650 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1970s
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Evil Come Evil Go
Arizona California The 1970sHell Hath No Fury — A religious fanatic murders people who are engaging in sex.
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Hickey & Boggs
California The 1970sThey're Not Cool Slick Heroes. — Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
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Four More Years
Florida The 1970sThis witty and startlingly candid look at the 1972 Republican National Convention is a classic work of guerrilla television, and an alternative time capsule of an era of dramatic change in American politics, media, and culture.
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Stand Up and Be Counted
Colorado The 1970sFrom Adam's Rib to Women's Lib... baby, we've come a long long way! — Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
England Montana Arizona 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970sIt's Scrumdidilyumptious! — When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
California The 1970sMeet baby Milo who has Washington terrified. — The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
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The Andromeda Strain
New Mexico Utah The 1970sWhen virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents..
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The Omega Man
California The 1970sThe last man alive... is not alone! — Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
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Vanishing Point
Nevada Utah Colorado California The 1970sIt's the maximum trip... at maximum speed. — Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
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Billy Jack
Arizona The 1970sWhen you need him, he's always there! — Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.
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Punishment Park
California The 1970sOne of the most controversial films ever made. — In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.
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They Might Be Giants
New York The 1970sEvery hero has a weakness, and Sherlock Holmes' weakness was Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve mysteries and search for Moriarty in 1970s New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point.
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Carnal Knowledge
New York Massachusetts The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sIts time has come. — The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
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Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin'
New York The 1970sRichard Pryor: Live & Smokin' is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was filmed in 1971 but not released until 1985, on VHS. This was the first stand-up act that Pryor did before he hit the mainstream audience. With only 48 minutes of footage, it is the shortest of Pryor's stand-up routines.
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Some of My Best Friends Are...
New York The 1970sThey're cool, flip, witty and charming, talented, creative, intelligent and lonely. — It's Christmas Eve 1971 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and the regulars of the local gay bar "The Blue Jay" are celebrating. Not much has changed since Stonewall and its not all "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men" but the times are a changin.
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Little Big Man
Montana South Dakota Oklahoma The 1970s The 1850s The 1870s The 1860sEither the most neglected hero in history or a liar of insane proportion! — Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
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The Kremlin Letter
🇷🇺 Russia 🇫🇷 France 🇲🇽 Mexico California District of Columbia The 1970s The 1960sA network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China gets the atomic bomb.
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Deadlock
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1970sAfter pulling off a bank robbery two bandits meet in a deserted mining town to divide their loot but an old miner tries to steal it from them.
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Norwood
Texas The 1970sIts 'Goodtime Glen' and 'Super Joe'... doin' what they do best! — A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.
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Sign of Aquarius
Ohio The 1970sThey Lived For the Night and Tripped Till Dawn! — Taking place in the cold and hard winter of 1970 in the slums of Cleveland Ohio instead of the tranquil and pleasant 1967 Summer of Love in the Haight Asbury district of San Francisco. "Ghetto Freaks" is a film that tries to show it's viewers the life and philosophy of a hippie commune and how it, lead by their Guru Sonny, goes through life on the mean streets of a large northern industrial city. (IMDb)
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Seven Days in May
New York District of Columbia Texas 🇪🇸 Spain The 1970sThe astounding story of an astounding military plot to take over the United States! The time is 1970 or 1980 or, possibly, tomorrow! — A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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Project Moon Base
New Mexico California The Moon The 1970sThey found romance 100,000 miles from the earth! — In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.
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Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
New Jersey The 1970s The 1990sBased by the life of ISRO Scientist Nambi Narayanan who was falsely accused of being a spy and arrested in 1994. Though free, he is still fighting for justice, with those police officials alleged to have falsely implicated him, still free.
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Merrily We Roll Along
California New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sMerrily We Roll Along follows Franklin Shepard, a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career in New York and all his friends in order to produce movies in Los Angeles. The musical begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today.
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Monster Butler
Maine England The 1970sThe film is based on the true story of the serial-killing con man Roy Fontaine who worked as a butler and robbed and murdered numerous employers throughout England and Scotland.