Best Drama movies of 1970

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Hideo Sunazuka, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

Actors : Tatyana Bedova, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Georgiy Taratorkin, Viktoriya Fyodorova,
Directors : Lev Kulidzhanov,

Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention ...

Actors : Valentina Telichkina, Inna Churikova, Tatyana Stepanova, Leonid Kuravlyov,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck...

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 : Kostas Karras, Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Spyros Kalogirou,
Directors : Nikos Foskolos,

Dachau in 1965. Natasha Arseni missing over 20 years from Greece. Shortly before returning visits the former concentration camp. On the train to the motherland begins to remember the years ...

Actors : Fredric March, George Kennedy, Lynn Carlin, Jim Brown,
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 : 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 : Kin Sugai, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Eiji Okada, Akiji Kobayashi,
Directors : Akio Jissôji,

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

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 : 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 : Faik Coskun, Esen Püsküllü, Sadri Alisik, Salih Güney,
Directors : Mehmet Dinler,

This movie is about two lovers of a poor neighbourhood. Hüsnü and Müjgan love each other and they are on the brink of getting married. However, the son of Müjgan's boss sees her and ...

Actors : Claude Akins, Anthony Quinn, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Carol Reed,

Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.

Actors : Ornella Muti, Tano Cimarosa, Alessio Orano, Joe Sentieri,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and ...

Actors : Luchy Soto, Francisco Pierrá, José Luis López Vázquez, Charo Soriano,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

The greedy relatives of an amnesic and paralytic 45 years old millionaire try him to recover his memory by any means.

Actors : Fernando Sancho, Alfredo Mayo, Pier Angeli, Eleonora Rossi Drago,
Directors : Sergio Bergonzelli,

The guests of a villa are killed off one by one by their hosts. Incest, decapitations and a cyanide bath feature amongst the other bizarre delights.

Actors : George E. Carey, Luanne Roberts, Susan Romen, James Almanzar,
Directors : Don Henderson,

A middle-aged husband falls for his childrens' teenaged babysitter.

Actors : Lionel Jeffries, Mark Lester, Jeremy Kemp, Susan George,
Directors : John Hough,

Witnessing an assassination, a boy claims the assassins are hunting him. With his older sister, the pair escape numerous attacks and are aided by their grandfather and a resourceful young ...

Actors : Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Thommy Berggren, Charles Aznavour,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his ...

Actors : Alberto Dalbés, Jean Sorel, Carroll Baker, Luis Dávila,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A race-car driver whose life, both personal and professional, is in a rapid downfall is invited by her ex-husband's new wife to stay at their plush estate. The two women form a bond, and ...