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Best Romance Movies of the 1970s
#1 A Special Day (1977) · ★ 8.1 · 770 votes · 1h 46m · romance, dramaTwo neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.…
#2 Barry Lyndon (1975) · ★ 8.0 · 3,284 votes · 3h 8m · romance, drama, historyAn Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndo…
#3 A Woman Under the Influence (1974) · ★ 7.8 · 575 votes · 2h 35m · romance, dramaMabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happi…
#4 Annie Hall (1977) · ★ 7.7 · 4,336 votes · 1h 33m · comedy, romance, dramaNew York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.…
#5 Manhattan (1979) · ★ 7.7 · 2,680 votes · 1h 36m · comedy, romance, dramaManhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.…
#6 Fiddler on the Roof (1971) · ★ 7.7 · 670 votes · 3h 1m · romance, dramaIn a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.…
#7 Harold and Maude (1971) · ★ 7.6 · 1,241 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, romance, dramaA deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.…
#8 The Last Picture Show (1971) · ★ 7.6 · 806 votes · 1h 59m · romance, dramaHigh school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wif…
#9 Badlands (1973) · ★ 7.5 · 1,395 votes · 1h 34m · romance, drama, crimeAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.…
#10 Days of Heaven (1978) · ★ 7.5 · 1,215 votes · 1h 34m · romance, dramaIn 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a…
#11 Grease (1978) · ★ 7.4 · 7,822 votes · 1h 50m · comedy, romanceAustralian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle th…
#12 Cabaret (1972) · ★ 7.4 · 1,009 votes · 2h 4m · romance, drama, musicInside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows in…
#13 Play It Again, Sam (1972) · ★ 7.4 · 662 votes · 1h 25m · comedy, romanceA neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphre…
#14 Donkey Skin (1970) · ★ 7.2 · 569 votes · 1h 30m · comedy, fantasy, romanceA fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.…
#15 Death in Venice (1971) · ★ 7.2 · 557 votes · 2h 11m · romance, drama, historyComposer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying wit…
#16 Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) · ★ 7.0 · 709 votes · 1h 54m · adventure, romance, westernWhen a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himse…
#17 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) · ★ 7.0 · 558 votes · 1h 52m · comedy, romance, dramaAfter her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems for…
#18 The Way We Were (1973) · ★ 7.0 · 530 votes · 1h 58m · romance, dramaOpposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they…
#19 Last Tango in Paris (1972) · ★ 6.9 · 1,378 votes · 2h 9m · romance, dramaA recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.…
#20 Love Story (1970) · ★ 6.8 · 763 votes · 1h 40m · romance, dramaHarvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, t…
#21 In the Realm of the Senses (1976) · ★ 6.6 · 761 votes · 1h 42m · romance, dramaA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.…
#22 New York, New York (1977) · ★ 6.5 · 522 votes · 2h 43m · romance, drama, musicAn egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.…
#23 The Great Gatsby (1974) · ★ 6.3 · 528 votes · 2h 24m · romance, dramaNick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. H…
#24 Every Which Way but Loose (1978) · ★ 6.1 · 509 votes · 1h 50m · action, comedy, adventurePhilo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other…
#25 Emmanuelle (1974) · ★ 6.0 · 837 votes · 1h 35m · romance, dramaAn employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.…