Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Joe Silver, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black,
Directors : Tom O'Horgan,

A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.

Actors : Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Jeevan, Pran,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Monu (Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father gets killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit (Premnath). Mohan kills the ...

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Markov, Galina Belyaeva, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Emil Loteanu,

You can't make a heart love somebody. This gospel is well known to the young Olenka. Born in a poor family, she has to marry a rich man to escape poverty. Three men fight for her heart, the...

Actors : Vincenzo Crocitti, Gloria Guida, Ray Lovelock, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to ...

Actors : Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Actors : David Lampson, Mako, Don Kenny, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor.

Actors : Magali Noël, Helmut Griem, Hanns Zischler, Aurore Clément,
Directors : Chantal Akerman,

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to ...

Actors : Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Homicide detective Steve Carella is trying to solve the brutal murder of 17-year-old Muriel Stark. Her younger cousin Patricia, who saw the killer and barely escaped with her life, helps him. However, the case soon takes a bizarre turn.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Colicos, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.

Actors : Jan Schmid, Julius Albert, Jitka Novákova, Karel Novak,
Directors : Vera Chytilová,

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Sheila Reid, Elliott Gould, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor...

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Shun Domon, Asami Ogawa, Hiromi Namino,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

One dark and stormy night, a middle age prison escapee haphazardly breaks into the luxurious mason of a wealthy and privileged family and rapes the young wife in front of her bound husband....

Actors : Shubha, Arathi, Aswath, Vishnuvardhan,
Directors : S.R. Puttana Kanagal,

This is the tale of an angry young man with flavours of Teacher-student relationship, the stubbornness of Ramachari(protagonist) and his attempts at having a romantic relationship.

Actors : Atsuko Kaku, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya, Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuo Nakamura,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.

Actors : Sean Grady, Larry Brodsky, Jim Fitzpatrick, Alan Bowers,
Directors : David Jamison,

Steve Street is about to lead his Highschool Football team to the City Championship, when he's diagnosed with cancer.

Actors : Ni Tien, Lieh Lo, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Don't miss this one it is excellent. Chinese sword masters pair up to fight off yet another villain for the deadly PeacockDart. The ending is eye popping don't miss this one. Shaw Brothers come thru yet again

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, John Liu, Chiang Wang, Hsin Hsing Kuo,
Directors : See-Yuen Ng,

Hwang Jang Lee is a corrupt Ming guard who frames John Liu for murder. A wanted fugitive, John hides out with a teen who is an expert in the infamous Iron Armor technique, a technique that ...

Actors : Katie Johnson, Wallace Earl Laven, Jill Lansing, Stuart Taylor,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Sumita Sanyal, Utpal Dutt, Dharmendra,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

A teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."

Actors : Ching Wong, Yang Kao, Jackie Chan, Qiu Yuen,
Directors : Mu Chu,

Historical movie, set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII, in which a group of Chinese rebels tries to oust the Japanese forces from a small town. Jackie Chan is one of the ...