Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Len Bari, Leonardo Cimino, Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor,
Directors : Arthur Barron,

Shy cellist boy meets upperclassman ballet dancing girl at school. They experience first-time love, then happenstance pulls them apart.

Actors : Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis, Jonathan Kramer,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

This film is a satire of the women's liberation movement, staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a ...

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Paul Sorvino, Richard Gere, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.

Actors : Ian Hendry, Antonio Cantafora, Kenneth Haigh, Joan Collins,
Directors : Gerry O'Hara,

The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Forrest Tucker, Lurene Tuttle, Leif Garrett,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Buford Pusser's last days as Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee in 1970 and his subsequent death in 1974.

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Andrew Sinclair,

This is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" (read it backwards). We meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) ...

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Tatyana Tkach, Lyudmila Saveleva,

The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ...

Actors : Marie-Françoise Audollent, Philippe Caubère, Frédéric Ladonne, Odile Cointepas,
Directors : Ariane Mnouchkine,

Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother ...

Actors : Jacques Herlin, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Actors : Hale Soygazi, Cüneyt Arkin, Meral Orhonsay, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Yavuz Özkan,

Mine workers in Turkey struggling for better working conditions.

Actors : Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps, David Essex,
Directors : Michael Apted,

The rise and fall of the rock singer Jim Maclaine, in the mid 60s, with his manager, Mike, and his group, "The Stray Cats."

Actors : Orson Welles, Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the ...

Actors : Robert Hossein, Brigitte Bardot, Michèle Sand, Mathieu Carrière,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving ...

Actors : Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law.

Actors : Elif Pektas, Kadir Inanir, Savas Basar, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Reunion of two former lovers brings the end to the society they are part of through hate through revenge and through bloodshed, especially when the lovers were obliged to stand against their associates and families.

Actors : Pia Degermark, Paul Rogers, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites.

Actors : Piotr Garlicki, Christine Paul-Podlasky, Mariusz Dmochowski, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the ...

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Will Geer, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Bernard McEveety,

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.

Actors : Sue Ane Langdon, Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A young couple, just married, rents a house in a village in Louisiana. But they are not welcome because the inhabitants of the village look upon them with distrust. Meanwhile, in the house ...

Actors : Louis Seigner, Michael Lonsdale, Roland Bertin, Ivo Garrani,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.