Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Rochefort, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

Bart Cordell, is unanimously considered as a daddy's boy and an insignificant playboy. So, when he suddenly becomes head of his father's financial empire following his death, nobody ...

Actors : Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Rock Hudson, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,

In 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing-up a vital enemy dam.

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Chien Sun, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three North Shaolin teachers (Lu Feng, Chang Sheng, and Sun Chien) are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They ...

Actors : Anouk Ferjac, Odile Michel, Michel Puterflam, Eléonore Klarwein,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School ...

Actors : George Shannon, Emmanuelle Riva, Marco Perrin, Hachemi Marzouk,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!

Actors : Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, 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 : Daniel Grimm, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Jean Rougeul,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Francisco Rabal, Nastassja Kinski, Giuliana Calandra,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his ...

Actors : Jane Asher, Charlotte Rampling, Donald Pleasence, Keith Michell,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.

Actors : Michael Brandon, Shirley MacLaine, Bo Derek, Anthony Hopkins,

Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a young lover of her own.

Actors : Pia Degermark, Christopher Jones, Paul Rogers, 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 : Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast, Susan Penhaligon, Robert Brown,
Directors : Barney Platts-Mills,

The childish love story between a young depressive girl and a talented young writer and the first steps into their adult life.

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 : 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 : Börje Ahlstedt, Anita Ekström, Tomas Fryk, Ingvar Hirdwall,
Directors : Kay Pollak,

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp,...

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 : Gholamhossein Naghshineh, Parviz Fanizadeh, Minoo Abrishami, Esmail Davarfar,
Directors : Naser Taghvai,

An uproarious adoption of a popular novel by Iraj Pezeshkzad set in and around the family compound in early 1940s Tehran, marvelously rich in personality and incident. The title character, ...

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

Mine workers in Turkey struggling for better working conditions.

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 : 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.