Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Giampiero Albertini, Arthur Kennedy, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

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

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

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

The life of the Greek tycoon Aristotelis Onassis.

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 : 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 : 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 : Richard Harris, Rod Taylor, Al Lettieri, Neville Brand,

A Sheriff, who negotiates with bank robbers, ends up getting his family killed during their escape. The Sheriff chases the gang into Mexico on his own. While attempting to exact his vengeance, he is at odds with a Mexican lawman.

Actors : Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.

Actors : José María Prada, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Vivó,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

The young but travelled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family: the matriarch is a sick old woman obsessed by ...

Actors : Duke Mitchell, Louis Zito, Vic Caesar, Lorenzo Dodo,
Directors : Duke Mitchell,

Mimi Miceli Jr. is, the son of a Mafia don who was exiled back to Sicily. He wants to get back into the family business and transplant it from New York to Hollywood. After the kidnapping ...

Actors : David Gulpilil, Peter Cummins, Greg Rowe, Judy Dick,
Directors : Henri Safran,

Storm Boy is a rambunctious Australian youth, living along the coastline with his freewheeling father. At the behest of an aging aborigine, Storm Boy takes care of an uncared-for nest of pelicans.