Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Catherine Jourdan,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

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 : 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 : Eric Henshaw, Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman, Doris Hargrave,
Directors : Eagle Pennell,

Lloyd (Lou Perry) and Frank (Sonny Davis), two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Al Lettieri, Robert Forster, 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 : Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White, Thommy Pollard, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Hazel Spears,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's ...

Actors : Sean Bury, Toby Robins, Anicée Alvina, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

A rich English boy meets an orphaned French girl and as they become friends, create a world that is far away from the adult world we live in.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are...

Actors : David Gulpilil, Peter Cummins, Greg Rowe, Judy Dick,
Directors : Henri Safran,

Storm Boy is a rambunctious Australian youth, living along the coastline with his freewheeling father. At the behest of an aging aborigine, Storm Boy takes care of an uncared-for nest of pelicans.

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 : 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 : Strother Martin, George Kennedy, James Stewart, Anne Baxter,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

In 1935, after 40 years in a West Virginia prison, three released convicts wish to open a legitimate business using the 25 thousand dollars earned in jail but a crooked prison guard in cahoots with the town banker plan to defraud them.

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : André Téchiné,

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Actors : Fredric March, George Kennedy, Jim Brown, Lynn Carlin,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

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.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do ...