Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Ben Johnson, Burt Reynolds, Paul Winfield, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Rip Torn, James T. Callahan, David Baur,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

The film depicts the adventures of expatriate American writer Henry Miller and his friends, as they pursue art, money, food, and sex in Paris.

Actors : Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Soumitra Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

The musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.

Actors : John Hargreaves, Veronica Lang, Pat Bishop, Graham Kennedy,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

The movie Dons Party is about a wild house party in a suburban Australian neighbourhood. Don Henderson convinces his wife to have another party so that their friends can gather to watch the...

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Jacques Perrin, Helmut Griem, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Valerio Zurlini,

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

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 : 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 : Oleg Tabakov, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' ...

Actors : Topo Swope, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

A soldier (Dennis Hopper) returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

Actors : Yves Afonso, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Denis, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.

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 : 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 : Arthur Dignam, John Frawley, Nick Tate, Charles McCallum,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

Fred Schepisi's film, 'The Devil's Playground' is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is...

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 : 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 : Sener Sen, Adile Nasit, Ilyas Salman, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Bilo falls in love with Cano whom his family is in the blood feud.