Best Drama movies of 1970s

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

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

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma, 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 : Angela Lansbury, Heidelinde Weis, Michael York, 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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 : Charles Bronson, Henri Garcin, Jill Ireland, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Actors : Rüdiger Kirschstein, Marc Eyraud, Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

Actors : Alina Pokrovskaya, Andrei Anisimov, Georgiy Yumatov, Vasiliy Lanovoy,
Directors : Vladimir Rogovoy,

Epic Soviet era masterpiece depicting the unshakable bonds of love, friendship & duty amid the horror of war. Two friends-both officers-are in love with the same woman. Through the Russian ...

Actors : Ian McShane, Jill St. John, Edward Woodward, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.

Actors : Kote Daushvili, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili, Lika Kavjaradze,
Directors : Tengiz Abuladze,

This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams...

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Gene Hackman, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black,
Directors : Bill Norton,

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 keys of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

Actors : Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, John Steiner, Leo McKern,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Expensive vines, tables filled with food, but emptiness inside. Everyone has stopped developing, and fastened in their roles. Hurtful, but still funny story about human development.

Actors : Kerem Yilmazer, Nazan Adali, Hülya Koçyigit, Ali Sen,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. ...

Actors : Vanessa Brown, Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Peggy Feury,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree.