Best of 1970s

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet, but something happens that changes her safe routine.

Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.

Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan.

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.

Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

An homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater.

While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover the pleasures of life as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.

After the death of a common friend, three married men leave their lives together, seeking pleasure and freedom and ultimately leaving for London.

A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with an ex-SS officer working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel, but his former associates begin stalking them.

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Surreal dream-like tale that combines several themes into one fantastical world.

A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.

A museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant.

A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.

A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.