Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Samantha Eggar, John McEnery, Stéphane Audran, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Anatole Litvak,

A secretary takes her boss's car for the holiday in the Mediteranean, oddly retracing a journey she has not taken, and is recognized by people she has not met before. When a body turns up ...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Sterling Hayden, Judd Hirsch, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.

Actors : Galina Volchek, Elza Radzina, Valentina Shendrikova, Jüri Järvet,

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly ...

Actors : Joop Doderer, Derek Jacobi, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Bernard Blier, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like ...

Actors : Rez Cortez, Ruel Vernal, Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge.

Actors : Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Actors : Albert Finney, Janice Rule, Frank Finlay, Billie Whitelaw,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley fulfills his Dashiell Hammett love by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye.

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Pam Grier, Austin Stoker,
Directors : William Girdler,

A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.

Actors : Ray Bolger, Maureen Stapleton, Kathleen Quinlan, Dick Van Dyke,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Father Rivard is a priest in a small, economically depressed coal mining town. Working on what he thinks is a "controversial" work, he lives with the brutal lives of his poor parishioners, ...

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

Actors : Simi Garewal, Kaberi Bose, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.

Actors : Vincenzo Crocitti, Romolo Valli, Shelley Winters, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

Actors : Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber, Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob three safety deposit boxes containing $1.5 million in cash belonging to three very different criminals from a high-tech security bank in Hamburg, Germany.

Actors : Nora Miao, Jackie Chan, Jeong-Nam Kim, Yung-Kuo Li,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

Jackie Chan stars as the young warrior Hsu Yiu Fong. Hsu has been entrusted with the book of the "Art of the Snake and Crane," after the mysterious disappearance of the eight Shaolin ...

Actors : Romy Schneider, Sami Frey, Bernard Le Coq, Yves Montand,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Rosalie is amicably divorced, dividing her time between her mother's house, with her siblings and small daughter, and César's. He's self made, a scrap iron king, outgoing, amiable, in love ...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Necla Soylu, Meral Orhonsay, Ali Sen,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Adem is working as a waiter and he gets fired at that moment he inherits a fortune from his rich uncle in USA. Women start to throw themselves at him, people try to use him, everyone acts ...

Actors : Franco Giovanelli, Pippo Campanini, Alida Valli, Giulio Brogi,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the...

Actors : Corinne Cléry, Franco Nero, Joshua Sinclair, David Hess,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to a sanctuary. In return he agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.