86 English films of 1970 ranked by box office. #1: Love Story ($173.4 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love Story | Arthur Hiller | $2.2 million | $173.4 million | 78.82x | |
| 2 | Airport | George Seaton | $10 million | $128 million | 12.80x | |
| 3 | Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner | $12.6 million | $61.7 million | 4.90x | |
| 4 | Woodstock | Martin Scorsese | $600,000 | $50 million | 83.33x | |
| 5 | A Man Called Horse | Elliot Silverstein | $5 million | $44 million | 8.80x | |
| 6 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Richard Fleischer | $25 million | $37 million | 1.48x | |
| 7 | Little Big Man | Arthur Penn | $15 million | $31.6 million | 2.10x | |
| 8 | Rider on the Rain | René Clément | $31 million | |||
| 9 | Catch-22 | Mike Nichols | $18 million | $24.9 million | 1.38x | |
| 10 | The Owl and the Pussycat | Herbert Ross | $23.6 million | |||
| 11 | Joe | John G. Avildsen | $106,000 | $19.3 million | 182.26x | |
| 12 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | $2.5 million | $19 million | 7.60x | |
| 13 | The Boatniks | Norman Tokar | $18.6 million | |||
| 14 | Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | $1.6 million | $18.1 million | 11.31x | |
| 15 | Ryan's Daughter | David Lean | $13.3 million | $14.6 million | 1.10x | |
| 16 | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Vincente Minnelli | $10 million | $14 million | 1.40x | |
| 17 | Getting Straight | Richard Rush | $13.3 million | |||
| 18 | The Honeymoon Killers | Leonard Kastle | $200,000 | $11 million | 55.00x | |
| 19 | Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | $4 million | $10.2 million | 2.55x | |
| 20 | The Great White Hope | Martin Ritt | $9.9 million | $9.3 million | 0.94x | |
| 21 | Song of Norway | Andrew L. Stone | $3.6 million | $7.9 million | 2.18x | |
| 22 | The Adventurers | Lewis Gilbert | $12 million | $7.8 million | 0.65x | |
| 23 | Lovers and Other Strangers | Cy Howard | $2.5 million | $7.7 million | 3.08x | |
| 24 | The Out-of-Towners | Arthur Hiller | $7.2 million | |||
| 25 | Diary of a Mad Housewife | Frank Perry | $6.1 million | |||
| 26 | Chisum | Andrew V. McLaglen | $4 million | $6 million | 1.50x | |
| 27 | The Cheyenne Social Club | Gene Kelly | $5.2 million | |||
| 28 | Cotton Comes to Harlem | Ossie Davis | $1.2 million | $5.2 million | 4.33x | |
| 29 | What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? | Allen Funt | $5 million | |||
| 29 | The Super Fight | Murray Woroner | $5 million | |||
| 31 | Two Mules for Sister Sara | Don Siegel | $4 million | $4.8 million | 1.20x | |
| 32 | El Condor | John Guillermin | $35 million | $4.5 million | 0.13x | |
| 32 | Wuthering Heights | Robert Fuest | $800,000 | $4.5 million | 5.63x | |
| 32 | There's a Girl in My Soup | Roy Boulting | $4.5 million | |||
| 35 | Rio Lobo | Howard Hawks | $6 million | $4.2 million | 0.71x | |
| 36 | Myra Breckinridge | Michael Sarne | $5 million | $4 million | 0.80x | |
| 36 | The Wild Country | Robert Totten | $4 million | |||
| 38 | The Boys in the Band | William Friedkin | $5.5 million | $3.5 million | 0.64x | |
| 39 | Darling Lili | Blake Edwards | $25 million | $3.2 million | 0.13x | |
| 40 | Waterloo | Sergei Bondarchuk | £12 million | $3.1 million | ||
| 41 | Trash | Paul Morrissey | $30,000 | $3 million | 100.00x | |
| 41 | Scrooge | Ronald Neame | $5 million | $3 million | 0.60x | |
| 43 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Sam Peckinpah | $3.7 million | $2.4 million | 0.66x | |
| 44 | They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | Gordon Douglas | $2.4 million | |||
| 45 | The Hawaiians | Tom Gries | $8 million | $2.3 million | 0.29x | |
| 46 | The Molly Maguires | Martin Ritt | $11 million | $2.2 million | 0.20x | |
| 47 | ...tick...tick...tick... | Ralph Nelson | $2.1 million | |||
| 48 | The Grasshopper | Jerry Paris | $2 million | |||
| 49 | House of Dark Shadows | Dan Curtis | $750,000 | $1.8 million | 2.45x | |
| 50 | Little Fauss and Big Halsy | Sidney J. Furie | $2.5 million | $1.8 million | 0.70x | |
| 51 | Norwood | Jack Haley Jr. | $1.8 million | |||
| 52 | Darker than Amber | Robert Clouse | $2.6 million | $1.6 million | 0.62x | |
| 53 | Gimme Shelter | Albert Maysles | $1.6 million | |||
| 54 | Too Late the Hero | Robert Aldrich | $6.2 million | $1.6 million | 0.25x | |
| 55 | Bloody Mama | Roger Corman | $1.5 million | |||
| 56 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Billy Wilder | $10 million | $1.5 million | 0.15x | |
| 56 | The Only Game in Town | George Stevens | $10.2 million | $1.5 million | 0.15x | |
| 56 | The Christine Jorgensen Story | Irving Rapper | $1 million | $1.5 million | 1.50x | |
| 59 | Cry of the Banshee | Gordon Hessler | $450,000 | $1.3 million | 2.90x | |
| 60 | The Liberation of L.B. Jones | William Wyler | $3.5 million | $1.3 million | 0.37x | |
| 60 | Brewster McCloud | Robert Altman | $5.6 million | $1.3 million | 0.23x | |
| 60 | Count Yorga, Vampire | Bob Kelljan | $100,000 | $1.3 million | 13.00x | |
| 63 | The Last Valley | James Clavell | $6.2 million | $1.3 million | 0.20x | |
| 64 | Hi, Mom! | Brian De Palma | $100,000 | $1.2 million | 12.00x | |
| 64 | Soldier Blue | Ralph Nelson | $1.2 million | |||
| 66 | A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Larry Buchanan | $350,000 | $1.2 million | 3.35x | |
| 67 | Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | $1.1 million | |||
| 67 | C.C. and Company | Seymour Robbie | $1.1 million | |||
| 69 | Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came | Hy Averback | $3.6 million | $1.1 million | 0.30x | |
| 70 | The Dunwich Horror | Daniel Haller | $1 million | |||
| 71 | Zabriskie Point | Michelangelo Antonioni | $7 million | $1 million | 0.14x | |
| 71 | Elvis: That's the Way It Is | Denis Sanders | $1 million | |||
| 71 | The Student Nurses | Stephanie Rothman | $120,000 | $1 million | 8.33x | |
| 74 | Equinox | Dennis Muren | $8,000 | $849,600 | 106.20x | |
| 75 | Ned Kelly | Tony Richardson | A$2.5 million | $808,000 | ||
| 76 | Angels Die Hard | Richard Compton | $125,000 | $700,000 | 5.60x | |
| 77 | Goin' Down the Road | Donald Shebib | $85,000 | $300,000 | 3.53x | |
| 78 | How Do I Love Thee? | Michael Gordon | $2 million | $275,000 | 0.14x | |
| 79 | Barquero | Gordon Douglas | $135,381 | |||
| 80 | Wanda | Barbara Loden | $115,000 | $108,522 | 0.94x | |
| 81 | The Art of Marriage | Sean S. Cunningham | $3,500 | $100,000 | 28.57x | |
| 82 | Multiple Maniacs | John Waters | $5,000 | $33,036 | 6.61x | |
| 83 | This Is New Zealand | Hugh Macdonald | $150,000 | $22,224 | 0.15x | |
| 84 | Adam's Woman | Philip Leacock | $2.5 million | $15,000 | 0.01x | |
| 85 | The Man Who Had Power Over Women | John Krish | $11,400 | |||
| Bombay Talkie | James Ivory | ₹1.1 crore | ₹55 lakh | 0.50x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.