Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Vsevolod Safonov, Evgeniy Leonov,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Andrea Montchal, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Greta Schmidt,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : A.K. Hangal, Shashi Kapoor, 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 : 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 : Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi, Sachiko Hidari, Tetsurô Tanba,
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 : 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 : 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.