Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Ronald Hines, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

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 : Kris Kristofferson, Susan Anspach, Marsha Mason, George Segal,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie ...

Actors : François Périer, Charles Boyer, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Elliott Gould, Céline Lomez, 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 : 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 : Richard Benjamin, Art Carney, Glenda Jackson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age...

Actors : Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Rajesh Khanna, Usha Kiran,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Squabbling Sharma family has a dubious reputation of not having any cook last there for more than a few months. Word spreads out about this family to such an extent that no person wants to ...