Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Dean Martin, Thalmus Rasulala, Eugene Roche, Denise Nicholas,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

A San Francisco attorney (Dean Martin) is hired to defend a black militant accused of murder.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Yekaterina Mazurova, Irina Anisimova-Wulf, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ...

Actors : Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Zezé Motta, Altair Lima, Elke Maravilha, Walmor Chagas,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributs" in order to get power.

Actors : Burl Ives, Robert Morley, Paul Lynde, Jesse Emmett,
Directors : Bill Feigenbaum,

The Sultan of Zanzibar has a problem--his harbor is infested with sharks. To solve the problem, he brings in twelve hippos to keep the sharks away, and it works. But once the hippos are no ...

Actors : Filiz Akin, Yilmaz Güney, Eris Akman, Refik Kemal Arduman,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Actors : Cristina Raines, Clarke Peters, David Essex, Beau Bridges,
Directors : David Wickes,

A young hot-headed motorbike enthusiast inherits the prototype for an incredibly fast machine which was designed by his brother. He successfully gets the finance for it, and uses the bike ...

Actors : Deborah Winters, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

The sequel to Summer of '42 (1971) reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Vladimir Gaitan, Sebastian Papaiani, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1916 Romanian Army lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu jealously obsesses over his wife Lena's apparent infidelity and contests against gigolo lawyer Nicolau for Lena's love.

Actors : George E. Carey, Luanne Roberts, Susan Romen, James Almanzar,
Directors : Don Henderson,

A middle-aged husband falls for his childrens' teenaged babysitter.

Actors : Mia Farrow, Topol, Margaret Rawlings, Michael Jayston,
Directors : Carol Reed,

When a straight-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. His wife doesn't keep regular hours, so he suspects an affair and hires a ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

Actors : Jamal Hashmi, Balraj Sahni, Gita Siddharth, A.K. Hangal,
Directors : M.S. Sathyu,

In post-partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Robert Rivard, Donald Pilon, Reynald Bouchard,
Directors : Gilles Carle,

A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks...

Actors : Marie Tifo, Charlotte Laurier, Louise Marleau, Germain Houde,
Directors : Francis Mankiewicz,

A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.

Actors : Yossi Yadin, Jeff Lynas, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone,
Directors : Ján Kadár,

A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.

Actors : Erna Schurer, John Steiner, Sara Sperati, Lina Polito,
Directors : Rino Di Silvestro,

Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards for his lesbian guards and perverted and deviate troops.

Actors : Blanka Heirman, Willy Vandermeulen, Eric Clerckx, Paul S'Jongers,
Directors : Robbe De Hert,

The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main ...

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Patty Duke, Sian Barbara Allen,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed ...

Actors : Silvia Dionisio, Al Cliver, Elizabeth Turner, John Steiner,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

A young couple becomes embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.