The Most Essential 70s Movie Songs

A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.

During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.

A young performer struggles to balance her true artistic passions with her father's expectations while navigating complicated relationships and unresolved emotions that hold her back from reaching her full potential.

The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

A Friday in the life of the disco club The Zoo, where the staff and clients meet and dance their lives away.

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

Beginning in 1951, neurotic married accountant George and naive married homemaker Doris have a one-night stand and then meet at the same place once each year. As years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship.

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent swarm of killer rats.

A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.

A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.

Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.

Mike and Susan's wedding is overshadowed by family drama, including Mike's brother's divorce, Susan's father's affair, her sister's marital troubles, and Mike's friend pursuing the maid of honor.

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.

Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention.

The staff of a Korean War field hospital uses humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.

Tracy is a black girl with no financial resources who struggles to be able to afford fashion college. Her goal is to become an internationally famous fashion designer.

Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become.