Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Michele Carey, Rick Lenz, Alfonso Arau, Brian Keith,
Directors : Robert Butler,

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Actors : Feng Ku, Sheng Fu, Lung Ti, Lung Chan,
Directors : Chung Sun,

Chi Ming-sing is a former disciple of a gang run by overlord Yoh Xi-hung. Yoh's disciples hunt Chi relentlessly as he travels on a soul-searching journey. He comes to the aid of a seemingly...

Actors : Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak, Jan Skotnicki,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

Tabloid life of a physicist; his work, his love life and his quest for the meaning beyond.

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 : Timothy Bottoms, Maggie Smith, Emiliano Redondo, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

American Walter Elbertson, in his late teens, is feeling lost within his family of overachievers. Thirty-something Englishwoman Lila Fisher is emotionally repressed. The two meet on their ...

Actors : Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

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 : Jean Anderson, Patricia Neal, Nicholas Clay, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Alastair Reid,

Effective psychological love story with a macabre twist not found in the original Joy Cowley novel. The dreary existence of middle- aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with ...

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 : Barun Chanda, Ajoy Banerjee, Sharmila Tagore, Paromita Chowdhury,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Chatterji is an ambitious and self-made young man who becomes the director of the company he works for.

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 : Shashi Kapoor, A.K. Hangal, Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Raj Kapoor,

Rupa (Zeenat Aman) grew up being cursed as "unlucky" in the village she was born in. Her mother died during childbirth. Then a kitchen accident leaves half her face disfigured. This is an ...

Actors : Yumi Kanei, Masakazu Tamura, Hiroshi Tsukata, Meiko Kaji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.

Actors : Richard Basehart, Barnard Hughes, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen,
Directors : George C. Scott,

An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.

Actors : Tony King, Tisa Farrow, David Warbeck, Bobby Rhodes,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped behind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna, Stephen Archibald,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Patrick Dewaere, Yves Robert, Jacques Dufilho,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.

Actors : Kyoko Yoshizawa, Shintarô Katsu, Yasuhiro Koume, Kiwako Taichi,
Directors : Shintarô Katsu,

After accidentally causing an old lady's death, Zatoichi seeks out her daughter to atone for the tragedy, consequently getting into all sorts of trouble.

Actors : Aleksandar Gavric, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, María Baxa,
Directors : Jovan Jovanovic,

Follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", petty criminal born in Belgrade, always problematic, enemy of country's regime, influenced by society and movies(for example Godard's, even the movie looks ...

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Miodrag Radovanovic, Slavko Stimac, Renata Ulmanski,
Directors : Branko Bauer,

War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through the village and on their way molest a small boy. As revenge the boy sets the German corn ...