Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Cristina Raines, Clarke Peters, David Essex, Beau Bridges,
Directors : David Wickes,

A young hot-headed motorbike enthusiast inherits the prototype for an incredibly fast machine which was designed by his brother. He successfully gets the finance for it, and uses the bike ...

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Edit Szalay, Mariana Dimitrova, Jan Englert,
Directors : Vulo Radev,

The events of the film are related to the Civil War in Spain. This is a film about the beauty of love - exotic and tragic and the maze of human feelings.

Actors : Luigi Casellato, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Maurizio Lucidi,

A wealthy, decadent count convinces a disillusioned playboy that they shall murder one another's relatives, to get away with the perfect crime. The count murders the playboy's unpleasant ...

Actors : Deborah Winters, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

The sequel to Summer of '42 (1971) reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience ...

Actors : Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Anna Nagy, Sándor Horváth, Marianna Moór,

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adopting parents.

Actors : Yôko Shimada, Teruhiko Aoi, Mieko Takamine, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

After the death of the Father , His family are gathered to share Inheritances , but suddenly a woman with a mysterious masked man arrive there , claiming to be the other wife of the man ...

Actors : Akiko Hirooka, Yôko Ohno, Yûko Ejima, Makiko Harada,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

A man comes to Tokyo searching for his son's killer. He ventures into the deep underground of the city where he finds out that the untraceable killer is a mysterious revolutionary gang leader called Shinjuku Mad.

Actors : Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina, Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Patty Duke, Sian Barbara Allen,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed ...

Actors : Blanka Heirman, Willy Vandermeulen, Eric Clerckx, Paul S'Jongers,
Directors : Robbe De Hert,

The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Ottavia Piccolo, Michel Piccoli, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival ...

Actors : Meena Kumari, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Sumita Sanyal,
Directors : Gulzar,

Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following ...

Actors : Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Toma Dimitriu, Violeta Andrei, Gheorghe Cozorici, Gheorghe Dinica,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

Actors : Topol, Mia Farrow, Margaret Rawlings, Michael Jayston,
Directors : Carol Reed,

When a straight-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. His wife doesn't keep regular hours, so he suspects an affair and hires a ...

Actors : Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Fausto Tozzi, Ivo Garrani,

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The ...

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Robert Rivard, Reynald Bouchard,
Directors : Gilles Carle,

A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks...

Actors : Marie Tifo, Charlotte Laurier, Louise Marleau, Germain Houde,
Directors : Francis Mankiewicz,

A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.

Actors : Douglas Wilmer, Tony Haygarth, Carolyn Seymour, David Hemmings,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

A new school teacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his pupils, and he fears the same will happen to him.