Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Edit Kelemen, Judit Halász, András Szamosfalvi, András Bálint,
Directors : István Szabó,

Jancsi reminiscences about Kata his childhood friend in WWII Budapest, They are separated as a result of 1956 revolution. Reunited as adults, they struggle with whether they will stay in each others lives.

Actors : Yolanda Ríos, Christine Aurel, Sandra Mozarowsky, Monica Swinn,
Directors : Alain Payet,

The SS puts a slutty nightclub singer in charge of a train car full of prostitutes whose "services" are reserved solely for senior Nazis.

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Actors : Jana Krupicková, Petr Cepek, Emma Cerná, Jan Vostrcil,
Directors : Frantisek Vlácil,

In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to ...

Actors : Miroslava Safránková, Petr Svojtka, Radovan Lukavský, Libuse Safránková,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems ...

Actors : Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Suzy Kendall, James Laurenson,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Laura Antonelli, Leonard Mann, William Berger,
Directors : Marco Vicario,

Since her husband pronounced her frigid on her wedding night, Antonia DeAngelis has been an invalid. When he disappears, she believes him dead: she leaves her bed and takes over his ...

Actors : Nick Holt, Karl Wallace, Paul Bentzen, Debbi Pick,
Directors : Bill Rebane,

A group of young pilots in a remote region of the Canadian wilderness begin to hear strange reports over their radios about planes crashing, cars stalling and a deadly plague which has ...

Actors : Anton Diffring, Olivia Pascal, Günter Clemens, Uschi Zech,
Directors : Hubert Frank,

Olivia Pascal stars as Vanessa who was raised in a convent after the death of her parents. Due to an inheritance she travels to Hong Kong to find out the inheritance is a chain of bordellos...

Actors : John Gielgud, Jan Ciecierski, Andrzej Seweryn, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was...

Actors : Angelica Ippolito, Gian Maria Volontè, Mario Adorf, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Journey into the fears of the escort agent Graziano, guilty of knowing too much.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Harry Belafonte,
Directors : Ján Kadár,

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for ...

Actors : John Savage, Ann Sothern, Luana Anders, Ruth Roman,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem...

Actors : Brad Davis, Shelley Long, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system and begin to lose their ideals.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Cameron Mitchell, Diane Ladd, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Martin B. Cohen,

In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul ...

Actors : Komaki Kurihara, Takiko Mizunoe, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

Actors : Vivian Weiss, Li Paelz, Rolf Eden, Ingrid Steeger,

A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe ...

Actors : Beryl Reid, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of ...

Actors : Flore Fitzgerald, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

Actors : Max Cullen, Jack Thompson, Robert Bruning, Jerry Thomas,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.