Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Fatma Belgen, Sükriye Atav, Mümtaz Ener,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Actors : Judy Carne, Edward Higgins, Tom Bell, Rudolph Walker,
Directors : Gerry O'Hara,

A married man with two small children has an affair with a young teenage girl

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Despo Diamantidou, Andréas Voutsinas, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy "Medea" (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, ...

Actors : Capucine, Senta Berger, Paolo Bonacelli, Ornella Muti,
Directors : Tonino Cervi,

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend ...

Actors : Boris Tokarev, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Vadim Spiridonov,
Directors : Gavriil Egiazarov,

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova ...

Actors : Don Allen, Kay Hawtrey, Bruce Armstrong, Eric Cryderman,
Directors : George McCowan,

Love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player (Billy Duke) and a hippie folk singer (Sherry Nelson). Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their ...

Actors : Frankie Crocker, Philip Michael Thomas, Rosalind Cash, Vernee Watson,
Directors : Oscar Williams,

A young man in Los Angeles dreams of striking it big as a singer in the music business. One day he gets signed to a big record contract, but along with the fame and money he develops an addiction to the drug PCP.

Actors : Richard Bright, John Heard, Thomas G. Waites, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Raphael D. Silver,

In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.

Actors : Franco Jamonte, Mark Damon, Claudia Gravy, Aldo Bufi Landi,
Directors : Leopoldo Savona,

A boy is possessed by Byleth, the demon of the incest. He wants to madly love his sister, but his tragic end will be the natural epilogue of this morbid tale.

Actors : Jára Kohout, Rodney Dangerfield, Ina Balin, Chuck McCann,
Directors : Harry Hurwitz,

A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.

Actors : Irma Martinkauppi, Titta Karakorpi, Elina Salo, Pertti Ylermi Lindgren,
Directors : Peter von Bagh,

Sleazy impostor, then dance band singer Pertti Ylermi Lindgren merrily re-enacts some of his real-life engagements to 76 different women in the late 1960s. After posing as an aristocrat, ...

Actors : Perry King, George Kennedy, Tisa Farrow, Don Stroud,
Directors : William Fruet,

The members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up murdered. The police soon begin to suspect that he is in fact the killer. He knows he isn't, and must find the real killer ...

Actors : Robert Blake, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick O'Neal, Christopher Connelly,
Directors : Leonard Horn,

A country boy wants to make it big as a stockcar racer.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barry Newman, Karen Jensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

A list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.

Actors : Richard Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Art Carney, Ann Turkel,
Directors : Richard Compton,

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Shima Iwashita, Kirin Kiki, Tomoko Naraoka,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.

Actors : Rekha, Vinod Mehra, Prema Narayan, Asit Kumar Sen,

Vikas, the son of a successful lawyer defies his father's arrangement for him to be married; and marries his sweetheart Aarti. They enjoy the bliss of marriage, breaking away from the ...

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Anne Jousset, Henri Guybet, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Charles Nemes,

Actors : Takeo Chii, Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

Actors : Maurizio Degli Esposti, Lucia Bosé, Rosaria, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Giulio Questi,

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a ...