Best movies of 1971

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Laslo Benedek,

A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and ...

Actors : Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast, Susan Penhaligon, Robert Brown,
Directors : Barney Platts-Mills,

The childish love story between a young depressive girl and a talented young writer and the first steps into their adult life.

Actors : Jeff Morrow, Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, David Essex,
Directors : Harry Essex,

A team of researchers discovers a strange mutation of man and octopus who proceeds to terrorize them.

Actors : Percy Herbert, Carroll Baker, Lee Van Cleef, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Alexander Singer,

A Native American born US Army officer, Captain Apache, investigating a murder, uncovers a presidential assassination plot.

Actors : Atsuko Kaku, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya, Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuo Nakamura,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.

Actors : John Bloom, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol, Grant Williams,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in ...

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Pirjo Laitila,

Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Sumita Sanyal, Dharmendra, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

A teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."

Actors : Michele Carey, Rick Lenz, Alfonso Arau, Brian Keith,
Directors : Robert Butler,

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Actors : Manfredo Colassanti, Ana Maria Magalhães, Eduardo Imbassahy Filho, Arduíno Colassanti,
Directors : Nelson Pereira dos Santos,

In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the Frenches and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portugueses. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the ...

Actors : Barun Chanda, Ajoy Banerjee, Paromita Chowdhury, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Chatterji is an ambitious and self-made young man who becomes the director of the company he works for.

Actors : Joan Delaney, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy, Bette Davis,
Directors : Gerd Oswald,

Bunny is a penniless widow who blackmails a robber into teaching her the trade. Soon the pair starts a successful crime spree, and the cops aren't turning a blind eye.

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Sheila Reid, Elliott Gould, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor...

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Aleksey Batalov, Tatyana Tkach, Lyudmila Saveleva,

The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ...

Actors : Irene Worth, Susan Engel, Paul Scofield, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Peter Brook,

The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's ...

Actors : Yvonne Furneaux, Ely Galleani, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Dino Risi,

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate ...

Actors : Jean Anderson, Patricia Neal, Nicholas Clay, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Alastair Reid,

Effective psychological love story with a macabre twist not found in the original Joy Cowley novel. The dreary existence of middle- aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with ...

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Corrado Olmi, Alberto Sordi, Riccardo Garrone,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their ...

Actors : Aleksandar Gavric, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, María Baxa,
Directors : Jovan Jovanovic,

Follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", petty criminal born in Belgrade, always problematic, enemy of country's regime, influenced by society and movies(for example Godard's, even the movie looks ...

Actors : Rodolfo Acosta, Norman Bartold, Ivy Bethune, Merry Anders,
Directors : Carl Monson,

In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.