Best Drama movies of 1971

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 : Orson Welles, Phil Proctor, Jack Nicholson, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.

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 : Lino Banfi, Elga Andersen, Andrea Aureli, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Nanni Loy,

The surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi experiments the troubles of the Italian Justice System of the '70s while back in Italy for a vacation.

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 : Mumtaz, Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman, Baby Guddi,
Directors : Dev Anand,

In the background of the rise of the International Hare Krishna movement in the 1970s, is a Montreal-based family of the Jaiswals, consisting of mom, dad, son, Prashant, and daughter, ...

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

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

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 : Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Evgeniy Leonov, Vsevolod Safonov,
Directors : Andrey Smirnov,

A sympathetic, emotionally persuasive drama describing the friendship of four World War II veterans, their sudden reunion after 25 years and the subsequent effect of this occasion upon ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Kôji Tsuruta, Akiko Kudô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

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 : 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 : Semra Sar, Zeynep Degirmencioglu, Metin Serezli, Ömercik,
Directors : Temel Gürsu,

Turkish Pollyanna's story.

Actors : David Lampson, Mako, Don Kenny, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor.

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 : Manoucher Ahmadi, Bahman Mofid, Mary Apick, Behrouz Vossoughi,
Directors : Masud Kimiai,

Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful ...

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 : Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Suzy Kendall, James Laurenson,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a ...

Actors : William Smith, Michael Haynes, Peter Brown, Tony Young,
Directors : Lee Frost,

A Green Beret returns home from the Vietnam war to find that a gang of murderous bikers has killed his fiancee. He calls on several of his Green Beret buddies to come and help him take revenge on the gang.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Mitchell Ryan, Alex Dreier, Warren Oates,
Directors : Paul Magwood,

A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.