Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Sudie Bond, Richard McConnell, Robert Duvall, Olga Bellin,
Directors : Joseph Anthony,

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick,
Directors : Cornel Wilde,

When a deadly virus strikes London, John Custance takes his family to hoped-for safety in Scotland.

Actors : Slim Pickens, Amy Irving, Dyan Cannon, Willie Nelson,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Actors : Shams El-Barudy, Fayez Halawa, Youssef Chaban, Muhammad Al-Araby,
Directors : Salah Abouseif,

Actors : Elayne Heilveil, Michael C. Gwynne, Rip Torn, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Daryl Duke,

A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him...

Actors : Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming ...

Actors : Keith Buckley, Paul Hennen, Patsy Puttnam, Arthur Hewlett,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants...

Actors : Gloria Delaney, Jimmy Lynch, Lady Reed, Rudy Ray Moore,
Directors : Cliff Roquemore,

A flabby black comedian defends his community from attacks by stereotypical whites.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green,
Directors : John Huston,

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Actors : Mari Töröcsik, Iván Darvas, Lili Darvas, Erzsi Orsolya,
Directors : Károly Makk,

The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Waheeda Rehman, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Kabhi Kabhie is a movie about the love story of generations and how a chain of events brings together old lovers as friends.

Actors : Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, George C. Scott, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Silvana Mangano, Alberto Sordi, Bette Davis,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

Every year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game.

Actors : Imtiaz Khan, Zeenat Aman, Vijay Arora, Dharmendra,
Directors : Nasir Hussain,

Three brothers are separated after their parents' murder. Years later, their only hope of avenging their parents and reuniting as a family lies in the song they learned as children.

Actors : Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

In 1942, Britain sends a group of British-trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services.

Actors : Mirjana Bohanec, Franjo Majetic, Relja Basic, Mia Oremovic,
Directors : Kresimir Golik,

The story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, ...

Actors : Pat Ast, Andrea Feldman, Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

"Heat" is a parody of "Sunset Boulevard." Joey Davis, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent, and then tries to exert his influence on Sally ...

Actors : Beverly Johnson, Peter Ustinov, Michael Caine, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.