |
Disaster film |
|
| Alex in Wonderland |
Paul Mazursky |
Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn, Federico Fellini |
Comedy-drama |
|
| The Ballad of Cable Hogue |
Sam Peckinpah |
Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner |
Western |
|
| Bigfoot |
Robert F. Slatzer |
John Carradine |
Horror |
|
| Beneath the Planet of the Apes |
Ted Post |
James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison |
Science Fiction |
|
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls |
Russ Meyer |
John Lazar, Dolly Read, Edy Williams |
Sex comedy |
Roger Ebert script |
| The Boatniks |
Norman Tokar |
Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers, Norman Fell |
Comedy |
|
| The Boys in the Band |
William Friedkin |
Kenneth Nelson, Cliff Gorman |
Comedy, Drama |
|
| Brewster McCloud |
Robert Altman |
Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman |
Fantasy, Comedy |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Cannon for Cordoba |
Paul Wendkos |
George Peppard, Raf Vallone |
Western |
|
| Catch-22 |
Mike Nichols |
Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Bob Newhart, Orson Welles, Buck Henry, Martin Sheen, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Charles Grodin |
Comedy |
|
| Cherry, Harry & Raquel! |
Russ Meyer |
Larissa Ely, Linda Ashton, Uschi Digard |
Drama |
|
| The Cheyenne Social Club |
Gene Kelly |
James Stewart, Henry Fonda |
Western |
|
| The Christine Jorgensen Story |
Irving Rapper |
John Hansen |
Biopic |
|
| Cold Sweat |
Terence Young |
Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason |
Thriller |
|
| Colossus: The Forbin Project |
Joseph Sargent |
Susan Clark, Eric Braeden |
Sci-Fi |
|
| Cotton Comes to Harlem |
Ossie Davis |
Redd Foxx, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques |
Comedy |
|
| Count Yorga, Vampire |
Bob Kelljan |
Michael Murphy |
Horror |
|
| Darling Lili |
Blake Edwards |
Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson |
Musical |
|
| A Day at the Beach |
Simon Hesera |
Lily Bacberg, Peter Sellers |
Comedy |
|
| Diary of a Mad Housewife |
Frank Perry |
Carrie Snodgress, Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella |
Drama |
|
| The Dunwich Horror |
Daniel Heller |
Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell |
Horror |
|
| Elvis: That's the Way It Is |
Denis Sanders |
Elvis Presley |
Documentary |
|
| Equinox |
Jack Woods |
Frank Bonner |
Horror |
|
| Five Easy Pieces |
Bob Rafelson |
Jack Nicholson, Susan Anspach, Karen Black |
Drama |
|
| Flesh Feast |
Brad F. Grinter |
Veronica Lake |
Horror |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Getting Straight |
Richard Rush |
Elliot Gould, Candice Bergen |
Comedy |
|
| Gimme Shelter |
Albert and David Maysles |
The Rolling Stones |
Documentary |
|
| The Great White Hope |
Martin Ritt |
James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander |
Biopic |
|
| The Hawaiians |
Tom Gries |
Charlton Heston |
Drama |
|
| Hell's Belles |
Maury Dexter |
Angelique Pettyjohn, Jocelyn Lane |
Action, Biker |
|
| Hercules in New York |
Arthur Allan Seidelman |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang |
Comedy |
|
| Hi, Mom! |
Brian DePalma |
Robert DeNiro, Allen Garfield |
Comedy |
|
| The Honeymoon Killers |
Leonard Kastle |
Shirley Stoler, Tony LoBianco |
Crime, Drama |
|
| House of Dark Shadows |
Dan Curtis |
Jonathan Frid |
Horror |
|
| Husbands |
John Cassavetes |
Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara |
Drama |
|
| I Drink Your Blood |
David E. Durston |
Jadine Wong |
Horror |
|
| I Never Sang for My Father |
Gilbert Cates |
Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman |
Drama |
|
| I Walk the Line |
John Frankenheimer |
Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld |
Drama |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Jenny |
George Bloomfield |
Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda |
Drama |
|
| Joe |
John G. Avildsen |
Peter Boyle |
Drama |
|
| Kelly's Heroes |
Brian G. Hutton |
Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles |
War, Action |
|
| King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis |
Sidney Lumet |
Paul Newman, James Earl Jones |
Documentary |
|
| The Kremlin Letter |
John Huston |
Richard Boone, Max von Sydow |
Thriller |
|
| The Landlord |
Hal Ashby |
Louis Gossett Jr., Lee Grant |
Comedy |
|
| The Liberation of L.B. Jones |
William Wyler |
Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lola Falana |
Drama |
|
| Little Big Man |
Arthur Penn |
Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway |
Western, Comedy |
|
| Little Fauss and Big Halsy |
Sidney J. Furie |
Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard |
Drama |
|
| Love Story |
Arthur Hiller |
Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw, John Marley, Ray Milland |
Drama, Romance |
|
| Lovers and Other Strangers |
Cy Howard |
Bea Arthur, Cloris Leachman, Vincent Gardenia |
Comedy |
|
| Loving |
Irvin Kershner |
George Segal, Eva Marie Saint |
Drama |
|
| M*A*S*H |
Robert Altman |
Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman |
Comedy, War |
|
| A Man Called Horse |
Elliot Silverstein |
Richard Harris |
Western |
|
| The Molly Maguires |
Martin Ritt |
Sean Connery, Richard Harris |
Drama |
|
| Myra Breckinridge |
Michael Sarne |
Raquel Welch, Mae West, John Huston |
Sex comedy |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Nam's Angels |
Jack Starrett |
Paul Koslo |
War, Biker |
|
| Norwood |
Jack Haley Jr. |
Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath |
Comedy |
|
| On A Clear Day You Can See Forever |
Vincente Minnelli |
Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Jack Nicholson |
Musical |
|
| One More Time |
Jerry Lewis |
Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford |
Comedy |
|
| The Only Game in Town |
George Stevens |
Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty |
Drama |
|
| The Out-of-Towners |
Arthur Hiller |
Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis |
Comedy |
|
| The Owl and the Pussycat |
Herbert Ross |
Barbra Streisand, George Segal |
Comedy |
|
| Party at Kitty and Stud's |
Morton Lewis |
Sylvester Stallone |
Adult |
|
| Patton |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
George C. Scott, Karl Malden |
War, Biopic |
|
| The Phynx |
Lee H. Katzin |
Joan Blondell, Ultra Violet |
Comedy |
|
| The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
Billy Wilder |
Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Christopher Lee |
Mystery |
|
| QB VII |
Tom Gries |
Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, Leslie Caron, Juliet Mills |
Drama |
TV |
| The Rebel Rousers |
Martin B. Cohen |
Cameron Mitchell, Jack Nicholson |
Biker |
|
| Satan's Harvest |
George Montgomery |
Tippi Hedren, George Montgomery |
Action |
|
| Soldier Blue |
Ralph Nelson |
Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss |
Western |
|
| Start the Revolution Without Me |
Bud Yorkin |
Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland |
Comedy |
|
| The Strawberry Statement |
Stuart Hagmann |
Bruce Davison |
Drama |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon |
Otto Preminger |
Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard |
Comedy, Drama |
|
| The Adventurers |
Lewis Gilbert |
Candice Bergen, Bekim Fehmiu, Charles Aznavour |
Drama |
|
| There Was a Crooked Man... |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda |
Western, Comedy |
|
| They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! |
Gordon Douglas |
Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair |
Drama |
|
| ...tick...tick...tick... |
Ralph Nelson |
Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March |
Action, Drama |
|
| Tora! Tora! Tora! |
Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku |
Jason Robards, So Yamamura, E.G. Marshall |
War, Drama |
|
| Trash |
Paul Morrissey |
Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn |
Drama |
|
| Trog |
Freddie Francis |
Joan Crawford |
Horror |
|
| The Twelve Chairs |
Mel Brooks |
Frank Langella, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise |
Comedy |
|
| Two Mules for Sister Sara |
Don Siegel |
Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine |
Western |
|
| WUSA |
Stuart Rosenberg |
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins |
Drama |
|
| Walk in the Spring Rain |
Guy Green |
Ingrid Bergman |
Drama, Romance |
|
| Walk the Walk |
Jac Zacha |
Bernie Hamilton |
Drama |
|
| Watermelon Man |
Melvin Van Peebles |
Godfrey Cambridge, D'Urville Martin |
Comedy |
|
| What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? |
Allen Funt |
Richard Roundtree |
Comedy |
|
| Where's Poppa? |
Carl Reiner |
George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman |
Comedy |
|
| Which Way to the Front? |
Jerry Lewis |
Jerry Lewis, Jan Murray |
Comedy |
|
| The Wild Scene |
William Rowland |
John Craven |
Drama |
|
| The Wizard of Gore |
Herschell Gordon Lewis |
Ray Sager |
Horror |
|
| Woodstock |
Michael Wadleigh |
Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Sly and the Family Stone |
Documentary |
|
| Zabriskie Point |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
Daria Halprin, G.D. Spradlin, Rod Taylor |
Drama |
|
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