Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Rüdiger Vogler, Rudolf Schündler, Lisa Kreuzer, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.

Actors : Robert Pratt, Peter Fonda, Verna Bloom, Warren Oates,
Directors : Peter Fonda,

Harry returns home to his wife and farm after drifting with his friend Arch and has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties.

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his ...

Actors : Lesley-Anne Down, Harrison Ford, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

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 : 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 : Neetu Singh, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, 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 : Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Timothy Bottoms, George Segal,
Directors : James Goldstone,

A blackmailer threatens to sabotage roller-coasters at various American amusement parks if he isn't paid a huge ransom.

Actors : Diana Ross, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins,

Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring ...

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 : 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.

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

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

Actors : Daniel Ceccaldi, Zouzou, Bernard Verley, Françoise Verley,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.