Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.

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 : 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 : 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 : Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Charles Bronson, 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 : 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 : Jean-Pierre Bagot, Roland Amstutz, Michel Albertini, Yves Montand,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.

Actors : Erol Demiröz, Melike Demirag, Tarik Akan, Levent Inanir,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be ...

Actors : Sevket Altug, Gölgen Bengü, Kemal Sunal, Nisan Akman,
Directors : Ergin Orbey,

Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.

Actors : Perry King, Louis Gossett Jr., Clyde Kusatsu, Charles Durning,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

Actors : Candice Azzara, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Anne Bancroft,

Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. ...

Actors : Michiyo Ohkusu, Shingo Yamashiro, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Five warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each holds a part of information needed to complete the assassination of a mad clan leader.

Actors : Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Amy Stryker, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.

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.

Actors : Junko Hitomi, Akihiro Tomikawa, Gorô Mutsumi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Yoshiyuki Kuroda,

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Actors : William Smith, Nicholas Campbell, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

The famous drag racer Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson is the star of the Fast Company, managed by the corrupt Phil Adamson Lonnie is the mentor of the promising funny car racer Billy 'The Kid' ...

Actors : Galina Andreeva, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

Actors : J.A. Preston, Paula Kelly, Lawrence Cook, Janet League,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Actors : Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Wazed Ali Shah was the ruler of one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British, intent on controlling this rich country, had sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Catherine Rivet, Frédéric Lagache, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Francis Giacobetti,

Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very ...