Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Jack Weston, Jerry Reed, Lauren Hutton, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.

Actors : Bill Gunn, Sam L. Waymon, Duane Jones, Marlene Clark,
Directors : Bill Gunn,

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Actors : William Holden, Marthe Keller, José Ferrer, Hildegard Knef,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, George Segal, Karen Black,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Aysen Gruda, Dinçer Çekmez, Aysen Cansev,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

After goes to city in search of a job to get the money needed for marrying Hatice, Saban becomes a popular singer.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Actors : Jill Eikenberry, John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

Story of an underground newspaper in Boston about to be taken over by big business.

Actors : Mildred Natwick, Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Actors : Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Terence Young,

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.

Actors : Monica Craig, Marjorie Norman, Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace, Richard 'Dirty Harry' Hall,
Directors : Ted Bafaloukos,

Horsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters ...

Actors : Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Lom, Udo Kier,

Udo Kier is a witch hunter apprentice to Herbert Lom. He believes strongly in his mentor and the ways of the church but loses faith when he catches Lom committing a crime. Kier slowly ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Roland Amstutz, Nathalie Baye, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Jennifer O'Neill, Clu Gulager, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Kimberly Beck, Robert Carradine, Derrel Maury,
Directors : Rene Daalder,

A high school transfer student, pushed to the edge by a trio of brutal bullies, resorts to murder to reclaim the school from oppression, and later turns against the students wanting to fill the vacuum of their oppressors.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr., Richard B. Shull, Warren Oates,
Directors : Monte Hellman,

Southern action drama film about cockfighting.

Actors : Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck, Stan Shaw,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

In 1967, five young men undergo boot camp training before being shipped out to Vietnam. Once they get there, the experience proves worse than they could have imagined.

Actors : Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs, Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes,

CIAO! MANHATTAN parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.

Actors : Akemi Negishi, Yôko Hori, Ryôko Ema, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Actors : Holly Woodlawn, Andrea Feldman, Joe Dallesandro, Geri Miller,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

The story of Joe [Dallesandro] and his lover-protector, Holly [Woodlawn], who is something to behold, a comic book Mother Courage who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more ...