Best movies of 1971

Actors : Siân Phillips, Horst Janson, Philippe Noiret, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.

Actors : Peter Jeffrey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Omar Sharif, Jack Palance,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their ...

Actors : Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts, Joe Flynn,
Directors : Vincent McEveety,

Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sidney Poitier,
Directors : Don Medford,

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.

Actors : Sondra Locke, Michael Dante, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, George Segal, Karen Black,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Actors : Harry Andrews, Thora Hird, Stephanie Beacham, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Actors : Donald Sinden, Ian McShane, Richard Burton, Nigel Davenport,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher, Susan Clark,
Directors : Edwin Sherin,

A Mexican-American sheriff must resort to violence against a powerful rancher in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.

Actors : Yutte Stensgaard, Suzanna Leigh, Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford,
Directors : Jimmy Sangster,

In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful ...

Actors : Yvonne Winslow, Emby Mellay, Lee Amber, Michael Berry,
Directors : Don Henderson,

A young man meets a farm girl who is actually a witch.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Manuel Gil, George Hilton, Conchita Airoldi,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Jean Girault,

Antoine Brisebard, a famous comedy playwright, is struggling with financial difficulties and is preparing to sell his country villa to an English couple. What no one knows, however, is that...

Actors : John Phillip Law, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers.

Actors : Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Rosanna Fratello, Cyril Cusack, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Wally Cox, Harry Morgan, Joe Flynn,
Directors : Robert Butler,

A young man who works in the mailroom at a TV network wants to move up the corporate ladder but finds himself stymied by his selfish boss. By chance he discovers that his neighbor's ...

Actors : John Laurie, Clive Dunn, Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Norman Cohen,

The misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2.

Actors : Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne,
Directors : Claude Jutra,

Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.

Actors : Olivier De Funès, Alice Sapritch, Geraldine Chaplin, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Serge Korber,

Politician get hitch hikers on road and in one car accident they all end up on a tree above the sea.