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Movies Like Best of the 1970's: Volume 1

If you liked Best of the 1970's: Volume 1 (2008), a movie directed by Colin Myer and Al Parker, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Auto Focus

    Auto Focus (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters…

  2. 2V/H/S/94

    V/H/S/94 (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material…

  3. 3V/H/S/99

    V/H/S/99 (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10

    A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.

  4. 4Taxi Driver

    Taxi Driver (1976)

    ★ 8.1/10

    Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

  5. 5V/H/S

    V/H/S (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.

  6. 6Dolemite Is My Name

    Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

    ★ 7/10

    The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.

  7. 7Hellraiser

    Hellraiser (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.

  8. 8Original Sin

    Original Sin (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

  9. 9Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

    Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)

    ★ 7.9/10

    A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at…

  10. 10The House That Jack Built

    The House That Jack Built (2018)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for…

  11. 11Crumb

    Crumb (1995)

    ★ 7.6/10

    This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through…

  12. 128MM

    8MM (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of…

  13. 13The Revenant

    The Revenant (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A horror movie/buddy comedy about Joey and his undead friend Bart who comes back from the dead as a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.

  14. 14The Valachi Papers

    The Valachi Papers (1972)

    ★ 6.5/10

    When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred…

  15. 15Flesh + Blood

    Flesh + Blood (1985)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a…

  16. 16Al Capone

    Al Capone (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…

  17. 17The Outfit

    The Outfit (1973)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed…

  18. 18Tromeo & Juliet

    Tromeo & Juliet (1996)

    ★ 6/10

    All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had! Join Tromeo and Juliet as they travel through Manhattan's underground in search of climactic love, violence and the American Way.

  19. 19One More Time with Feeling

    One More Time with Feeling (2016)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film…

  20. 20The Krays

    The Krays (1990)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two…

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