Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Reiko Ôhara, Shintarô Katsu, Pîtâ, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Zatoichi meets an infamous blind leader of a gangster organization as he contends with a gloomy ronin widower.

Actors : Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty, Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.

Actors : Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternative reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has ...

Actors : Joachim Bißmeier, Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann,

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie ...

Actors : Bernard Blier, Charles Gérard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to ...

Actors : Gene Hackman, Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Carroll O'Connor,
Directors : George Schaefer,

The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.

Actors : Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis, Myriam Boyer, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Alain Tanner,

The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" ...

Actors : Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover, Edward Cross, Rod Perry,
Directors : Lee Frost,

General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's ...

Actors : Aleksandar Bercek, Bekim Fehmiu, Slavko Stimac, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and ...

Actors : Pai Wei, Damian Lau, Chiu-Hua Wei, Kong Lau,
Directors : John Woo,

A son tries to avenge his father, and gets two sword fighters to help him.

Actors : Judith Brown, Jennifer Gan, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier,
Directors : Gerardo de Leon,

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Actors : Kauko Helovirta, Markku Huhtamo, Paavo Hukkinen, Antti Litja,
Directors : Risto Jarva,

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

The life of the Greek tycoon Aristotelis Onassis.

Actors : Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

Actors : Renzo Palmer, Fabio Testi, Orso Maria Guerrini, Vincent Gardenia,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.

Actors : Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Catherine Jourdan,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

Actors : Sean Bury, Toby Robins, Anicée Alvina, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

A rich English boy meets an orphaned French girl and as they become friends, create a world that is far away from the adult world we live in.

Actors : Fredric March, George Kennedy, Lynn Carlin, Jim Brown,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Actors : Stanislawa Celinska, Daniel Olbrychski, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are...