Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Frimann Falck Clausen, Tom Courtenay, Alf Malland, Espen Skjønberg,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on ...

Actors : Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Tatum O'Neal, Nanette Newman,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Velvet's orphaned niece, Sarah, follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.

Actors : Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Veena,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

The story of a prostitute, with a pure heart (PAKEEZAH), and grand dreams...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Walter Bernstein,

Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : François Leterrier,

Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Manorama,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Long-suffering heiress Seeta is treated worse than a servant by her abusive money-grubbing aunt. Meanwhile, her long-lost twin sister Geeta grows up to be a gutsy street-performer. One day, the girls unintentionally swap places.

Actors : Ian McShane, Sean Connery, Isabel Dean, Jeffry Wickham,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

A gang of hijackers led by Ray Petrie (Ian McShane) seize a British plane as it is landing in Scandinavia. Ruthless military police chief Colonel Tahlvik (Sean Connery) is assigned to ...

Actors : Roger Davis, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Sixteen years after Ruby Claire's gangster boyfriend was shot and killed by four associates, a series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movie theatre she now owns. Meanwhile, ...

Actors : Bud Cort, Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Murray MacLeod,
Directors : Stuart Hagmann,

An apolitical college student joins a group of campus protesters to meet girls but gets swept up in their cause and involved in a violent confrontation with police.

Actors : Barasbi Mulayev, Svetlana Toma, Ion Sandri Scurea, Grigore Grigoriu,
Directors : Emil Loteanu,

Rada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal men's hearts and monk them. Zobar is a horse thief who's heart is stolen by Rada and his mind is bewitched. He is ready to give up his freedom but not his pride.

Actors : William Smithers, Richard Lynch, David Carradine, Claudia Jennings,

Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".

Actors : Jeanette Nolan, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Corey Allen,

The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Seema Deo, Sanjeev Kumar, Asrani,
Directors : Gulzar,

Romantic drama spaning nearly 20 years involving a deaf-mute couple, Haricharian and Aarti. Deaf and dumb bicycle messenger Haricharian meets equally deaf Aarti, and persuades her to go to ...

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ...

Actors : James Mason, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Claudia Mori,
Directors : Terence Young,

When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites ...

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Dorothée Jemma, France Dougnac, Maurice Barrier,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team's star, and is ordered off the field. The club's boss, who is also ...

Actors : Turi Ferro, Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

In Sicily, the mine worker Carmelo "Mimí" Mardocheo votes in the Communist Party candidate instead of in the Mafia's one believing that the suffrage is secret. After the elections, he loses...

Actors : Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Stuart Burge,

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both ...