Best Drama movies of 1970

Actors : Jan Schmid, Julius Albert, Jitka Novákova, Karel Novak,
Directors : Vera Chytilová,

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.

Actors : Doug McGrath, Jayne Eastwood, Cayle Chernin, Paul Bradley,
Directors : Donald Shebib,

Two friends leave the picturesque yet rural province of Nova Scotia for the nightlife and culture of Toronto. They soon end up wistful and nostalgic about Nova Scotia though after finding out that Toronto isn't as fun as they'd hoped.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Orson Bean, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig,
Directors : Richard Donner,

A 38 year old American novelist discovers the difficulties of being married to a British 16 year old schoolgirl.

Actors : Valentina Telichkina, Inna Churikova, Tatyana Stepanova, Leonid Kuravlyov,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck...

Actors : Kin Sugai, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Eiji Okada, Akiji Kobayashi,
Directors : Akio Jissôji,

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini, Manuel Zarzo,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist ...

Actors : Gela Kandelaki, Irine Jandieri, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansug Kakhidze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to ...

Actors : Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Jeevan, Pran,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Monu (Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father gets killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit (Premnath). Mohan kills the ...

Actors : Faik Coskun, Esen Püsküllü, Sadri Alisik, Salih Güney,
Directors : Mehmet Dinler,

This movie is about two lovers of a poor neighbourhood. Hüsnü and Müjgan love each other and they are on the brink of getting married. However, the son of Müjgan's boss sees her and ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Hideo Sunazuka, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

Actors : Wayne Rodda, Ulla Koppel, Paul Valjean, Avi Sagild,
Directors : Jens Jørgen Thorsen,

Not so quiet, Joey and Carl's days in Clichy... The two men, living in a small apartment, are penniless writers, with not enough to eat, which does not prevent them from enjoying life. One ...

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 : Anthony Quinn, Paul Winfield, Gary Lockwood, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. ...

Actors : Zia Mohyeddin, Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Aparna Sen,
Directors : James Ivory,

Lucia Lane, an English writer by way of the US, arrives in Bombay to watch the filming of one of her novels. She's nearing middle age, she's had several husbands, she's lonely and ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Calvin Lockhart, Billie Whitelaw, Glenna Forster-Jones,
Directors : John Boorman,

Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's ...

Actors : Christian Roberts, Nigel Davenport, Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Alan Cooke,

A man who has been in a coma since infancy is awakened.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson, Diane Ladd,
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 : William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Adam Roarke, Houston Savage,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Hell's Angels vs. the Viet Cong!

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 : 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 ...