Best Drama movies of 1971

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

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

A subversive short film from director Shuuji Terayama.

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 : Christos Zorbas, Maria Vassiliou, Koula Agagiotou, Giorgos Koutouzis,
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 : Björn Adelly, Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Siv Ericks,
Directors : Gustav Wiklund,

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

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

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Anisimova-Wulf, Yekaterina Mazurova, 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 : Rakhee Gulzar, Vinod Khanna, Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Sunil Dutt,

Reshma and Shera love each other in the midst of a violent feudal conflict between their clans. When their families find out about their relationship, Chotu, Shera's sharp shooting kid ...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Nero, Corin Redgrave,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

Medieval drama in which Redgrave plays an allegedly insane woman who is allowed to finally leave the madhouse to see if she is capable of functioning normally. Her parents pay no attention ...

Actors : Aldo Sambrell, Helga Liné, Espartaco Santoni, Peter Lee Lawrence,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

The sole survivor, named Sando Kid (Peter Lee Lawrence), of a Northern slaughter seeks vendetta. After suffering atrocity, Kid executes a single-handedly revenge, he ravages, he hits and ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsurô Tanba, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Marquand, Dominique Labourier, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Nadine Trintignant,

Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.

Actors : Ray Barrett, Sinéad Cusack, James Booth, Joan Collins,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

A family plots to take its revenge on the man who raped and murdered their daughter.

Actors : Romolo Valli, Adriano Celentano, Vittorio Caprioli, Claudia Mori,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,