Movies Set in the 1970s

Kinora's catalogue lists 48 films set in the 1970s, spanning 1970–2021. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 1974

  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

  Munich — 1970s
  Urbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 1976

  All the President's Men

  Washington DC — 1970s
  Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula
• 1977

  Annie Hall

  New York City · Los Angeles — 1970s
  Urbandir. Woody Allen
• 2018

  BlacKkKlansman

  Colorado Springs — 1970s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 1997

  Boogie Nights

  Los Angeles — 1970s · 1980s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 1996

  Breaking the Waves

  Scotland — 1970s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Lars von Trier
• 2005

  Brokeback Mountain

  Wyoming · Texas — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
  Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ang Lee
• 1995

  Casino

  Las Vegas · Los Angeles — 1970s · 1980s
  Urban · Desertdir. Martin Scorsese
• 2002

  Catch Me If You Can

  New York City · France · Miami — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2002

  City of God

  Rio de Janeiro — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles
• 1977

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  Indiana · Wyoming — 1970s
  Rural · Wilderness · Desertdir. Steven Spielberg
• 1993

  Dazed and Confused

  Texas — 1970s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Richard Linklater
• 1975

  Dog Day Afternoon

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Sidney Lumet
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

  Beijing — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Chen Kaige
• 1970

  Five Easy Pieces

  Los Angeles · Washington State — 1960s · 1970s
  Rural · Coastal Sea · Urban · Islanddir. Bob Rafelson
• 1994

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · New York City · Washington DC — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis
• 2012

  Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

  Dhanbad — 1940s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Anurag Kashyap
• 1990

  GoodFellas

  New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1978

  Halloween

  Haddonfield — 1960s · 1970s
  Suburbandir. John Carpenter
• 1975

  Jaws

  New York City — 1970s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Steven Spielberg
• 1976

  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

  Brussels — 1970s
  Urbandir. Chantal Akerman
• 1971

  Klute

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula
• 2021

  Licorice Pizza

  San Fernando Valley — 1970s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 2012

  Life of Pi

  Montreal · Pacific Ocean — 1970s · 2000s
  Coastal Sea · Island · Urbandir. Ang Lee
• 1979

  Manhattan

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Woody Allen
• 1973

  Mean Streets

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1975

  Mirror

  Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s · 1970s
  Rural · Urbandir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 2003

  Mystic River

  Boston — 1970s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Clint Eastwood
• 1975

  Nashville

  Nashville — 1970s
  Urbandir. Robert Altman
• 1976

  Network

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Sidney Lumet
• 1980

  Pixote

  Brazil — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Héctor Babenco
• 1976

  Rocky

  Philadelphia — 1970s
  Urbandir. John G. Avildsen
• 2018

  Roma

  Mexico City — 1970s
  Urban · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfonso Cuarón
• 1975

  Sholay

  India — 1970s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Ramesh Sippy
• 1977

  Suspiria

  West Berlin — 1970s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Dario Argento
• 1976

  Taxi Driver

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1974

  The Conversation

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 1978

  The Deer Hunter

  Saigon — 1960s · 1970s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Michael Cimino
• 1972

  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

  France — 1970s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel
• 1973

  The Exorcist

  Washington, D.C. · New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. William Friedkin
• 1971

  The French Connection

  New York City · Marseille — 1970s
  Urbandir. William Friedkin
• 2019

  The Irishman

  Philadelphia · Chicago · Detroit — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1980

  The Long Good Friday

  London · Belfast — 1970s
  Urbandir. John Mackenzie
• 2001

  The Royal Tenenbaums

  New York City — 1970s · 1990s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Wes Anderson
• 1973

  The Wicker Man

  Scotland — 1970s
  Island · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Robin Hardy
• 1971

  Walkabout

  Australia — 1960s · 1970s
  Wilderness · Desert · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg
• 1975

  Xala

  Senegal — 1970s
  Urbandir. Ousmane Sembène
• 2007

  Zodiac

  San Francisco · California — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urban · Ruraldir. David Fincher