Best Drama movies of 1970

Actors : Radoslav Brzobohatý, Gustav Opocenský, Jirina Bohdalová, Miroslav Holub,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of ...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Rip Torn, James T. Callahan, David Baur,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

The film depicts the adventures of expatriate American writer Henry Miller and his friends, as they pursue art, money, food, and sex in Paris.

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 : James Mason, Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Terence Young,

A brutal drug trader takes his violent revenge after his wife is captured by a drug boss.

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 : Elga Sorbas, Karl Scheydt, Jan George, Hark Bohm,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects ...

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 : Abdur Razzak, Suchanda, Shaukat Akbar, Rosy Samad,
Directors : Zahir Raihan,

A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Heidelinde Weis, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic boy is ...

Actors : Vladimír Smeral, Josef Kemr, Elo Romancik, Sona Valentová,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

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

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 : 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 : Estelle Parsons, Gregory Peck, Ralph Meeker, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Henry Tawes is the sheriff in a small town in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fibre, he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma, a young beautiful...

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 ...

Actors : Ângelo Assunção, Ronaldo Beibe, Andreia Bryan, José Mojica Marins,
Directors : José Mojica Marins,

Psychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.

Actors : Bud Cort, Talia Shire, Bob Corff, Elaine Giftos,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.