Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Elizabeth Chauvin, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Yves Montand,

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Actors : Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Faye Dunaway,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown,
Directors : James Toback,

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan shark father and his mentally disturbed Jewish concert pianist mother.

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Lee Grant, Beau Bridges, Diana Sands,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...

Actors : Ewa Pokas, Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Stefan Czyzewski,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, George C. Scott, Roy Thinnes, William Atherton,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

Actors : George Burns, Art Carney, Charles Hallahan, Lee Strasberg,
Directors : Martin Brest,

Three friends who are living on the dole decide to organize a bank robbery.

Actors : Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Down in the farm country of the US twins are born. One of them turns out to be good, while the other becomes rather evil.

Actors : Stefan Güttler, Josef Bierbichler, Clemens Scheitz, Volker Prechtel,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".

Actors : Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

Actors : Boris Plotnikov, Lyudmila Polyakova, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev,
Directors : Larisa Shepitko,

In a freezing cold World War II winter, two pro-Soviet partisans - Sotnikov and Rybak - head off to find food for themselves and their compatriots. They find a goat at the home of a German ...

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Joseph Cotten, Roscoe Lee Browne,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of ...

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Actors : Jason Robards, Jane Fonda, George Grizzard, James Caan,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...

Actors : Anita Skinner, Eli Wallach, Melanie Mayron, Adam Cohen,
Directors : Claudia Weill,

A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Isa Danieli, Riccardo Salvino,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Chantal Mercier, Philippe Goldmann, Nicole Félix, Georges Desmouceaux,
Directors : François Truffaut,

In the town of Thiers, summer of 1976, teachers and parents give their children skills, love, and attention. A teacher has his first child, a single mother hopes to meet Mr. Right, another ...