Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Juliet Mills, James Franciscus, David Ladd, Philip Ahn,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

A skilled flyer but very rebellious young seagull is kicked out of his clan. However, instead of being sad or lonely, he decides to enjoy and explore his newfound freedom.

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, 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 : Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature ...

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Oskar Werner, Faye Dunaway, Sam Wanamaker, Lee Grant,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

Actors : Anita Skinner, Eli Wallach, Melanie Mayron, Adam Cohen,
Directors : Claudia Weill,

A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

Actors : Uta Hagen, Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur, Martin Udvarnoky,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Down in the farm country of the US twins are born. One of them turns out to be good, while the other becomes rather evil.

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well ...

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 : George Burns, Art Carney, Charles Hallahan, Lee Strasberg,
Directors : Martin Brest,

Three friends who are living on the dole decide to organize a bank robbery.

Actors : Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Peter Fahrni, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Frank Ripploh,

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

Actors : Lizabeth Scott, Mickey Rooney, Michael Caine, Lionel Stander,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, George C. Scott,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

Actors : Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Chauvin, Vittorio Caprioli, Yves Montand,

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, Lee Grant, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...

Actors : Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.

Actors : Adile Nasit, Halit Akçatepe, Müjde Ar, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Yasar and his wife Nezaket have kept on producing children in the hope of finally getting a male child. But they end up with only daughters instead (who they give masculine names). Now they...

Actors : Jason Robards, Jane Fonda, George Grizzard, James Caan,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Actors : Boris Plotnikov, Lyudmila Polyakova, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev,
Directors : Larisa Shepitko,

In a freezing cold World War II winter, two pro-Soviet partisans - Sotnikov and Rybak - head off to find food for themselves and their compatriots. They find a goat at the home of a German ...