Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Estelle Parsons, Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Actors : Sam Wanamaker, Lee Remick, Amy Irving, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Joel Oliansky,

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.

Actors : James Earl Jones, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Actors : Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Barbara Harris, Alan Alda,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well...

Actors : Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Richard Warwick,

Reassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guard's Christian beliefs clash with his gay commander's desire for closeness. Being tortured becomes pleasurable.

Actors : Klaus Löwitsch, Hans Hirschmüller, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

Actors : Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi, Ronaldo Bonacchi,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

An orchestra assmbles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.

Actors : Yûko Hama, Isao Yamagata, Gô Katô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Actors : Leonid Bykov, Sergei Podgornyj, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev,
Directors : Leonid Bykov,

Stunning WWII flying sequences as the Soviet Air Force battles the Luftwaffe. Veteran Russian pilots teach their new recruits about life, death & love. When the older men fly into battle, ...

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Actors : Catlin Adams, Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.

Actors : Jonathan Frid, Roger Davis, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

Vampire Barnabas Collins is accidentally released from his centuries-long confinement at his family's estate in Maine. He targets his clueless descendants who live there now and pursues Maggie, the incarnation of his lost love.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, George Eastman, Don Backy,

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Actors : Angela Winkler, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Mario Adorf,

A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Actors : Céline Lomez, Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York,
Directors : Daryl Duke,

A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

Actors : Abdallah Gheith, Mouna Wasef, Hamdy Gheith, Ali Achmed Taram,
Directors : Moustapha Akkad,

The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Morris Carnovsky, Lauren Hutton, James Caan,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.