Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Roy Scheider, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Actors : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Actors : Janice Rule, Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall, Robert Fortier,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Pinky is an awkward adolescent who starts work at a spa in the California desert. She becomes overly attached to fellow spa attendant, Millie when she becomes Millie's room-mate. Millie is ...

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Actors : Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Actors : Phil Davis, Mark Wingett, Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash,
Directors : Franc Roddam,

Jimmy loathes his job and parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs only to be disappointed.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Lauren Hutton, Richard Gere, Nina van Pallandt,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A Los Angeles male escort, who mostly caters to an older female clientèle, is accused of a murder which he did not commit.

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jenny Runacre, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Mary Beth Hurt, Kristin Griffith, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.

Actors : David Gulpilil, Richard Chamberlain, Frederick Parslow, Olivia Hamnett,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aborigines in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.

Actors : Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, John Amplas, Elyane Nadeau,
Directors : George A. Romero,

A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Marisa Berenson, Ryan O'Neal, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Chris Makepeace, Matt Dillon, Paul Quandt,
Directors : Tony Bill,

When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.

Actors : Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen year-old former chambermaid Conchita.

Actors : William Daniels, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.

Actors : Isabel Tellería, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ana Torrent, Teresa Gimpera,
Directors : Víctor Erice,

In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.