Drama Movies of 1970
Airport
Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the complexity or ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Too Late the Hero
Filmed on location in the Philippines, Suicide Run is the alternate title of the British war ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Molly Maguires
This grim historical drama from director Martin Ritt was loosely based on real-life events. Richard Harris stars as James McParlan, an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1876. The Pinkertons have been hired by a ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Sally Field had her first significant dramatic role in this "generation gap" TV movie. After a year's time in the world of hippies and drugs, Field returns home to the parents who'd all but booted her out. Mom and Dad ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Ryan's Daughter
The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to have been "When David Lean directs, it's a super-spectacular." Sarah Miles (who at the time was married to ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
David Copperfield
This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
I Walk the Line
In this collaboration between actor Gregory Peck and director John Frankenheimer, Peck plays Southern sheriff Henry Tawes, who intends to bring moonshiner Carl McCain (Ralph Meeker) to justice. ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Love Story
In director Arthur Hiller's hit tearjerker -- based on Erich Segal's novella -- Ryan O'Neal plays Oliver Barrett IV, a comfortably off Harvard pre-law student who falls in love with Radcliffe music student ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Brian's Song
One of the best known and most enthusiastically reviewed made for television films of the 1970's, this drama was based on ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
How Awful About Allan
Director Curtis Harrington (The Killing Kind) teams with screenwriter Henry Farrell ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Angel Levine
Bernard Malamud seldom saw his works faithfully transferred to the screen (take a look at The Natural sometime), but he issued no complaints over the cinemazation of his The Angel Levine. Zero Mostel plays an elderly Jew whose ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Andersonville Trial
George C. Scott directed this made-for-television adaptation of Saul Levitt's award-winning ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Beguiled
The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Eastwood plays Corp. John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Adventurers
Based on Harold Robbins' bestseller, The Adventurers stars Yugoslav heartthrob Bekim Fehmiu as Porfirio Rubirosa clone Dax Xenos. Having suffered mightily as a child in a fictional ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Adam at 6 a.m.
Looking like a high-school junior, Michael Douglas plays a ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Conformist
The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Great White Hope
Although the characters' names were changed, The Great White Hope was a thinly veiled account of the trials and tribulations of boxer Jack ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Horsemen
Director John Frankenheimer, extrapolating from his earlier films The Gypsy Moths and Grand Prix, examines machismo and how men test themselves to the limits of endurance in The Horsemen. The film takes place in modern day ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Three Sisters
Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's three upper-class Prozorov sisters -- Masha, Olga, and Irina -- come no closer to their dream of returning to Moscow in director Laurence Olivier's 1970 film version of Three Sisters ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Brother John
Sidney Poitier stars as John Kane, a heavenly emissary who pays a visit to the Alabama town where he was born. Making it his mission to purge the community of all hatred and prejudice, "Brother John" is nothing less ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Five Easy Pieces
A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Von Richthofen and Brown
This film of the wartime exploits of Baron Von Richthoven, who was also known as the "Red Baron," was a relatively lavish Corman-brothers production, and is directed by Roger ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Joe
Peter Boyle delivers a strong and raw performance as Joe Curran, a racist factory worker who hates "hippies and niggers." The film deals with New York City advertising executive Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick), who ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Tchaikovsky
Innokenty Smotkunovsky essays the title role in the Russian production Tchaikovsky (released in some areas as Tchaikowski). Avoiding the erotic sensationalism of Kenneth Russell's The Music Lovers, the film illustrates how ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Virgin and the Gypsy
This melodrama is taken from a story by D.H. Lawrence. Yvette (Joanna Shimkus) and her sister Lucille (Harriet Harper) are two country girls who return home after attending a provincial school. Yvette is smitten by the ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Wild Child
Based on a real-life case study, recorded in Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard's 1806 volume Memoire et Rapport sur Victor de L'Aveyron, The Wild Child is spiritually in line with ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Vittorio De Sica directs the lyrical war drama Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), based on a book by ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Railway Children
British character actor Lionel Jeffries both directed The Railway Children and adapted its screenplay from the novel by E. Nesbit. Dinah ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Wuthering Heights
This romantic drama concerns two star-crossed lovers who are half-brother and sister to each other. ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Pecado Mortal
The eccentric members of a wealthy Brazilian family each go through ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Bartleby
Adapted from Herman Melville's short story, Bartleby features John McEnery in the title role. A secretive, solitary lad, Bartleby works as a clerk in the accounting office of Paul Scofield. Unable to deal with Bartleby's ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Cross and the Switchblade
Based on a true story, David Wilkerson (Pat Boone) is the small-town preacher who gets caught ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Basil Dearden's final film is a psychological thriller, adapted from an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Prestupleniye i Nakazaniye
This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event from the mammoth novel into its ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
King of the Grizzlies
Moki (John Yesno) is the Indian foreman at a ranch owned by The Colonel (Chris Higgins). He watches as a baby grizzly bear becomes his playful friend before going off on his own. Years later, the bear returns as a ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
La Moglie Piu Bella
A 16 year old girl rebels against Sicilian tradition by refusing to partake in a ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Korol Lir
This is a Russian, black-and-white production of the great Shakespearean classic, starring Juri Jarvet. Long-considered one of the greatest ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Landscape After Battle
Based on the writings of Tadeusz Borowski, a child survivor of Auschwitz who committed suicide at 29, this is the story of two concentration camp survivors. A sensitive young poet is approached by a pretty Jewish girl with a plan to move ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Love Film
Childhood sweethearts are reunited in France after they are separated during the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary. Jansci (Andras Balint) boards a train bound for Paris to see Kata ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
A technical designer enjoys a comfortable life with his wife and child. He has ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The American Soldier
American Soldier (originally Der Amerikanische Soldat) was the third ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Savage Run
Savage Run was originally telecast as Run Simon Run (after bearing the working title The Tradition of Simon Zuniga). Burt Reynolds stars in this ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of Henry VIII is a six-part BBC presentation first telecast in England in early 1971. After a successful run in Canada, the production settled into a CBS network berth beginning August 1, 1971. Keith Michell stars as ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
El Caballo Bayo
Rene Cardona's Spanish language western El Caballo Bayo features Antonio Aguilar as Doroteo, a cowboy who has focused his ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
A Day at the Beach
Roman Polanski wrote the screenplay for this decidedly offbeat drama. Bernie (Mark Burns) plays a rootless wanderer with a ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Love is a Splendid Illusion
Italy is the setting for this melodrama in which a man realizes his lover carried on an ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
May Morning
Jane Birkin, Alessio Orano, and John Steiner star in this ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Wanda
Actress/filmmaker Barbara Loden both directs and stars in the stark little character study Wanda. She plays a girl from a remote ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Even viewers who've seen Freaks won't be completely prepared for Werner Herzog's bizarre Even Dwarfs Started Small. The film is set in a dismal mental institution, wherein dwell several midgets, dwarfs and other ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Mais Ne Nous Deliverez Pas du Mal
Two young French schoolgirls, bored and left too much by themselves, decide to ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
The Niklashausen Journey
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder uses a 15th century legend as ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
El Chacal de Nahueltoro
The Jackal of Nahueltoro was Jose del Carmen Valenzuela, the animalistic murderer of a mother and her five children. The superstitious Jose (Nelson ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
Dragon Country
In this innovative stage production pairing two Tennessee Williams plays which were ... [ Drama movie - 1970 ]
El Oficio Mas Antiguo Del Mundo
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Hawaii Five-O: Season 03
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