Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : William Smith, Barbara Leigh, Guich Koock, Christopher Joy,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.

Actors : Anant Nag, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Vishwam (Naseeruddin Shah) is the youngest brother of the powerful and influential village Zamindar (Amrish Puri). The Zamindar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and ...

Actors : Farid Shawqi, Soad Hosny, Nour El-Sherif, Kamal Al-Shennawi,
Directors : Aly Badrakhan,

In Egypt, a group of university students were arrested without comitting a crime because of their meetings at the cafe "Karnak", which was known for hosting some thinkers who sometimes criticize the 1952 revolution.

Actors : Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Jodie Foster, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Directors : Don Taylor,

A couple, whose daughter has a life-threatening heart condition, decides to make her last days of life as meaningful for her as possible by taking her to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

Actors : Feng Tien, Chun Shih, Yueh Sun, Feng Hsu,
Directors : King Hu,

An esquire and a General eyes a priceless handwritten scroll by Tripitaka, held in a Temple library. The Abbot of the Temple selects his successor.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Danuta Wodynska, Emilia Krakowska, Olgierd Lukaszewicz,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with ...

Actors : Dan McCann, Jeff Roth, Ralph Richmond, A. Michael Baldwin,
Directors : Don Coscarelli,

Several days in the life of Kenny, a typical 12-year-old, and his friends. Kenny goes through all the activities that most of us went through as kids as he and his friends prepare for ...

Actors : Haskell V. Anderson III, Mike Thomas, Roy Jefferson, Le Tari,
Directors : Bill Berry,

A group of black Vietnam vets go up against the Ku Klux Klan.

Actors : Mira Banjac, Gordana Kosanovic, Irfan Mensur, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic,
Directors : Goran Paskaljevic,

This dramatic and yet comical story sorrounds a good-hearted young man who wants to get married to a girl he loves but can't get a good job, home of his own, and both of their parents ...

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Steno,

This is a story of a secret organization of former police officers, who go beyond the law, to kill notorious criminals without trial. One police inspector, (intense performance: Enrico ...

Actors : Chieko Baishô, Kaori Momoi, Tetsuya Takeda, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

Three complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.

Actors : Rod Steiger, Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.

Actors : Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Mairi Hronopoulou, Aliki Georgouli,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

It is New Year's Eve. 1976. On a Greek island a party of bourgeois hunters comes upon a body, buried in the snow and miraculously preserved by the cold. By his uniform, he appears to be one...

Actors : Mária Bajcsay, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras, Mari Töröcsik,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.

Actors : Güven Sengil, Yildirim Önal, Yilmaz Güney, Ramazan Akboga,

The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are...

Actors : Anna Zinnemann, Antiniska Nemour, Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario,
Directors : Enzo Milioni,

While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Actors : Yoshiaki Makita, Kaizo Kamoda, Naho Kimura, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.

Actors : Kuan Tai Chen, Chia-Hui Liu, Yue Wong, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Teenager Wong Fei-hung is sent to train in the art of hung gar kung fu from his father's teacher, Luk Ah-choy. With training complete, Wong must fight an assassin and regain the honor of his school.

Actors : John Hurt, Francine Racette, David Hemmings, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Stuart Cooper,

Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.

Actors : Yoshie Kitsuda, Junko Miyashita, Eimei Esumi, Genshû Hanayagi,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

A true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo headlines in 1936.