1970-1979

The Top 10 Films Stocked by Auteur House, 1970-1979

1970
 1.   Gimme Shelter (A & D Maysles & C Zwerin, USA)
 2.   Patton (Franklin J Schaffner, USA)
 3.   Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, USA)
 4.   Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
 5.   The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
 6.   M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, USA)
 7.    Tristana (Luis Bunuel, France)
 8.    Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, USA)
 9.    Ryan’s Daughter (David Lean, UK)
10.   Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh, USA)
1971
 1.    A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
 2.   The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
 3.   The French Connection (William Friedkin, USA)
 4.   Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, USA)
 5.   Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger, UK)
 6.   Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg, UK/Australia)
 7.   Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
 8.   Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle, France)
 9.   Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, USA)
10.  Two English Girls (Francois Truffaut, France)

1972
 1.  Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
 2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
 3.  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, France)
 4.  Cabaret (Bob Fosse, USA)
 5.  Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
 6.  Aguire, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
 7.  Deliverance (John Boorman, USA)
 8.  Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
 9.  Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
10. The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson, USA)

1973
 1. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, Italy)
 2. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, USA)
 3. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
 4. O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, UK)
 5.  Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
 6.  The Exorcist (William Friedkin, USA)
 7.   The Crazies (George A Romero, USA)
 8.   Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (R.W. Fassbinder, West Germany)
 9.   The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, USA)
10.  Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
 
1974
 1. The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
 2. Chinatown (Roman Polanksi, USA)
 3. Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle, France)
 4. Lenny (Bob Fosse, USA)
 5. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
 6.  Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
 7.   Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
 8.  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, W Germany)
 9.  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, USA)
10.  The Apprenticeship of Daddy Kravitz (TedKotcheff, Canada).
1975
 1.    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, USA)
 2.   Nashville (Robert Altman, USA)
 3.   The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
 4.   Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
 5.   Jaws (Steven Spielberg, USA)
 6.   The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, USA)
 7.   Barry Lyndon (Stanely Kubrick, USA)
 8.   Salo or 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Passolini, Italy)
 9.   Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, USA)
10.  Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, USSR)
1976
 1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, USA)
 2. Network (Sidney Lumet, USA)
 3. All the President’s Men (Alan J Pakula, USA)
 4. The Innocent (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
 5. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
 6. In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
 7. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicholas Roeg, USA)
 8. Rocky (John G Avildsen, USA)
 9. Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, USA)
10. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, USA)

1977
 1.  Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, USA)
 2.  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, USA)
 3.  Annie Hall (Woody Allen, USA)
 4.  Eraserhead (David Lynch, USA)
 5.  Three Women (Robert Altman, USA)
 6.  That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, France) 
 7.    Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy)
 8.    Martin (George A Romero, USA)
 9.    The American Friend (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
10.   Opening Night (John Cassavetes, USA)

1978
 1.   Days of Heaven (Terence Malick, USA)
 2.   The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
 3.    The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
 4.    The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, USA)
 5.    Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
 6.    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Phil Kaufman, USA)
 7.    The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, USA)
 8.   In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West   Germany)
 9.    Fingers (James Toback, USA)
10.  Superman: The Movie (Richard Donner, USA)

1979
 1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
 2. The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff, West Germany)
 3. Dawn of the Dead (George A Romero, USA)
 4. Manhattan (Woody Allen, USA)
 5. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, Australia)
 6. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
 7. The Life of Brian (Terry Jones, UK)
 8. Tess (Roman Polanski, France)
 9. Nosferatu: The Vampyre (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
10. Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, UK)