Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Roger Davis, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Sixteen years after Ruby Claire's gangster boyfriend was shot and killed by four associates, a series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movie theatre she now owns. Meanwhile, ...

Actors : Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Stuart Burge,

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both ...

Actors : Roberto Sosa, Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against ...

Actors : Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Veena,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

The story of a prostitute, with a pure heart (PAKEEZAH), and grand dreams...

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 : 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 : Hector Elizondo, Susan Blakely, Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.

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 : 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 : Ian McShane, Sean Connery, Isabel Dean, Jeffry Wickham,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

A gang of hijackers led by Ray Petrie (Ian McShane) seize a British plane as it is landing in Scandinavia. Ruthless military police chief Colonel Tahlvik (Sean Connery) is assigned to ...

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Bud Cort, Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Murray MacLeod,
Directors : Stuart Hagmann,

An apolitical college student joins a group of campus protesters to meet girls but gets swept up in their cause and involved in a violent confrontation with police.

Actors : Barasbi Mulayev, Svetlana Toma, Ion Sandri Scurea, Grigore Grigoriu,
Directors : Emil Loteanu,

Rada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal men's hearts and monk them. Zobar is a horse thief who's heart is stolen by Rada and his mind is bewitched. He is ready to give up his freedom but not his pride.

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, Jean Carmet, Catherine Rouvel, 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 : Frimann Falck Clausen, Tom Courtenay, Alf Malland, Espen Skjønberg,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on ...

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 : Patrick Dewaere, Dorothée Jemma, France Dougnac, Maurice Barrier,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team's star, and is ordered off the field. The club's boss, who is also ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : François Leterrier,

Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows ...

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.