The following is a list of films produced and/or released by Columbia Pictures in 1970–1979. Most films listed here were distributed theatrically in the United States by the company's distribution division, Sony Pictures Releasing (formerly known as Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International) (1991–2005) and Warner-Columbia Films [1971-1987; a joint venture with Warner Bros.). It is one of the Big Five film studios. Columbia Pictures is a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
1970
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January 1970 | Land Raiders | Co-Production with Morningside Productions |
| February 4, 1970 | The Looking Glass War | Co-Production with Frankovich Productions |
| February 5, 1970 | The Virgin Soldiers | co-production with High Road Productions and Open Road Films |
| March 4, 1970 | Loving | |
| March 18, 1970 | The Liberation of L.B. Jones | co-production with Liberation Company |
| April 27, 1970 | Riverrun | |
| May 13, 1970 | Getting Straight | |
| May 27, 1970 | Watermelon Man | |
| June 17, 1970 | A Walk in the Spring Rain | |
| July 24, 1970 | You Can't Win 'Em All | co-production with SRO |
| August 31, 1970 | The Things of Life | |
| August 1970 | The Olympics in Mexico | Mexican film |
| September 11, 1970 | Sartana Kills Them All | co-production with Medusa Distribuzione |
| September 12, 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama |
| September 16, 1970 | R.P.M. | |
| The Executioner | co-production with Ameran Films | |
| October 12, 1970 | The Mind of Mr. Soames | co-production with Amicus Productions |
| October 16, 1970 | I Never Sang for My Father | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama |
| October 23, 1970 | Cromwell | co-production with Irving Allen Productions |
| November 3, 1970 | The Owl and the Pussycat | Co-production with Rastar |
| November 18, 1970 | I Walk the Line | |
| December 8, 1970 | Husbands | Co-production with Faces Music |
| December 15, 1970 | There's a Girl in My Soup | |
| December 16, 1970 | Take a Girl Like You | co-production with Albion Film Distributors |
| December 25, 1970 | The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun | French film |
1971
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | House of Evil | Co-production with Azteca Films and Filmica Vergara S.A. |
| January 19, 1971 | The Reckoning | |
| February 3, 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Co-production with Frankovich Productions |
| February 21, 1971 | Claire's Knee | |
| February 23, 1971 | The Pursuit of Happiness | Co-production with E & R Productions and Belafonte Enterprises |
| March 12, 1971 | The Buttercup Chain | co-production with Columbia British Productions |
| March 24, 1971 | Brother John | |
| March 28, 1971 | A Severed Head | |
| March 31, 1971 | Waterloo | International (excluiding the Soviet Union, Argentina and Spain) distribution only; co-production with Mosfilm and Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, North American and Spain distribution by Paramount Pictures and Argentinan distribution by Cinema International Corporation (via Paramount) |
| March 1971 | Isle of the Snake People | |
| April 2, 1971 | Flight of the Doves | |
| April 8, 1971 | The Professor | Mexican film; co-production with Posa Films |
| April 1971 | The Incredible Invasion | |
| May 12, 1971 | 10 Rillington Place | Co-production with Filmways Pictures |
| June 6, 1971 | Summertree | Co-production with The Bryna Company |
| June 9, 1971 | A Man Called Sledge | |
| June 13, 1971 | Drive, He Said | co-production with BBS Productions and Drive Productions Inc. |
| June 17, 1971 | The Anderson Tapes | co-production with Robert M. Weitman Productions |
| June 23, 1971 | Man and Boy | Co-production with J. Cornelius Crean Films Inc. and Jemmin Inc. |
| July 24, 1971 | The Horsemen | |
| August 18, 1971 | Fools' Parade | co-production with Stanmore Productions and Penbar Productions, Inc. |
| August 27, 1971 | The Love Machine | Co-production with Sujac Productions and Frankovich Productions |
| September 1, 1971 | Creatures the World Forgot | Co-production with Hammer Film Productions |
| September 2, 1971 | See No Evil | Co-production with Filmways Pictures |
| September 24, 1971 | The Last Rebel | |
| September 29, 1971 | The Brotherhood of Satan | co-production with Four Star Excelsior and LQ/JAF |
| September 1971 | Fragment of Fear | |
| Dad's Army | co-production with Norcon Film Productions | |
| Welcome to the Club | ||
| October 1, 1971 | A Safe Place | co-production with BBS Productions |
| October 13, 1971 | Macbeth | |
| October 22, 1971 | The Last Picture Show | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama |
| October 28, 1971 | Bless the Beasts and Children | |
| December 9, 1971 | Happy Birthday, Wanda June | co-production with Red Lion, Sourdough and The Filmakers Group |
| December 13, 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture |
| December 17, 1971 | $ | Also known as Dollars, co-production with Frankovich Productions, Inc. |
1972
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January 1, 1972 | J. W. Coop | |
| January 14, 1972 | Cisco Pike | |
| January 20, 1972 | To Find a Man | Co-production with Rastar |
| January 21, 1972 | X, Y, and Zee | Co-production with Zee Company, Original British title: Zee and Co. |
| March 21, 1972 | Gumshoe | Co-production with Memorial Enterprises |
| April 28, 1972 | Buck and the Preacher | |
| May 1972 | Stand Up and Be Counted | co-production with Frankovich Productions |
| June 1, 1972 | Glass Houses | |
| June 4, 1972 | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | British film |
| June 14, 1972 | The Burglars | French & Italian film |
| July 6, 1972 | Butterflies Are Free | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy |
| July 12, 1972 | Living Free | British film |
| July 26, 1972 | Fat City | Co-production with Rastar |
| August 3, 1972 | The New Centurions | Co-production with Chartoff-Winkler Productions |
| August 16, 1972 | Pope Joan | |
| August 22, 1972 | And Now for Something Completely Different | Co-production with Playboy Productions |
| September 29, 1972 | Love in the Afternoon | Co-production with Les Films du Losange |
| October 10, 1972 | Young Winston | |
| October 12, 1972 | The King of Marvin Gardens | |
| November 17, 1972 | 1776 | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy |
| November 1972 | Dirty Little Billy | |
| December 18, 1972 | Images | distribution only; produced by Hemdale Film Corporation[N 1] |
| December 19, 1972 | Goodbye, Stork, Goodbye | Co-production with Impala, Daga Films and Kalender Films International |
| December 20, 1972 | Black Gunn |
1973
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Andrei Rublev | International distribution only |
| January 31, 1973 | Shamus | |
| February 4, 1973 | Wattstax | co-production with Wolper Productions[N 2] and Stax Records |
| February 9, 1973 | The Creeping Flesh | |
| February 12, 1973 | A Reflection of Fear | |
| March 17, 1973 | Lost Horizon | co-production with Ross Hunter Productions |
| March 21, 1973 | Godspell | |
| April 19, 1973 | Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing | |
| May 25, 1973 | Let the Good Times Roll | |
| June 10, 1973 | The Hireling | |
| June 28, 1973 | 40 Carats | co-production with Frankovich Productions |
| July 3, 1973 | Oklahoma Crude | co-production with Stanley Kramer Productions |
| July 18, 1973 | Siddhartha | U.S. distribution only; produced by Lotus Films |
| August 1973 | White Sister | Italian, Spanish & French co-production with Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Les Films Concordia Midega Film and CIPI Cinematografica S.A. |
| August 8, 1973 | The Stone Killer | co-production with De Laurentiis International Manufacturing and Company S.p.A. |
| October 19, 1973 | The Way We Were | Co-production with Rastar and Tom Ward Enterprises |
| October 21, 1973 | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Co-production with Rastar |
| December 5, 1973 | Serpico | distribution in select international territories only; distributed by Paramount Pictures in the U.S., U.K., France and Japan; produced by Produzion De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company S.P.A. and Artists Entertainments Complex, Inc. |
| December 12, 1973 | The Last Detail | Co-production with Bright-Persky Associates and Acrobat Productions |
| December 14, 1973 | Papillon | International distribution only; co-production with Allied Artists Pictures, Les Films Corona and General Production Company |
1974
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| February 15, 1974 | Crazy Joe | U.S. distribution only; produced by Warner-Columbia Filmverleih, Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, Persky-Bright Productions, Produzione Cinematografiche Inter.Ma.Co and Tom Ward Enterprises |
| March 13, 1974 | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades | U.S. distribution only; produced by Toho and Katsu Production Co. Ltd |
| April 5, 1974 | The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Co-production by Morningside Productions and Ameran Films |
| April 10, 1974 | Thomasine & Bushrod | Co-production with Harvey Bernhard Enterprises |
| April 14, 1974 | Lovin' Molly | distribution only; produced by S.J.F. Productions |
| May 1, 1974 | The Lords of Flatbush | Co-production with Ebbets Field |
| May 24, 1974 | Chosen Survivors[N 3] | co-production with Metromedia Producers Corporation, Alpine Productions Inc. and Churubusco Studios |
| May 1974 | The Take | Co-production with World Film Services |
| June 16, 1974 | The Gravy Train | distribution only; co-production with Tomorrow Entertainment |
| For Pete's Sake | Co-production with Rastar and Barclay | |
| June 1974 | Birds Do It, Bees Do It | Co-production with Romax Productions and Wolper Pictures |
| July 24, 1974 | Death Wish[N 4] | select international distribution only; produced by Dino DeLaurentiis Cinematografica; distributed in the US and the UK by Paramount Pictures |
| August 7, 1974 | California Split | Co-production with Spelling-Goldberg and Won World |
| August 23, 1974 | Buster and Billie | Co-production with Black Creek Billie |
| August 1974 | Open Season | co-production with Arpa Productions and Impala |
| September 25, 1974 | The Mutations | Co-production with Cyclone and Getty Pictures Corp. |
| October 9, 1974 | Law and Disorder[N 5] | Co-production with Fadsin Cinema Associates, Leroy Street, Memorial Enterprises and Ugo |
| October 17, 1974 | Liberation | |
| October 18, 1974 | The Odessa File | Co-production with John Woolf Productions, Domino Productions and Oceanic Filmproduktion |
| November 8, 1974 | Confessions of a Window Cleaner | |
| December 1974 | Emmanuelle | French film US distribution only |
1975
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| February 12, 1975 | The Stepford Wives[N 5] | Theatrical distributor only |
| March 13, 1975 | Shampoo | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy |
| March 15, 1975 | Funny Lady | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy; co-production with Rastar |
| March 19, 1975 | Tommy | distribution only; produced by Hemdale Film Corporation; co-production with Robert Stigwood Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy |
| April 24, 1975 | Touch and Go | French & Italian film co-production with Les Films Ariane and Vides Cinematografica |
| April 29, 1975 | Aloha Bobby and Rose | Co-production with Cine Artists International |
| May 20, 1975 | The Fortune | |
| May 22, 1975 | Breakout | |
| The Wind and the Lion | International distribution only; co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; US distribution by United Artists | |
| June 20, 1975 | Bite the Bullet | |
| July 16, 1975 | White Line Fever | co-production by International Cinemedia Center and White Line Fever Syndicate |
| September 17, 1975 | Swept Away | distribution only; remade in 2002 |
| October 8, 1975 | Hard Times | co-production with Lawrence Gordon Productions |
| October 12, 1975 | Lies My Father Told Me | co-production with Canadian Film Development Corporation |
| December 18, 1975 | The Man Who Would Be King | International distribution only; co-production with Allied Artists Pictures |
| December 25, 1975 | Aaron Loves Angela | |
| The Black Bird | Co-production with Rastar |
1976
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| February 8, 1976 | Taxi Driver | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture; co-production with Bill/Philips Productions and Italo/Judeo Productions Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994 |
| February 13, 1976 | Jack and the Beanstalk | U.S. distribution only; produced by Group TAC, Nippon Herald Films and Film-Rite Inc. |
| March 11, 1976 | Robin and Marian | Co-production with Rastar |
| April 16, 1976 | Countdown at Kusini | Co-production with DST Telecommunications, Nigeria Glipp Productions and Tam International Limited |
| April 1976 | The Stranger and the Gunfighter | U.S. distribution only; produced by Champion Films, Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Harbor Productions, Midega Film and The Shaw Brothers |
| May 5, 1976 | Baby Blue Marine | Co-production with Spelling-Goldberg Productions |
| May 16, 1976 | Grizzly | Worldwide distribution only with Film Ventures International |
| May 26, 1976 | Drive-In | Co-production with George Litto Productions |
| May 1976 | Watch Out, We're Mad | U.S. distribution only; produced by Filmayer, Capital Films and Rizzoli Film |
| June 6, 1976 | The Last Woman | U.S. distribution only; produced by Les Productions Jaques Roitfield |
| June 17, 1976 | Harry and Walter Go to New York | Co-production with Devlin-Gittes/Tony Bill |
| June 23, 1976 | Murder by Death | Co-production with Rastar |
| July 1, 1976 | The Minister and I | Mexican film; co-production with Rioma Films |
| July 14, 1976 | Shadow of the Hawk | Co-production with International Cinemedia Center, Rising Road, The Canadian Film Development Corporation and The Odeon Theatres |
| August 1, 1976 | Obsession | Co-production with Yellowbird Productions |
| September 17, 1976 | The Front | co-production with Devon/Persky-Bright, Persky-Bright Productions and Rollins-Joffe Productions |
| November 22, 1976 | The Savage Bees | UK and Netherlands theatrical distribution only; produced by Alan Landsburg Productions and Don Kirshner Productions. aired on NBC in U.S. |
| December 21, 1976 | Nickelodeon | US distribution only; produced by British Lion Films and EMI Films |
1977
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| February 9, 1977 | Fun with Dick and Jane | |
| March 9, 1977 | The Farmer | Co-production with Milway Productions |
| April 2, 1977 | The Eagle Has Landed | USA distribution only; produced by ITC Entertainment[N 6] and Associated General Films |
| May 19, 1977 | The Greatest | co-production with EMI Films and John Marshall Production |
| June 17, 1977 | The Deep | co-production with Cascablanca Filmworks and EMI Films |
| August 5, 1977 | March or Die | U.S. distribution only, produced by ITC Entertainment,[N 6] Sir Lew Grade and Associated General Films |
| August 12, 1977 | Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | Co-production with Andor Films |
| August 31, 1977 | You Light Up My Life | Co-production with Mondial International Corporation |
| September 14, 1977 | Spider-Man | International theatrical distribution only; Co-production with Danchuck Productions |
| September 29, 1977 | Bobby Deerfield | U.S. distribution only; co-production with Warner Bros. and First Artists |
| November 16, 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | co-production with Julia Philips and Michael Philips Productions and EMI Films Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007 |
| December 7, 1977 | The Incredible Melting Man | International theatrical distribution only; distributed in U.S. by American International Pictures; Co-production with Quartet Productions |
1978
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| February 2, 1978 | The Boys in Company C[N 7] | |
| February 1978 | Remember My Name | Co-production with Lion's Gate Films |
| March 3, 1978 | The Amsterdam Kill[N 7] | |
| March 17, 1978 | Casey's Shadow | Co-production with Rastar |
| April 28, 1978 | The Patrolman | Mexican film; co-production with Rioma Films |
| May 19, 1978 | Thank God It's Friday | Co-production with Cascablanca Filmworks and Motown Productions |
| May 24, 1978 | If Ever I See You Again | |
| June 23, 1978 | The Cheap Detective | distribution only; co-production with EMI Films and Rastar Pictures |
| July 28, 1978 | The Buddy Holly Story | co-production with Innovisions and ECA |
| August 2, 1978 | Eyes of Laura Mars | |
| September 29, 1978 | Somebody Killed Her Husband | Co-production with Melvin Simon Productions and Fawcett-Major Productions |
| October 6, 1978 | Midnight Express | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Co-production with Cascablanca Filmworks |
| December 8, 1978 | Force 10 from Navarone | International distribution only; co-production with Navarone Productions |
| December 15, 1978 | California Suite | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy; co-production with Rastar |
| December 21, 1978 | Spider-Man Strikes Back | International theatrical distribution only; Co-production with Danchuck Productions |
| December 31, 1978 | Ice Castles |
1979
edit| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| February 9, 1979 | Hardcore | |
| When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | co-production with Melvin Simon Productions | |
| March 2, 1979 | Fast Break[N 8] | distribution only; co-production with Kings Road Entertainment |
| March 16, 1979 | The China Syndrome | co-production with Melvin Simon Productions |
| April 1979 | Ashanti | International distribution only; produced by Warner Bros. |
| April 6, 1979 | The Fifth Musketeer | |
| May 18, 1979 | Hanover Street | co-production with Hanover Street Productions |
| May 1979 | Ravagers | |
| June 8, 1979 | Game of Death[N 7] | US theatrical distribution only |
| June 22, 1979 | Nightwing | |
| July 13, 1979 | Just You and Me, Kid | |
| Lost and Found | ||
| July 27, 1979 | The Villain | Co-production with Rastar |
| August 10, 1979 | No Sex Please, We're British | |
| August 10, 1979 | The National Health | co-production with Virgin Films |
| Hot Stuff | Co-production with Rastar | |
| September 28, 1979 | The Legacy | UK theatrical distribution only under the Columbia-Warner Distributors label |
| October 19, 1979 | ...And Justice for All | |
| October 26, 1979 | When a Stranger Calls[N 9] | distribution only |
| October 1979 | Skatetown, U.S.A. | Co-production with Rastar |
| December 14, 1979 | 1941 | TV and international theatrical distribution only; co-production with A-Team Productions and Universal Pictures |
| Chapter Two | Co-production with Rastar | |
| December 19, 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture Nominee for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama |
| December 20, 1979 | All That Jazz | Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture; co-production and co-distribution with 20th Century Fox (International) Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2001 |
| December 21, 1979 | The Electric Horseman[N 10] | US distribution only; co-production with Universal Pictures, Rastar Productions and Wildwood Productions |
Notes
edit- ^ Owned by MGM
- ^ Co-owned by Warner Bros. and Teatro della Pace Films
- ^ Owned by Disney (via 20th Century Studios)
- ^ Co-owned by StudioCanal
- ^ a b Owned by Bristol Myers Squibb
- ^ a b Owned by ITV Studios
- ^ a b c Owned by Fortune Star
- ^ Owned by Lionsgate in the U.S. and Icon Entertainment International and Exclusive Media internationally
- ^ Distribution rights currently owned by Quiver Distribution
- ^ Owned by Universal Pictures
