1970's

1970

• The Kremlin Letter (John Huston, USA)

• The Red Circle (Jean-Pierre Melville, France-Italy)

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1971

• Chandler (Paul Magwood, USA)

• Get Carter (Mike Hodges, UK)

• Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, USA)

• The French Connection (William Friedkin, USA)

• Klute (Alan J. Pakula, USA)

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1972

• Across 110th Street (Barry Shear, USA)

• Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, France-Italy)

• The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah, USA)

• Hickey & Boggs (Robert Culp, USA)

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1973

• Badlands (Terrence Malick, USA)

• Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, USA)

• The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, USA)

• The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, USA)

• Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, USA)

• The Outfit (John Flynn, USA)

• Serpico (Sidney Lumet, USA)

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1974

• Chinatown (Roman Polanski, USA)

• The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

• Death Wish (Michael Winner, USA)

• The Nickel Ride (Robert Mulligan, USA)

• The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, USA)

• Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman, USA)

• The Yakuza (Sydney Pollack, USA-Japan)

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1975

• Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, USA)

• The Drowning Pool (Stuart Rosenberg, USA)

• Farewell, My Lovely (Dick Richards, USA)

• Hustle (Robert Aldrich, USA)

• Night Moves (Arthur Penn, USA)

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1976

• The Killer Inside Me (Burt Kennedy, USA)

• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, USA)

• Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, USA)

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1977

• The American Friend (Wim Wenders, West Germany-France)

• The Late Show (Robert Benton, USA)

• Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, USA)

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1978

• The Big Sleep (Michael Winner, UK-USA)

• The Driver (Walter Hill, USA)

• Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard, USA)

• Who'll Stop the Rain? (Karel Reisz, USA)

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1979

• Hardcore (Paul Schrader, USA)

• Last Embrace (Jonathan Demme, USA)

• The Onion Field (Harold Becker, USA)

• Série noire (Alain Corneau, France)