Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and ...

Actors : Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Angelina Stepanova, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Aleksey German,

During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.

Actors : Keizô Kanie, Kazuko Inano, Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

During the currency devaluation by the Edo treasury, officer Hanzo deals with a temple priestess who sells her pupils as prostitutes, and a notorious thief who plans to rob the mint.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife. His mistress has also left him. He has to do everything he can to be able to win his young daughter Isabelle's love and affection.

Actors : Richard Burton, Virna Lisi, Raquel Welch, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one - after he beds the women he's after, he murders them.

Actors : Harvey Shain, Mary Appleseth, Max Thayer, Derna Wylde,
Directors : James K. Shea,

A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the crew discovers that ...

Actors : Marc Porel, Richard Conte, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.

Actors : George Kennedy, Max von Sydow, John Cassavetes, Sophia Loren,
Directors : John Hough,

In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt but the army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hit-man to kill the general.

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.

Actors : Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Arthur Brauss, Libgart Schwarz,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.

Actors : David Chiang, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple...now each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles...they will become The Five Shaolin Masters!!

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Kara Hui, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Lieh Lo,

The monk Hung Wen-Ting fights against the evil priest White Lotus.

Actors : Sherry E. DeBoer, Bob Balaban, Paul Appleby, Carol Arthur,
Directors : John Erman,

A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.

Actors : Rialda Kadric, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Vladimir Petrovic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra,
Directors : Zoran Calic,

Two teenagers - boy from the rural and girl from the urban family - fall in love. Problems arise when the girl gets pregnant. This movie was the first in one of the most popular series in ...

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Charles Cioffi, Gian Maria Volontè, Silverio Blasi,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.

Actors : Claude Gauthier, Jean Lapointe, Hélène Loiselle, Guy Provost,
Directors : Michel Brault,

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Actors : Marta Hradílková, Josef Kemr, Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.

Actors : Hazel O'Connor, Jonathan Pryce, Jon Finch, Phil Daniels,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.

Actors : Blanche Kommerell, Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ...

Actors : Hollye Holmes, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

A family flees the city for the wilderness. They learn to live with nature and more importantly, that when one has family, one has everything.