Best Drama movies of 1970s

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.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick McGoohan, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Estelle Parsons, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.

Actors : François Périer, Charles Boyer, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during ...

Actors : Sirpa Lane, Pierre Benedetti, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

A late businessman's daughter is heading with her aunt to the crumbling estate of her soon-to-be husband, unaware of the strange rumours that cloud the family's name.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Ronald Hines, Simon Ward, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : Angela Winkler, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Mario Adorf,

A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Actors : O.E. Hasse, Renato Salvatori, Yves Montand, Jacques Weber,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by ...

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Actors : Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Richard Warwick,

Reassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guard's Christian beliefs clash with his gay commander's desire for closeness. Being tortured becomes pleasurable.

Actors : Isao Yamagata, Yûko Hama, Gô Katô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Actors : Humbert Balsan, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the ...

Actors : Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie ...

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Susan Anspach, George Segal, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.

Actors : Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi, Ronaldo Bonacchi,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

An orchestra assmbles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.

Actors : Robert Quarry, Michael Macready, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Bob Kelljan,

A couple invites an émigré to conduct a seance for the girl's recently deceased mother, unaware he is a vampire.

Actors : Leonid Bykov, Sergei Podgornyj, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev,
Directors : Leonid Bykov,

Stunning WWII flying sequences as the Soviet Air Force battles the Luftwaffe. Veteran Russian pilots teach their new recruits about life, death & love. When the older men fly into battle, ...

Actors : Abdallah Gheith, Mouna Wasef, Hamdy Gheith, Ali Achmed Taram,
Directors : Moustapha Akkad,

The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Leslie Carlson, Cosette Lee, Robert Warner,

Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps (among others) as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.