So, we've started another one... 
Was wondering which decade would be next. I was hoping for the 60s, but the 70s have some damn fine films as well. 
As usual, only the "creme de la creme" will be listed by me, (with 2 or 3 exceptions...), but as opinions differ, I'm sure you'll be surprised by some choices. The list will be updated regularly. 
"Possible Contenders" list also follows as usual. 

And boy, have I seen little from your list wpqx... Seems like I've missed a lot. 


1970 
El Topo The Mole (Alejandro Jodorowsky / Mexico) 
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson / USA) 
Iko shashvi mgalobeli Lived Once a Song-Thrush (Otar Iosseliani / Soviet Union) 
Pane, vy jste vdova! You Are a Widow, Sir (Václav Vorlícek / Czechoslovakia) 
Rote Sonne Red Sun (Rudolf Thome / West Germany) 
Tokyo senso sengo hiwa The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Oshima / Japan) 
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni / USA) 

1971 
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick / UK) 
Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk / France) 
Il Decameron The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini / Italy, France, West Germany) 
Morte a Venezia Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti / Italy) 
Rdece Klasje Red Wheat (Zivojin Pavlovic / Yugoslavia) 
San duk bei dao New One-Armed Swordsman (Cheh Chang / Hong Kong) 
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman / USA) 

1972 
Das Unheil Havoc (Peter Fleischmann / West Germany, France) 
Händler der vier Jahreszeiten The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder / West Germany) 
Joshuu 701-g: Sasori Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Shinya Ito / Japan) 
Snoopy Come Home (Bill Melendez / USA) 
Solyaris Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky / Soviet Union) 

1973 
Deux hommes dans la ville Two Men in Town (José Giovanni / France, Italy) 
Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shunya Ito / Japan) 
La maman et la putain The Mother and the !%%++ (Jean Eustache / France) 
Shurayukihime Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita / Japan) 
Yek Etefagh sadeh A simple event (Sohreb Shahid Saless / Iran) 
Ying chun ge zhi Fengbo The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu / Hong Kong, Taiwan) 

1974 
Chinatown (Roman Polanski / USA) 
Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle / France, West Germany, Italy) 
Les doigts dans la tte Touched in the Head (Jacques Doillon / France) 
Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache / France) 
Milano odia: la polizia non pu sparare Almost Human (Umberto Lenzi / Italy) 

1975 
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick / UK) 
Dzieje grzechu Story of a Sin (Walerian Borowczyk / Poland) 
La bête The Beast (Walerian Borowczyk / France) 
Malá morská víla The little Mermaid (Karel Kachyna / Czechoslovakia) 
Meikyu-tan (Shuji Terayama / Japan) 
Örökbefogadás Adoption (Márta Mészáros / Hungary) 
Professione: reporter The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni / Italy, France, USA, Spain) 
Profondo rosso Deep Red (Dario Argento / Italy) 
Zerkalo The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky / Soviet Union) 

1976 
1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci / Italy, France, West Germany) 
Cra cuervos Raise Ravens (Carlos Saura / Spain) 
L'innocente The Innocent (Luchino Visconti / Italy, France) 
Mad Dog Morgan (Philippe Mora / Australia) 
Sal o le 120 giornate di Sodoma Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini / Italy) 
The Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn / USA) 
Voskhozhdeniye Ascent (Larisa Shepitko / Soviet Union) 

1977 
Fingers (James Toback / USA) 
Issunbushi o kijutsu suru kokoromi (Shuji Terayama / Japan) 
Kage no eiga - nito onna (Shuji Terayama / Japan) 
Keshigomu (Shuji Terayama / Japan) 
Maldoror no uta (Shuji Terayama / Japan) 
Shoken-ki (Shuji Terayama / Japan) 
Suspiria (Dario Argento / Italy) 
The Rescuers (John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens / USA) 
Une sale histoire A Dirty Story (Jean Eustache / France) 
Zwischen zwei Kriegen Between two Wars (Harun Farocki / West Germany) 

1978 
Dawn of the Dead [Dario Argento's European Cut] (George A. Romero / USA, Italy) 
L`albero degli zoccoli The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi / Italy, France) 
Maternale Mother and Daughter (Giovanna Gagliardo / Italy) 

1979 
Alien (Ridley Scott / UK) 
Inferno (Dario Argento / Italy) 
La drôlesse The Hussy (Jacques Doillon / France) 
Mad Max (George Miller / Australia) 
Manhattan (Woody Allen / USA) 
Nacionalna klasa do 785 ccm National Class Category Up to 785 ccm (Goran Markovic / Yugoslavia) 
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky / Soviet Union) 



by country: 

Italy: 12 
Japan: 10 
USA: 10 
France: 9 
Soviet Union: 5 
West Germany: 4 
UK: 3 
Australia: 2 
Czechoslovakia: 2 
Hong Kong: 2 
Yugoslavia: 2 
Hungary: 1 
Iran: 1 
Mexico: 1 
Poland: 1 
Spain: 1 

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Total: 66 

*some of the more recent additions are Vaclav Vorlicek's delightful comedy of manners "Pane, vy jste vdova!" ( You Are a Widow, Sir / 1970), and Goan Markovic's bitter-sweet "Nacionalna klasa do 785 ccm" (National Class Category Up to 785 ccm / 1979), a laconic examnation of Yugoslav society and mentality at the end of the 70s. 
Before that, I included Nagisa Oshima's wonderful "The Man Who Left His Will on Film" (1970) as well as George Romero's fantastic Dawn of the Dead (1978) as edited by Dario Argento, which I recently re-watched at the cinema, and also Argento's elusive Inferno (1979). Another revelation was the screening of Shunya Ito's marvellous third Sasori film (1973) at our cinema. Pure Magic.