Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Peter Jeffrey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Omar Sharif, Jack Palance,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their ...

Actors : Lance Percival, Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

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

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 : 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 : 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 : Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Christophe, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Siân Phillips, Horst Janson, Philippe Noiret, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.

Actors : Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G.D. Spradlin, Gail Strickland,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport...

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.

Actors : Strother Martin, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Wayne Rogers,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.

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 : 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 : 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, ...