Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, 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 : Claude Akins, Yvette Mimieux, Charlton Heston, James Brolin,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Lola Falana, Anthony Zerbe, Lee J. Cobb, Roscoe Lee Browne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A Southern lawyer uncovers the truth about a slain undertaker.

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 : 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 : Peter Riegert, John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. His roommate is ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Michael York,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

At a British Regimental party in Colonial India the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior lieutenants of the crime.

Actors : Juro Kara, Yasuko Sanjo, Masao Imafuku, Katsuo Nakamura,
Directors : Toshio Matsumoto,

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (...

Actors : Robert Ryan, Fredric March, Lee Marvin, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.

Actors : Kostas Karras, Kostas Kazakos, Tatiana Papamoschou, Irene Papas,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.

Actors : Christopher Lee, Maria Rohm, Marie Liljedahl, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

An innocent girl goes to spend the weekend on an island with a woman and her brother, but soon she finds herself entangled in a web of dream-like sexual experiments.

Actors : Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, George Coulouris, Carla Gravina,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

Ippolita is a paralyzed young woman with serious mental problems stemming from the death of her mother. Her crisis of faith and the intervention of a well-meaning psychologist lead Ippolita...

Actors : Luigi Vannucchi, Tony Roberts, Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Jean-Paul Rappeneau,

Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement with Vittorio, Nelly runs away from him. As he pursued her, she looks for help to Martin, a French middle-aged man she met by accident. He ...