Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Daniel Ades, Richmond L. Aguilar, John Alderman, Julie Adams,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local ...

Actors : Tim Choate, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Lee Remick,
Directors : James Ivory,

It's the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe and have a somewhat bohemian lifestyle reflective of their travels throughout ...

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

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 : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

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 : 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 : Tom Beck, Sally Main, Gerard Broulard, Kathy Hilton,

Carla has a birthday party for her pimp Troy and invites Brenda, Chi-Chi, Wild Willie and Big John. They all have softcore sex.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Joe Don Baker, 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 : Jane Asher, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, Isabelle Weingarten, Françoise Lebrun,
Directors : Jean Eustache,

In Paris, the pedantic Alexandre lives with his mate Marie in her apartment, an open relationship. Alexandre, who is idle and chauvinist, spends his days reading, drinking and shagging ...

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Barbara McNair, 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 : Stacy Keach, David Carradine, Ned Beatty, Charlton Heston,
Directors : David Greene,

A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.

Actors : Simon Oakland, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Don Medford,

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and his effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.

Actors : Joss Ackland, Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early 1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury.

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 : Jagoda Kaloper, Milena Dravic, Tuli Kupferberg, Ivica Vidovic,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

A homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.