Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Zero Mostel, Joe Silver, Gene Wilder, Karen Black,
Directors : Tom O'Horgan,

A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Sheila Reid, Elliott Gould, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor...

Actors : Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler, Helmut Griem, Aurore Clément,
Directors : Chantal Akerman,

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to ...

Actors : James Whitmore, Don Johnson, Bruno Kirby, Tippi Hedren,
Directors : Ted Post,

At Harrad College, where controversial coed living situations are established, the students are forced to confront their sexuality in ways that society previously shunned. Part of the ...

Actors : Atsuko Kaku, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya, Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuo Nakamura,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.

Actors : Katie Johnson, Wallace Earl Laven, Jill Lansing, Stuart Taylor,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug ...

Actors : Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Actors : Ching Wong, Jackie Chan, Yang Kao, Qiu Yuen,
Directors : Mu Chu,

Historical movie, set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII, in which a group of Chinese rebels tries to oust the Japanese forces from a small town. Jackie Chan is one of the ...

Actors : Gloria Guida, Vincenzo Crocitti, Ray Lovelock, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to ...

Actors : Dennis Waterman, John Thaw, Ian Bannen, Barry Foster,
Directors : David Wickes,

Cinematic spin-off from the popular TV series. Hard-bitten Flying Squad officer Jack Regan gets embroiled in a deadly political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate the death of ...

Actors : Gela Kandelaki, Irine Jandieri, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansug Kakhidze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to ...

Actors : Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Homicide detective Steve Carella is trying to solve the brutal murder of 17-year-old Muriel Stark. Her younger cousin Patricia, who saw the killer and barely escaped with her life, helps him. However, the case soon takes a bizarre turn.

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Shun Domon, Asami Ogawa, Hiromi Namino,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

One dark and stormy night, a middle age prison escapee haphazardly breaks into the luxurious mason of a wealthy and privileged family and rapes the young wife in front of her bound husband....

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Gandhimathi, Bhagyaraj, Goundamani,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

The movie revolves around the struggle and vulnerability of 16-year old Mayil (Sridevi) when in love.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Colicos, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.

Actors : Shubha, Arathi, Aswath, Vishnuvardhan,
Directors : S.R. Puttana Kanagal,

This is the tale of an angry young man with flavours of Teacher-student relationship, the stubbornness of Ramachari(protagonist) and his attempts at having a romantic relationship.

Actors : Sean Grady, Larry Brodsky, Jim Fitzpatrick, Alan Bowers,
Directors : David Jamison,

Steve Street is about to lead his Highschool Football team to the City Championship, when he's diagnosed with cancer.

Actors : John Fraser, John Leyton, Stephanie Beacham, Lynne Frederick,
Directors : Pete Walker,

A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Sumita Sanyal, Utpal Dutt, Dharmendra,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

A teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Markov, Galina Belyaeva, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Emil Loteanu,

You can't make a heart love somebody. This gospel is well known to the young Olenka. Born in a poor family, she has to marry a rich man to escape poverty. Three men fight for her heart, the...