Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Kadir Inanir, Elif Pektas, Savas Basar, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Reunion of two former lovers brings the end to the society they are part of through hate through revenge and through bloodshed, especially when the lovers were obliged to stand against their associates and families.

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Andrew Sinclair,

This is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" (read it backwards). We meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) ...

Actors : Teofil Vâlcu, Emanoil Petrut, Ernest Maftei, Stefan Sileanu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Paul Sorvino, Richard Gere, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Forrest Tucker, Lurene Tuttle, Leif Garrett,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Buford Pusser's last days as Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee in 1970 and his subsequent death in 1974.

Actors : David Chiang, Mario Milano, Kuan Tai Chen, Li Ching,

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Actors : Sue Ane Langdon, Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A young couple, just married, rents a house in a village in Louisiana. But they are not welcome because the inhabitants of the village look upon them with distrust. Meanwhile, in the house ...

Actors : Marie-Françoise Audollent, Philippe Caubère, Frédéric Ladonne, Odile Cointepas,
Directors : Ariane Mnouchkine,

Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother ...

Actors : Len Bari, Robby Benson, Leonardo Cimino, Glynnis O'Connor,
Directors : Arthur Barron,

Shy cellist boy meets upperclassman ballet dancing girl at school. They experience first-time love, then happenstance pulls them apart.

Actors : Orson Welles, Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the ...

Actors : Don Marshall, Ena Hartman, Phyllis Davis, Marta Kristen,
Directors : Stephanie Rothman,

It's every man and woman for himself on an island where convicted murderers are dumped, rather than kept in prison.

Actors : Feroz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Amjad Khan, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

A cabaret dancer and singer, Sheela (Zeenat Aman) has two admirers: a small-time thief Rajesh (Feroz Khan), and a young, eligible widower, Amar (Vinod Khanna). Both are best friends and ...

Actors : Thalmus Rasulala, Diana Sands, Roscoe Orman, Joyce Walker,
Directors : Gilbert Moses,

A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, George C. Scott,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.

Actors : Oru Viral Krishna Rao, Kamal Haasan, Prathap Pothen, Dilip,
Directors : K. Balachander,

Poetical forces play in the life of an unemployed yet well educated young man.He finds the depth and the beauty of his principles yet fate leaves him in destitution

Actors : Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law.

Actors : Piotr Garlicki, Christine Paul-Podlasky, Mariusz Dmochowski, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the ...

Actors : Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Jüri Järvet, Uldis Pucitis,
Directors : Grigori Kromanov,

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Brigitte Bardot, Michèle Sand, Mathieu Carrière,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving ...

Actors : Florinda Bolkan, Claudio Cassinelli, María Casares, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Gianfranco Mingozzi,

After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.