Best Drama movies of 1971

Actors : Country Joe and the Fish, John Rubinstein, Patricia Quinn, Don Johnson,
Directors : George Englund,

Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.

Actors : Darel Glaser, Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Miles Chapin,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.

Actors : Juro Kara, Yasuko Sanjo, Masao Imafuku, Katsuo Nakamura,
Directors : Toshio Matsumoto,

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

Actors : Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ...

Actors : Krister Ekman, Leif Naeslund, Christina Lindberg, Monica Ekman,
Directors : Dan Wolman,

Maid in Sweden tells the story of Inga, a 16-year-old Swedish girl who leaves her rural home to spend a weekend in the Swedish capital. An innocent with no experience, but with prodigious ...

Actors : Evert Anderson, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Thommy Berggren,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

About the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ...

Actors : Wendell Burton, Michael Greer, Danny Freedman, Zooey Hall,

The young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months; Cathy, his girlfriend, watches as he disappears behind the bars and barbed wire. He's assigned a cell with Queenie, a balls-out ...

Actors : Cicely Browne, Lewis E. Ciannelli, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi,

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Actors : Michel Bouquet, Marina Ninchi, Stéphane Audran, Celia,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games ...

Actors : Sandy Ratcliff, Malcolm Tierney, Bill Dean, Grace Cave,
Directors : Ken Loach,

A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.

Actors : Rod Cameron, George Hamilton, Bert Freed, Sue Lyon,
Directors : Marvin J. Chomsky,

Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Bindu, Sujit Kumar, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

A village woman abandoned by her husband is forced into prostitution in Kolkata and forms nameless yet strong relations with a wealthy patron as well as an abused boy in the neighbourhood.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Jean Tissier, Ottavia Piccolo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is ...

Actors : Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Lawrence Douglas, Vivien Heilbron,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

In 18th century Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, David Balfour claims his inheritance from his uncle who has him shanghaied on a ship where David meets fugitive Jacobite rebel Alan Breck.

Actors : David Chiang, Ching Lee, Feng Ku, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he ...

Actors : Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Fudeko Tanaka, Yukiko Kobayashi,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada, Yu Wang,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart?

Actors : Éva Leelössy, Zoltán Latinovits, Éva Ruttkai, Margit Dajka,
Directors : Zoltán Huszárik,

An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town has a doctor whose wife can not forget...

Actors : Don Brooks, Bobby Kendall, Charles Ludlam,
Directors : James Bidgood,

An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.