Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Pierre Blaise, Therese Giehse, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.

Actors : James Woods, John Savage, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...

Actors : Billy Green Bush, Robert Blake, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley,
Directors : James William Guercio,

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Val Avery, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant.

Actors : Susannah York, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Actors : Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bridges, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships ...

Actors : Judy Davis, Robert Grubb, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career ...

Actors : Sevil Ustekin, Kemal Sunal, Bilge Zobu, Sevda Ferdag,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

A janitor/doorman and his family who came to "big city" Istanbul, with the hope to live a better life. With the different characters living in the building, the story evolves around the ...

Actors : Ed Flanders, Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ivan Bonar,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

Actors : Daniel Gélin, Lea Massari, Michael Lonsdale, Benoît Ferreux,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Edda Köchl, Lisa Kreuzer,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

Actors : Carol Kane, Carmen Argenziano, Rutanya Alda, Charles Durning,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.

Actors : Sylvia Kuumba Williams, John Lithgow, Geneviève Bujold, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee,

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Florinda Chico, Mónica Randall, Ana Torrent,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Three orphaned sisters under the custody of their stern aunt and their handicapped grandmother will have to acclimatise to the new conditions of their shared life, overcome life's constant impediments, and in the process, grow up.

Actors : Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre, H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia,
Directors : H.B. Halicki,

Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford...

Actors : Strother Martin, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.

Actors : Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Paul Mace,

A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes things easier but at the same time they have to face new problems.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Strother Martin, Jill Ireland, James Coburn,
Directors : Walter Hill,

The adventures of a drifter turned illegal prize-fighter during the Depression Era in New Orleans.

Actors : Sener Sen, Aysen Gruda, Adile Nasit, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

A mid-aged couple with 6 kids who are running a pickle shop gets divorced with 3 kids each. The family members find each other years later with a funny story.