Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Helen Hayes, David Niven, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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. ...

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 : Monica Craig, Marjorie Norman, Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace, Richard 'Dirty Harry' Hall,
Directors : Ted Bafaloukos,

Horsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters ...

Actors : Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Actors : Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs, Wesley Hayes, Edie Sedgwick,

CIAO! MANHATTAN parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.

Actors : William Holden, Marthe Keller, José Ferrer, Hildegard Knef,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement.

Actors : Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Terence Young,

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Aysen Gruda, Dinçer Çekmez, Aysen Cansev,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

After goes to city in search of a job to get the money needed for marrying Hatice, Saban becomes a popular singer.