Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Andra Akers, Bert Kramer, Lily Tomlin, John Travolta,
Directors : Jane Wagner,

A lonely socialite and a young drifter enter into a May-December romance.

Actors : Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Rosanna Fratello, Gian Maria Volontè, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Talia Shire, John Belushi, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Joan Tewkesbury,

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

Actors : Chin-Feng Wang, Hsiung Chao, Lieh Lo, Ping Wang,
Directors : Chang-hwa Jeong,

Two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Elizabeth Taylor, Keith Baxter,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...

Actors : Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Sandy McPeak, Joan Hotchkis,
Directors : Max Baer Jr.,

At last, we're given the answers to the questions raised by the haunting 1967 Bobbie Gentry song of the same title. Eighteen- year-old Billy Joe McAllister is in love with Bobbie Lee, but ...

Actors : Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee, Soumitra Banerjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.

Actors : Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Ross,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

The aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car.

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Paul Land, Tovah Feldshuh,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Actors : André Falcon, Charles Gérard, Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Goldstone,

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Actors : Niels Arestrup, Chantal Akerman, Claire Wauthion,
Directors : Chantal Akerman,

'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.

Actors : Tracy Hyde, Mark Lester, Colin Barrie, Jack Wild,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. The story is told from the children's point of view.

Actors : Natalya Gundareva, Evgeniy Leonov, Oleg Basilashvili, Marina Neyolova,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

School teacher is cheating on his wife and lies about it.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Marlène Jobert, Jill Ireland, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : René Clément,

A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

Actors : Jim Backus, Ann Sothern, Stuart Whitman, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, ...

Actors : Clotilde Joano, Claude Piéplu, Michel Piccoli, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's ...

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Peter Firth, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward,
Directors : Jack Gold,

In WW1 the high casualty rate among the rookie pilots of the Royal Flying Corps puts an enormous strain on the survivors.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Katharine Hepburn, Kate Reid, Lee Remick,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide they've come to live with them.