Best movies of 1971

Titles indexed: 76

The Emigrants

Rating: 7.4

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increas...

Countess Dracula

Rating: 5.7

Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to becom...

Bubu

Rating: 5.0

Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young coup...

Punishment Park

Rating: 7.3

In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of w...

Dirty Harry

Rating: 7.4

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law e...

Walkabout

Rating: 7.3

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to...

Lawless Street

Rating: 5.0

The film takes on Ali, a member of a wealthy family, and his shared infatuation with a night club worker by the name of Tülay. Ali and Tülay...

Kidnapped

Rating: 6.2

Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so tha...

The Devils

Rating: 7.5

Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has ama...

The Decameron

Rating: 6.8

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover w...

The Beguiled

Rating: 7.0

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of...

Hannie Caulder

Rating: 6.2

After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun i...

Murphy's War

Rating: 6.1

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ...

The Omega Man

Rating: 6.2

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides h...

The Cat

Rating: 7.4

Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house,...

The Burglars

Rating: 7.0

In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss...

The Go-Between

Rating: 6.8

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager t...

Wake in Fright

Rating: 7.2

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australi...

The Hospital

Rating: 6.6

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead i...

Pinocchio

Rating: 4.6

A bawdy burlesque version of the famous fairy tale, Geppeta is a frustrated and nubile young virgin. She carves Pinocchio as a gorgeous youn...

Yırtık Niyazi

Rating: 5.0

Niyazi and Sansar live a poor life in a boarding house. The boarding house owner, Binnaz, brings Gül, whom she met in prison, to live at the...

Zaat

Rating: 2.7

A mad scientist unleashes his master plan: to transform himself into a mutated walking catfish, and gain revenge on those who have spurned h...

Villain

Rating: 6.1

In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliame...

Women in Cages

Rating: 5.0

Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer ...

Deadline

Rating: 6.2

A terrifying drama about what might happen in a disaster situation. An airplane loaded with bacteriological weapons crashes in the south of ...

200 Motels

Rating: 5.2

"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring....

Blindman

Rating: 5.6

A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, sel...

Up Pompeii

Rating: 5.9

A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the n...

12 Chairs

Rating: 7.6

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family...

Prince Bajaja

Rating: 6.0

The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the world. During his travels he me...

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Rating: 6.1

A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Ham...

Cut-Throats Nine

Rating: 6.5

A group of ruthless convicts is led to prison through an inhospitable mountain range by a small cavalry detachment commanded by Sergeant Bro...

Book Him!

Rating: 6.0

One of the social guidance / scare films made by prolific filmmaker Sid Davis, “Book Him!” was produced in the 1960s. It shows various youth...

Cheburashka

Rating: 7.1

Second animation about Gena and Cheburashka. Cheburashka wishes Gena the Crocodile a happy birthday and gives him a toy helicopter as a gift...

A Tattered Web

Rating: 5.0

A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the...

Tricia's Wedding

Rating: 4.4

The world-famous Cockettes enact Tricia Nixon's wedding to Edward Cox on June 11, 1971. Hurtme O. Hurtme, television correspondent, covers t...

Hydro-Puzzle

Rating: 6.0

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As....

Anflug Alpha 1

Rating: 0.0

Experiences and problems of an air squadron: Commander Milan has reached the age limit for pilots and must come to terms with the fact that ...

Sweet Savior

Rating: 3.2

Sandra Barlow is a 70's girl looking for kicks in the form of sex and drugs. One day, she decides to have an orgy drug party and invite some...

I Don't Know

Rating: 3.2

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere...

Janie's Janie

Rating: 7.0

The Newsreel collective’s JANIE’S JANIE breaks with the group’s usual format for a more personal approach, following a woman’s journey to se...

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