Best Drama Films of 1970
The Molly Maguires
This grim historical drama ... the law and his fellow countrymen. The Molly Maguires (1970) was Oscar nominated for Best Art and Set Direction. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Sally Field had her ... refuses to take sides: Field's hippie lifestyle is shown to be just as shallow as her parent's suburban existence. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Ryan's Daughter
The logic behind inflating ... ever after, just ever after. The film was lensed on location in Ireland by frequent Lean collaborator Freddie Young. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
David Copperfield
This lackluster 1970 version ... his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
I Walk the Line
In this collaboration between ... home life. Not surprisingly, Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" is heard on the soundtrack at various crucial junctures. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Love Story
In director Arthur Hiller's ... grossed more money than any Paramount production before it. This enormously successful film inspired a 1978 sequel, Oliver's Story. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Brian's Song
One of the best ... cancer. Adapted from Sayers' autobiography I Am Third, Brian's Song also features Chicago Bears legend Dick Butkus as himself. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
How Awful About Allan
Director Curtis Harrington (The ... or have Allan's sister's continued attempts to wear at her ailing brother's fragile psyche finally had the intended results. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Angel Levine
Bernard Malamud seldom saw ... for its own merits. The Angel Levine was lovingly adapted for the screen by Bill Gunn and Ronald Ribman. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Andersonville Trial
George C. Scott directed ... under his watch. The stellar supporting cast includes Cameron Mitchell, William Shatner, Jack Cassidy, Buddy Ebsen, and Martin Sheen. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Beguiled
The Beguiled is a ... advantage of the women by bedding each successively -- and then learns the true meaning of "a woman scorned." [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Adventurers
Based on Harold Robbins' ... to be?" nature of the cast of characters. But it failed to establish Bekim Fehmiu as an international star. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Adam at 6 a.m.
Looking like a high-school ... a superb supporting cast: among the secondary actors is 1940s leading lady Anne Gwynne, making a one-time-only film comeback. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Great White Hope
Although the characters' names ... run overwhelming her. Jack finally accepts the bout in Havana, but he fights his opponent with everything he's got. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Horsemen
Director John Frankenheimer, extrapolating ... footage of the horsemanship in these dangerous and anarchic games is one of the real highlights of this film. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Three Sisters
Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's ... an affair. Three Sisters was released in the U.S. in 1974 as part of the American Film Theatre series. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Brother John
Sidney Poitier stars as ... is, he's black, and it's Alabama-so who's going to pay attention? Will Greer costars as a local town doctor. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Von Richthofen and Brown
This film of the ... airborne battle. Spookily enough, even though he died in the air, his plane is reputed to have landed intact. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Joe
Peter Boyle delivers a ... upon a hippie pot party, the two reactionaries snap, pull out their guns, and go on a killing spree. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Tchaikovsky
Innokenty Smotkunovsky essays the ... Plisetskaya. Hollywood-based composer Dmitri Tiomkin who arranged the music for Tchaikovsky and the picture itself earned Academy Award nominations. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Virgin and the Gypsy
This melodrama is taken ... a forbidden romantic encounter after weeks of longing gazes and social disapproval from friends and family on both sides. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Wild Child
Based on a real-life ... Adopting an austere cinematic technique (at times reminiscent of silent films), Truffaut unfolds his story with directness and simplicity. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Railway Children
British character actor Lionel ... kindly porter (Bernard Cribbins) and a wealthy gent (William Mervyn), both of whom strive to prove their father's innocence. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Wuthering Heights
This romantic drama concerns ... spectacular but this version lacks the foreboding, shadowy drama of the 1939 original starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Pecado Mortal
The eccentric members of ... family, the Manson family, and Shelley Winters' sick Barker brood in Bloody Mama is all an unfortunate artistic coincidence. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Bartleby
Adapted from Herman Melville's ... hospital does Scofield find any peace of mind-but even then, the spectre of Bartleby looms large over the proceedings. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Cross and the Switchblade
Based on a true ... would go on to become an ordained minister, preaching the gospel due to the initial efforts of David Wilkerson. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Basil Dearden's final film ... This was Moore's final film before he took over the role of James Bond with Live and Let Die. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Prestupleniye i Nakazaniye
This Russian adaptation of ... one retains Dostoyevsky's lengthy post-prison epilogue, in which Raskolnikov learns at long last how to be a human being. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
King of the Grizzlies
Moki (John Yesno) is ... and seeks another way to satisfy his ravenous hunger in this tepid Walt Disney feature narrated by Winston Hibler. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
La Moglie Piu Bella
A 16 year old ... his intended victim. The two teenage lovers become caught between the law and the lawless in this romantic melodrama. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Korol Lir
This is a Russian, ... intolerable conditions. This film's low-key, dark imagery is a fitting match for the dark content of the play itself. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Landscape After Battle
Based on the writings ... and is finally awakened to the feelings that allowed his initial creativity that was suppressed by his Nazi captors. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Love Film
Childhood sweethearts are reunited ... but often visit each other in the years to follow in this triumphant story of survival and emotional healing. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
A technical designer enjoys ... his own death by hanging in this disturbing feature. This film was the fourth for director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The American Soldier
American Soldier (originally Der ... lords. Scheid works both sides of the fence when three policemen engage him to knock off some awkward malcontents. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Savage Run
Savage Run was originally ... her final film appearance in this 74-minute Aaron Spelling production. Run Simon Run was first shown December 1, 1970. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of ... Theatre in 1972. That same year, Mitchell starred in a related theatrical-film effort, Henry VIII and His Six Wives. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
El Caballo Bayo
Rene Cardona's Spanish language ... Isabel (Maricruz Olivier). Soon the man must decide if he is going to live for hate or for love. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
A Day at the Beach
Roman Polanski wrote the ... he later turned over the reigns to filmmaker Simon Hesera; it was his first dramatic feature, and his last. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Love is a Splendid Illusion
Italy is the setting ... this melodrama in which a man realizes his lover carried on an affair with one of his friends. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
May Morning
Jane Birkin, Alessio Orano, ... title from the college's traditional May 1st celebration. The film features a score from British pop group The Tremeloes. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Even viewers who've seen ... which was initially released in Germany in 1970 (two years after its completion) as Auch Zwerge haben klein angefagen. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Mais Ne Nous Deliverez Pas du Mal
Two young French schoolgirls, ... was firmly censored by French authorities, but it was allowed to be seen at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
The Niklashausen Journey
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder ... him to start a proletarian revolution. Fassbinder appears as the rebellious instigator the Black Monk. Also starring Hanna Schygulla. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
El Chacal de Nahueltoro
The Jackal of Nahueltoro ... allows the story to be told as the events transpired, avoiding judgments and blame on crime, society and punishment. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
Dragon Country
In this innovative stage ... isolation by presenting both I Can't Imagine Tomorrow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let me Listen. [ best drama films - 1970 ]
El Oficio Mas Antiguo Del Mundo
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El Deseo en Otoņo
South-of-the-border director Carlos Enrique ... of the spoils. Indignant, Clara vows to do everything in her power to prevent this new romance from blossoming. [ best drama films - 1970 ]Supplemental Navigation
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