Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Bill Gunn, Sam L. Waymon, Marlene Clark, Duane Jones,
Directors : Bill Gunn,

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr., Richard B. Shull, Warren Oates,
Directors : Monte Hellman,

Southern action drama film about cockfighting.

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 : 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 : 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 : Rie Yokoyama, Meiko Kaji, Yôko Mihara, Yayoi Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : James Canning, Andrew Stevens, Michael Lembeck, Stan Shaw,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

In 1967, five young men undergo boot camp training before being shipped out to Vietnam. Once they get there, the experience proves worse than they could have imagined.

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 : 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.

Actors : Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Lom, Udo Kier,

Udo Kier is a witch hunter apprentice to Herbert Lom. He believes strongly in his mentor and the ways of the church but loses faith when he catches Lom committing a crime. Kier slowly ...

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.