Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Strother Martin, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Wayne Rogers,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.

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 : 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 : Peter Jeffrey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance, Omar Sharif,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their ...

Actors : Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, Gail Strickland, G.D. Spradlin,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport...

Actors : Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, D'Urville Martin, Howard Caine, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Melvin Van Peebles,

An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand!

Actors : Pradip Mukherjee, Ajit Banerjee, S. Bagchi, Rafiq Ahmed,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.

Actors : Irena Orska, Jan Nowicki, Halina Kowalska, Tadeusz Kondrat,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.

Actors : Valerie Harper, Joseph Bologna, James Caan, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Robert Moore,

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Prunella Gee, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police.

Actors : Richard Harris, Percy Herbert, Henry Wilcoxon, John Huston,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper exacts revenge on his fellow companions who abandoned him in dangerous Indian territory.

Actors : Tuncel Kurtiz, Yilmaz Güney, Kürsat Alniaçik, Gülsen Alniaçik,

"Umut" is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear...

Actors : Bogdan Diklic, Dragan Nikolic, Rade Markovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

One week in a life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National Class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a ...

Actors : Lajos Öze, Sándor Horváth, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze,
Directors : Zoltán Fábri,

In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner,when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.

Actors : Candice Roman, Anitra Ford, Teda Bracci, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.

Actors : Jack Elam, Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

After she is raped and her husband murdered, a woman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can get her revenge on the three outlaws responsible.

Actors : Rekha, Rakhee Gulzar, Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

As an orphan on the streets in Shimla, young Sikandar (Amitabh Batchchan) has no one to care of him. For a short while he works for Mr. Ramnath, Little Kamna Ramnath (Rakhee Gulzar) gives ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari,
Directors : Terence Young,

When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt ...