Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.

Actors : Joachim Bißmeier, Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann,

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie ...

Actors : Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Giampiero Albertini, Arthur Kennedy, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Actors : Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternative reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has ...

Actors : Kauko Helovirta, Markku Huhtamo, Paavo Hukkinen, Antti Litja,
Directors : Risto Jarva,

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his ...

Actors : Gene Hackman, Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Carroll O'Connor,
Directors : George Schaefer,

The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.

Actors : Aleksandar Bercek, Bekim Fehmiu, Slavko Stimac, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and ...

Actors : Kaoru Yachigusa, Masumi Harukawa, Keiko Niitaka, Kan Mikami,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Lindsay Kemp, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Steve McQueen, Richard Dysart, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Schaefer,

A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Hermine Karagheuz, Jean Babilée, Juliet Berto,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.

Actors : Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Charles Gérard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to ...

Actors : Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty, Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.

Actors : Nora Miao, Jackie Chan, Chung-Kuei Chang, Sing Chen,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A young man sets out to avenge his grandfather's death and prove his martial arts mastery.

Actors : Yutaka Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.

Actors : Peter Carsten, Elke Sommer, Marius Goring, Michael York,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In 1915, frustrated with the German air-raids on London, British Intelligence sends Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, who has German ancestry, to Germany, to find information about the latest German Zeppelin.

Actors : Renzo Palmer, Fabio Testi, Orso Maria Guerrini, Vincent Gardenia,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.