Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Roman Skamene, Cestmír Randa, Marek Kondrat, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Janusz Majewski,

A teenage country boy starts working in a restaurant of the famous Pacific Hotel in the 1930s. He soon discovers that to get promoted one needs to conform and sacrifice his dignity.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : James Goldstone,

This is an excellent movie beginning for a young man growing up in Mobile with freedom of sailing and girls his age. His naval father goes off to war and relocates him to New Mexico where ...

Actors : Stasys Jonynas, Doloresa Kazragyte, Vladas Bagdonas, Regina Arbaciauskaite,
Directors : Arunas Zebriunas,

Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.

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 : Mervat Amin, Magda El-Khatib, Imad Hamdi, Adel Adham,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.

Actors : Miles Chapin, David Marshall Grant, Blanche Baker, Valérie Quennessen,
Directors : Willard Huyck,

An American group of exchange students come to Paris to study the language and culture for a year. The film depicts the various interactions between the students and the instructors, ...

Actors : Betül Asçioglu, Fikret Hakan, Kadir Inanir, Levent Inanir,
Directors : Serif Gören,

They were two brothers. Now they are enemies for each others. A bridge which connects people, separates them.

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 : Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, E.G. Marshall, Teresa Kelly,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state governor must decide on a person who will ...

Actors : Roger E. Mosley, Alan Manson, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the...

Actors : Alberto Dalbés, Jean Sorel, Carroll Baker, Luis Dávila,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A race-car driver whose life, both personal and professional, is in a rapid downfall is invited by her ex-husband's new wife to stay at their plush estate. The two women form a bond, and ...

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Ugo Bologna, Katya Berger, Michele Soavi,
Directors : Mimmo Cattarinich,

A writer returns home from World War I. He has developed a very bad case of post traumatic stress disorder. He contemplates suicide, but becomes interested in the 12 year old niece of the ...

Actors : Yalçin Avsar, Tamer Çeliker, Hakan Tanfer, Cem Davran,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

Yusuf, 14, and Kenan, 9, are two shepherd brothers. When their father was killed as a result of a blood feud, children flee to Istanbul to find their only relative, uncle Ali. However all ...

Actors : Rekha, Pradeep Kumar, Prem Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Dulal Guha,

A man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life. Six years later he is living with...

Actors : Aytaç Arman, Kuzey Vargin, Yilmaz Güney, Müserref Tezcan,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while ...

Actors : Carter Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Han Jae Ji, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair...

Actors : Rajinikanth, Jayalakshmi, Thengai Srinivasan, Cho Ramaswamy,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

Aarilirunthu Aruvathu varai, Revolves around Santhanam(Rajnikanth) who solely runs his poor family of 2 brothers and a sister, after their parents death, by taking them to higher level in ...

Actors : John Saxon, Tisa Farrow, Stuart Whitman, Martin Landau,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal ...

Actors : Claude Akins, Anthony Quinn, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Carol Reed,

Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.

Actors : Rosalind Cash, Glenda Jackson, Michael Murphy, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Silvio Narizzano,

In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as "To Sir, With Love," comes the story of dedicated teacher Conor MacMichael (Glenda Jackson), who tries to reach out and give to her ...