Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Lee Montague, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Miriam Karlin,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Composer Gustav Mahler's life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.

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 : 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 : Geoffrey Lewis, Gale Sondergaard, Richard Harris, 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 : Jaya Bhaduri, Om Prakash, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

A tough and honest police officer clashes with a crime boss who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be his parents' murderer.

Actors : Ulli Lommel, Brigitte Mira, Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".

Actors : Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, 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 : 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 : Judith Brown, Brooke Mills, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors.

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 : Jonathan Goldsmith, Burt Lancaster, 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 : Jaya Bhaduri, Rajesh Khanna, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, 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 : Jacqueline Bisset, Charles Bronson, Maximilian Schell, John Houseman,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents.

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 : Paloma Picasso, Fabrice Luchini, Lise Danvers, Charlotte Alexandra,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in ...

Actors : Emy Storm, Allan Edwall, Jan Ohlsson, Lena Wisborg,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't ...

Actors : Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani, Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.