Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Vanessa Redgrave,
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 : Estelle Parsons, Melvyn Douglas, 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 : 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 : Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Ronald Hines, 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : Tayfun Akalin, Tuncay Akça, Halit Akçatepe, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Ergin Orbey,

A love story between a poor man and a rich girl. The rich girl's father tries to prevent their marriage and he declares a war against the poor boy's family.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Peter Bjerg, Anders Agensø, Elin Reimer, Ove Sprogøe,

Two precocious boys explore their sexuality at boarding school.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.