Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970

6.16

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.

1970

The Aristocats

The Aristocats 1970

7.29

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

1970

Rio Lobo

Rio Lobo 1970

6.40

After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

1970

Deep End

Deep End 1970

7.00

London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.

1970

Scrooge

Scrooge 1970

6.90

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

1970

Waterloo

Waterloo 1970

7.10

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

1970

Kelly's Heroes

Kelly's Heroes 1970

7.35

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

1970

The Party at Kitty and Stud's

The Party at Kitty and Stud's 1970

3.80

Kitty and Stud are lovers. They enjoy a robust sex-life, which includes fellatio and light S&M, specifically, Stud belt-whipping Kitty. Three women come over for a party and Stud services them, one after the other.

1970

Sunflower

Sunflower 1970

7.50

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

1970

Catch-22

Catch-22 1970

6.67

A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.

1970

They Call Me Trinity

They Call Me Trinity 1970

7.60

The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.

1970

Medea

Medea 1970

6.60

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

1970

Two Mules for Sister Sara

Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970

6.90

When 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 himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.

1970

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970

7.18

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

1970

Performance

Performance 1970

6.70

In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.

1970

Multiple Maniacs

Multiple Maniacs 1970

6.40

The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.

1970

Hercules in New York

Hercules in New York 1970

4.12

Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.

1970

The Things of Life

The Things of Life 1970

7.10

The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970

7.20

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

1970

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H 1970

6.96

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

1970

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime 1970

6.13

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

1970

Tomorrow's Joe

Tomorrow's Joe 1970

7.75

Joe Yabuki is a troubled youth, whose only solution to problems is throwing punches at them. What he lacks in manners and discipline, he makes up for with his self-taught fighting skills. One day, while wandering the slums of Doya, Joe gets into a fight with the local gang. Although greatly outnumbered, he effortlessly defeats them, drawing the attention of Danpei Tange—a former boxing coach turned alcoholic. Seeing his potential, he offers to train Joe into Japan's greatest boxer. At first, Joe dismisses Danpei as a hopeless drunk; but after the trainer saves his life, he agrees to live with him and learn the art of boxing. Unfortunately, Joe's personality makes him an unruly student, and he often falls back to his old ways. To survive the harsh world of his new career, Joe needs to trust his mentor and master the techniques taught to him. However, the road to becoming a professional boxer is rife with struggles that will test his mettle to the end.

1970

All My Children

All My Children 1970

6.30

All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network since April 29, 2013 via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont.

1970

Somerset

Somerset 1970

5.00

Somerset is an American television soap opera which ran on NBC from March 30, 1970 until December 31, 1976. The show was a spinoff of another NBC serial, Another World.

1970

World of Two

World of Two 1970

10.00

One night, Jiro and Reiko fell in love at first sight, and on the seventh day he proposed to her, and three months later they were married. However, the difference in upbringing between Jiro, who was born and raised in a farmhouse in Shinshu, and Reiko, who is a city girl by nature, sometimes causes small ripples in their sweet newlywed life.

1970

Play for Today

Play for Today 1970

5.90

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

1970

Mominoki wa Nokotta

Mominoki wa Nokotta 1970

1

Depicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the 4th Tokugawa shogun.

1970

Irmãos Coragem

Irmãos Coragem 1970

10.00

The fight for freedom and against oppression is the central theme of this soap opera that tells the story of the Coragem brothers: João, Jerônimo and Duda, in the city of Coroado.

1970

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple 1970

7.80

Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts.

1970

Night Gallery

Night Gallery 1970

7.80

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.

1970

McCloud

McCloud 1970

7.10

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.

1970

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1970

7.50

30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.

1970

The Goodies

The Goodies 1970

7.50

A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

1970

Niji

Niji 1970

1

Starring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All episodes are missing from the NHK archives, though a brief clip does survive as part of a contemporary news segment documenting the drama's production.

1970

UFO

UFO 1970

7.60

A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

1970

The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee

The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee 1970

7.00

Raised since his birth by his aunt, the little Hutchi will learn one day that he is actually the son of the queen of bees, who disappeared shortly before giving birth. The orphaned Prince then sets out to find his mother, wherever she is, and goes on an adventure. He will take notice of a hostile and dangerous environment and face many joys and sorrows, and face a thousand dangers while discovering the life around him.

1970

The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family 1970

6.70

The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career.

1970

Catweazle

Catweazle 1970

7.50

A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) Catweazle is transported to the modern age... A British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970. A second season in 1971 was directed by David Reid and David Lane. Both series had thirteen episodes each, with Geoffrey Bayldon playing the leading role. The series was broadcast in Ireland, Britain, Gibraltar, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua and Quebec. The first episode is available to view in full at the BFI Screenonline site.

1970