Best award winning movies with a non-linear narrative from 1970

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a non-linear narrative from 1970! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a non-linear narrative from 1970, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Conformist (1970)

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Info

1970-07-01 | Drama

Cast

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli

Rating

rating icon 7.664
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #61 for
    orwellian
  2. Ranked #78 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #101 for
    opaque

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2 M*A*S*H (1970)

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

Info

1970-02-18 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould

Rating

rating icon 6.974
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #29 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #51 for
    iconoclast
  3. Ranked #112 for
    Based on TV Series

Trailer

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3 Little Big Man (1970)

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

Info

1970-12-23 | Adventure / Western

Cast

Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    westernized
  2. Ranked #62 for
    vainglorious
  3. Ranked #70 for
    hubristic

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Little Big Man trailer
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4 El Topo (1970)

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Info

1970-12-18 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #35 for
    Spaghetti Western
  2. Ranked #47 for
    impressionistic
  3. Ranked #51 for
    gun-for-hire

Trailer

El Topo trailer
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5 Five Easy Pieces (1970)

A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Info

1970-09-12 | Drama

Cast

Jack Nicholson, Karen Black

Rating

rating icon 7.119
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #26 for
    blue-collar
  2. Ranked #127 for
    smug
  3. Ranked #190 for
    iconoclast

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6 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

Info

1970-10-16 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan

Rating

rating icon 8.181
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    orwellian
  2. Ranked #160 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #165 for
    flashback sequence

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7 Patton (1970)

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

Info

1970-01-25 | War / Drama

Cast

George C. Scott, Stephen Young

Rating

rating icon 7.507
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #55 for
    hagiography
  3. Ranked #56 for
    hard-nosed

Trailer

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8 Ryan's Daughter (1970)

The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.

Info

1970-03-19 | Romance / History

Cast

Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #42 for
    good girl
  2. Ranked #68 for
    stoic
  3. Ranked #71 for
    tetchy

Trailer

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9 The Spider's Stratagem (1970)

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.

Info

1970-09-17 | Mystery / Drama

Cast

Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli

Rating

rating icon 7.104
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #105 for
    opaque
  2. Ranked #190 for
    orwellian
  3. Ranked #208 for
    symmetry plots

Trailer

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10 The Confession (1970)

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.

Info

1970-04-29 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Yves Montand, Simone Signoret

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    orwellian
  2. Ranked #103 for
    timely reminder
  3. Ranked #118 for
    proof positive

Trailer

The Confession trailer
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