Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite, Maria Stella Splendore, Neide Ribeiro,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.

Actors : Boris Tokarev, Tatyana Drubich, Yuri Agilin, Irina Malysheva,
Directors : Sergey Solovev,

A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets the others.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Sumita Sanyal, Dharmendra, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

A teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."

Actors : Ciccio Ingrassia, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Elio Petri,

Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansings.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Sheila Reid, Elliott Gould, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor...

Actors : Omero Antonutti, Mihalis Giannatos, Eva Kotamanidou, Grigoris Evangelatos,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

Based on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself. Based on a circular ...

Actors : Atsuko Kaku, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya, Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuo Nakamura,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.

Actors : Slim Pickens, Terence Hill, Jackie Gleason, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

When an American billionaire dies, his poor Italian nephew inherits everything, provided he can arrive in the USA to claim his inheritance before the deadline but the corporate lawyer-executor tries to steal the inheritance.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, John Colicos, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.

Actors : Dennis Waterman, John Thaw, Ian Bannen, Barry Foster,
Directors : David Wickes,

Cinematic spin-off from the popular TV series. Hard-bitten Flying Squad officer Jack Regan gets embroiled in a deadly political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate the death of ...

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Gandhimathi, Bhagyaraj, Goundamani,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

The movie revolves around the struggle and vulnerability of 16-year old Mayil (Sridevi) when in love.

Actors : Leonid Bykov, Yelena Shanina, Leonid Bakshtayev, Vladimir Konkin,
Directors : Leonid Bykov,

The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.

Actors : Rekha, Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Vikram has prospered in a life of crime and lives a hedonistic, self-indulgent lifestyle. When Durga, his wife gives birth to twins, he not only repudiates the children but discards his ...

Actors : Gela Kandelaki, Irine Jandieri, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansug Kakhidze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to ...

Actors : Mumtaz, Dev Anand, Baby Guddi, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Dev Anand,

In the background of the rise of the International Hare Krishna movement in the 1970s, is a Montreal-based family of the Jaiswals, consisting of mom, dad, son, Prashant, and daughter, ...

Actors : John Fraser, John Leyton, Stephanie Beacham, Lynne Frederick,
Directors : Pete Walker,

A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Brasseur, Romy Schneider, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Francis Girod,

Emma Eckhert, from a modest background, became a big sensation between 1914 and 1938 as a banker and the head of a financial paper specialized in public savings.

Actors : Ching Wong, Yang Kao, Jackie Chan, Qiu Yuen,
Directors : Mu Chu,

Historical movie, set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII, in which a group of Chinese rebels tries to oust the Japanese forces from a small town. Jackie Chan is one of the ...

Actors : Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Leslie Nielsen, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Actors : Alida Valli, Mario Pachi, Carlo Monni, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Giuseppe Bertolucci,

A young poet falls in love in sofisticated woman who hates poetry.But,poet wants to win her with poetry and:a bit of help of his mum.