Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanasie Salamonie, Warren Oates,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze, theft...

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 : Fernando Delgado, María Clara Fernández de Loaysa, José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he ...

Actors : Patrick Barr, Angela Pleasence, Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman,
Directors : Gabrielle Beaumont,

An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Dev Anand, Jeevan, Pran,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Monu (Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father gets killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit (Premnath). Mohan kills the ...

Actors : Lola Gaos, Ismael Merlo, Ovidi Montllor, Alicia Sánchez,
Directors : José Luis Borau,

Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.

Actors : Ni Tien, Lieh Lo, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Don't miss this one it is excellent. Chinese sword masters pair up to fight off yet another villain for the deadly PeacockDart. The ending is eye popping don't miss this one. Shaw Brothers come thru yet again

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, John Liu, Chiang Wang, Hsin Hsing Kuo,
Directors : See-Yuen Ng,

Hwang Jang Lee is a corrupt Ming guard who frames John Liu for murder. A wanted fugitive, John hides out with a teen who is an expert in the infamous Iron Armor technique, a technique that ...

Actors : David Lampson, Mako, Don Kenny, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor.

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...

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 : 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 : Ewa Zietek, Daniel Olbrychski, Marek Walczewski, Izabella Olszewska,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all...

Actors : Franklin Caicedo, Luis Brandoni, Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

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 : Jan Schmid, Julius Albert, Jitka Novákova, Karel Novak,
Directors : Vera Chytilová,

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.

Actors : Joonee Gamboa, Hilda Koronel, Lou Salvador Jr., Bembol Roco,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for Ligaya, his loved one.

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 : Cheryl Smith, Colleen Camp, Jo Johnston, Rosanne Katon,
Directors : Jack Hill,

In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.