Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Slobodan Sijan,

It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.

Actors : Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Zohra Lampert, Gretchen Corbett,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.

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 : Vincent Spano, Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

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 : Graham Faulkner, Kenneth Cranham, 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 : Patti D'Arbanville, William Katt, Gary Busey, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : John Milius,

The lives of some California surfers from the early '60s to the '70s.

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Trish Van Devere, John Dehner, George C. Scott,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

Dr Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited...

Actors : Alastair Sim, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Owens, Arthur Lowe,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.

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 : Stacy Keach, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S.M.C. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...

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 : Frank Adu, Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Barry Shear,

Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

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 : 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 : Edward Fox, Susan Penhaligon, Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

During WW2, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of the Netherlands.

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

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