Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Jean Bouise, Gérard Lartigau, Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, William Lucking,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

The English gentleman known as Horse, returns to the American west to save his adopted Indian tribe from extinction.

Actors : James Caan, Eli Wallach, Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.

Actors : Turi Ferro, Laura Antonelli, Tina Aumont, Alessandro Momo,
Directors : Salvatore Samperi,

A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Ted Post,

During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior.

Actors : Sven Wollter, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Håkan Serner, Thomas Hellberg,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

Police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve. They discover that Nyman was a very tough policeman who received ...

Actors : Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins, Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper,
Directors : John Byrum,

A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.

Actors : Ingrid Caven, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gottfried John, Volker Spengler,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he ...

Actors : Barry Brown, Jeff Bridges, David Huddleston, Jim Davis,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A god-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in Jefferson City where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west.

Actors : Victor Lanoux, Mimsy Farmer, 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 : Carol Speed, Richard Pryor, Max Julien, Don Gordon,
Directors : Michael Campus,

Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the ...

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 : Monica Gayle, Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Asher Brauner,
Directors : Jack Hill,

The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighbourhood.

Actors : Moira Orfei, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Dino Risi,

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every ...

Actors : Robert Lansing, Tony Musante, Scott Wilson, Kim Darby,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the 1948 British film...

Actors : Akihiko Hirata, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Katsumasa Uchida, Tomoko Ai,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

Godzilla comes to the rescue when an alien race rebuilds Mechagodzilla to destroy Earth's cities. A traitorous scientist gives them a second weapon: Titanosaurus.

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 ...

Actors : David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. ...

Actors : Irene Cara, Dwan Smith, Philip Michael Thomas, Lonette McKee,
Directors : Sam O'Steen,

A girl group experiences turmoil after one of their members turns to drugs and another achieves their desired fame all by herself.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, Michel Serrault, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. ...