Best Drama movies of 1971

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

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

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

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 : 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 : Avner Hizkiyahu, Itzko Rachamimov, Shaike Ophir, Zaharira Harifai,
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 ...

Actors : Mervat Amin, Magda El-Khatib, Adel Adham, Imad Hamdi,
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 : Goro Abashiri, Mitsufumi Hashimoto, Tarô Apollo, Shiro Demaemochi,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A subversive short film from director Shuuji Terayama.

Actors : Bernard Lee, Georgia Brown, Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed mysteriously after his Brothers wedding. Rejected by his family, he is placed in a nursing home. Angry and depressed, he finds hope with a nurse. Can Bruce find a life outside the home?

Actors : Wayne Maunder, Jay C. Flippen, Marianne McAndrew, Philip Carey,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

The Seven Minutes is a steamy book written in 1969. To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material and most of the film centers about the ...

Actors : Georgi Partsalev, Kosta Tsonev, Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Elena Rainova,
Directors : Metodi Andonov,

This is a typical story from the 'cold war' era. A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent to a big Western European company. He works under cover using a false name and finds that company ...

Actors : Karin Ugowski, Iurie Darie, Gojko Mitic, Horst Schulze,
Directors : Konrad Petzold,

Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved to reservations. Having retreated to Florida, they live a simple horticultural life. But ...

Actors : Osman Alyanak, Ihsan Gedik, Fikret Hakan, Yilmaz Güney,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Actors : Faith Domergue, Barbara Bouchet, Corrado Gaipa, Antonio Sabato,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been ...

Actors : Edda Köchl, Libgart Schwarz, Marie Bardischewski, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

Released from prison a man wanders through a new reality