Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Laurence Luckinbill, Kathleen Quinlan, Beatrice Straight, Stephen Collins,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

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 : 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, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

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

Actors : Eugene Levy, Susan Anspach, Michael Douglas, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Steven Hilliard Stern,

American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him...

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Dolores Dorn, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do ...

Actors : Nathalie Juvet, Claude Marcault, Philippe Rouleau, François Marthouret,
Directors : Michel Deville,

An unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.

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 : Eric Henshaw, Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman, Doris Hargrave,
Directors : Eagle Pennell,

Lloyd (Lou Perry) and Frank (Sonny Davis), two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has ...

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 : 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.

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

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

Actors : Wendy Hughes, Bill Hunter, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

In post war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie going public.

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.