Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Sid Haig, Margaret Markov, Lynn Borden, Pam Grier,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, ...

Actors : Valerie Harper, Joseph Bologna, James Caan, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Robert Moore,

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

Lady Snowblood is caught in the politics of early 20th century Japan.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers.

Actors : Bogdan Diklic, Dragan Nikolic, Rade Markovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

One week in a life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National Class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a ...

Actors : Lajos Öze, Sándor Horváth, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze,
Directors : Zoltán Fábri,

In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner,when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.

Actors : Candice Roman, Anitra Ford, Teda Bracci, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.

Actors : Erika Remberg, Frank Wolff, Paolo Turco, Silvana Venturelli,
Directors : Radley Metzger,

A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in ...

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Teresa Kelly,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The...

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Hari Rhodes, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Alex Rocco,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Actors : Richard Harris, Percy Herbert, Henry Wilcoxon, John Huston,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper exacts revenge on his fellow companions who abandoned him in dangerous Indian territory.

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Shakurov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia

Actors : Estelle Parsons, D'Urville Martin, Howard Caine, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Melvin Van Peebles,

An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand!

Actors : Pradip Mukherjee, Ajit Banerjee, S. Bagchi, Rafiq Ahmed,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.

Actors : Tuncel Kurtiz, Yilmaz Güney, Kürsat Alniaçik, Gülsen Alniaçik,

"Umut" is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear...

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Prunella Gee, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police.

Actors : Jack Elam, Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

After she is raped and her husband murdered, a woman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can get her revenge on the three outlaws responsible.

Actors : Chuck Pierce Jr., John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Willie E. Smith,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Actors : Jean Dasté, Patrick Maléon, Nathalie Baye, François Truffaut,
Directors : François Truffaut,

A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys ...

Actors : Milen Penev, Anton Gorchev, Katya Paskaleva, Todor Kolev,
Directors : Metodi Andonov,

The film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view ...