Best 1970s Drama Movies

Looking for the best 1970s Drama movies? These are the 48 highest-rated 1970s Drama titles in our catalogue, led by Kızgın Toprak, Persecution and Journey. The list is ranked by audience score; open any title for its cast, trailer and legal places to watch.

1. Kızgın Toprak (1973)

★ 10.0/10

The story of Sirvan and his wife Sultan, who rebelled against Cello, the lord of the village.
2. Persecution (1972)

★ 9.0/10

Ayla is a conservatory student. Through a coincidence, she meets Tarık, a famous composer. They fall in love and soon become engaged. On a trip abroad, Tarık experiences one of Ayla's biggest traumas. This disaster…
3. Journey (1972)

★ 9.0/10

A woman with a troubled past is saved from drowning in a river and brought to a strange community hidden in the woods.
4. Ağlıyorum (1973)

★ 9.0/10

The film is about Gamze and Haldun's love that continues despite all obstacles. Gamze and her twin sister Nazan are students at the conservatory. They both fall in love with Haldun, whom they meet during this period…
5. Guns Blazin (1970)

★ 9.0/10

Experience the raw intensity of Guns Blazin' (2024), a gritty Western Action film set in the unforgiving landscape of 1903 Texas. Follow a lone Gunslinging Hero as he embarks on a dangerous mission to save a woman from…
6. The Godfather (1972)

★ 8.7/10

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son…
7. The Godfather Part II (1974)

★ 8.6/10

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and…
8. The Message (1976)

★ 8.5/10

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and…
9. Yüreğimde Yare Var (1974)

★ 8.5/10

A young man who grew up with an orphan girl and realizes that one day he is in love with her, but he cannot express his love. The young girl also loves her, but she can't even say it to herself.
10. Angel in the Rubble: The Genelle Guzman Story (1970)

★ 8.5/10

A Lifetime original recounting the true story of Genelle Guzman, the last survivor pulled alive from the World Trade Center ruins after 27 hours. The biographical drama chronicles her harrowing experience during the…
11. Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire (1975)

★ 8.5/10

A group of unruly Irish stage actors refuse the orders of their British director as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s eighteenth-century keen about the the life and death of Irish rebel…
12. Ankara Ekspresi (1970)

★ 8.3/10

During World War II, Germany aims to conquer Turkey with an operation which is Ankara Express. German spy Hilda and Turkish major Seyfi engage in a dangerous relationship while they work for the Ankara Express operation.
13. Düşman (1973)

★ 8.0/10

The film tells the story of Murat and Helga, Turkish agents fighting against German spies during World War II. Helga's father, Alex, is a German spy who hates Turkey. Helga, who was born and raised in Turkey, does not…
14. Koshish (1972)

★ 7.8/10

A romantic drama which tells the story of a 20 year relationship between Hari and Aarti - a deaf-mute couple who try to live their lives to the fullest despite their handicaps.
15. Evlidir Ne Yapsa Yeridir (1978)

★ 7.7/10

Story of three married couples living in the same apartment.
16. Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)

★ 7.7/10

Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing…
17. Mimino (1977)

★ 7.6/10

Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many…
18. Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475 (1975)

★ 7.6/10

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.
19. Ski Lift to Death (1978)

★ 7.5/10

A sports promoter tries to matchmake for a pair of ski champions and, as a result, they end up trapped in a derailed ski-lift car along with a gangster and the hitman sent to kill him.
20. Paths (1978)

★ 7.4/10

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
21. The Castle of Sand (1974)

★ 7.4/10

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
22. Johny Mera Naam (1970)

★ 7.3/10

When a gangster named Heeralal gets arrested, he befriends Johny, a petty thief, in prison. He seeks Jony's help in executing his mission of smuggling a few diamonds. Johny, however, is an undercover CID officer named…
23. How to Kill a Judge (1975)

★ 7.3/10

A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
24. My Way Home (1978)

★ 7.3/10

Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose…
25. A Wedding Suit (1976)

★ 7.2/10

A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at…
26. Bawarchi (1972)

★ 7.1/10

Desperate for a cook, the disgruntled Sharmas are relieved when a multi-talented man, Raghu, takes up the job. However, when all seems well, the family jewels disappear and so does Raghu.
27. Bir Garip Yolcu (1973)

★ 7.0/10

The film tells the story of a poor young man who falls in love with a girl who dreams of becoming rich. Halit Usta is a foreman at Turgut Bey's factory. He lives in a poor neighborhood with his daughter Fatma. He has…
28. Darbe (1976)

★ 7.0/10

The film tells the story of two old friends, Ahmet and Kemal, who work together to solve a murder. Ahmet, nicknamed "Baba," makes a living as an accountant. His son Ali, who works as a laborer at the same factory, is a…
29. Surfacing (1970)

★ 7.0/10

After years of struggling with severe depression, a young man begins to open his heart, learning to love himself and others. When he becomes entangled in his therapist’s personal life, he discovers not only her need…
30. The Return of Mod Squad (1979)

★ 7.0/10

Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they themselves are the intended targets of a gunman who lives in their old…
31. Rendezvous in Hell (1971)

★ 7.0/10

Four men rob a gas station and a shot is fired so they return to their home where their four women have been waiting and licking on each other. Pretty soon the eight are all having sex but then things take a dark turn.
32. Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)

★ 7.0/10

Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events…
33. Amar Prem (1972)

★ 6.9/10

A village woman abandoned by her husband is forced into prostitution in Kolkata and forms nameless yet strong relations with a wealthy patron as well as an abused boy in the neighbourhood.
34. Shogun's Samurai (1978)

★ 6.9/10

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his…
35. Jacob the Liar (1974)

★ 6.9/10

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his…
36. The Night That Panicked America (1975)

★ 6.8/10

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
37. I Am the Law (1977)

★ 6.8/10

Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a…
38. Police Python 357 (1976)

★ 6.7/10

A methodical police inspector becomes entangled in a web of deceit after a murder investigation reveals disturbing connections to his own department. As suspicion tightens around him, he must outwit both the killer and…
39. ...And Your Name Is Jonah (1979)

★ 6.6/10

A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.
40. And Agnes Chose to Die (1976)

★ 6.6/10

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
41. Bhumika (1977)

★ 6.6/10

In a world that both glamorizes and patronizes her, a successful film star begins to unravel under the weight of the roles imposed upon her, drifting between studios and her personal life as she spirals into an…
42. Attention, the Kids Are Watching (1978)

★ 6.6/10

In a seaside villa, under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows.
43. Nosey Zühtü (1976)

★ 6.6/10

Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.
44. Saudagar (1973)

★ 6.6/10

Moti is a merchant who sells jaggery in the market, with the help of an older woman, Mahjubhi, who makes exemplary jaggery. He is in love with a village girl, but cannot afford to pay the dowry/marriage expenses to her…
45. Her Third (1972)

★ 6.6/10

In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out, and one lesbian friendship which she retains. She is looking for a…
46. The Mistress (1976)

★ 6.6/10

Manuela is a woman unlucky in love. But when she meets Eduardo, a married man, her life will change completely, as his side may start singing career.
47. Blood Money (1974)

★ 6.5/10

Hacer recently joined a factory where Hasan works and brings hope to her life. The two get married. Hacer is worried about the working conditions in the factory; she has a relationship with Hasan after she establishes…
48. Rape and Death of a Housewife (1978)

★ 6.5/10

Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death…