Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : Ivan Ivanov, Yanina Kasheva, Valcho Kamarashev, Ibish Orhanov,
Directors : Borislav Sharaliev,

A boy from a poor Sofia neighborhood - Rado who is orphan and has committed several petty crimes - is sent to a borstal, or, to put it otherwise becomes a juvenile prisoner. Unfortunately, ...

Actors : Bilal Inci, Atilla Olgaç, Yilmaz Güney, Hayati Hamzaoglu,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, ...

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 : 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 : 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 : John Savage, Luana Anders, Ann Sothern, 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 : Silvano Rey, José Antonio Rodríguez, Luis Alberto García, Nelson Villagra,
Directors : Tomás Gutiérrez Alea,

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

Actors : Jack Thompson, Max Cullen, 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.

Actors : William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Adam Roarke, Houston Savage,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Hell's Angels vs. the Viet Cong!

Actors : Ernest Maftei, Amza Pellea, Ioana Pavelescu, Gheorghe Dinica,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.

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 : 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 : Cheri Caffaro, Richard Smedley, Patrick Wright, Laurie Rose,
Directors : Don Schain,

Cheerleaders and models are kidnapped & sold by a white slavery ring. Female agent is sent to rescue them.

Actors : William Smith, Peter Brown, Tom Simcox, Ahna Capri,
Directors : William Gibson,

Wildlife photographer Terry and her brother Art go to Venezuela for a photo shoot. They hire Jim Pendrake to guide them through the jungle. However, the trio run afoul of evil local hunter Caribe.

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 : 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 : 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 : Lucien Guérin, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin, Serge Avedikian,
Directors : Philippe Vallois,

During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. As their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should ...