Films set in the 1970s

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

2001 film by Ron Howard

2005 film directed by Ang Lee

1990 film by Francis Ford Coppola

2012 film directed by Ang Lee

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

2002 film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund

2014 film directed by James Marsh

2008 film by David Fincher

2008 film directed by Gus Van Sant

2008 film by Stephen Daldry

2003 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2007 film by Ridley Scott

1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford

1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

2003 film by Tim Burton

2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

1976 film by Alan J. Pakula

1979 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

2006 film by Kevin Macdonald

2012 film directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis

2011 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

2015 film directed by Adam McKay

1978 film directed by Alan Parker

2000 film by Cameron Crowe

2017 film directed by Craig Gillespie

1997 film directed by Peter Cattaneo

1976 television film directed by Eldar Ryazanov

2022 film directed by Baz Luhrmann

2008 film by Ron Howard

2011 film by Clint Eastwood

2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Frank Coraci

2011 film directed by J. J. Abrams

2004 American biographical musical drama film

2015 film directed by David O. Russell

Serpico is a 1973 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title role. The screenplay was adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from the book written by Peter Maas, with the assistance of its subject Frank Serpico. The story details Serpico's struggle with corruption within the New York City Police Department during his eleven years of service, and his work as a whistleblower which led to the investigation by the Knapp Commission.

1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film

1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

1996 film directed by Miloš Forman

2006 film by Bill Condon

1984 film by Roland Joffé

2013 film directed by Joshua Michael Stern

The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill. It is the first installment in the Black Phone franchise. It stars Mason Thames as Finney, a teenage boy abducted by a serial child killer known colloquially as the Grabber. When Finney encounters a mystical black rotary phone in captivity, he uses it to plot his escape by communicating with the ghosts of the Grabber's slain victims. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also feature in the principal cast. Derrickson and Cargill produced The Black Phone in association with Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum. Universal Pictures oversaw the film's commercial distribution, and funding was sourced through a pact with Blumhouse and tax subsidies from the North Carolina state government.

2001 film directed by Tony Scott

2019 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

2001 film directed by Michael Mann

2021 film directed by Ridley Scott

1981 film by Rick Rosenthal

2000 US film directed by Julian Schnabel

1976 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1999 film directed by Sofia Coppola

1996 film by Lars von Trier

2007 film directed by Marc Forster

1996 film directed by Scott Hicks

Gia is a 1998 American biographical drama television film about the life and times of one of the first supermodels, Gia Carangi. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Gia and Faye Dunaway as Wilhelmina Cooper, with Mercedes Ruehl and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney. The original music score was composed by Terence Blanchard. The film premiered on January 31, 1998, on HBO.

1999 film by Miloš Forman

1991 film by Rachel Talalay

2002 film directed by George Clooney

2009 television film directed by Russell Mulcahy

2018 film directed by Adam McKay