Best Movies of 1970
Our running list of the year's highest-rated releases, refreshed as new films arrive.

7.3
The Aristocats
1970

7.0
M*A*S*H
1970

7.6
They Call Me Trinity
1970

6.8
Love Story
1970

3.9
The Party at Kitty and Stud's
1970

7.6
A Touch of Zen
1970

7.4
Kelly's Heroes
1970

7.0
Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970

6.5
Airport
1970

6.1
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970

7.5
Sunflower
1970

7.5
Patton
1970

7.1
Dodes'ka-den
1970

7.2
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970

6.7
Catch-22
1970

6.7
Chisum
1970

5.8
Cleopatra: Queen of Sex
1970

6.5
Rio Lobo
1970

5.4
The School Girls
1970

4.9
Eugenie
1970

7.1
El Topo
1970

7.6
Le Cercle Rouge
1970

6.8
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
1970

6.1
Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970

6.4
Space Amoeba
1970

6.1
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970

6.6
The Heroic Ones
1970

6.4
The Vampire Lovers
1970

6.2
The Chinese Boxer
1970

7.2
Donkey Skin
1970

6.8
Soldier Blue
1970

7.0
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970

6.9
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
1970

6.8
Scrooge
1970

7.4
Little Big Man
1970

7.1
Waterloo
1970

7.1
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970

6.3
Hi, Mom!
1970

7.4
Kes
1970

6.8
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1970

7.0
Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970

6.0
Scars of Dracula
1970

7.1
Five Easy Pieces
1970

7.1
Ryan's Daughter
1970

8.2
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970

7.0
The Boys in the Band
1970

6.8
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970

7.4
The Confession
1970

6.4
Wuthering Heights
1970

6.9
The Vampire Doll
1970

4.1
Hercules in New York
1970

7.4
This Transient Life
1970

7.5
Woodstock
1970

4.5
Myra Breckinridge
1970

7.1
The Butcher
1970

7.4
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
1970

5.8
Five Dolls for an August Moon
1970

6.4
Joe
1970

7.2
Tristana
1970

6.9
Borsalino
1970