Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Diana Ross, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins,

Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring ...

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Rentarô Mikuni, Ken Ogata, Chôchô Miyako,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the lam.

Actors : Daniel Ceccaldi, Zouzou, Bernard Verley, Françoise Verley,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.

Actors : Neetu Singh, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Three brothers are separated and united after many years - one is brought up a Hindu, another a Muslim and the last (and most memorable) a Christian. Hilarity and adventure ensues.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Bernice Stegers, Jole Silvani, Anna Prucnal,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

In San Francisco, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Larry Blyden, Bob Newhart, Yves Montand,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A troubled young woman who visits a psychotherapist to help her quit smoking undergoes hypnosis and finds herself reliving a tragic Victorian romance from a past life.

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 : Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Lois Smith, Ellen Greene,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

The portrayal of pretentiously bohemian youth.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dani, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys ...

Actors : Kin Sugai, Yoshitaka Zushi, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Timothy Bottoms, George Segal,
Directors : James Goldstone,

A blackmailer threatens to sabotage roller-coasters at various American amusement parks if he isn't paid a huge ransom.

Actors : Sener Sen, Meral Zeren, Ilyas Salman, Ahu Tugba,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Bilo is a goodhearted man who wants to marry the cutest girl in the village but needs money to take the consent from her father. His best friend Mahmut (Sener Sen) offers him a way to go to Germany and work in a factory to save up the money he needs.

Actors : Charles Tyner, Keith Carradine, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.

Actors : Angela Punch McGregor, David Warner, Michael Caine, Frank Middlemass,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda's Triangle area. Maynard is divorced ...

Actors : Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Charles Denner,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an ...

Actors : Jacek Lomnicki, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer, Birkut, who was briefly a proletariat hero, at how that heroism was...

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Phil Foster,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.