Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Sandy Harbutt, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Deryck Barnes, Lex Mitchell,
Directors : Sandy Harbutt,

Members of the Grave Diggers Motorcycle Club are being knocked off one by one, and someone needs to find out why! Sandy Harbutt's timeless Australian cult film about a bunch of renegades riding Kawasaki 900s.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Kirk Douglas, Jean-Claude Drouot,
Directors : Kevin Billington,

A ruthless pirate captures the keeper of a lighthouse, somewhere in north Argentina. His goal is obvious and horrific. He plans to control the lighthouses signals in a way that the passing ships will be crushed on the rocks.

Actors : Solange Boulanger, Catherine Schroeder, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

The exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table.

Actors : Ching-Hsia Chiang, Jackie Chan, Feng Hsu, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : Wei Lo,

Young master Cao Le chases his pregnant girlfriend away from the family castle. He does it in order to save her from vicious bandits who are going to murder his family.

Actors : Hollye Holmes, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

A family flees the city for the wilderness. They learn to live with nature and more importantly, that when one has family, one has everything.

Actors : Kate Jackson, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Lara Parker,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches.

Actors : Fakhri Khorvash, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Behrouz Vossoughi,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped brother with a deformed head falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest ...

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Stephen Archibald, Karl Fieseler,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the ...

Actors : Serene Hedin, James Remar, Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus,
Directors : Kieth Merrill,

An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians ...

Actors : Erik Estrada, Jacqueline Giroux, Jo-Ann Robinson, Pat Boone,
Directors : Don Murray,

Crusading minister gets involved in the lives of members of a New York street gang.

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Casanova Wong, Chia Yung Liu,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Beloved for its combination of thrilling combat choreography and hilarious physical comedy, the film tells the story of a humble cashier who discovers a plot to kill his small town mayor.

Actors : David Abraham, Rajesh Khanna, Sujit Kumar, Tanuja,
Directors : M.A. Thirumugham,

Orphaned Raju, in the company of four elephants, has to perform with them at street corners, in order to keep alive. Slowly he amasses a fortune, and is able to build his own private zoo, ...

Actors : Randy Danson, Marilyn Jones, Kevin Wade, Grant Stewart,
Directors : Mark Rappaport,

Spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama.

Actors : Dave Armstrong, Barry Baker, Terry Barry, Reg Bazell,

A young British punk and roadie for The Clash navigates life in socially torn 1970s England.

Actors : James Booth, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr, David Essex,
Directors : Claude Whatham,

Abandoned by his father at an early age, Jim MacLaine seems to have inherited the old man's restlessness. Despite his apparent intelligence, Jim decides not to take the exams that would ...

Actors : Mari Csomós, Gyöngyi Bürös, Erzsi Cserhalmi, Andrea Drahota,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.

Actors : Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell, Maud Adams, Maureen Kerwin,
Directors : David Hamilton,

Sculptor Paul meets a former great love again after a long time -- but is much more impressed by her 15-year-old daughter, Laura, who looks like her mother when Paul was in love with her. ...

Actors : Lawrence Pressman, Maximilian Schell, Luther Adler, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo, Franco Nero, Claudio Gora,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reaches everything and everybody. A police inspector and a deputy public ...

Actors : Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Lee Marvin, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber, who teaches him the trade.