Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : 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 ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

Actors : Chun Shih, Billy Chan, Ying Bai, Feng Hsu,
Directors : King Hu,

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Pierre Lindstedt, Eddie Axberg,
Directors : Jan Troell,

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.

Actors : Mher Mkrtchyan, Evgeniy Leonov, Elena Proklova, Vakhtang Kikabidze,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

Pilot Mimino works at small local airlines in Georgia, flying helicopters between small villages. He dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for ...

Actors : Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Gilbert Green, Will Geer,
Directors : David Miller,

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

Actors : Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price, Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara,
Directors : Jimmy Sangster,

Scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts; the monster comes alive and wreaks havoc.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Achala Sachdev, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal,
Directors : Raj Kapoor,

Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. As his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to the circus to the streets, he must always make ...

Actors : Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry, Robin Johnson, Peter Coffield,
Directors : Allan Moyle,

Two ill-matched teenage girls form a punk band and soon have New York City by its ears.

Actors : Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop, Mareme Niang, Magaye Niang,
Directors : Djibril Diop Mambéty,

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

Actors : Orso Maria Guerrini, Franco Nero, Olga Karlatos, William Berger,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A half-breed ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of ...