5 Best '70s Movies You've Never Seen

The 1970s was a bananas time for inventive, bold, and high-quality cinema. Even only a brief look at the decade's hits tells the story: Two Godfather movies, "Taxi Driver" (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), "Star Wars" (1977), "Alien" (1979), "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975), "The Exorcist" (1973) — on and on it goes. Each of these films, and too many more to list here, not only served as cultural touchstones of the time but also created the very bedrock of future films in their genres. But for every well-loved, often-cited film, plenty more are bound to fall by the wayside. Some of these films are best left alone, while others are truly excellent and deserve recognition.

In general, the '70s was a time of transition in Hollywood. It marked the death of mass