The Best New Hollywood Movies

Updated March 27, 2019 3.0k votes 546 voters 54.9k views92 items

List RulesVote for your personal favorite New hollywood films, regardless of how popular or successful they were at the box office.

A list of all the best New Hollywood movies ever made, many of which are streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime. This New Hollywood movie list can be sorted by cast, year, director and more. This list of New hollywood films also contains New Hollywood movie titles that can be clicked on for more information about the film. This New Hollywood films list can also be copied to start your own. This list, though, contains the best New Hollywood movies of all time, as voted on by fans of the films This New Hollywood movie list can be sorted by alphabetically, by director, by year and more, but is currently ordered from best to worst. Have your voice heard by voting on the best movies on the list. The order is decided by votes.

List of New Hollywood films includes new hollywood movie titles that can be clicked on for more information about the film. Make this list even more social by re-ranking it to fit your opinions, making it votable then sharing it with your friends on social networks.

These are the top films in the New Hollywood genre, meaning that each and every one of these is a movie with at least a single element of the New Hollywood genre in it. Be it the motifs of the New Hollywood genre or just some of the most common archetypes.

When checking out this list and making your votes, think competitively, for example: is Sorcerer better than Badlands? If we missed any new hollywood movies on this list, please add them to the list yourself, as this is an open list which means you can add any movies whenever you like (choices are subject to moderation). The films on this list cover the most famous new hollywood movies of all time and are voted on by people who really care about new hollywood movie lists.
You can find the release information for any of the films listed below. It's often available in the data set, so you can even find the cast of some of these by clicking on the names of the new hollywood movies. List includes photos and new hollywood movie trailers next to the names of the movies.

List includes Kramer vs. Kramer, All That Jazz, more.

Whether you're at home and want to watch these new hollywood movies on DVD, streaming Blu-ray or streaming, or if you're seeing them in theatres for the first time, this is a list of good new hollywood movies that can be helpful in either situation to see where they all stack up. So from the latest, to the greatest new hollywood movies, here is the full new hollywood movies list, ordered from best to worst.

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Alien
Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt
Released: 1979
Directed by: Ridley Scott
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The Goodbye Girl
Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason
Released: 1977
Directed by: Herbert Ross
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Marathon Man
Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier
Released: 1976
Directed by: John Schlesinger
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Midnight Cowboy
Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight
Released: 1969
Directed by: John Schlesinger
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Deliverance
Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight
Released: 1972
Directed by: John Boorman
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American Graffiti
Harrison Ford, Ron Howard
Released: 1973
Directed by: George Lucas
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Straw Dogs
Dustin Hoffman, David Warner
Released: 1971
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
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Coming Home
Jane Fonda, Jon Voight
Released: 1978
Directed by: Hal Ashby
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Barry Lyndon
Ryan O'Neal, Leonard Rossiter
Released: 1975
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr
Released: 1977
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
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Annie Hall
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Released: 1977
Directed by: Woody Allen
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Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford, Alfred Molina
Released: 1981
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
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The Sting
Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Released: 1973
Directed by: George Roy Hill
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Rocky
Sylvester Stallone, Joe Frazier
Released: 1976
Directed by: John G. Avildsen
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The Last Picture Show
Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
Released: 1971
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
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Five Easy Pieces
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black
Released: 1970
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
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Harold and Maude
Ruth Gordon, Tom Skerritt
Released: 1971
Directed by: Hal Ashby
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Badlands
Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen
Released: 1973
Directed by: Terrence Malick
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Cruising
Al Pacino, Ed O'Neill
Released: 1980
Directed by: William Friedkin
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Cabaret
Liza Minnelli, Michael York
Released: 1972
Directed by: Bob Fosse
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Easy Rider
Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper
Released: 1969
Directed by: Dennis Hopper
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The Exorcist
Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn
Released: 1973
Directed by: William Friedkin
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MASH
Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland
Released: 1970
Directed by: Robert Altman
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Klute
Sylvester Stallone, Jane Fonda
Released: 1971
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
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Bonnie and Clyde
Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway
Released: 1967
Directed by: Arthur Penn
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