Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Aurora Cornu,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

On holiday, a conflicted man lusts after beautiful stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter.

Actors : Lee Van Cleef, Chuck Norris, Art Hindle, Karen Carlson,
Directors : Eric Karson,

A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Candy Clark,
Directors : Bill Norton,

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

Actors : Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Terri Haven, Frank DeKova,
Directors : Ralph Bakshi,

An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.

Actors : Klaus Löwitsch, Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Volker Spengler,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair ...

Actors : Marta Fernández Muro, Will More, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Iván Zulueta,

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

Actors : Metin Akpinar, Halit Akçatepe, Kahraman Kiral, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.

Actors : Matt Dillon, Armand Assante, Kristy McNichol, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

Actors : Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, John Wayne,
Directors : John Sturges,

Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Paul Newman,

A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.

Actors : Leila Gastil, Richard Boes, Chris Parker, John Lurie,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

Actors : Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

An arrogant fashion designer falls in love with an icy beauty who wants to be a model.