Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Sharon Gans, Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A man named Billy Pilgrim tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.

Actors : Graham Beckel, John Houseman, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner,
Directors : James Bridges,

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.

Actors : Carl Bradshaw, Jimmy Cliff, Ras Daniel Hartman, Janet Bartley,
Directors : Perry Henzell,

Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Actors : Conrad Janis, Gary Busey, Charles Martin Smith, Don Stroud,
Directors : Steve Rash,

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Actors : Charles Grodin, Audra Lindley, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Elaine May,

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...

Actors : Bruno Balp, Hiram Keller, Rita Maiden, Charlotte Alexandra,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.

Actors : Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas,
Directors : Moustapha Akkad,

In the 7th century, Mohammed, Peace Be Upon Him, is visited by Angel Gabriel who urges him to lead the people of Mecca and worship God. But they're exiled in Medina before returning to ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Joan Blondell, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Woody Allen, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Jack Warden, Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Barry Primus, David Carradine, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Halit Akçatepe, Münir Özkul, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Lazy, uneducated students share a very close bond. They live together in the dormitory, where they plan their latest pranks. When a new headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.

Actors : Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.

Actors : William Atherton, Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.

Actors : Juan Ferrara, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Alejandro Jodorowsky,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a Christ-like character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy,

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Roscoe Lee Browne, Colleen Dewhurst, John Wayne,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to get his herd to market in time to ...

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Isabelle Adjani, Roman Polanski,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Actors : John Friedrich, Toni Kalem, Karen Allen, Ken Wahl,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst ...

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.