Best Drama movies of 1970s

Actors : Martin Potter, Koo Stark, Lydia Lisle, Katherine Kath,
Directors : Chris Boger,

Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one ...

Actors : John Gielgud, Jan Ciecierski, Andrzej Seweryn, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was...

Actors : Bilal Inci, Atilla Olgaç, Yilmaz Güney, Hayati Hamzaoglu,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, ...

Actors : Nick Holt, Karl Wallace, Paul Bentzen, Debbi Pick,
Directors : Bill Rebane,

A group of young pilots in a remote region of the Canadian wilderness begin to hear strange reports over their radios about planes crashing, cars stalling and a deadly plague which has ...

Actors : Björn Adelly, Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Siv Ericks,
Directors : Gustav Wiklund,

Young Lena is trapped in a complex situation of sex and lies.

Actors : Ivan Ivanov, Yanina Kasheva, Valcho Kamarashev, Ibish Orhanov,
Directors : Borislav Sharaliev,

A boy from a poor Sofia neighborhood - Rado who is orphan and has committed several petty crimes - is sent to a borstal, or, to put it otherwise becomes a juvenile prisoner. Unfortunately, ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Joaquín Hinojosa, Isabel Mestres, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and ...

Actors : William Smith, Peter Brown, Tom Simcox, Ahna Capri,
Directors : William Gibson,

Wildlife photographer Terry and her brother Art go to Venezuela for a photo shoot. They hire Jim Pendrake to guide them through the jungle. However, the trio run afoul of evil local hunter Caribe.

Actors : Flore Fitzgerald, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Calvin Lockhart, Billie Whitelaw, Glenna Forster-Jones,
Directors : John Boorman,

Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's ...

Actors : Colleen Niday, Maryann Rachford, Patty Dunning, Mike Niday,
Directors : Donald W. Thompson,

The story of Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future. She meets and marries a young man and her life seems great, until one moment she ...

Actors : John Savage, Ann Sothern, Luana Anders, Ruth Roman,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem...

Actors : Zia Mohyeddin, Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Aparna Sen,
Directors : James Ivory,

Lucia Lane, an English writer by way of the US, arrives in Bombay to watch the filming of one of her novels. She's nearing middle age, she's had several husbands, she's lonely and ...

Actors : Brad Davis, Shelley Long, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system and begin to lose their ideals.

Actors : Cheri Caffaro, Richard Smedley, Patrick Wright, Laurie Rose,
Directors : Don Schain,

Cheerleaders and models are kidnapped & sold by a white slavery ring. Female agent is sent to rescue them.

Actors : Komaki Kurihara, Takiko Mizunoe, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

Actors : Lucien Guérin, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin, Serge Avedikian,
Directors : Philippe Vallois,

During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. As their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should ...

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Actors : Christian Roberts, Nigel Davenport, Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Alan Cooke,

A man who has been in a coma since infancy is awakened.

Actors : Phillip Avalon, Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, John Jarratt,
Directors : Christopher Fraser,

The exploits of four boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious turn when they find themselves involved in a murder.