Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Hung Wei, Wu Chi Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

Chen Kuan-tai battles assassins that use a deadly, beheading weapon to kill dissidents. Based on true events, the film's weapon was completely fabricated because in real life, no one ever ...

Actors : Kin Sugai, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Eiji Okada, Akiji Kobayashi,
Directors : Akio Jissôji,

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Actors : Kanchana, Kamal Haasan, Bhagyaraj, Goundamani,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

Kamal Haasan, the central character, is a man terribly soured by his unvaryingly devastating encounters with the opposite sex. He develops a pathological hatred for women and uses his charm...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.

Actors : Paul Meurisse, Marcel Bozzuffi, Alain Delon, Annie Girardot,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. The same inspector who's searching for him is also looking for a jewel thief, Yan Kuq, whose wife has died under suspicious ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Kôji Tsuruta, Akiko Kudô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Actors : Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Mikica Dimitrijevic, Athol Fugard,
Directors : Peter Brook,

G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming ...

Actors : Miki Sugimoto, Eiji Gô, Hideo Murota, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yukio Noda,

After a politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang, a brutal policewoman is released from jail and sent after them.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Tim Pigott-Smith, Elizabeth Spriggs,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical ...

Actors : Tatyana Bedova, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Georgiy Taratorkin, Viktoriya Fyodorova,
Directors : Lev Kulidzhanov,

Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention ...

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Klaus Kinski, Chen Lee, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.

Actors : Laszlone Horvath, László Horváth, Gábor Kun, Gábor Ifj. Kun,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

The breakdown of the relationship of a couple by living in a flat of the husband's parents.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Jon Voight,
Directors : Maximilian Schell,

While investigating a high-profile murder case, a savvy but unorthodox veteran police inspector has to cope with a bad conscience, bad health, an overzealous partner, a timid superior and ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Laura Betti,

A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.

Actors : Isela Vega, Ken Norton, Pam Grier, Warren Oates,

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.

Actors : Bobby Alto, Joe Cortese, Lou Criscuolo, Joe Pesci,
Directors : Ralph De Vito,

Neighborhood kid goes to work for the Mafia as a debt collector.

Actors : Andrew Byatt, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, David Beames,
Directors : Christopher Petit,

Set in 1970's Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.

Actors : Eric Porter, Hildegard Neil, John Castle, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Charlton Heston,

After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.

Actors : Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Madge Sinclair, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Joseph Manduke,

A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.