Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Robert Ginty, Steve James,
Directors : James Glickenhaus,

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Actors : Kevin Hooks, Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Carmen Mathews,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Sven-Olof Bern, Max von Sydow, Eddie Axberg,
Directors : Jan Troell,

In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. ...

Actors : Jean Yanne, Pascal Ferone, Antonio Passalia, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

A newly wedded husband plays a practical joke on his wife's family with full support from his wife and friends.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, Susannah York,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Jovan Jovanovic, Ninetto Davoli, Vincenzo Amato, Franco Citti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

Actors : Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bridges, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Val Avery, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant.

Actors : Laura Antonelli, Giancarlo Giannini, Jennifer O'Neill, Rina Morelli,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Susan Sarandon, Robert Redford, Bo Brundin,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed, eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film ...

Actors : Sevil Ustekin, Kemal Sunal, Bilge Zobu, Sevda Ferdag,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

A janitor/doorman and his family who came to "big city" Istanbul, with the hope to live a better life. With the different characters living in the building, the story evolves around the ...

Actors : Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

Three middle-aged distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring bourgeois lives and get in contact with one of Count Dracula's servants, Lord Courtley. In a ...

Actors : John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Wim van den Brink, Tonny Huurdeman, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a ...

Actors : Pierre Blaise, Therese Giehse, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.

Actors : Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Robert Grubb, Wendy Hughes,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career ...

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Jon Voight, Mary Tamm,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former SS captain, who allegedly commanded a concentration camp during WWII.