Movies released in 1970| 7 Plus Seven | Michael Apted |
| Adiós, Sabata | Gianfranco Parolini |
| Airport | George Seaton |
| Alex in Wonderland | Paul Mazursky |
| Ancines Woods, The | Pedro Olea |
| And God Said to Cain | Antonio Margheriti |
| And Soon the Darkness | Robert Fuest |
| Animals, The | Ron Joy |
| Anthropo-Cynical Farce | Kihachiro Kawamoto |
| Aristocats, The | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| Ars gratia artis | Dusan Vukotic |
| Assignment Terror | Hugo Fregonese, Tulio Demicheli |
| Attack No. 1 | Fumio Kurokawa, Eiji Okabe |
| Attack No. 1 - Tear Rotation Receive | Fumio Kurokawa, Eiji Okabe |
| Ballad of Cable Hogue, The | Sam Peckinpah |
| Beast of Blood | Eddie Romero |
| Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Russ Meyer |
| Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The | Dario Argento |
| Black Angels | Laurence Merrick |
| Blind Woman's Curse | Teruo Ishii |
| Blood Mania | Robert Vincent O'Neill |
| Bloodthirsty Butchers | Andy Milligan |
| Bloody Judge, The | Jesús Franco |
| Bloody Mama | Roger Corman |
| Brewster McCloud | Robert Altman |
| Brothers Five | Lo Wei |
| C.C. and Company | Seymour Robbie |
| Carnival of Blood | Leonard Kirtman |
| Çeko | Çetin İnanç |
| Chinese Boxer, The | Jimmy Wang Yu |
| Chisum | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| Claire's Knee | Éric Rohmer |
| Cleopatra: Queen of Sex | Osamu Tezuka, Eiichi Yamamoto |
| Colossus: The Forbin Project | Joseph Sargent |
| Compañeros | Sergio Corbucci |
| Cotton Comes to Harlem | Ossie Davis |
| Count Dracula | Jesús Franco |
| Count Yorga, Vampire | Bob Kelljan |
| Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg |
| Cromwell | Ken Hughes |
| Crook, The | Claude Lelouch |
| Cry of the Banshee | Gordon Hessler |
| Darker Than Amber | Robert Clouse |
| Deadlock | Roland Klick |
| Death Occurred Last Night | Duccio Tessari |
| Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi |
| Deserter, The | Burt Kennedy |
| Devil Woman | Jose Flores Sibal |
| Didn’t You Hear? | Skip Sherwood |
| Dirty Dingus Magee | Burt Kennedy |
| Dodes'ka-den | Akira Kurosawa |
| Dream No Evil | John Hayes |
| Dunwich Horror, The | Daniel Haller |
| El Condor | John Guillermin |
| El Topo | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| Elvis: That's the Way It Is | Denis Sanders |
| Equinox | Dennis Muren, Jack Woods |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog |
| Fando and Lis | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| Fårö Document | Ingmar Bergman |
| Figures in a Landscape | Joseph Losey |
| Five Dolls for an August Moon | Mario Bava |
| Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson |
| Flap | Carol Reed |
| Flesh Feast | Brad F. Grinter |
| Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, The | Luciano Ercoli |
| Fragment of Fear | Richard C. Sarafian |
| Gamera vs. Jiger | Noriaki Yuasa |
| Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. | Roger Corman |
| Getting Straight | Richard Rush |
| Gimme Shelter | Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles |
| Girls from Thunder Strip, The | David L. Hewitt |
| Grandmother, The | David Lynch |
| Grasshopper, The | Jerry Paris |
| Guess Who Killed My Twelve Lovers? | Wu Chia-Hsiang |
| Guru, the Mad Monk | Andy Milligan |
| Hatchet for the Honeymoon | Mario Bava |
| Haunted Samurai | Keiichi Ozawa |
| Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Heads for Sale | Jeong Chang-hwa |
| Hercules in New York | Arthur Allan Seidelman |
| Heroic Ones, The | Chang Cheh |
| Hi, Mom! | Brian De Palma |
| Hollywood Horror House | Donald Wolfe |
| Honeymoon Killers, The | Leonard Kastle |
| Hornets' Nest | Phil Karlson |
| Horror of Frankenstein, The | Jimmy Sangster |
| House of Dark Shadows | Dan Curtis |
| Husbands | John Cassavetes |
| I Am Somebody | Madeline Anderson |
| In the Folds of the Flesh | Sergio Bergonzelli |
| Incident at Blood Pass | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| Invisible Swordsman, The | Yoshiyuki Kuroda |
| Iron Buddha, The | Yan Jun |
| Joe | John G. Avildsen |
| Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate | Yukio Noda |
| Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton |
| Kindly Lion, The | Takashi Yanase |
| Lady of Steel | Ho Meng-Hua |
| Landlord, The | Hal Ashby |
| Last Grenade, The | Gordon Flemyng |
| Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Sidney Lumet |
| Le Cercle Rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Lickerish Quartet, The | Radley Metzger |
| Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach | Janusz Majewski |
| Love Story | Arthur Hiller |
| Loving | Irvin Kershner |
| M*A*S*H | Robert Altman |
| Machine of Eden, The | Stan Brakhage |
| Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians, The | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Man Called Horse, A | Elliot Silverstein |
| Man Who Haunted Himself, The | Basil Dearden |
| Mark of the Devil | Adrian Hoven, Michael Armstrong |
| Mark of the Witch | Tom Moore |
| Matalo! (Kill Him) | Cesare Canevari |
| Meatrack, The | Richard Stockton |
| Million Game, The | Tom Toelle |
| Multiple Maniacs | John Waters |
| Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly | Freddie Francis |
| Myra Breckinridge | Michael Sarne |
| No Blade of Grass | Cornel Wilde |
| Nude Vampire, The | Jean Rollin |
| Old Man Who Cried Wolf, The | Walter Grauman |
| Oral Generation, The | Richard Franklin |
| Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| Phynx, The | Lee H. Katzin |
| Play It Cool | Yasuzô Masumura |
| Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts | Edward Owens |
| Psycho Lover, The | Robert Vincent O'Neill |
| Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx | Waris Hussein |
| Queens of Evil | Tonino Cervi |
| Quiet Place to Kill, A | Umberto Lenzi |
| Rabbit, Run | Jack Smight |
| Road to Salina | Georges Lautner |
| Robin Redbreast | James MacTaggart |
| Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis | Julián Soler |
| Santo vs. The Riders of Terror | René Cardona |
| Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Scars of Dracula | Roy Ward Baker |
| Scream and Scream Again | Gordon Hessler |
| Scream of the Demon Lover | José Luis Merino |
| Serene Velocity | Ernie Gehr |
| Shinjuku Mad | Kōji Wakamatsu |
| Soldier Blue | Ralph Nelson |
| Space Amoeba | Ishirō Honda |
| Stop! | Bill Gunn |
| Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss | Yasuharu Hasebe |
| Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter | Yasuharu Hasebe |
| Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo | Toshiya Fujita |
| Student Nurses, The | Stephanie Rothman |
| Take It Out in Trade | Edward D. Wood Jr. |
| Taste of Cold Steel, A | Griffin Yueh Feng |
| Taste the Blood of Dracula | Peter Sasdy |
| Terror in the Streets | Michio Yamamoto |
| They Call Me Trinity | Enzo Barboni |
| This Transient Life | Akio Jissoji |
| Toomorrow | Val Guest |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda |
| Tora-san's Grand Scheme | Shun'ichi Kobayashi |
| Tora-san, His Tender Love | Azuma Morisaki |
| Torture Dungeon | Andy Milligan |
| Touch of Zen, A | King Hu |
| Tribes | Joseph Sargent |
| Trip Back, The | Ralph Weisinger |
| Tristana | Luis Buñuel |
| Trog | Freddie Francis |
| Twelve Chairs, The | Mel Brooks |
| Twinky | Richard Donner |
| Unholy Four, The | Enzo Barboni |
| Up Your Teddy Bear | Don Joslyn |
| Uski Roti | Mani Kaul |
| Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš |
| Valley of the Fangs | Jeong Chang-hwa |
| Vampire Doll, The | Michio Yamamoto |
| Vampire Lovers, The | Roy Ward Baker |
| Vengeance of the Vampire Women, The | Federico Curiel |
| Vengeance! | Chang Cheh |
| Violent City | Sergio Sollima |
| Voyage Into Space | Minoru Yamada |
| Wanda | Barbara Loden |
| Wandering Swordsman, The | Chang Cheh |
| Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles |
| Weekend with the Babysitter | Don Henderson |
| When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | Val Guest |
| Where Spring Comes Late | Yôji Yamada |
| Where’s Poppa? | Carl Reiner |
| Whirlpool | José Ramón Larraz |
| Witchhammer | Otakar Vávra |
| Wizard of Gore, The | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| Women Hell Song | Mamoru Watanabe |
| Woodstock | Michael Wadleigh |
| Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, The | Burgess Meredith |
| Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo | Kihachi Okamoto |