650 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1970s
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The Jerk
Mississippi Missouri The 1970sA rags to riches to rags story. — After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
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The Muppet Movie
California Florida Georgia New Mexico The 1970sMore entertaining than humanly possible — A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
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The Amityville Horror
New York The 1970sFor God's Sake, Get Out! — George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
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The Warriors
New York The 1970sThese are the armies of the night. — Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
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Meatballs
Ontario The 1970sWhen this lot go back to nature, nature runs for it's life. — Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
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Time After Time
California England The 1970s The 1890sH.G. Wells Races Through Time To Catch Jack The Ripper! — The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit?
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North Dallas Forty
Texas The 1970sWait till you see the weird part. — A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
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Elvis
Nevada The 1970s The 1950sThe King lives on! — This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
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Norma Rae
North Carolina The 1970sThe story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right. — Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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Wise Blood
Georgia The 1970sAn American Masterpiece! — A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
New York The 1970sA movie about people who do stuff that is not normal — Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.
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Running
Quebec The 1970sA story about having the courage to be what you are! — An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
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Halloween
Illinois The 1970s The 1960sThe night he came home! — Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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The Amazing Captain Nemo
District of Columbia California Atlantic Ocean The 1970sHis goal was Atlantis - but first he must conquer the menace of the depths! — Captain Nemo (José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in order to battle a fiendish mad scientist (Burgess Meredith).
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Superman
New York Nevada Kansas California The 1970sYou'll Believe a Man Can Fly! — Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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The Deer Hunter
Pennsylvania 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sOne of the most important and powerful films of all time! — A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
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The Boys from Brazil
Pennsylvania 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇾 Paraguay The 1970sIf they survive … will we? — Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Big Wednesday
California The 1970s The 1960sA day will come that is like no other... and nothing that happens after will ever be the same. — Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
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The Wiz
New York The 1970sFrom the book that's an American tradition… from the smash-hit Broadway show… the entertainment of the year! — Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home
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Same Time, Next Year
California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sThey couldn't have celebrated happier anniversaries if they were married to each other. — A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
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Good Guys Wear Black
California 🇫🇷 France The 1970sChuck Norris is John T. Booker and Booker is fighting back. — The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
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The Magic of Lassie
Colorado California The 1970sLassie is claimed from his family by a "former owner" and then braves a cross country trip to rejoin the ones that love her.
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A Real American Hero
Tennessee The 1970sWhen two boys are killed and two girls are blinded for life in a tragic accident, Buford Pusser, the town sheriff, is determined to get revenge. Though he must bend the law, Pusser is resolved to get the bootleg booze and dope king of the county who provided the poisoned moonshine that caused the accident. Based on a Real-Life Story (i.e. another version of Walking Tall (1973)).
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The Time Machine
Massachusetts California The 1970s The 1850s The 1870s The 17th CenturyA scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
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One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Michigan The 1970s The 1980sOne in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story was a 1978 made for TV movie telling the story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers. The movie was based on LeFlore's autobiography, Breakout: From Prison to the Big Leagues. It follows LeFlore from his heroin addiction, to his time in Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary, and tells of his discovery in prison by Billy Martin, who was then the manager of the Detroit Tigers. The role of Ron LeFlore was played by LeVar Burton. Larry B. Scott portrayed Ron LeFlore's younger brother. Former Detroit manager Billy Martin played himself, and former Tiger players Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, and Jim Northrup also appeared as themselves. The movie first aired on CBS Television on September 26, 1978.
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