Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : William Holden, Roger C. Carmel, Kay Lenz, Marj Dusay,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the ...

Actors : Helen Morse, Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie is presented. On a cold winter day, her damaged car with ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Fritz Weaver, Marthe Keller, Robert Shaw,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.

Actors : Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Brian Keith,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Paul Newman, Fernando Rey, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Robert Altman,

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winner survives.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Dirk Bogarde, David Warner, John Gielgud,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, ...

Actors : Eli Wallach, Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston,
Directors : William Richert,

The Pickering Commission concluded that a lone gunman killed US President Kegan in 1960, in Philadelphia. 19 years later a dying man confesses to be the real shooter hired to kill him. Kegan's brother and filthy rich father investigate.

Actors : Robby Benson, Tom Skerritt, Colleen Dewhurst, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : Donald Wrye,

A young girl is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to ...

Actors : Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans, David N. Haynes, Brian Bovell,
Directors : Franco Rosso,

The movie centers around Brindsley Forde's character blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in west London. The movie captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.

Actors : Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Actors : Ingrid Thulin, John Steiner, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.

Actors : Jean Gaven, Anthony Steel, Corinne Cléry, Udo Kier,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of O...

Actors : Maggie Renzi, Maggie Cousineau, Bruce MacDonald, Adam LeFevre,
Directors : John Sayles,

Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...

Actors : Fabrizio Forte, Omero Antonutti, Marcella Michelangeli, Saverio Marconi,

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent ...

Actors : Lee Canalito, Frank McRae, Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.

Actors : Neville Brand, George Kennedy, Gary Grimes, John Wayne,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A tough Marshal has a difficult task when his two sons join a gang and rob a bank.

Actors : Rolf Sohlman, Bertil Norström, Ann-Sofie Kylin, Anita Lindblom,
Directors : Roy Andersson,

Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.