Best Drama movies of 1970s

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 : Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, 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 : 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 : 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 : Betül Asçioglu, Fikret Hakan, Kadir Inanir, Levent Inanir,
Directors : Serif Gören,

They were two brothers. Now they are enemies for each others. A bridge which connects people, separates them.

Actors : John Saxon, Tisa Farrow, Stuart Whitman, Martin Landau,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal ...

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 ...

Actors : Roger E. Mosley, Alan Manson, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the...

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 : Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law, 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 : Rekha, Pradeep Kumar, Prem Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Dulal Guha,

A man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life. Six years later he is living with...

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 : 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 ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...