Best Drama movies of 1970

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 : Jack Hawkins, Orson Welles, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.

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 : 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 : 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 : Christopher Lee, Gwen Watford, Geoffrey Keen, 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 : Albert Finney, Kenneth More, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Ian Bannen, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is secunded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Paul Newman,

A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.

Actors : Vincent Price, Judy Huxtable, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London; the police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Actors : Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives ...

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Aurora Cornu,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

On holiday, a conflicted man lusts after beautiful stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter.

Actors : Charles Durning, Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Lara Parker,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and views in other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers black theater.

Actors : Jean Dasté, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Françoise Seigner, François Truffaut,
Directors : François Truffaut,

In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.

Actors : Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Actors : Christopher Gable, Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.

Actors : Jaroslava Schallerová, Jirí Prýmek, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Inspired by fairy-tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red-Riding Hood, "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.

Actors : Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu, Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Larry Blyden, Bob Newhart, Yves Montand,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A troubled young woman who visits a psychotherapist to help her quit smoking undergoes hypnosis and finds herself reliving a tragic Victorian romance from a past life.

Actors : Kin Sugai, Yoshitaka Zushi, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.