Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Lee Montague, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Miriam Karlin,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Composer Gustav Mahler's life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.

Actors : Monica Gayle, Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Asher Brauner,
Directors : Jack Hill,

The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighbourhood.

Actors : Paloma Picasso, Fabrice Luchini, Lise Danvers, Charlotte Alexandra,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.

Actors : Perry King, Louis Gossett Jr., Clyde Kusatsu, Charles Durning,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in ...

Actors : Judith Brown, Brooke Mills, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors.

Actors : Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani, Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.

Actors : Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.

Actors : Irene Cara, Dwan Smith, Philip Michael Thomas, Lonette McKee,
Directors : Sam O'Steen,

A girl group experiences turmoil after one of their members turns to drugs and another achieves their desired fame all by herself.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Om Prakash, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

A tough and honest police officer clashes with a crime boss who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be his parents' murderer.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Charles Bronson, John Houseman,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents.

Actors : Emy Storm, Allan Edwall, Jan Ohlsson, Lena Wisborg,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't ...

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".

Actors : Sevket Altug, Kemal Sunal, Gölgen Bengü, Nisan Akman,
Directors : Ergin Orbey,

Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.

Actors : Michel Vitold, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. ...

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Diahann Carroll, Tamu Blackwell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Berry,

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Actors : Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Helen Vita,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his mistresses and ...

Actors : Harry Andrews, Thora Hird, Stephanie Beacham, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Sidney Poitier, Gerald S. O'Loughlin,
Directors : Don Medford,

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.