Top 30 Sci Fi Movies of the 1970s

I was born in the summer of 1972, which is always a good time to have a birthday! With nothing to do where I grew up, my childhood evolved around reading marvel comics, riding my BMX and watching movies.
With this in mind I decided to put together a list of my favorite science fiction movies of the 70's in order.

1970

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Charlton Heston returns in this sequel to The Planet of The Apes. 

1970 wasn't the most productive year for science fiction films.

I remember this film being played on t.v continuously throughout my childhood on t.v during the 80's.. 

 

 No Blade of Grass

 Weird movie set in Scotland, about a crop virus.

Ahead of its time in many ways!

 

1971

Silent Running

 One of my favorite films of all time.

Bruce Dern at he's greatest, in this slow burning, claustrophobic space movie.

I always wanted one of those space buggies!

 

The Omega Man

 This time round, with have Charlton Heston running around   shooting plagued survivors of a holocaust.

I am Legend, was the recent remake of this film starring Will Smith.

Also has one of the most beautiful black actresses Rosalind Cash strutting around bra-less most of the time.

 

 The Andromeda Strain

Its easy for this film to slip below the radar, if you haven't seen it yet, watch it asap!

 Yep, this one creeped me out as a kid!

The film is about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting.

A Clockwork Orange

 

 If you haven't seen it, where have you been for the past 40 years!

 

 Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Charlton Heston appears for only a few flash-back scenes in the third installment of the eight films.

I liked this one the most as a kid, especially the ending!

                    

 

1972

Solaris

Why does Hollywood insist on remaking great films?

The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris.

Deeply engrossing! 

 THX 1138

Yep, back when George Lucas had talent, he came up with this little gem! He's first film.

In an underground city of the future, sexual intercourse is outlawed and use of mind-altering drugs is mandatory.

 

 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

They should have finished here, as this wraps it up nicely.

 

1973

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Well I had to put it in I guess?

Probably the worst of them all, but as a kid i still loved it!

 Soylent Green 

Heston said he had wanted to make the film for some time because he really believed in the dangers of overpopulation.

Charlton Heston once again is on good form.

Fantastic Planet

Check out this strange little film from France..

The Draags are an alien race which is humanoid in shape but a hundred times larger than humans, with blue skin, fan-like earlobes and huge, protruding red eyes. The Draags also live much longer than human beings – one Draag week equals a human year.

Westworld

My dad took me to the video shop when i was nine, let me pick a film, and this was the one I chose, because I liked this picture on the case. I watched the movie 4 times before we had to return it.

For $1,000 per day, guests may indulge in any fantasy, including killing or having sex with the androids.

 

1974

 Zardoz

The Exterminators worship the god Zardoz, a huge, flying, hollow stone head. Zardoz teaches:

The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was, but the gun shoots death, and purifies the Earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth ... and kill!

What more can I say!

 Dark Star

 John Carpenters strange sense of humor within a spaceship.

A few years later we had "Space Balls " from Mel Brookes..

 

1975

Death Race 2000

Frankenstein (David Carradine) is the most celebrated racer and is the government's champion. He is reputed to be part machine, rebuilt after many crashes. He regularly battles with the other teams, particularly "Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), who hates being second.

Great racing film, with lots of gore!

 Rollerball

After playing Santino in The Godfather, James Caan stars in Rollerball...

Great to see James Caan punching guy's on skates!

 

The Noah

Noah, the sole remaining survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to to accept his unique predicament.

Good film that deals with issues we face today.



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 1976

 Logan's Run

Jennie Agutter practically naked, running around in a flimsy green dress! What a movie!!

Sometime in the 23rd century...the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside.

Futureworld

Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following $1.5 billion in safety and other improvements.

Didn't do as well as Westworld at the box office but still worth watching.

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet seeking a way to bring water back to his home planet. Anthea, which is experiencing a terrible drought.

Great film..

1977

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Once seen you will never look at mashed potatoes the same again!

one of best si fi movies of all time.

 

 

 Damnation Alley

 Strange movie that had problems from begining to end!

Production was rife with problems - the devastated landscapes and giant mutated insects proved to be nearly impossible to create despite the large budget.

Star Wars

I must have been the only kid at five years old that never got to see Star Wars at the cinema. We went to watch "The Rescuers " instead. Thanks Mum & Dad!

 

 

 1978

Capricorn One

 To this day I still have nightmares of eating snakes!

I really love this film, and must have watched it a dozen times.

1979

Stalker

This is one of the greatest movies of the 70's, that may have also gone below the radar..

The Stalker works as a guide who leads people through  "the Zone  " — an otherwise mundane rural area scattered with ruined buildings, where normal laws of physics no longer apply.

Mad Max

Kids being killed, cops burnt to death, crazy bikers with bad hair! This movie has it all..

The best of the three.

Alien

Total masterpiece.

 

 

 The Black Hole

On its journey, the crew is alerted to the existence of a nearby Black Hole and find a derelict ship somehow defying the gravitational pull of the black hole. The ship is identified as the long-lost USS Cygnus, a ship McCrae's father served aboard when it was reported missing

 It may be dated, but I still like this film although I'm not sure why!

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

After 10 years the crew of the enterprise pull there waistlines in and venture back into the unknown.


This and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan were the best movies I reckon.

 Ravagers

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.

Cheers,


Lee