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

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

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Chia Yung Liu, Casanova Wong,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : David Chiang, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu, 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 : 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 : Gyöngyi Bürös, Mari Csomós, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...