’70s Thrillers

’70s Thrillers

12 Episodes

Suspicion hung in the air like stale smoke throughout the 1970s. In the shadow of Watergate, the Vietnam War, and the public’s unraveling faith in its institutions, American filmmakers crafted taut, paranoid narratives that echoed the disillusioned national mood. This collection brings together some of the era’s most incisive works by leading directors like Sidney Lumet (THE ANDERSON TAPES), Robert Altman (THE LONG GOODBYE), Alan J. Pakula (THE PARALLAX VIEW), and Arthur Penn (NIGHT MOVES), films in which surveillance is omnipresent, authority is suspect, and truth is a moving target. Updating classic Hollywood models—including film noir and Hitchcockian mystery—for their anxious time, these thrillers remain just as urgently unsettling in our own age of disinformation and institutional erosion.

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’70s Thrillers

12 Episodes

  • 70s Thrillers Teaser
    01:12
    70s Thrillers Teaser
    Episode 1

    70s Thrillers Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Sorcerer
    2:01:45
    Sorcerer
    Episode 2

    Sorcerer

    Episode 2

    Directed by William Friedkin • 1977 • United States
    Starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal

    A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic THE WAGES OF FEAR was dismissed upon its release, only to be recogniz...

  • Chinatown
    2:10:34
    Chinatown
    Episode 3

    Chinatown

    Episode 3

    Directed by Roman Polanski • 1974 • United States
    Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

    An Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne, career-defining performances from Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, and Roman Polanski’s atmospheric direction come together in one of the greatest fil...

  • Winter Kills
    1:36:41
    Winter Kills
    Episode 4

    Winter Kills

    Episode 4

    Directed by William Richert • 1979 • United States, West Germany
    Starring Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins

    Among the myriad conspiracy thrillers that proliferated in the 1970s, WINTER KILLS stands out for its audacious, tonally bonkers blending of paranoia and black-comic satire as wel...

  • All the President’s Men
    2:18:24
    All the President’s Men
    Episode 5

    All the President’s Men

    Episode 5

    Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1976 • United States
    Starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden

    At once a taut, deeply engrossing political thriller and one of the most fascinating films ever made about the inner workings of the press, the final installment in director Alan J. Pakula’s Pa...

  • The Long Goodbye
    1:52:20
    The Long Goodbye
    Episode 6

    The Long Goodbye

    Episode 6

    Directed by Robert Altman • 1973 • United States
    Starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden

    Robert Altman updates Raymond Chandler for the liberated, hedonistic 1970s in this brilliantly idiosyncratic adaptation of one of the writer’s most renowned novels. Elliott Gould brings a ...

  • Klute
    1:54:13
    Klute
    Episode 7

    Klute

    Episode 7

    Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1971 • United States
    Starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland

    With her Oscar-winning turn in KLUTE, Jane Fonda reinvented herself as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels—a call girl and aspiring actor wh...

  • Night Moves
    1:39:53
    Night Moves
    Episode 8

    Night Moves

    Episode 8

    Directed by Arthur Penn • 1975 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns

    Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a pr...

  • The Anderson Tapes
    1:39:00
    The Anderson Tapes
    Episode 9

    The Anderson Tapes

    Episode 9

    Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1971 • United States
    Starring Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam

    A prescient vision of the rise of the surveillance state, this paranoid heist thriller stars Sean Connery as Duke Anderson, an ex-con just out of prison who hatches a daring scheme to rob every unit...

  • Obsession
    1:38:17
    Obsession
    Episode 10

    Obsession

    Episode 10

    Directed by Brian De Palma • 1976 • United States
    Starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow

    Nearly twenty years after his wife’s tragic death, a guilt-ridden man (Cliff Robertson) meets her exact look-alike (Gen...

  • The Parallax View
    1:42:12
    The Parallax View
    Episode 11

    The Parallax View

    Episode 11

    Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1974 • United States
    Starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels

    Perhaps no director tapped into the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia ...

  • Sisters
    1:32:39
    Sisters
    Episode 12

    Sisters

    Episode 12

    Directed by Brian De Palma • 1973 • United States
    Starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

    Margot Kidder is Danielle, a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously...

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