Best Drama movies of 1973

Actors : Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Yelena Samarina, Lou Castel,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older ...

Actors : Andrea Montchal, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Greta Schmidt,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power ...

Actors : Fakrul Hasan Boiragi, Narayan Chakraborty, Rosy Samad, Farid Ali,
Directors : Ritwik Ghatak,

A 1973 Bangladeshi film it describes the life of the fishermen on the bank of the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Bernard Le Coq, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jean Chapot,

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Klaus Kinski, Chen Lee, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.

Actors : Hans Christian Blech, Renato Scarpa, Mathieu Carrière, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, ...

Actors : Timothy Bottoms, Maggie Smith, Emiliano Redondo, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

American Walter Elbertson, in his late teens, is feeling lost within his family of overachievers. Thirty-something Englishwoman Lila Fisher is emotionally repressed. The two meet on their ...

Actors : Yumi Kanei, Masakazu Tamura, Hiroshi Tsukata, Meiko Kaji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.

Actors : Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak, Jan Skotnicki,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

Tabloid life of a physicist; his work, his love life and his quest for the meaning beyond.

Actors : José María Prada, Daniel Quenaud, Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children (boys). Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

After his mistress is savagely beaten up a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Actors : Pauli Jauhojärvi, Aimo Saukko, Maritta Viitamäki, Milja Hiltunen,
Directors : Rauni Mollberg,

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-...

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna, Stephen Archibald,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, George Rose, Johnny Doran,
Directors : Fielder Cook,

Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ...

Actors : Sanjay Khan, Navin Nischol, Danny Denzongpa, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : B.R. Chopra,

A traveler decides to assist a woman involved in a murder.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Carole André, Lionel Stander, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Dino Risi,

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They...

Actors : Robert Ryan, Scott Wilson, Rod Steiger, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.

Actors : Lynn Lowry, George Shannon, Monique van Vooren, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Theodore Gershuny,

A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A nihilistic ronin joins the immoral Bohachi clan, which intends to take control over the local prostitution industry.