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Best 70s Drama Movies

Explore the top-rated 70s Drama movies ranked by audience and critic scores. Iconic classics and hidden gems from the 70s.

#1. Christmas at the Cupiello Household (1977)

★ 8.8/10 69 votes

Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.

#2. The Godfather (1972)

★ 8.7/10 23,891 votes

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, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

#3. The Godfather Part II (1974)

★ 8.6/10 14,546 votes

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 Cuba.

#4. The Message (1976)

★ 8.5/10 53 votes

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 his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.

#5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

★ 8.4/10 11,931 votes

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

#6. My Dear Brother (1973)

★ 8.3/10 83 votes

Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.

#7. Jesus (1979)

★ 8.3/10 258 votes

Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.

#8. The Land (1970)

★ 8.3/10 42 votes

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.

#9. We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)

★ 8.3/10 672 votes

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

#10. Doce hombres sin piedad (1973)

★ 8.3/10 22 votes

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.

#11. Apocalypse Now (1979)

★ 8.3/10 9,519 votes

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

#12. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

★ 8.2/10 912 votes

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

#13. Little House on the Prairie (1974)

★ 8.2/10 23 votes

The story of the Ingalls family who left their house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home.

#14. Taxi Driver (1976)

★ 8.1/10 13,961 votes

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

#15. Smiling Eyes (1977)

★ 8.1/10 74 votes

A couple who dreamed of having a son had five daughters in a row. When girls reach the age of marriage, there are moments that make them laugh and sometimes make them sad.