Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Don Porter,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Actors : Quinn Cummings, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Benedict, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Oliver Clark, Gary Busey,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, Dolly Read, John Lazar,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.

Actors : Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Katsuyuki Itô, Shigako Shimegi, Aiko Nagayama,
Directors : Eiichi Yamamoto,

After being banished from her village, a peasant woman makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, Edward Woodward, John Waters,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Actors : James Fox, Mick Jagger, Michèle Breton, Anita Pallenberg,

Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Clint Eastwood, Jo Ann Harris,
Directors : Don Siegel,

While imprisoned in a Confederate girls' boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.

Actors : Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey, Robert Phillips,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.

Actors : Helena Rojo, Ruy Guerra, Klaus Kinski, Del Negro,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Ed Begley Jr., Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night when they steal away from their...

Actors : Wilhelm von Homburg, Clemens Scheitz, Eva Mattes, Bruno S.,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

Actors : Gene Wilder, Val Bisoglio, Ramon Bieri, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.

Actors : Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro,
Directors : William Lustig,

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A man, his wife, and their friend, stage a bloody bank robbery, unaware they are stealing money from the Mob.

Actors : Kathleen Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.

Actors : Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

Actors : John McCurry, Judy Engles, Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire,
Directors : Ralph Bakshi,

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.