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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Daniel Ades, Richmond L. Aguilar, John Alderman, Julie Adams,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local ...

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Barbara McNair, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.

Actors : Chun Shih, Billy Chan, Ying Bai, Feng Hsu,
Directors : King Hu,

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.

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 : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, Isabelle Weingarten, Françoise Lebrun,
Directors : Jean Eustache,

In Paris, the pedantic Alexandre lives with his mate Marie in her apartment, an open relationship. Alexandre, who is idle and chauvinist, spends his days reading, drinking and shagging ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, David Carradine, Ned Beatty, Charlton Heston,
Directors : David Greene,

A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.

Actors : Joss Ackland, Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

Jack Flowers, an American hustler in early 1970s Singapore, dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury.

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 : Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.