Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Ian McShane, Jill St. John, Edward Woodward, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Katharine Hepburn, Irene Papas, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zerrin Arbas, Bilal Inci, Yavuz Selekman,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

When, now senior, Battal Gazi is killed by Byzantine Prince, his son swears to take revenge.

Actors : Hassan Darabi, Masud Zandbegleh, Mostafa Tari,
Directors : Abbas Kiarostami,

A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.

Actors : Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela, Charly Bravo, Vicente Parra,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his ...

Actors : Mark Lester, Uschi Glas, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence,
Directors : James Hill,

When farmer Evan's mare has a fine son, he promises the black stallion to his son Joe. The youngster enjoy growing up as playmates. Alas, once the good squire is buried, his mean heir, who ...

Actors : Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Actors : Norman Alden, Kevin McCarthy, Raquel Welch, Helena Kallianiotes,
Directors : Jerrold Freedman,

Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Tisha Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

Everyone figures Lou Ford, a small-town, Montana, deputy sheriff, to be a normal, good-old-boy kind of regular Joe. But no one knows about "the sickness" that drives him to kill.

Actors : Ken Goodlet, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus, Mick Jagger,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Based on a true story, Ned Kelly is unable to support his family in the Australian outback, he turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw ...

Actors : Kerim Afsar, Azra Balkan, Melike Demirag, Civan Canova,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie....

Actors : Orson Welles, Mathieu Carrière, Michel Bouquet, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Harry Kümel,

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Expensive vines, tables filled with food, but emptiness inside. Everyone has stopped developing, and fastened in their roles. Hurtful, but still funny story about human development.

Actors : Michael Gothard, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jérôme Beauvarlet, Monique Giraudy,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder explores themes of sexual freedom, mind alteration, and pursuit of paradise against the backdrop of an early 70's encounter with the Mapuga rain forest tribe in upland New Guinea.

Actors : Alina Pokrovskaya, Andrei Anisimov, Georgiy Yumatov, Vasiliy Lanovoy,
Directors : Vladimir Rogovoy,

Epic Soviet era masterpiece depicting the unshakable bonds of love, friendship & duty amid the horror of war. Two friends-both officers-are in love with the same woman. Through the Russian ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, John Steiner, Leo McKern,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the ...

Actors : Kerem Yilmazer, Nazan Adali, Hülya Koçyigit, Ali Sen,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Henri Garcin, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Actors : Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Lieh Lo, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom ...

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Gene Hackman, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black,
Directors : Bill Norton,

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 keys of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.