Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Walter Matthau, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Erika Remberg, Frank Wolff, Paolo Turco, Silvana Venturelli,
Directors : Radley Metzger,

A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in ...

Actors : Milen Penev, Anton Gorchev, Katya Paskaleva, Todor Kolev,
Directors : Metodi Andonov,

The film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view ...

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Cleavon Little, Michael Brandon, Alex Karras,
Directors : John A. Alonzo,

Q-SKY is the #1 radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play, and running the station the way they want to. It has led them to a ratings success. The interesting radio...

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Hari Rhodes, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Alex Rocco,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Actors : Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne,
Directors : Claude Jutra,

Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Ellen Burstyn,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

Lady Snowblood is caught in the politics of early 20th century Japan.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Jeff Bridges, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen.

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Teresa Kelly,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The...

Actors : Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden, Pam Grier,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, ...

Actors : Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Anat Atzmon, Jonathan Sagall,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

Three friends live their lives in the 1950's each searching for someone to love.

Actors : Chuck Pierce Jr., John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Willie E. Smith,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Actors : Alec Guinness, Diane Cilento, Adolfo Celi, Simon Ward,
Directors : Ennio De Concini,

A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Shakurov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia

Actors : Jean Dasté, Patrick Maléon, Nathalie Baye, François Truffaut,
Directors : François Truffaut,

A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys ...

Actors : Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.

Actors : Corinne Cléry, Franco Nero, Joshua Sinclair, David Hess,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to a sanctuary. In return he agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.

Actors : Galina Volchek, Elza Radzina, Jüri Järvet, Valentina Shendrikova,

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly ...

Actors : Nora Miao, Jackie Chan, Jeong-Nam Kim, Yung-Kuo Li,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

Jackie Chan stars as the young warrior Hsu Yiu Fong. Hsu has been entrusted with the book of the "Art of the Snake and Crane," after the mysterious disappearance of the eight Shaolin ...