Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Samantha Eggar, Bud Cort, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke,
Directors : Silvio Narizzano,

In the 1930's, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province, fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the Canadian prairie. At first he's ...

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Sydne Rome, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat ...

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 : Yen-Ching Ou, David Chiang, Ping Wang, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

China 1925, a man returns to track down a kill the men who murdered his brother.

Actors : Valérie Mairesse, Thérèse Liotard, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

The intertwined lives of 2 women in 1970's France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain...

Actors : Riina Hein, Aare Laanemets, Margus Lepa, Kaljo Kiisk,
Directors : Arvo Kruusement,

Characters familiar from Kevade are now in their 20s. In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming ...

Actors : Bradford Dillman, Alex Cord, Jackie Cooper, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Sutton Roley,

A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. ...

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 : James Mason, Diana Coupland, Hannah Gordon, Susan George,
Directors : Peter Hammond,

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.

Actors : Mervat Amin, Magda El-Khatib, Adel Adham, Imad Hamdi,
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 : Rod Steiger, Trevor Howard, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Don Sharp,

Hennessy is an Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. After his family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Actors : Margot Kidder, Gene Wilder, Eileen Colgan, May Ollis,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An ...

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Lia Tanzi, Ornella Muti, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Mario (Tognazzi), a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco (Dewaere), a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe (Lia Tanzi Gabriella) and sexually ...

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 : 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 : Jack Elam, Iron Eyes Cody, Ben Johnson, Lana Wood,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

In this variant of 1956's THE SEARCHERS, a tough frontier trapper tracks the young Cheyenne warrior who kidnapped his daughter.

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 : Terence Hill, Mario Pardo, Máximo Valverde, Maria Grazia Buccella,
Directors : Mario Camus,

This western is set in Valencia, Spain at the end of the 19th century, and stars Terence Hill as a close-mouthed gunslinger. The bad guy is the local landlord and aristocrat (Fernando Rey),...

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...