Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.

Actors : Eric Henshaw, Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman, Doris Hargrave,
Directors : Eagle Pennell,

Lloyd (Lou Perry) and Frank (Sonny Davis), two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has ...

Actors : Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson,
Directors : Joy N. Houck Jr.,

Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.

Actors : Alan Long, Gini Eastwood, Jill Senter, Tom Quinn,
Directors : Bernard Hirschenson,

Sexy hippie chicks Carol and Maureen get more than they bargained for when they hitch a ride with groovy hippie dude Chuck in his nifty mobile bus home. The trio get lost in the Florida ...

Actors : Harold Hopkins, Jack Thompson, Frank Wilson, Graham Kennedy,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.

Actors : Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, Max Fairchild,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to ...

Actors : Allen Fiuzat, Benji, Patsy Garrett, Art Vasil,
Directors : Joe Camp,

Benji sniffs out a bogus CIA agent in Athens, Greece.

Actors : Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos, Toula Stathopoulou, Petros Hoedas,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Costas Ghoussis, an emigrant recently returned to ...

Actors : Piotr Garlicki, Christine Paul-Podlasky, Mariusz Dmochowski, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the ...

Actors : Padma Khanna, Trilok Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Nutan,
Directors : Sudhendu Roy,

Moti sells gurd in the market. He collects the raw material and takes them to an older woman, Mahjubhi, who makes exemplary gurd. Moti loves a village girl but is unable to afford to pay ...

Actors : Cristian Sofron, Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.

Actors : Nathalie Juvet, Claude Marcault, Philippe Rouleau, François Marthouret,
Directors : Michel Deville,

An unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.

Actors : Tricy Abramovici, Mircea Albulescu, Zephi Alsec, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Manole Marcus,

Actors : Laurence Luckinbill, Kathleen Quinlan, Beatrice Straight, Stephen Collins,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

Actors : Eiji Okada, Shintarô Katsu, Yukiyo Toake, Kei Satô,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds.

Actors : Ian Mune, Sam Neill, Nevan Rowe, Warren Oates,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between leftist guerillas and the New Zealand government. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, ...

Actors : Amza Pellea, Jean Constantin, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and...

Actors : Susan Anspach, Eugene Levy, Michael Douglas, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Steven Hilliard Stern,

American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do ...

Actors : Wendy Hughes, Bill Hunter, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

In post war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie going public.