Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Beverly Garland, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Grodin, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Claudia Weill,

A successful but stressed mathematics professor (Clayburgh) goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son (Douglas), a prematurely retired pro baseball player...

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 : 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 : Florinda Bolkan, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Higgins, María Casares,
Directors : Gianfranco Mingozzi,

After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.

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

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

Actors : Hank Henry, Charles Braswell, Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : George Stevens,

Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.

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

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

Actors : David Chiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Assassin Chang and his brother Hung meet up with a soldier, Mu. Together, they form a small mountain army, but when Hung's wife arrives, emotions swell, and Mu leaves for the army. After ...

Actors : Theresa Saldana, Rudy Ramos, Danny Aiello, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : John Flynn,

Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the...

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 : 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 : Yûjirô Ishihara, Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, Ruriko Asaoka,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set ...

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 : Feroz Khan, Amjad Khan, Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

A cabaret dancer and singer, Sheela (Zeenat Aman) has two admirers: a small-time thief Rajesh (Feroz Khan), and a young, eligible widower, Amar (Vinod Khanna). Both are best friends and ...

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

Actors : Oru Viral Krishna Rao, Kamal Haasan, Prathap Pothen, Dilip,
Directors : K. Balachander,

Poetical forces play in the life of an unemployed yet well educated young man.He finds the depth and the beauty of his principles yet fate leaves him in destitution

Actors : Thalmus Rasulala, Diana Sands, Roscoe Orman, Joyce Walker,
Directors : Gilbert Moses,

A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.

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 ...