Best Drama movies of 1971

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

A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.

Actors : Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet, 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 : Evert Anderson, Anja Schmidt, Thommy Berggren, Kelvin Malave,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

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

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, David Burns, Jack Warden, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.

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 : Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jean Gabin, Jacques Rispal,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished...

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 : 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 : 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 : Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternative reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has ...

Actors : Judith Brown, Jennifer Gan, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier,
Directors : Gerardo de Leon,

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Carroll O'Connor,
Directors : George Schaefer,

The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.

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

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

Actors : Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

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 : Peter Carsten, Elke Sommer, Marius Goring, Michael York,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In 1915, frustrated with the German air-raids on London, British Intelligence sends Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, who has German ancestry, to Germany, to find information about the latest German Zeppelin.