Best Drugs movies of 1970s

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs, and danger.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell,

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole ...

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Don Gordon,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Actors : Vincent Spano, Michael Eric Kramer, Matt Dillon, Pamela Ludwig,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Sissy Spacek, Gene Hackman, 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 : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

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

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 : 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 : Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Brenda Sykes, Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Anthony Zerbe, Michael Moriarty, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Tisa Farrow, Harvey Keitel, Jim Brown,
Directors : James Toback,

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan shark father and his mentally disturbed Jewish concert pianist mother.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a socialite who murdered a burglar.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

Actors : Joan Crawford, Kim Braden, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Actors : Carol Speed, Richard Pryor, Max Julien, Don Gordon,
Directors : Michael Campus,

Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the ...

Actors : Irene Cara, Dwan Smith, Philip Michael Thomas, Lonette McKee,
Directors : Sam O'Steen,

A girl group experiences turmoil after one of their members turns to drugs and another achieves their desired fame all by herself.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Sidney Poitier, Gerald S. O'Loughlin,
Directors : Don Medford,

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.