Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

After his mistress is savagely beaten up a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Actors : Manoj Kumar, Saira Banu, Ashok Kumar, Pran,
Directors : Manoj Kumar,

Circa British rule in India, Harnam betrays a freedom fighter, and as a result is rewarded, but the freedom fighter is killed, leaving his wife, and family devastated and destitute. Years ...

Actors : Lars-Levi Læstadius, Willie Andréason, Thommy Berggren, Mona Seilitz,
Directors : Roy Andersson,

In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male waiter who is never named (here called...

Actors : Duke Mitchell, Louis Zito, Vic Caesar, Lorenzo Dodo,
Directors : Duke Mitchell,

Mimi Miceli Jr. is, the son of a Mafia don who was exiled back to Sicily. He wants to get back into the family business and transplant it from New York to Hollywood. After the kidnapping ...

Actors : Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.

Actors : Asha Parekh, Rajesh Khanna, Bindu, Prem Chopra,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

A runaway bride promises her dying widowed friend that she will assume her identity and look after her infant child.

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Ely Galleani, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Emmanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.

Actors : Balkrishna, Bharathi, Loknath, Rajkumar,
Directors : Siddalingaiah,

Rajeeva comes to the village to visit his sister only to find that she's in financial trouble and has lost her husband. He decides to stay and help her out.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Meg Mazursky, Glenna Sergent, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, ...

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Fuji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Evgeniy Leonov, Vsevolod Safonov,
Directors : Andrey Smirnov,

A sympathetic, emotionally persuasive drama describing the friendship of four World War II veterans, their sudden reunion after 25 years and the subsequent effect of this occasion upon ...

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Fernando Rey, Alberto Sordi, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the ...

Actors : Andrea Montchal, Soledad Miranda, Greta Schmidt, Paul Muller,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power ...

Actors : Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi, Tetsurô Tanba, Sachiko Hidari,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.

Actors : Ralph Cotterill, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Steve Bisley,
Directors : Ian Barry,

An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt, an engineer badly hurt in the accident, knows that the leak will ...

Actors : José María Prada, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Vivó,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

The young but travelled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family: the matriarch is a sick old woman obsessed by ...

Actors : Fakrul Hasan Boiragi, Narayan Chakraborty, Farid Ali, Rosy Samad,
Directors : Ritwik Ghatak,

A 1973 Bangladeshi film it describes the life of the fishermen on the bank of the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.

Actors : Howard Ross, Ligia Branice, Marina Pierro, Gabriella Giacobbe,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of one such institution to enforce the same strict rules on these ...

Actors : Kostas Karras, Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Spyros Kalogirou,
Directors : Nikos Foskolos,

Dachau in 1965. Natasha Arseni missing over 20 years from Greece. Shortly before returning visits the former concentration camp. On the train to the motherland begins to remember the years ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Rod Taylor, Al Lettieri, Neville Brand,

A Sheriff, who negotiates with bank robbers, ends up getting his family killed during their escape. The Sheriff chases the gang into Mexico on his own. While attempting to exact his vengeance, he is at odds with a Mexican lawman.