Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Junko Hitomi, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Gorô Mutsumi,
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 : Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Mel Gibson, Pat Evison, Piper Laurie, Alwyn Kurts,
Directors : Michael Pate,

A somewhat mentally handicapped 20-year-old man works as a laborer, but everyone abuse his naiveté. A nice 40-year-old American woman hires him one day and they become close. However, the town and his family see her as predatory.

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 : Jacques Dutronc, Fabio Testi, Claude Dauphin, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the ...

Actors : Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Stratos Pahis, Aliki Georgouli,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

Greece 1939 - 1952 Fascist, Nazi, Communist conflict as seen through a family of travelling provincial players

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Nehrebecka, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a ...

Actors : Evgeniy Leonov, Evgeniya Simonova, Saveliy Kramarov, Leonid Kuravlyov,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character Borshev A.N. is a Plumber who spends his free time, as well as working hours, drinking...

Actors : Ian McShane, Donald Sinden, Richard Burton, Nigel Davenport,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his ...

Actors : Iya Savvina, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valentin Gaft,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a badly needed parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal...

Actors : Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Gene Hackman, Mickey Rooney,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was ...

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 : Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Antoine Monnier, Laetitia Carcano,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ...

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 : Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Max von Sydow, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Dick Richards,

During the 1920s, French Foreign Legion Major William Foster's unit is protecting an archaeological dig, but the discovery of an Arab sacred burial site prompts the angry Arab tribes to attack Foster's small garrison.

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 ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Tom Gries,

A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.

Actors : Beverly Garland, Jack Ging, James Whitmore, Lonny Chapman,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Eiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.