Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Lynn Lowry, George Shannon, Monique van Vooren, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Theodore Gershuny,

A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.

Actors : Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

Actors : Roman Skamene, Cestmír Randa, Marek Kondrat, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Janusz Majewski,

A teenage country boy starts working in a restaurant of the famous Pacific Hotel in the 1930s. He soon discovers that to get promoted one needs to conform and sacrifice his dignity.

Actors : José Sacristán, Enrique Vivó, José Luis Alonso, María Luisa San José,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself ...

Actors : Claude Rich, Jeanne Moreau, Sydne Rome, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat ...

Actors : Rakhee Gulzar, Neetu Singh, Randhir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ramesh Behl,

Suman (Raakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother, Raju (Randhir Kapoor), and Raju already calls Suman "Bhabhi". Amit ...

Actors : Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Marta DuBois, James Victor,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

Kid brother Chuco (Danny De La Paz) is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their differences, their family bond is strong. But that bond is violently tested when rivals ...

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : James Goldstone,

This is an excellent movie beginning for a young man growing up in Mobile with freedom of sailing and girls his age. His naval father goes off to war and relocates him to New Mexico where ...

Actors : Lino Ventura, Paul Crauchet, Claudine Auger, Jean Bouise,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Mystery film about a man who finds there is another world to the one we know.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Peter Fonda, Richard Lynch, Cornelia Sharpe,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Carrie Snodgress, Ruth Cox, Ray Milland,

A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and ...

Actors : Chiara Moretti, Dominique Laffin, Carlo Monni, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Roberto has a new job as the teacher at a nursery school. The first child he meets is Gianluigi, who's mute. Roberto is spirited, bringing a TV into class, then a donkey. He takes children ...

Actors : Rod Steiger, Trevor Howard, Richard Johnson, Lee Remick,
Directors : Don Sharp,

Hennessy is an Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. After his family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Actors : Charles Vanel, Michel Simon, Claude Dauphin, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Marie-France Morel, Brigitte Borghese, Annie Belle,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Valerie, a beautiful young girl, watches over her cousin's place while he is away for six months. Not one to take advantage of her new "digs", she spends her first night there reading, ...

Actors : Kostas Kazakos, Angelos Antonopoulos, Vangelis Kazan, Alekos Alexandrakis,
Directors : Nikos Tzimas,

The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed. A ...

Actors : Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, E.G. Marshall, Teresa Kelly,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state governor must decide on a person who will ...

Actors : Bradford Dillman, Alex Cord, Jackie Cooper, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Sutton Roley,

A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Herb Edelman, Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

2 quirky Manhattanites crash into each other at an ophthalmologist's office. Peter is a grouchy cartoonist/author whose vision is failing, divorced mother Theresa is also reluctant to ...

Actors : Pomson Shi, Yao Lin Chen, Chiu-Sing Hau, John Cheung,
Directors : Sum Cheung,

A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert ...