Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Willy Semmelrogge, Eva Mattes, Klaus Kinski, Wolfgang Reichmann,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Dayle Haddon, Charles Durning,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Kenneth Tobey, Adam Roarke, Susan George,
Directors : John Hough,

Larry Rayder is an aspiring NASCAR driver, Deke Sommers is mechanic. As they feel they collectively are the best, the only thing that is holding them back is money to build the best vehicle...

Actors : Norman Burton, Laurie Heineman, Jack Gilford, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.

Actors : Melvin Van Peebles, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales,
Directors : Melvin Van Peebles,

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.

Actors : Michael Conrad, Eddie Albert, Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut,
Directors : François Truffaut,

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, John Huston, Brad Dourif,
Directors : John Huston,

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

Actors : Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou,
Directors : Elliot Silverstein,

In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.

Actors : Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

An almost accidental romance is kindled between a German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They abruptly decide to marry, appalling everyone around them.

Actors : Yasuko Matsui, Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to a sexual obsession which then came to a violent end.

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Nora Ricci, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

While recovering in Venice, a sickly composer becomes dangerously fixated with a teenage boy.

Actors : Lisa Jane Persky, Blythe Danner, Robert Duvall, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Sami Frey, Anna Prucnal, Carole Laure,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Herb Edelman, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 ...

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : John Sturges,

A German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.

Actors : John Blundell, Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth,
Directors : Alan Clarke,

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's.

Actors : Al Pacino, Richard Bright, Alan Vint, Kitty Winn,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.