the 10 Best - the films from the 1970s

my choices for the best films released between 1970 and 1979

(#5 in a series of 9 - best movies by decade)

note: this list could easily include another 10 pictures so my selections are a touch arbitrary; Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Long Goodbye, Alien and Philip Kaufman's "remake" of Invasion of the Body Snatchers are examples - I have included The Godfather and The Godfather Part II as a single entry partly for the aforementioned but also because both are sourced from the same novel with the novel's author co-scripting the screenplay with the director of both films