Best Drama movies of 1970

Actors : Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

Actors : Michel Vitold, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. ...

Actors : Galina Andreeva, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

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 ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood,
Directors : Barney Platts-Mills,

Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law.

Actors : Franco Giovanelli, Pippo Campanini, Alida Valli, Giulio Brogi,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the...

Actors : Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey, Elliott Gould,
Directors : Richard Rush,

A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.

Actors : Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard, Lauren Hutton, Noah Beery Jr.,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

A story of two motorcycle racers, the inept, unsuspecting Little Fauss (Michael J. Pollard) and the opportunistic, womanizing Halsey Knox (Redford).

Actors : Simi Garewal, Kaberi Bose, 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 : Gustav Opocenský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirina Bohdalová, Miroslav Holub,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of ...

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, 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 : Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Junie Moon's face has been disfigured by ill-gotten burns, and depends on her friends and her with to cope. She, Warren, and Arthur leave the hospital - they yearn for independence - and ...

Actors : Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Franz Maron, Lilith Ungerer,

With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness...