Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Kay Lenz, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

In the 1970s Arizona, a young married man becomes an independent long-haul driver and he risks his life fighting the corruption in the local long-haul trucking industry.

Actors : Kayoko Shiraishi, Meiko Kaji, Yukie Kagawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Max Baer Jr., Alan Vint, Cheryl Waters,
Directors : Richard Compton,

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.

Actors : Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town....

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

Actors : Mahmut Cevher, Itir Esen, Adile Nasit, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

A rich boy hits a poor boy and he loves the poor boy's sister but she doesn't want him.

Actors : Paolo Turco, Anna Karina, Nino Manfredi, Ugo D'Alessio,
Directors : Franco Brusati,

Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

Actors : Claude Dauphin, Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV ...

Actors : Yves Beneyton, Isabelle Huppert, Annemarie Düringer, Florence Giorgetti,
Directors : Claude Goretta,

Beatrice is a very reserved and quiet young woman. Her friend Marylene is left by her lover and brings her to Cabourg (Normandy) for a few days' vacation. There, Beatrice, an apprentice ...

Actors : Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Niko Nitai, Alexander Scourby,

Jesus of Nazareth,the son of God raised by a Jewish carpenter. Based on the gospel of Luke in the New Testament,here is the life of Jesus from the miraculous virgin birth to the calling of ...

Actors : Samantha Eggar, John McEnery, Stéphane Audran, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Anatole Litvak,

A secretary takes her boss's car for the holiday in the Mediteranean, oddly retracing a journey she has not taken, and is recognized by people she has not met before. When a body turns up ...

Actors : Meng Lo, Kuan-Tai Chan, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.

Actors : Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Charles Bronson, Paul Koslo, Jack Colvin,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Hannah de Leeuwe, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Nastassja Kinski, Hans Christian Blech, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.

Actors : Claude Akins, Yvette Mimieux, Charlton Heston, James Brolin,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

Actors : Lola Falana, Anthony Zerbe, Lee J. Cobb, Roscoe Lee Browne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A Southern lawyer uncovers the truth about a slain undertaker.