Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Elizabeth Cheshire,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Actors : Susan Swift, Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Beck,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.

Actors : John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Pat Heywood, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Based on the real-life case of the British serial killer John Christie, and what happened to his neighbors Tim and Beryl Evans.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell,

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole ...

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Alain Delon,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, John Colicos, Paul Scofield, Alain Delon,
Directors : Michael Winner,

During the Cold War, the CIA orders free-lance operative Scorpio to assassinate his former CIA mentor Cross and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues.

Actors : Sean Connery, Vivien Merchant, Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

Actors : Michael Higgins, Barbara Loden, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes,
Directors : Barbara Loden,

In the coal mining region of Pennsylvania, Wanda Goronski is constantly drinking to shut out the problems in her life. Having deserted her husband and infant children, Wanda sleeps on her ...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Kika Markham,
Directors : François Truffaut,

At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at...

Actors : Raymond Laine, Jan White, Ann Muffly, Joedda McClain,
Directors : George A. Romero,

A bored, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft and murder.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Sener Sen, Ilyas Salman, Adile Nasit,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

A feudal village in Southeastern Turkey in 1970's. A poor peasant, Feyzo returns from military service dreaming about getting married to Gülo, the love of his life. However, he has to face ...

Actors : Cicely Browne, Tina Aumont, Carmen Scarpitta, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?

Actors : Klaus Löwitsch, Gisela Uhlen, Ivan Desny, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Andrew Prine,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Texas. Loosely based on a true story.

Actors : Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson,
Directors : Peter Watkins,

"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types ...

Actors : Kenneth Cranham, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.

Actors : Gérard Blain, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Actors : Andréa Ferréol, Jean Poiret, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : François Truffaut,

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.