Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : 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 : Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Kay Lenz, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

In the 1970s Arizona, a young married man becomes an independent long-haul driver and he risks his life fighting the corruption in the local long-haul trucking industry.

Actors : Sami Frey, Romy Schneider, 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 : Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.

Actors : Claude Dauphin, Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV ...

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 : Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town....

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 : 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 : 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 : Kayoko Shiraishi, Meiko Kaji, Yukie Kagawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

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 : 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 : Yves Beneyton, Annemarie Düringer, Isabelle Huppert, Florence Giorgetti,
Directors : Claude Goretta,

Beatrice is a very reserved and quiet young woman. Her friend Marylene is left by her lover and brings her to Cabourg (Normandy) for a few days' vacation. There, Beatrice, an apprentice ...

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 : Antonio Fargas, Robert Blake, Elliott Gould, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just ...

Actors : Ronnie Hawkins, Sara Dylan, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Bob Dylan,

This epic is a mass amalgamation of three separate film-types that is, contrary to popular opinion, coherent and a unified whole. Bob Dylan is shown in concert, often masked, during the ...

Actors : Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Paolo Bonacelli, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to ...