Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Meng Lo, Kuan-Tai Chan, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.

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 : Michael Caine, Margaret Leighton, Elizabeth Taylor, Susannah York,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.

Actors : Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Niko Nitai, Alexander Scourby,

Jesus of Nazareth,the son of God raised by a Jewish carpenter. Based on the gospel of Luke in the New Testament,here is the life of Jesus from the miraculous virgin birth to the calling of ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Charles Bronson, Paul Koslo, Jack Colvin,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

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 : Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni, Pina Cei,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Max Baer Jr., Alan Vint, Cheryl Waters,
Directors : Richard Compton,

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.

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 : 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 : Mahmut Cevher, Itir Esen, Adile Nasit, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

A rich boy hits a poor boy and he loves the poor boy's sister but she doesn't want him.

Actors : Paolo Turco, Anna Karina, Ugo D'Alessio, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Franco Brusati,

Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

Actors : Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Franz Maron, Lilith Ungerer,

With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness...

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 : 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 : Monique van de Ven, Hannah de Leeuwe, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Nastassja Kinski, Hans Christian Blech, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudine Auger, Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective ...

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Kemal Sunal, Serpil Çakmakli, Hüseyin Kutman,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

Indirect satire dramatization on the differences between social classes features a lazy but handsome underdog and a high-class society girl who falls in love with him just because he looks like "Jean-Paul Belmondo" in her starry dreams.

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...