Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Marquard Bohm, Lou Castel,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Rip Torn, Stella Stevens, Jim Brown,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Actors : Valentina Vladimirova, Mikhail Dadyko, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Ivan Ryzhov,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

A white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It encounters all kinds of people and situations.

Actors : Ronnie Hawkins, Sara Dylan, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Bob Dylan,

This epic is a mass amalgamation of three separate film-types that is, contrary to popular opinion, coherent and a unified whole. Bob Dylan is shown in concert, often masked, during the ...

Actors : Piero Galletti, Luisa Rossi, Nanni Moretti, Lina Sastri,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

An ironic peak into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Spiros Andros, Charles Boyer, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A simple young woman helps eccentric old countess deal with her old age and she introduces the young woman to a world of upper class society.

Actors : Billy Murray, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Roger Daltrey,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest ...

Actors : Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Gérard Darrieu, Bernard Dhéran,
Directors : Joël Séria,

Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a ...

Actors : Beverly Garland, Jim Bray, Linda Blair, Roger Perry,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.

Actors : Abdur Razzak, Suchanda, Shaukat Akbar, Rosy Samad,
Directors : Zahir Raihan,

A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Lloyd Haynes, John Marley, Muhammad Ali,
Directors : Tom Gries,

Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Heidelinde Weis, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic boy is ...

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Marcel Bozzuffi, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland,

A runaway teenager and a mixed-race horse breeder strike an unlikely friendship in the context of common hardships.

Actors : John Heard, Peter Riegert, Mary Beth Hurt, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. His roommate is ...

Actors : Cicely Browne, Lewis E. Ciannelli, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi,

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Actors : Faramarz Gharibian, Nosrat Partovi, Behrouz Vossoughi, Garshasb Raoufi,
Directors : Masud Kimiai,

Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Instead, he finds that his friend is a drug addict. He sticks around to try and ...

Actors : Darel Glaser, Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Miles Chapin,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.

Actors : Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Carmet, Jacques Spiesser,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they ...

Actors : Tunç Okan, Oguz Arlas, Tuncel Kurtiz, Björn Gedda,
Directors : Tunç Okan,

A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away.