1970 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans | | |
Colossus: The Forbin Project | Joseph Sargent | Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent | | Thriller[nb 1] |
Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty | | |
Gamera vs. Jiger | Noriaki Yuasa | Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy | | Kaiju |
Gas-s-s-s | Roger Corman | Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, Bud Cort | | |
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen | Oldřich Lipský | Jiří Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský | | Comedy |
The Mind of Mr. Soames | Alan Cooke | Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport | | |
No Blade of Grass | Cornel Wilde | Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill | | |
On the Comet | Karel Zeman | Emil Horváth, Magda Vášáryová, František Filipovský | | |
Scream and Scream Again | Gordon Hessler | Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | | |
Skullduggery | Gordon Douglas | Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel | | |
Space Amoeba | Ishirō Honda | Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi | | Alternate title: Yog, Monster from Space |
Toomorrow | Val Guest | Olivia Newton-John, Benny Thomas, Vic Cooper | | Musical |
1971 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
The Andromeda Strain | Robert Wise | James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne | | |
Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor | Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman | | |
Gamera vs. Zigra | Noriaki Yuasa | Koji Fujiyama, Daigo Inoue, Reiko Kasahara | | Kaiju |
Glen and Randa | Jim McBride | Steven Curry, Shelley Plimpton, Woody Chambliss | | Post-apocalyptic |
Godzilla vs. Hedorah | Yoshimitsu Banno | Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase | | Kaiju |
Haytabo | Ulli Lommel | Eddie Constantine, Katrin Schaake, Uschi Obermaier | | [2] |
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant | Anthony Lanza | Bruce Dern, Patricia Ann Priest, Casey Kasem | | Horror |
The Million Dollar Duck | Vincent McEveety | Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn | | Comedy |
The Omega Man | Boris Sagal | Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash | | |
Out of the Darkness | Chatrichalerm Yukol | Sorapong Chatree | | |
Quest for Love | Ralph Thomas | Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott | | |
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler | Bob Wynn | Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, James Daly | | |
THX 1138 | George Lucas | Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley | | |
You Are a Widow, Sir | Václav Vorlíček | Iva Janžurová, Olga Schoberová, Eduard Cupák | | Comedy |
1972 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
Beware! The Blob | Larry Hagman | Robert Walker, Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl | | |
The Boy Who Turned Yellow | Michael Powell | Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir | | |
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson | Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban | | |
Doomsday Machine | Herbert J. Leder | Bobby Van, Ruta Lee, Mala Powers | | Video title: Escape from Planet Earth |
Doomwatch | Peter Sasdy | Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul | | Based on the BBC television series |
Eolomea | Herrmann Zschoche | Cox Habbema, Ivan Andonov, Rolf Hoppe | | |
Godzilla vs. Gigan | Jun Fukuda | Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima | | Kaiju |
The Happiness Cage | Bernard Girard | Christopher Walken, Joss Ackland, Ralph Meeker | | |
Horror Express | Eugenio Martin | Telly Savalas, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | | Horror |
Night of the Lepus | William F. Claxton | Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun | | Horror |
Now You See Him, Now You Don't | Robert Butler | Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn | | Comedy |
Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull | Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin | | |
Slaughterhouse Five | George Roy Hill | Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche | | [nb 2] |
Solaris | Andrey Tarkovskiy | Natal'ya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet | | [nb 3] |
The Thing with Two Heads | Lee Frost | Rosey Grier, Ray Milland, Don Marshall | | |
The Twilight People | Eddie Romero | Pam Grier, John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin | | Horror |
Z.P.G. | Michael Campus | Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon | | |
1973 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
Battle for the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson | Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy | | |
Beyond Atlantis | Eddie Romero | Patrick Wayne, John Ashley, Leigh Christian | | Horror |
The Crazies | George A. Romero | Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones | | |
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World | Joseph McGrath | Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Angela Douglas | | |
The Day of the Dolphin | Mike Nichols | George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino | | Thriller |
Fantastic Planet | René Laloux | Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart | | Animated film |
The Final Programme | Robert Fuest | Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Sterling Hayden | | |
Godzilla vs. Megalon | Jun Fukuda | Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi | | Kaiju |
Idaho Transfer | Peter Fonda | Kelly Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Caroline Hildebrand | | |
Invasion of the Bee Girls | Denis Sanders | William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri | | |
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future | Leonid Gayday | Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko | | Comedy |
The Neptune Factor | Daniel Petrie | Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine | | |
Nihon Chinbotsu | Shiro Moritani | Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka, Ayumi Ishida | | Disaster |
Sleeper | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck | | [nb 4] |
Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer | Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young | | [nb 5] |
Westworld | Michael Crichton | Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin | | |
1974 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
And Now My Love | Claude Lelouch | Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner | | |
Chosen Survivors | Sutton Roley | Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel | | Horror |
Dark Star | John Carpenter | Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle | | Comedy[nb 6] |
ESPY | Jun Fukuda | Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaoru Yumi, Masao Kusakari | | |
Flesh Gordon | Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm | Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins | | |
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla | Jun Fukuda | Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima | | Kaiju |
Invasion from Inner Earth | Bill Rebane | Paul Bentzen, Debbi Pick, Nick Holt | | Apocalyptic |
The Island at the Top of the World | Robert Stevenson | David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin | | |
The Little Prince | Stanley Donen | Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland | | Fantasy musical |
Morel's Invention | Emidio Greco | Giulio Brogi, Anna Karina, John Steiner | | |
Moscow-Cassiopeia | Richard Viktorov | Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Vasiliy Merkur'yev, Lev Durov | | |
The Mutations | Jack Cardiff | Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris | | Horror |
Phase IV | Saul Bass | Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick | | Horror |
Prophecies of Nostradamus | Toshio Masuda | Tetsuro Tamba, Toshio Kurosawa, Kaoru Yumi | | Disaster |
Space Is the Place | John Coney | Barbara Deloney, Sun Ra, Raymond Johnson | | Afrofuturist |
The Terminal Man | Mike Hodges | George Segal. Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart | | |
UFO: Target Earth | Michael A. DeGaetano | Nick Plakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light | | |
Zardoz | John Boorman | Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman | | Fantasy |
1975 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
A Boy and His Dog | L.Q. Jones | Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton | | [nb 7] |
Black Moon | Louis Malle | Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart | | Avant-garde |
Bug | Jeannot Szwarc | Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland | | Horror |
Death Race 2000 | Paul Bartel | David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth | | |
Escape to Witch Mountain | John Hough | Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence | | |
Footprints on the Moon | Luigi Bazzoni | Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Nicoletta Elmi | | Horror |
The Giant Spider Invasion | Bill Rebane | Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Robert Easton | | |
Hu-Man | Jérôme Laperrousaz | Terence Stamp, Jeanne Moreau, Agnès Stevenin | | |
The Land That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon | | Fantasy adventure |
The Noah | Daniel Bourla | Robert Strauss, Geoffrey Holder, Sally Kirkland | | Post-apocalyptic |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Jim Sharman | Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick | | Musical comedy horror |
Rollerball | Norman Jewison | James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams | | Dystopian sports action[nb 8] |
Shivers | David Cronenberg | Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry | | Horror |
The Stepford Wives | Bryan Forbes | Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson | | Horror thriller |
The Strongest Man in the World | Vincent McEveety | Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden | | Comedy |
The Super Inframan | Hua-Shan | Danny Lee, Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang | | Superhero |
Teens in the Universe | Richard Viktorov | Mikhail Yershov, Aleksandr Grigor'yev, Vladimir Savin | | |
Terror of Mechagodzilla | Ishirō Honda | Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata | | Kaiju |
The Ultimate Warrior | Robert Clouse | Yul Brynner, Max von Sydow, Joanna Miles | | Action adventure |
1976 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
Any Day Now | Roeland Kerbosch | Ansje van Brandenberg, Huib Broos, Ton van Duinhoven | | |
At the Earth's Core | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro | | Fantasy |
Embryo | Ralph Nelson | Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd | | Horror |
The Food of the Gods | Bert I. Gordon | Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker | | |
Futureworld | Richard T. Heffron | Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill | | |
God Told Me To | Larry Cohen | Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis | | Horror |
In the Dust of the Stars | Gottfried Kolditz | Jana Brejchová, Alfred Struwe, Ekkehard Schall | | |
Logan's Run | Michael Anderson | Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan | | [nb 9] |
The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg | David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark | | [nb 10] |
The Rat Savior | Krsto Papić | Ivica Vidović, Mirjana Majurec, Relja Bašić | | Horror |
1977 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
Capricorn One | Peter Hyams | Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro | | |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr | | [nb 11] |
Cosmos: War of the Planets | Alfonso Brescia | John Richardson, Yanti Somer, West Buchanan | | |
Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda | | Post-apocalyptic |
Demon Seed | Donald Cammell | Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham | | Horror |
Empire of the Ants | Bert I. Gordon | Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson | | Horror |
End of the World | John Hayes | Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott | | |
The Glitterball | Harley Cockliss | Ben Buckton, Keith Jayne, Ron Pember | | Children's film |
Great Plates of Malikov | Jaromil Jireš | Vlastimil Brodský, Jan Tříska, Iva Janžurová | | Comedy |
The Incredible Melting Man | William Sachs | Alex Rebar, Burr de Benning, Myron Healey | | Horror |
The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport | | |
Kingdom of the Spiders | John Cardos | William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode | | Horror |
Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds | Junji Kurata | Tsunehiko Watase, Nobiko Sawa, Shotaro Hayashi | | |
A Nice Plate of Spinach | Václav Vorlíček | Vladimír Menšík, Jiří Sovák, Iva Janžurová | | Comedy |
The People That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie | | Fantasy adventure |
Planet of Dinosaurs | James K. Shea | Mary Appleseth, Harvey Shain, Derna Wylde | | |
Polygon | Anatoliy Petrov | Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Vsevolod Yakut, Oleg Mokshantsev | | Animated short film |
Prey | Norman J. Warren | Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner, Glory Annen Clibbery | | Horror |
Rabid | David Cronenberg | Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver | | Horror |
Space Battleship Yamato | Toshio Masuda | Gorô Naya, Kei Tomiyama, Shūsei Nakamura | | Anime film |
Star Wars | George Lucas | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher | | [nb 12] |
Starship Invasions | Ed Hunt | Robert Vaughn, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon | | |
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea | Jindřich Polák | Petr Kostka, Jiří Sovák, Vladimír Menšík | | |
The War in Space | Jun Fukuda | Kensaku Morita, Yuko Asano, Ryo Ikebe | | |
Welcome to Blood City | Peter Sasdy | Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar | | |
Wizards | Ralph Bakshi | Jesse Welles, Bob Holt, Richard Romanus | | Animated film |
1978 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
The Alien Factor | Donald M. Dohler | Don Leifert, Tom Griffith, Richard Dyszel | | |
The Alpha Incident | Bill Rebane | Ralph Meeker, Stafford Morgan, John F. Goff | | |
Blue Christmas | Kihachi Okamoto | Hiroshi Katsuno, Keiko Takeshita, Eiji Okada | | |
The Boys from Brazil | Franklin J. Schaffner | Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason | | |
The Cat from Outer Space | Norman Tokar | Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan | | |
Deathsport | Allan Arkush, Nicholas Niciphor, Roger Corman | David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, Richard Lynch | | |
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: In the Name of Love | Toshio Masuda, Leiji Matsumoto | Kei Tomiyama, Yôko Asagami, Gorô Naya | | Anime film |
Hardware Wars | Ernie Fosselius | Frank Robertson, Scott Mathews, Jeff Hale | | Spoof short |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright | | [nb 13] |
Laserblast | Michael Rae | Kim Milford, Cheryl Smith, Gianni Russo | | |
The Medusa Touch | Jack Gold | Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura | | Supernatural thriller |
Message from Space | Kinji Fukasaku | Vic Morrow, Sonny Chiba, Philip Casnoff | | |
Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards | | |
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: The Movie | Hisayuki Toriumi | Katsuji Mori, Isao Sasaki, Kazuko Sugiyama | | Anime film |
Starcrash | Luigi Cozzi | Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer | | |
Superman | Richard Donner | Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve | | Superhero[nb 14] |
The Swarm | Irwin Allen | Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark | | Monster horror |
Warlords of Atlantis | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer | | Fantasy |
1979 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
Alien | Ridley Scott | Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt | | Horror[nb 15] |
The Black Hole | Gary Nelson | Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster | | |
The Brood | David Cronenberg | Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle | | Horror |
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Daniel Haller | Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Pamela Hensley | | |
The Fortress | Miklós Szinetár | Bella Tanay, Sándor Oszter, József Madaras | | |
Galaxy Express 999 | Rintaro | Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Yôko Asagami | | Anime film |
G.I. Samurai | Kosei Saito | Sonny Chiba, Jun Etô, Moeko Ezawa | | |
Goldengirl | Joseph Sargent | Susan Anton, James Coburn, Curd Jürgens | | |
H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come | George McCowan | Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse | | |
The Humanoid | Aldo Lado | Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry, Leonard Mann | | |
Island of the Fishmen | Sergio Martino | Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson | | |
I viaggiatori della sera | Ugo Tognazzi | Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Vanoni, Roberta Paladini | | |
Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space | Jean Image | | | Animated film |
Mad Max | George Miller | Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne | | Dystopian action |
The Medic | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Alain Delon, Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau | | |
Meteor | Ronald Neame | Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden | | Disaster |
Moonraker | Lewis Gilbert | Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michel Lonsdale | | |
Phantasm | Don Coscarelli | Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister | | Horror |
Plague | Ed Hunt | Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Céline Lomez | | |
Quintet | Robert Altman | Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey | | Post-apocalyptic |
Ravagers | Richard Compton | Richard Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Turkel | | |
Spaced Out | Norman J. Warren | Barry Stokes, Tony Maiden, Glory Annen Clibbery | | Sex comedy |
Stalker | Andrey Tarkovskiy | Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn | | |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley | | |
Test pilota Pirxa | Marek Piestrak | Sergey Desnitskiy, Bolesław Abart, Vladimir Ivashov | | |
The Thing in the Castle | Gottfried Kolditz | Erwin Geschonneck, Vlastimil Brodský, Jaecki Schwarz | | German title: Das Ding im Schloß[3] |
Thirst | Rod Hardy | Chantal Contouri, Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps | | |
Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner | | |
Unidentified Flying Oddball | Russ Mayberry | Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody | | |
The Visitor | Giulio Paradisi | Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen | | Horror |