Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Fred Delmare, Heidemarie Wenzel, Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder,
Directors : Heiner Carow,

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. ...

Actors : Don Brooks, Bobby Kendall, Charles Ludlam,
Directors : James Bidgood,

An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Hermine Karagheuz, Jean Babilée, Juliet Berto,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Dominique Sanda, Max von Sydow, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Fred Haines,

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and ...

Actors : David Chiang, Ching Lee, Feng Ku, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he ...

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Biao Yuen, Billy Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Knockabout is Sammo HungÂ's (TVÂ's Martial Law, The Legend Of Zu) brilliant cinematic achievement at merging comedy with kung fu. His meticulous blending of the two ingredients is vividly demonstrated in this film.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Christine Pascal, Claude Piéplu, Patrick Bouchitey,
Directors : Claude Miller,

In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe...

Actors : Masao Adachi, Rie Yokoyama, Ken Yoshizawa, Yuki Aresa,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

The movie focuses on the actions of a revolutionary movement.

Actors : Sam McMurray, Terry Walsh, Debbie Harry, Dennis Lipscomb,
Directors : Marcus Reichert,

A man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.

Actors : Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Actors : James Woods, Steve Railsback, Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are ...

Actors : Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau, Vincent Gardère, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.

Actors : Rita Macedo, Diana Bracho, Claudio Brook, Arturo Beristáin,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife)...

Actors : Barry Newman, Dolph Sweet, John Vernon, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. By setting himself up as a criminal, he plans to get close to a ...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Christine Pascal, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

France, 1719. Four years after Louix XIV's death, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent for the nine-year-old Louis XIV. Philippe is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an ...

Actors : Peter Carsten, Elke Sommer, Marius Goring, Michael York,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In 1915, frustrated with the German air-raids on London, British Intelligence sends Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, who has German ancestry, to Germany, to find information about the latest German Zeppelin.

Actors : John Macurdy, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa, Ruggero Raimondi,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom ...

Actors : Aydin Babaoglu, Rüstü Asyali, Deniz Erkanat, Alev Oraloglu,
Directors : Metin Erksan,

Keloglan (Bald Boy) is a dreamer but his only ability is talking, one day The Sultan announces a tournament and best warrior of the land will win his daughter, Keloglan wants to join the ...

Actors : David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.