Possible candidates for the list, which I need to see again: 

Little Big Man (Arthur Penn / USA / 1970) 
Strategia del ragno The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Betrolucci / Italy / 1970) 

Bananas (Woody Allen / USA / 1971) 

The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah / USA / 1972) 

Contes immoraux Immoral Tales (Walerian Borowczyk / France / 1974) 
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola / USA / 1974) 

Love and Death (Woody Allen / USA / 1975) 
Montana Sacra The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky / Mexico, USA) 
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman / USA / 1975) 
Pastorali Pastorale (Otar Iosseliani / Soviet Union / 1975) 
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese / USA / 1975) 

Barocco (André Téchiné / France / 1976) 
Spokoj The Calm (Krzysztof Kieslowski / Poland / 1976) 

Eraserhead (David Lynch / USA / 1977) 
One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning / USA, Canada / 1977) 
Star Wars (George Lucas / USA / 1977) 

Die Ehe der Maria Braun The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder / West Germany) 
Halloween (John Carpenter / USA / 1978) 
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman / USA / 1978) 
Watership Down (Martin Rosen / UK, Canada / 1978) 

Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola / USA / 1979)