Drama Movies of 1975
Conduct Unbecoming
Based on a play by Barry England, the British Conduct Unbecoming revolves around a ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Hard Times
Also known as The Streetfighter, Hard Times stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, an aging bare-knuckle boxer, trying to scratch out a living in the middle of the Depression. "Speed" (James Coburn) is the two-bit promoter who books Chaney in the ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as the filmmaking world around which ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
A Moon For the Misbegotten
Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst star in this made-for-TV adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's final play, featuring the cast and director of the award-winning 1974 Broadway ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Nashville
Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Mandingo
Richard Fleischer directed this lurid historical drama based on the novel by Kyle Onstott. The story begins on a run-down plantation lorded over by Warren Maxwell ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Inserts
Writer/director John Byrum filmed this bizarre and controversial period picture on one massive set. It takes place in the 1930s, and stars ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Maids
Directed by Christopher Miles, The Maids is a 1974 film version of the play by French absurdist writer Jean Genet. Solange (Glenda Jackson) and Claire (Susannah York) are two ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Passenger
The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Fox and His Friends
Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) was one of ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
I Will Fight No More Forever
Originally telecast as a "Xerox Special" on April 14, 1975, I Will ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Mahogany
Directed by Berry Gordy, Jr. as a vehicle for his star Diana Ross, Mahogany traces the life of a poor girl who makes it in the fashion world (first as a model, then designer) ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Barry Lyndon
With ornate imagery reminiscent of paintings from the story's 18th century period, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of William ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Man in the Glass Booth
Actor/writer Robert Shaw's powerhouse stage play The Man in the Glass Booth was transferred to the screen as part of the American Film Theatre series. Maximilian Schell plays Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessmen ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Rockford Files: Season 02
James Garner is back as rumpled, wryly humorous ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford in season two of The Rockford Files. In addition to established supporting players Noah Beery Jr. (as Jim's dad Rocky), Gretchen Corbett (as Jim's ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Lifeguard
Sam Elliot stars as Rick Carlson, a thirty year old lifeguard who thinks life is passing him by. Rick loves the beach life and his job, but after attending his fifteen-year high school ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Galileo
Filmed in England, Galileo is based on Charles Laughton's 1947 adaptation of the play by Bertolt Brecht, which, ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Cornbread (Keith Wilkes) is an African-American youth who strives to escape ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Naked Civil Servant
Based on Quentin Crisp's autobiography, the once-controversial picture The Naked Civil ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
In Celebration
One of the more cinematic entries in the mid-1970s American Film Theatre series, In Celebration is adapted from ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Death at Love House
In this made-for-TV film, a screenwriter (Robert Wagner) begins writing the biography of the dead movie queen who had a brief affair with his father. After work on the project has commenced, he becomes obsessed with her spirit and gets a response ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Hiding Place
Produced by Billy Graham's Evangelistic Association and based on an ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Eliza's Horoscope
Desirous of marrying a wealthy man, a delicate woman searches the stars and the streets of Montreal in hopes of finding the perfect match in this supernatural romantic Canadian drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Shining Star
This cult favorite from director/producer Sig Shore featured the music of Earth, Wind and Fire and had a #1 soundtrack album, but went belly-up at the box-office. That's a shame, because what other film offers ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Story of Adele H.
Based on the real-life diaries of Adèle Hugo, The Story of Adele H. is a psychological drama opening in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the 1860s. The daughter of famous French ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Wild McCullochs
Originally released as The Wild McCulloughs, this AIP melodrama stars Forrest Tucker as J.J. McCulloch, a domineering patriarch. In their race to escape their father's overbearing ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 05
The fifth and final season of Upstairs, Downstairs covers the years ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Hester Street
Among the first releases in the new wave of independent films of the 1970s, writer/director Joan Micklin Silver's ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Year of the Dragon
Acclaimed playwright Frank Chin's powerful tale of one Asian American's struggle to ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Flame
British glam rock superstars Slade made their collective acting debut in this downbeat drama about a pop group's ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Electra, My Love
Most movies are composed of many small snippets of film which are spliced together, connected by "wipes," and "dissolves" and any number of other clever techniques which move the eye (and the story) ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum marks the directorial debut for actress ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Jacob the Liar
The screenplay for this wartime tragi-comedy was written by Jurek Becker, a Jewish survivor of the concentration camps ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Dersu Uzala
A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Empress Dowager
The Empress Dowager tells the story of the last imperial family member who actually ruled in China until her death in 1908. She handed over the titular rulership to Kuang Tsu but ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Adoption
The film zeroes in on two women: Kata, older and widowed, and Anna, a downtrodden young women kept in a children's institution by her unloving parents. Her own sense of self-value strengthened by an unhappy love affair (she realizes ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Black Gestapo
An interesting (if extremely violent) twist on the standard blaxploitation formula, this crime film deals with a black ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Death Scream
The 1975 TV movie Death Scream is based (like High Plains Drifter) on the shameful Kitty Genovese affair of 1964, in which a N.Y.C. ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Goodbye, Norma Jean
Goodbye Norma Jean purports to be a biography of the early years ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
Mother Kusters (Brigette Kira) is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son. Mother finds herself a media celebrity, which only serves to make herself and her late husband look like ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Murder on Flight 502
While bound for London from New York, the occupants of a 747 are terrorized by a mad bomber. The jet's pilot (Robert Stack) and ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Soul Vengeance
One man wronged by a racist law enforcement system takes a highly unusual route to street justice in this bizarre, expressive urban drama. Charles (Marlo Monte) is a ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Legend of the Sea Wolf
Jack London's novel inspired this tale of a brutal sea captain who dominates his crew. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Soy Chicano y Mexicano
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Just the Two of Us
Two bored and neglected suburban housewives find themselves intrigued by lesbianism after they watch two female lovers ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Overlord
Generous doses of newsreel footage highlight this British wartime drama. Tom (Brian Stirner) ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Walking Tall, Part 2
Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser and his trusty club return in this sequel. As with the first, he ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Philadelphia Here I Come
This American Film Theatre production is based on the stage play by Brian Friel. Gar, a young Irish man, prepares to leave his dull Gaelic community--and his seemingly insensitive father--to live with his aunt in ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Winstanley
Winstanley is the dramatized history of a Reformation-era religious sect called the Diggers. A nonviolent aggregation, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the soil that has been neglected by the British bluebloods. It isn't ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic The Secret Garden has been filmed several times, most successfully by MGM in 1949. ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Deewar
The Wall was the film that turned Amitabh Bachchan into the ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
La Pasion Segun Berenice
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's The Passion of Berenice tells the tale of a widow who is still dealing with the ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Unter Dem Pflaster ist Der Strand
Student rebellions and demonstrations were a potent force in 1968 and helped bring about sweeping government changes in France and Germany during subsequent years. This movie follows a group of young actors for whom 1968 was their ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Chac: The Rain God
Chac is a straightforward tale about a group of modern-day Mayans who are suffering a drought, and seek the assistance of their ancient rain-deity "Chac" to bring rain. For most of the ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Los Cachorros
A man who has been mutilated in boyhood encounters numerous difficulties because of it. Jose Alonso plays a man ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Seagull
Comedy combines with tragedy in acclaimed playwright Anton Chekhov's ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
The Rules of the Game
A cynical husband's apathetic philosophy is put to the test when his adulterous wife draws him into a duel against her exasperated lover in this adaptation of Liugi Pirandello's upper class tragicomedy starring Joan Van Ark, David ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Rumpole of the Bailey: The Lost Episode
Rumpole of the Bailey: The Lost Episode first aired in 1975 as ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Judgement: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
Stanley Kramer, a director known for his socially pointed films, tackles yet another political topic with Judgement: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley. This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Starsky & Hutch: Season 01
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Little House on the Prairie: Season 02
Season two of Little House on the Prairie opens with Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) losing his "outside" job when Lars Hanson (Karl Swenson) is forced to ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Captivating Star Of Happiness
Following the 1871 attempted revolt on the part of several liberal-minded Russian military officers, many captured soldiers ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
Agony: The Life & Death of Rasputin
Produced in 1975 and banned for a decade in his native Russia, filmmaker Elem Klimov's ... [ Drama movie - 1975 ]
