Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Evgeniy Leonov, Vsevolod Safonov,
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 : Fredric March, George Kennedy, Jim Brown, Lynn Carlin,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Actors : David Gulpilil, Peter Cummins, Greg Rowe, Judy Dick,
Directors : Henri Safran,

Storm Boy is a rambunctious Australian youth, living along the coastline with his freewheeling father. At the behest of an aging aborigine, Storm Boy takes care of an uncared-for nest of pelicans.

Actors : Sean Bury, Toby Robins, Anicée Alvina, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

A rich English boy meets an orphaned French girl and as they become friends, create a world that is far away from the adult world we live in.

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 : 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 : 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 : Strother Martin, George Kennedy, James Stewart, Anne Baxter,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

In 1935, after 40 years in a West Virginia prison, three released convicts wish to open a legitimate business using the 25 thousand dollars earned in jail but a crooked prison guard in cahoots with the town banker plan to defraud them.

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 : 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 : Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Catherine Jourdan,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

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.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Stanislawa Celinska, Daniel Olbrychski, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are...

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...