Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of Mid-West Asia, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as ...

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 : Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Duilio Del Prete,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every ...

Actors : Buck Henry, Lynn Carlin, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey,
Directors : Milos Forman,

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone...

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 : Robby Benson, Tom Skerritt, Colleen Dewhurst, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : Donald Wrye,

A young girl is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Anthony Zerbe, Michael Moriarty, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

In San Francisco, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.

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.

Actors : Eli Wallach, Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : William Richert,

The Pickering Commission concluded that a lone gunman killed US President Kegan in 1960, in Philadelphia. 19 years later a dying man confesses to be the real shooter hired to kill him. Kegan's brother and filthy rich father investigate.

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Rentarô Mikuni, Ken Ogata, Chôchô Miyako,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the lam.

Actors : Lenny Baker, Ellen Greene, Shelley Winters, Lois Smith,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

The portrayal of pretentiously bohemian youth.

Actors : Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather...

Actors : Angela Punch McGregor, David Warner, Michael Caine, Frank Middlemass,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda's Triangle area. Maynard is divorced ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dani, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys ...

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Phil Foster,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Bernice Stegers, Jole Silvani, Anna Prucnal,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Three brothers are separated and united after many years - one is brought up a Hindu, another a Muslim and the last (and most memorable) a Christian. Hilarity and adventure ensues.

Actors : Sener Sen, Meral Zeren, Ilyas Salman, Ahu Tugba,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Bilo is a goodhearted man who wants to marry the cutest girl in the village but needs money to take the consent from her father. His best friend Mahmut (Sener Sen) offers him a way to go to Germany and work in a factory to save up the money he needs.

Actors : Charles Tyner, Keith Carradine, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.