Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Peter White, Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Raisa Ryazanova,
Directors : Vladimir Menshov,

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

Actors : Maarten Spanjer, Hans van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg, Renée Soutendijk,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better ...

Actors : James Mason, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multi-millionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Denholm Elliott, Simon Ward, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.

Actors : Judy Davis, Robert Grubb, Sam Neill, 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 : Susannah York, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois,
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 : Eileen Heckart, Edward Albert, Goldie Hawn, Paul Michael Glaser,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

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

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

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 : Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley,
Directors : James William Guercio,

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Johanna Lawrence, Richard Ricci, Raymond Laine, Judith Ridley,
Directors : George A. Romero,

A young man returns to his home city of Pittsburgh and moves in with an older woman whom he begins to rely on for emotional and financial support.

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 : Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit in Italy in May 1938.

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

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

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.