Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Asgar Ali, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Arabinda Banerjee, Soumitra Banerjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.

Actors : Robert Duvall, Laurence Olivier, Tommy Lee Jones, Katharine Ross,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

The aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Talia Shire, John Belushi, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Joan Tewkesbury,

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

Actors : André Falcon, Charles Gérard, Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes ...

Actors : Tracy Hyde, Mark Lester, Colin Barrie, Jack Wild,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. The story is told from the children's point of view.

Actors : Chin-Feng Wang, Hsiung Chao, Lieh Lo, Ping Wang,
Directors : Chang-hwa Jeong,

Two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament.

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Paul Land, Tovah Feldshuh,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Charles Bronson, 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 ...

Actors : Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Sandy McPeak, Joan Hotchkis,
Directors : Max Baer Jr.,

At last, we're given the answers to the questions raised by the haunting 1967 Bobbie Gentry song of the same title. Eighteen- year-old Billy Joe McAllister is in love with Bobbie Lee, but ...

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 : Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Goldstone,

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Bindu, Amitabh Bachchan, Asrani,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

A popular singer convinces his new wife to enter show-business, but his pride is wounded when she outshines him.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Marlène Jobert, Jill Ireland, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : René Clément,

A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

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 : Riccardo Cucciolla, Rosanna Fratello, Gian Maria Volontè, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

Actors : Evgeniya Glushenko, Antonina Shuranova, Elena Solovey, Aleksandr Kalyagin,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general's widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna's step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law ...

Actors : Paul Scofield, Katharine Hepburn, Kate Reid, Lee Remick,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide they've come to live with them.

Actors : Jim Backus, Ann Sothern, Stuart Whitman, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, ...

Actors : Michael Caine, Margaret Leighton, Elizabeth Taylor, Susannah York,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.

Actors : Clotilde Joano, Claude Piéplu, Michel Piccoli, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's ...