Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Fredric March, Lee Marvin, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Ray Sharkey, Sissy Spacek, John Heard,
Directors : John Byrum,

The life and friendship between the icons of the Beat Generation - Neal Cassady, Carloyn Cassady and Jack Kerouac.

Actors : Juro Kara, Yasuko Sanjo, Masao Imafuku, Katsuo Nakamura,
Directors : Toshio Matsumoto,

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

Actors : Luigi Vannucchi, Tony Roberts, Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jean-Paul Rappeneau,

Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement with Vittorio, Nelly runs away from him. As he pursued her, she looks for help to Martin, a French middle-aged man she met by accident. He ...

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ...

Actors : Kostas Karras, Kostas Kazakos, Tatiana Papamoschou, Irene Papas,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.

Actors : Hiroki Matsukata, Shin'ichi Chiba, Teruhiko Saigô, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and ...

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 : Perry King, Peter Donat, Meg Foster, Valerie Curtin,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

A homosexual woman marries a gay male friend to prevent his deportation, but they soon fall in love.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Michael York,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

At a British Regimental party in Colonial India the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior lieutenants of the crime.

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 : James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Neal, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.

Actors : Kathryn Walker, Trini Alvarado, John Lithgow, Jeremy Levy,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.

Actors : Christopher Lee, Maria Rohm, Jack Taylor, Marie Liljedahl,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

An innocent girl goes to spend the weekend on an island with a woman and her brother, but soon she finds herself entangled in a web of dream-like sexual experiments.

Actors : Allu Ramalingaiah, Manju Bhargavi, Somayajulu J.V., Tulasi,
Directors : K. Viswanath,

The story of a rare and exceptional bond between the master of classical music Sankara Sastry and his admirer Tulasi, a woman from a family of prostitutes.

Actors : Vladimír Smeral, Josef Kemr, Elo Romancik, Sona Valentová,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).

Actors : Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, George Coulouris, Carla Gravina,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

Ippolita is a paralyzed young woman with serious mental problems stemming from the death of her mother. Her crisis of faith and the intervention of a well-meaning psychologist lead Ippolita...

Actors : Sonja Jeannine, John Steiner, Donald O'Brien, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A bounty hunter arrives in a mining town and is hired to track down the missing daughter of the town's crippled mayor and learns she has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and a band of outlaws he is secretly working for.

Actors : Renato Romano, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ...