Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : Chantal Mercier, Philippe Goldmann, Nicole Félix, Georges Desmouceaux,
Directors : François Truffaut,

In the town of Thiers, summer of 1976, teachers and parents give their children skills, love, and attention. A teacher has his first child, a single mother hopes to meet Mr. Right, another ...

Actors : Ewa Pokas, Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Stefan Czyzewski,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen...

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Isa Danieli, Riccardo Salvino,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Pierre Lindstedt, Eddie Axberg,
Directors : Jan Troell,

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

Actors : Alan Bates, Jill Clayburgh, Cliff Gorman, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Anne Bancroft, Perry King, Margaux Hemingway,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.

Actors : Orso Maria Guerrini, Franco Nero, Olga Karlatos, William Berger,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A half-breed ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant.

Actors : Sally Field, Val Avery, Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Gilbert Green, Will Geer,
Directors : David Miller,

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

Actors : Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop, Mareme Niang, Magaye Niang,
Directors : Djibril Diop Mambéty,

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

Actors : Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price, Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara,
Directors : Jimmy Sangster,

Scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts; the monster comes alive and wreaks havoc.

Actors : Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever ...

Actors : Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry, Robin Johnson, Peter Coffield,
Directors : Allan Moyle,

Two ill-matched teenage girls form a punk band and soon have New York City by its ears.

Actors : Mher Mkrtchyan, Evgeniy Leonov, Elena Proklova, Vakhtang Kikabidze,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

Pilot Mimino works at small local airlines in Georgia, flying helicopters between small villages. He dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Achala Sachdev, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal,
Directors : Raj Kapoor,

Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. As his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to the circus to the streets, he must always make ...

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

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 : Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of ...