Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming ...

Actors : Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...

Actors : Gloria Delaney, Jimmy Lynch, Lady Reed, Rudy Ray Moore,
Directors : Cliff Roquemore,

A flabby black comedian defends his community from attacks by stereotypical whites.

Actors : Sudie Bond, Richard McConnell, Olga Bellin, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Joseph Anthony,

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

Actors : Beverly Johnson, Peter Ustinov, Michael Caine, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.

Actors : Elayne Heilveil, Michael C. Gwynne, Rip Torn, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Daryl Duke,

A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him...

Actors : Mirjana Bohanec, Franjo Majetic, Relja Basic, Mia Oremovic,
Directors : Kresimir Golik,

The story is seen through the eyes of 6 year old Perica Safranek. On a family picnic Perica's mother starts flirting with Mr Fulir, a Zagreb Dandy. The father at first doesn't notice it, ...

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 : Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

In 1942, Britain sends a group of British-trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services.

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 : Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green,
Directors : John Huston,

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Actors : Slim Pickens, Amy Irving, Dyan Cannon, Willie Nelson,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Actors : Mari Töröcsik, Iván Darvas, Lili Darvas, Erzsi Orsolya,
Directors : Károly Makk,

The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Silvana Mangano, Alberto Sordi, Bette Davis,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

Every year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Kabhi Kabhie is a movie about the love story of generations and how a chain of events brings together old lovers as friends.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick,
Directors : Cornel Wilde,

When a deadly virus strikes London, John Custance takes his family to hoped-for safety in Scotland.

Actors : Pat Ast, Andrea Feldman, Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

"Heat" is a parody of "Sunset Boulevard." Joey Davis, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent, and then tries to exert his influence on Sally ...

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her ...

Actors : Imtiaz Khan, Zeenat Aman, Dharmendra, Vijay Arora,
Directors : Nasir Hussain,

Three brothers are separated after their parents' murder. Years later, their only hope of avenging their parents and reuniting as a family lies in the song they learned as children.

Actors : Shams El-Barudy, Fayez Halawa, Youssef Chaban, Muhammad Al-Araby,
Directors : Salah Abouseif,