Best Drama movies of 1971

Actors : Filiz Akin, Yilmaz Güney, Eris Akman, Refik Kemal Arduman,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Actors : Herbert Kerr, Casey Donovan, Cheri Caffaro, Duane Tucker,
Directors : Don Schain,

A rich society girl is recruited to go undercover and expose a drug/blackmail/prostitution ring in her small town.

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 : Aytaç Arman, Kuzey Vargin, Yilmaz Güney, Müserref Tezcan,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while ...

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.

Actors : Meena Kumari, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Sumita Sanyal,
Directors : Gulzar,

Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following ...

Actors : Björn Adelly, Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Siv Ericks,
Directors : Gustav Wiklund,

Young Lena is trapped in a complex situation of sex and lies.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Yekaterina Mazurova, Irina Anisimova-Wulf, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ...

Actors : James Bolam, Mike Raven, Mary Maude, Ronald Lacey,
Directors : Ted Hooker,

An obsessed sculptor kills a young woman to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : James Goldstone,

This is an excellent movie beginning for a young man growing up in Mobile with freedom of sailing and girls his age. His naval father goes off to war and relocates him to New Mexico where ...

Actors : Christos Zorbas, Maria Vassiliou, Giorgos Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou,
Directors : Alexis Damianos,

In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life and suffocating societal relations.

Actors : Mervat Amin, Magda El-Khatib, Imad Hamdi, Adel Adham,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.

Actors : Luigi Casellato, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Maurizio Lucidi,

A wealthy, decadent count convinces a disillusioned playboy that they shall murder one another's relatives, to get away with the perfect crime. The count murders the playboy's unpleasant ...

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 : Douglas Wilmer, Tony Haygarth, Carolyn Seymour, David Hemmings,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

A new school teacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his pupils, and he fears the same will happen to him.

Actors : Goro Abashiri, Mitsufumi Hashimoto, Tarô Apollo, Shiro Demaemochi,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A subversive short film from director Shuuji Terayama.

Actors : Arap Celal, Ekrem Bora, Diclehan Baban, Lale Belkis,
Directors : Safa Önal,

Actors : Ken Howard, Dyan Cannon, Jennifer O'Neill, James Coco,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

While awaiting the outcome of her husband's surgery, Julie Messinger discovers he has been having affairs.

Actors : Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Yuriy Kayurov, Tatyana Mychko,
Directors : Kira Muratova,

A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grew up to become a teenager, he got tired of the nagging of her mother. One summer, he goes to visit his...

Actors : Avner Hizkiyahu, Itzko Rachamimov, Zaharira Harifai, Shaike Ophir,
Directors : Ephraim Kishon,

Azulai is a policeman in Jaffa, whose incompetence is only matched by his soft-heartedness. His superiors want to send him to early retirement, but he would like to stay on the force, and ...