Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Lois Chiles, Bradford Dillman, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

Actors : Mia Bendixsen, Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III, Kris Kristofferson,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Alan Arkin,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.

Actors : John Hurt, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Waterston, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Fernando Rey,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Charlotte Rampling, Woody Allen, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Woody Allen,

While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Peter Falk,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.

Actors : Robert Webber, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Warren Oates,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Actors : Jason Robards, Tim McIntire, Don Johnson, Susanne Benton,
Directors : L.Q. Jones,

A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex, and they stumble into an underground society ...

Actors : Robert Redford, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee, Will Geer,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians, and proves to be a match for their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.

Actors : Peter Lühr, Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

Actors : John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Actors : Humbert Balsan, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek, Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A million miles away from 'Camelot' or 'Excalibur', this film ruthlessly strips the Arthurian legend down to its barest essentials. Arthur's knights, far from being heroic, are conniving ...

Actors : James Mason, Maximilian Schell, David Warner, James Coburn,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A German commander places a squad in extreme danger after its Sergeant refuses to lie for him.

Actors : Albert Finney, Keith Carradine, Edward Fox, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

A small feud between two Napoleonic officers evolves into a decades-long series of duels.

Actors : Dennis Wilson, James Taylor, Laurie Bird, Warren Oates,
Directors : Monte Hellman,

A story of two men drag-racing across the U.S. in a primer grey '55 Chevy. Dennis Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver.

Actors : Micheline Presle, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry a man she doesn't love.

Actors : David Warner, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.