Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans, David N. Haynes, Brian Bovell,
Directors : Franco Rosso,

The movie centers around Brindsley Forde's character blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in west London. The movie captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.

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

The portrayal of pretentiously bohemian youth.

Actors : Sean Connery, Samantha Eggar, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...

Actors : Lee Canalito, Frank McRae, Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Paul Newman, Fernando Rey, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Robert Altman,

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winner survives.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, David Warner,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, ...

Actors : Rolf Sohlman, Bertil Norström, Ann-Sofie Kylin, Anita Lindblom,
Directors : Roy Andersson,

Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Eli Wallach, Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston,
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 : Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

Actors : Jean Gaven, Anthony Steel, Corinne Cléry, Udo Kier,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of O...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Charles Denner,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an ...

Actors : Fabrizio Forte, Omero Antonutti, Marcella Michelangeli, Saverio Marconi,

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent ...

Actors : Maggie Renzi, Maggie Cousineau, Bruce MacDonald, Adam LeFevre,
Directors : John Sayles,

Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.

Actors : Jacek Lomnicki, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer, Birkut, who was briefly a proletariat hero, at how that heroism was...

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Actors : Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.

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 : Neville Brand, George Kennedy, Gary Grimes, John Wayne,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A tough Marshal has a difficult task when his two sons join a gang and rob a bank.