Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Lieh Lo, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom ...

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 : 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 : Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela, Charly Bravo, Vicente Parra,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Norman Briski, Amparo Muñoz,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Ana is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In ...

Actors : Kara Hui, Lung Wei Wang, Lieh Lo, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Lieh Lo,

The monk Hung Wen-Ting fights against the evil priest White Lotus.

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 : Hazel O'Connor, Jonathan Pryce, Jon Finch, Phil Daniels,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.

Actors : Keizô Kanie, Kazuko Inano, Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

During the currency devaluation by the Edo treasury, officer Hanzo deals with a temple priestess who sells her pupils as prostitutes, and a notorious thief who plans to rob the mint.

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

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

Actors : David Chiang, Sheng Fu, Lung Ti, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple...now each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles...they will become The Five Shaolin Masters!!

Actors : Mark Lester, Uschi Glas, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence,
Directors : James Hill,

When farmer Evan's mare has a fine son, he promises the black stallion to his son Joe. The youngster enjoy growing up as playmates. Alas, once the good squire is buried, his mean heir, who ...

Actors : Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Jean-Claude Drouot, Kirk Douglas,
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 : Blanche Kommerell, Erwin Geschonneck, Vlastimil Brodský, Henry Hübchen,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ...

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Lawrence Pressman, 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 : Michael Gothard, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jérôme Beauvarlet, Monique Giraudy,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder explores themes of sexual freedom, mind alteration, and pursuit of paradise against the backdrop of an early 70's encounter with the Mapuga rain forest tribe in upland New Guinea.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Maurice Biraud, Romy Schneider, Paul Amiot,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

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.