List of British films of 1970

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1970 (see 1970 in film):

## 1970

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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The Adventures of Gerard | Jerzy Skolimowski | Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale | Action/comedy |
And Soon the Darkness | Robert Fuest | Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès | Thriller |
Bartleby | Anthony Friedman | Paul Scofield, John McEnery | Drama |
Bombay Talkie | James Ivory | Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Aparna Sen, Zia Mohyeddin, Utpal Dutt | Drama |
The Beast in the Cellar | James Kelley | Beryl Reid, Flora Robson | Horror |
The Beloved | George P. Cosmatos | Raquel Welch, Richard Johnson | Drama |
The Body | Roy Battersby | Frank Finlay, Vanessa Redgrave | Documentary |
The Breaking of Bumbo | Andrew Sinclair | Richard Warwick, Joanna Lumley | Comedy |
The Buttercup Chain | Robert Ellis Miller | Hywel Bennett, Jane Asher | Drama | Entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival
Carry On Loving | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Sid James | Comedy |
Carry On Up the Jungle | Gerald Thomas | Frankie Howerd, Sid James | Comedy |
Clegg | Lindsay Shonteff | Gilbert Wynne, Gary Hope | Crime |
Connecting Rooms | Franklin Gollings | Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner | Drama |
Cool It Carol! | Pete Walker | Robin Askwith, Janet Lynn | Sex comedy/drama |
Country Dance | J. Lee Thompson | Peter O'Toole, Susannah York | Drama |
Crescendo | Alan Gibson | Stefanie Powers, James Olson | Horror |
Cromwell | Ken Hughes | Richard Harris, Alec Guinness | Biopic | Entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival
Cry of the Banshee | Gordon Hessler | Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner | Horror |
A Day at the Beach | Simon Hesera | Mark Burns, Beatie Edney | Drama |
Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski | Jane Asher, John Moulder Brown | Drama |
Doctor in Trouble | Ralph Thomas | Leslie Phillips, Robert Morley | Comedy |
Dorian Gray | Massimo Dallamano | Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom | Thriller | Co-production with Germany and Italy
Entertaining Mr Sloane | Douglas Hickox | Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery | Black comedy |
Every Home Should Have One | Jim Clark | Marty Feldman, Judy Cornwell | Comedy |
The Executioner | Sam Wanamaker | George Peppard, Joan Collins, Judy Geeson | Spy |
Eyewitness | John Hough | Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George | Thriller |
Figures in a Landscape | Joseph Losey | Malcolm McDowell, Robert Shaw | Thriller |
Fragment of Fear | Richard C. Sarafian | David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt | Thriller |
Futtock's End | Bob Kellett | Michael Hordern, Ronnie Barker | Comedy |
The Games | Michael Winner | Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal | Drama |
Games That Lovers Play | Malcolm Leigh | Joanna Lumley, Penny Brahms | Comedy |
The Go-Between | Joseph Losey | Julie Christie, Alan Bates | Drama | Won the Grand Prix at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival
Groupie Girl | Derek Ford | Billy Boyle, Jimmy Beck | Sex comedy/drama |
Hell Boats | Paul Wendkos | James Franciscus, Elizabeth Shepherd | World War II |
Hello-Goodbye | Jean Negulesco | Michael Crawford, Curt Jurgens | Comedy |
Hoffman | Alvin Rakoff | Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack | Drama |
The Horror of Frankenstein | Jimmy Sangster | Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara | Horror |
A Horse Called Nijinsky | Jo Durden-Smith | Nijinsky II | Documentary | [1]
The House That Dripped Blood | Peter Duffell | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | Portmanteau horror |
I Start Counting | David Greene | Jenny Agguter, Simon Ward | Thriller |
Julius Caesar | Stuart Burge | Charlton Heston, John Gielgud | Drama | Filmed Shakespeare play
The Last Grenade | Gordon Flemyng | Stanley Baker, Alex Cord | War |
Leo the Last | John Boorman | Marcello Mastroianni Billie Whitelaw | Drama | Boorman won Best Director at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
Let It Be | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | The Beatles | Music documentary |
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World | Vincent Patouillard | None | Documentary |
The Looking Glass War | Frank Pierson | Christopher Jones | Action, Thriller |
Loot | Silvio Narizzano | Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick | Black comedy | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival
Love Is a Splendid Illusion | Tom Clegg | Simon Brent, Andrée Flamand | Drama |
The Man Who Had Power Over Women | John Krish | Rod Taylor, Carol White | Comedy |
The Man Who Haunted Himself | Basil Dearden | Roger Moore, Anton Rodgers, Thorley Walters | Thriller |
The McKenzie Break | Lamont Johnson | Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry | World War II/POW |
The Mind of Mr. Soames | Alan Cooke | Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn | Sci-fi |
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly | Freddie Francis | Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Vanessa Howard | Comedy horror |
My Lover, My Son | John Newland | Romy Schneider, Donald Houston | Drama |
Ned Kelly | Tony Richardson | Mick Jagger, Mark McManus | Adventure |
The Nine Ages of Nakedness | Harrison Marks | Rita Webb, Sue Bond | Sex comedy |
One Brief Summer | John Mackenzie | Clifford Evans, Felicity Gibson | Drama |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Caspar Wrede | Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg | Drama | Co-production with Norway
Perfect Friday | Peter Hall | Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker | Crime |
Performance | Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | Mick Jagger, James Fox | Drama/crime | Number 48 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Billy Wilder | Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee | Detective drama |
The Railway Children | Lionel Jeffries | Jenny Agutter, Gary Warren | Family drama | Number 66 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | Kevin Billington | Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser | Comedy/satire |
Ryan's Daughter | David Lean | Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Christopher Jones | Drama | Winner of two Academy Awards
Say Hello to Yesterday | Alvin Rakoff | Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting | Drama |
Scars of Dracula | Roy Ward Baker | Christopher Lee, Patrick Troughton, Jenny Hanley | Horror |
Scream and Scream Again | Gordon Hessler | Vincent Price, Christopher Lee | Horror thriller |
Scrooge | Ronald Neame | Albert Finney, Alec Guinness | Musical |
Secrets of Sex | Antony Balch | Richard Schulman, Janet Spearman | Sex fantasy |
A Severed Head | Dick Clement | Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough | Black comedy |
Simon, Simon | Graham Stark | Peter Sellers, Julia Foster | Comedy | Short film
Some Will, Some Won't | Duncan Wood | Ronnie Corbett, Leslie Phillips | Comedy |
Spring and Port Wine | Peter Hammond | James Mason, Diana Coupland | Drama |
Take a Girl Like You | Jonathan Miller | Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed | Comedy |
Tam-Lin | Roddy McDowall | Ava Gardner, Ian McShane | Horror |
Taste the Blood of Dracula | Peter Sasdy | Christopher Lee | Horror
Taste of Excitement | Don Sharp | Eva Renzi, David Buck | Crime |
There's a Girl in My Soup | Roy Boulting | Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn | Comedy |
Three Sisters | Laurence Olivier, John Sichel | Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright | Drama | Film of Chekhov play
Too Late the Hero | Robert Aldrich | Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson | World War II |
Trog | Freddie Francis | Joan Crawford, Michael Gough | Sci-fi |
Two a Penny | James F. Collier | Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan | Drama |
The Vampire Lovers | Roy Ward Baker | Ingrid Pitt, Kate O'Mara, Peter Cushing | Horror |
The Virgin and the Gypsy | Christopher Miles | Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero | Drama | Screened at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival
The Walking Stick | Eric Till | David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar | Crime |
Wuthering Heights | Robert Fuest | Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton | Drama |
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go | Burgess Meredith | James Mason, Jack MacGowran | Thriller |
You Can't Win 'Em All | Peter Collinson | Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson | Comedy/war |

## Top Box Office Films at British Box Office in 1970

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* The Battle of Britain
* Paint Your Wagon
* On Her Majesty's Secret Service
* M*A*S*H
* Funny Girl
* Midnight Cowboy
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Oliver!
* Anne of the Thousand Days
* Cromwell
* Where Eagles Dare
* Women in Love
* Carry On Up the Jungle
* Every Home Should Have One
* The Lion in Winter
* Woodstock
* Hello, Dolly!

## See also

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* 1970 in British music
* 1970 in British radio
* 1970 in British television
* 1970 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "A Horse Called Nijinsky (1970)". Bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on September 21, 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
2. ^ Harper, Sue; Smith, Justin (2013). British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure. Edinburgh Press. p. 269.

## External links

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* British films of 1970 at IMDb

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Production companies
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* Aardman Animations
* Arborfield Studios
* BBC Film
* Big Talk Studios
* British Lion Films
* DNA Films
* DNEG
* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
* Film4 Productions
* Framestore
* Goldcrest Films
* Hammer Film Productions
* HandMade Films
* Heyday Films
* The Imaginarium
* London Films
* Longcross Studios
* Mister Smith Entertainment
* Number 9 Films
* Passion Pictures
* Pinewood Group
* Pinewood Studios
* Shepperton Studios
* Recorded Picture Company
* Scott Free Productions
* Shinfield Studios
* Syncopy Inc.
* S4C
* Thin Man Films
* Vertigo Films
* Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
* Warp Films
* Wimbledon Studios
* Working Title Films

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Former|

* Amicus Productions
* Associated British Picture Corporation
* Astra Films
* British and Dominions
* British Instructional Films
* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Eros Films
* Esher Studios
* G. B. Samuelson Productions
* Gainsborough Pictures
* Gate Studios
* General Film Distributors
* Halas and Batchelor
* Hemdale Film Corporation
* Hepworth Pictures
* Holmfirth Studios
* Ideal Film Company
* Jellyfish Pictures
* Kensington Studios
* London Film Company
* Mancunian Films
* MGM-British Studios
* Merton Park Studios
* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
* Stoll Pictures
* Surbiton Studios
* Tempean Films
* Tigon British Film Productions
* Warwick Films
* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

Genres and
movements|

* British New Wave
* Horror films of Britain
* Documentary Film Movement
* Ealing comedies
* Free Cinema
* Kitchen sink realism
* Gainsborough melodramas

Organisations|

* British Academy of Film and Television Arts
* British Board of Film Classification
* British Film Institute
* BFI National Archive
* BFI Southbank
* British Society of Cinematographers
* Children's Film Foundation
* Cinema Exhibitors' Association
* Moving Image Archive
* National Film and Television School
* National Science and Media Museum
* Northern Ireland Screen
* UK Film Council

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