Best Drama movies of 1970s

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

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

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

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : John Heard, Peter Riegert, 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 : Jan Nowicki, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ...

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 : Sonja Jeannine, John Steiner, Maurizio Merli, Donald O'Brien,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A bounty hunter arrives in a mining town and is hired to track down the missing daughter of the town's crippled mayor and learns she has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and a band of outlaws he is secretly working for.

Actors : Maria Rohm, Christopher Lee, 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 : Vladimír Smeral, Josef Kemr, Elo Romancik, Sona Valentová,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).

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 : 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 : Teruhiko Saigô, Hiroki Matsukata, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and ...