Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Philip D'Antoni,

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.

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 : 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 : Marta Fernández Muro, Eusebio Poncela, Will More, 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 : Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich, Buck Henry,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

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 : Maureen Stapleton, Lee Grant, Barbara Harris, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.

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 : Charles Durning, Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Lara Parker,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and views in other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers black theater.

Actors : Maria Marx, Gregory Knoph, Dyanne Thorne, Tony Mumolo,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments". Ilsa's goal is to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines.

Actors : Rose Arrick, Ned Beatty, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes,
Directors : Elaine May,

In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who's on his trail.

Actors : Art Garfunkel, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A psychiatrist living in Vienna enters a torrid relationship with a married woman. When she ends up in the hospital from an overdose, an inspector becomes set on discovering the demise of their affair.

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 : Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives ...

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.

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 : 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 : 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.