Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini, Manuel Zarzo,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist ...

Actors : Yi-Min Li, Jack Long, Nancy Yen, Kuan-Wu Lung,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

An aging martial arts expert is gifted a plaque from the Emperor declaring him the Kung Fu World Champion. Unsure of whether or not be is deserving of this title, he embarks on a journey to defeat the 7 Grandmasters.

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 : 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 : Orson Welles, Phil Proctor, Jack Nicholson, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.

Actors : David Bowie, Kim Novak, Sydne Rome, David Hemmings,
Directors : David Hemmings,

After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

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 : James Whitmore, Don Johnson, Tippi Hedren, Bruno Kirby,
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 : Orson Bean, Charles Bronson, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig,
Directors : Richard Donner,

A 38 year old American novelist discovers the difficulties of being married to a British 16 year old schoolgirl.

Actors : Manoucher Ahmadi, Bahman Mofid, Mary Apick, Behrouz Vossoughi,
Directors : Masud Kimiai,

Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful ...

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 : 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 : James Mason, Robert Preston, Ron Weyand, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Actors : Joe Grifasi, Jill Eikenberry, Robert Viharo, James Caan,
Directors : James Caan,

This was based on a true story. About a man (Caan) who discovers that his ex-wife has disappeared along with their children. It seems that her new boyfriend works for some criminals. After ...

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 : 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.

Actors : Lila Kedrova, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Reciprocal consolation. The background of two middle-aged people (Michel and Lydia) is gradually unfolded. Michel's wife is incurably ill. They had agreed that she would take her life on ...

Actors : Irene Worth, Susan Engel, Paul Scofield, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Peter Brook,

The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's ...

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.