The 1970s were a decade poisoned by doubt and distrust (though the present is arguably even worse in this regard). Watergate, Vietnam, assassinations, and shifting media power left America questioning every institution it once trusted. As it often does, art imitated life, and filmmakers responded to this public paranoia, crafting thrillers where the system was the threat .

These movies tended to focus on ordinary people glimpsing the machinery of corruption, often fighting against it and other times merely trying to survive its seemingly inescapable claws. With this in mind, this list ranks the very best conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s , the best movies to emerge from this wave. The titles below remain the blueprints for modern conspiracy cinema: intelligent, cynical, and disturbi

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