Best Drama movies of 1970s

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

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

Actors : Jean Yanne, Pascal Ferone, Antonio Passalia, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

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 : 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 : Eileen Heckart, Edward Albert, Goldie Hawn, Paul Michael Glaser,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Actors : Sophia Loren, Peter O'Toole, James Coco, Harry Andrews,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.

Actors : Diana Ross, James T. Callahan, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit in Italy in May 1938.

Actors : Johanna Lawrence, Richard Ricci, Raymond Laine, Judith Ridley,
Directors : George A. Romero,

A young man returns to his home city of Pittsburgh and moves in with an older woman whom he begins to rely on for emotional and financial support.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Jon Voight, Mary Tamm,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former SS captain, who allegedly commanded a concentration camp during WWII.

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Tonny Huurdeman, Wim van den Brink, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Vijay struggles as a dockworker. Eventually, he becomes a leading figure of the underworld, while his younger brother, Ravi, is an educated, upright policeman. This divide causes problems in their relationship.

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Susan Sarandon, Robert Redford, Bo Brundin,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed, eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film ...

Actors : Christopher Lee, Gwen Watford, Geoffrey Keen, Linda Hayden,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

Three middle-aged distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring bourgeois lives and get in contact with one of Count Dracula's servants, Lord Courtley. In a ...

Actors : Laura Antonelli, Giancarlo Giannini, Jennifer O'Neill, Rina Morelli,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

Actors : Jovan Jovanovic, Ninetto Davoli, Vincenzo Amato, Franco Citti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

Actors : Radner Muratov, Georgiy Vitsin, Evgeniy Leonov, Saveliy Kramarov,
Directors : Aleksandr Seryj,

A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless headpiece of Alexander the Great during an archaeological expedition. But after ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

A newly wedded husband plays a practical joke on his wife's family with full support from his wife and friends.