Best Drama movies of 1970s

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

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

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

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

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

Actors : Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian, Ted Cassidy,

A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.

Actors : Dolores Dorn, Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Lee Grant,

Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.

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 : Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Jüri Järvet, Uldis Pucitis,
Directors : Grigori Kromanov,

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen.

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 : 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 : 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 : Sacha Bulthuis, Adendu Soesilaningrat, Maruli Sitompul, Peter Faber,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, ...

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Yue Wong, Lieh Lo, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.

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 : Teofil Vâlcu, Emanoil Petrut, Ernest Maftei, Stefan Sileanu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Kei Yamamoto, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.