Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Harry Andrews, Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

Actors : Claude Gagnon, Masafumi Suzuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yôko Ichiji,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Takuma "Terry" Tsurugi returns. In this sequel, he sets out to bust up a phony charity put together by the Yakuza.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Lorraine Gary, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza,
Directors : Anthony Page,

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Actors : Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.

Actors : Robert Hogan, Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

1930's gangster era film about Dillinger and his last girl. Written by John Sayles.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Rip Torn, Stella Stevens, Jim Brown,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Actors : Elga Sorbas, Karl Scheydt, Jan George, Hark Bohm,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects ...

Actors : Mireille Darc, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Alain Delon,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

One early morning deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano ...

Actors : Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Rolan Bykov, Oleg Borisov,
Directors : Aleksey German,

The Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Daniel Ivernel, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

Actors : Nora Miao, James Tien, Yin-Ju Lin, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A dishonored student of the Dragon Fist Sect seeks revenge for the death of his teacher.

Actors : Beverly Garland, Jim Bray, Linda Blair, Roger Perry,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.

Actors : Katrin Schaake, Hanna Schygulla, Harry Baer, Ron Randell,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a ...

Actors : Lola Falana, Anthony Zerbe, Lee J. Cobb, Roscoe Lee Browne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A Southern lawyer uncovers the truth about a slain undertaker.

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. ...

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 : Claude Akins, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Charlton Heston,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

Actors : Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Gérard Darrieu, Bernard Dhéran,
Directors : Joël Séria,

Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a ...

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 : Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Marquard Bohm, Lou Castel,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director ...