Best movies of 1971

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Boris Sagal,

Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race.

Actors : David Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter, John Meillon, Luc Roeg,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

Two young siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Australian boy on "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese,
Directors : Ian MacNaughton,

An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).

Actors : Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith, Terry-Thomas,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

A doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar, Anton Phibes, seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for his wife's death.

Actors : Cleavon Little, Victoria Medlin, Barry Newman, Dean Jagger,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops.

Actors : Dennis Wilson, James Taylor, Laurie Bird, Warren Oates,
Directors : Monte Hellman,

A story of two men drag-racing across the U.S. in a primer grey '55 Chevy. Dennis Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver.

Actors : Jon Finch, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, Francesca Annis,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

Actors : Pierre Baillot, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Michèle Moretti,

"Out 1" is a very precise picture of post May 1968 malaise - when Utopian dreams of a new society had crashed and burned, radical terrorism was starting to emerge in unlikely places and a ...

Actors : Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Jack Nicholson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in ...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Ken Russell,

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

Actors : Jack Weston, George Rose, Walter Matthau, Elaine May,
Directors : Elaine May,

Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder her.

Actors : Jason Robards, Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt,
Directors : Dalton Trumbo,

A World War I soldier, rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack, finds a unique way of communicating with his doctors.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Clint Eastwood, Jo Ann Harris,
Directors : Don Siegel,

While imprisoned in a Confederate girls' boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.

Actors : Peggy Ashcroft, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : Bruce Lee, James Tien, Marilyn Bautista, Maria Yi,

A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Ramesh Deo, Amitabh Bachchan, Sumita Sanyal,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

The story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the full before the inevitable occurs, as told by his best friend.

Actors : Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.

Actors : Melvin Van Peebles, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales,
Directors : Melvin Van Peebles,

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.