Movies Set in the 1970s

Kinora's catalogue lists 61 films set in the 1970s, spanning 1970–2024. 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
• 1974

  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

  Phoenix · Tucson — 1970s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1976

  All the President's Men

  Washington, D.C. — 1970s
  Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula
• 2000

  Almost Famous

  San Diego · San Francisco · New York City — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Cameron Crowe
• 1977

  Annie Hall

  New York City · Los Angeles — 1970s
  Urbandir. Woody Allen
• 1995

  Apollo 13

  Houston · Space — 1970s
  Off Worlddir. Ron Howard
• 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
  Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Lars von Trier
• 2005

  Brokeback Mountain

  Wyoming — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Mountaindir. Ang Lee
• 2005

  C.R.A.Z.Y.

  Quebec — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée
• 1995

  Casino

  Las Vegas — 1970s · 1980s
  Desert · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 2002

  City of God

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

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  Indiana · Wyoming — 1970s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Steven Spielberg
• 1980

  Coal Miner's Daughter

  Kentucky · Nashville · Los Angeles — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Michael Apted
• 1993

  Dazed and Confused

  1970s
  Suburbandir. Richard Linklater
• 1972

  Deliverance

  Georgia — 1970s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. John Boorman
• 1975

  Dog Day Afternoon

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Sidney Lumet
• 1995

  Dolores Claiborne

  Maine — 1990s · 1970s
  Island · Ruraldir. Taylor Hackford
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

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

  Five Easy Pieces

  Los Angeles · Washington (state) — 1970s
  Rural · Island · Coastal Seadir. Bob Rafelson
• 1994

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · Vietnam · Washington, D.C. · New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis
• 2012

  Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

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

  GoodFellas

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

  Halloween

  1970s
  Suburbandir. John Carpenter
• 2010

  Incendies

  2000s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve
• 1975

  Jaws

  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

  Los Angeles — 1970s
  Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 2012

  Life of Pi

  1970s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ang Lee
• 1979

  Manhattan

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

  Mean Streets

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

  Nashville

  Nashville — 1970s
  Urbandir. Robert Altman
• 1976

  Network

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Sidney Lumet
• 2007

  Persepolis

  Tehran · Paris · Vienna — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Vincent Paronnaud
• 1999

  Ratcatcher

  Glasgow — 1970s
  Urbandir. Lynne Ramsay
• 1976

  Rocky

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

  Roma

  Mexico City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón
• 2012

  Searching for Sugar Man

  Cape Town · Detroit — 1970s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Malik Bendjelloul
• 1975

  Sholay

  1970s
  Ruraldir. Ramesh Sippy
• 1983

  Silkwood

  Oklahoma — 1970s
  Ruraldir. Mike Nichols
• 1977

  Sorcerer

  Jerusalem · Paris · New York City · Veracruz — 1970s
  Wilderness · Urban · Mountaindir. William Friedkin
• 1977

  Suspiria

  Berlin — 1970s
  Urbandir. Dario Argento
• 1976

  Taxi Driver

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 2024

  The Bikeriders

  Chicago — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Jeff Nichols
• 1974

  The Conversation

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

  The Deer Hunter

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

  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

  1970s
  Urbandir. Luis Buñuel
• 1973

  The Exorcist

  Washington, D.C. — 1970s
  Urbandir. William Friedkin
• 1971

  The French Connection

  New York City · Marseille — 1970s
  Urbandir. William Friedkin
• 1977

  The Gauntlet

  Las Vegas · Phoenix — 1970s
  Urban · Desertdir. Clint Eastwood
• 2019

  The Irishman

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

  The Long Good Friday

  London — 1970s
  Urbandir. John Mackenzie
• 2009

  The Secret in Their Eyes

  Buenos Aires — 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Juan José Campanella
• 1975

  The Stepford Wives

  Connecticut — 1970s
  Suburbandir. Bryan Forbes
• 1973

  The Wicker Man

  Scotland — 1970s
  Island · Ruraldir. Robin Hardy
• 1971

  Wake in Fright

  Australia — 1970s
  Desert · Ruraldir. Ted Kotcheff
• 1971

  Walkabout

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

  Xala

  Dakar — 1970s
  Urbandir. Ousmane Sembène
• 2007

  Zodiac

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. David Fincher