Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.

Actors : Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson,
Directors : Peter Watkins,

"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Kika Markham,
Directors : François Truffaut,

At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at...

Actors : Ben Johnson, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Andrew Prine,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Texas. Loosely based on a true story.

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Alain Delon,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing ...

Actors : Klaus Löwitsch, Gisela Uhlen, Ivan Desny, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Gere, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, ...

Actors : Alastair Sim, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Owens, Arthur Lowe,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Barnard Hughes, Diana Rigg, George C. Scott,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.

Actors : James Mason, Perry King, Richard Ward, Susan George,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs,
Directors : John Huston,

A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and ...

Actors : Maarten Spanjer, Hans van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg, Renée Soutendijk,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better ...

Actors : James Mason, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multi-millionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Actors : Peter White, Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Raisa Ryazanova,
Directors : Vladimir Menshov,

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

Actors : Peter Gonzales Falcon, Pia De Doses, Britta Barnes, Fiona Florence,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital.

Actors : Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

A hunter squares off against a killer whale seeking vengeance for the death of its mate.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, Simon Ward,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.

Actors : Masaaki Daimon, Meiko Kaji, Miyoko Akaza, Toshio Kurosawa,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

A young girl is born and raised to be an instrument of revenge.

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Leroy,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

After a chance meeting at a hotel in 1957, a Holocaust survivor and the Nazi officer who tortured her resume their sadomasochistic relationship.