Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Hideo Sunazuka, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

Actors : Lucha Villa, Fernando Soler, Roberto Cobo, Ana Martín,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a ...

Actors : Pauli Jauhojärvi, Aimo Saukko, Maritta Viitamäki, Milja Hiltunen,
Directors : Rauni Mollberg,

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-...

Actors : Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy,
Directors : Marek Piestrak,

The movie is about "finite nonlinears," robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually replace human beings in space ...

Actors : Gila Almagor, Assi Dayan, Klaus Kinski, Yehoram Gaon,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to ...

Actors : Monica Vitti, Paolo Bonacelli, Luigi Diberti, Franco Branciaroli,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A hunted man breaks into the castle at Oberwald to kill the Queen, but faints before doing so. He is Sebastian, the splitting image of the King who was assassinated on his wedding day. The ...

Actors : Yeh Tien, Hsin Tang, Yu Wang, Fei Lung,
Directors : Yu Wang,

After his schoolmate and master is killed and he loses an arm, student Tien Lung has to learn the art of one-arm boxing.

Actors : Lisa Copeland, Cliff Emmich, Tommy Lee Jones, Yvette Mimieux,
Directors : Michael Miller,

This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Joan Collins, Mark Burns, Sue Lloyd,
Directors : Quentin Masters,

Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is ...

Actors : Ernst Hannawald, Werner Schwuchow, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life ...

Actors : Gigi Proietti, Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Quinn plays a retired bakery tycoon, alienated from his two sons and jealously guarding his vast wealth... until a cunning young beauty (Sanda) enters the picture, marries one son, seduces ...

Actors : Valentina Telichkina, Inna Churikova, Tatyana Stepanova, Leonid Kuravlyov,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Roger Pigaut, Bruno Cremer, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

A simple story about simple people. A 38 old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband (Georges). ...

Actors : Joni Flynn, Jody Hanson, Glory Annen, Chris Milne,
Directors : John D. Lamond,

Young Felicity lives in a monastic school. The only way to live out her sexual fantasies is together with her girlfriend Jenny. But then she receives an invitation to her sister in ...

Actors : José María Prada, Daniel Quenaud, Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children (boys). Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected ...

Actors : Valentina Telichkina, Stanislav Lyubshin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Larisa Kuznetsova,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.

Actors : Anthony May, Brian Deacon, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection; liking the female role he goes to a dance with another soldier and is exposed.

Actors : Chung-Kuei Chang, Chiu Ho, Sung-Chuan Shen, Chao-Ming Kang,
Directors : Kei Law,

Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn ...

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Laura Gemser, Don Powell, Karin Schubert,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring that traffics in women kidnapped from various locales around the world. Her ...

Actors : Hans Christian Blech, Renato Scarpa, Mathieu Carrière, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, ...