Best Drama movies of 1971

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Ramesh Deo, Amitabh Bachchan, Sumita Sanyal,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

The story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the full before the inevitable occurs, as told by his best friend.

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Nora Ricci, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

While recovering in Venice, a sickly composer becomes dangerously fixated with a teenage boy.

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 ...

Actors : Melvin Van Peebles, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales,
Directors : Melvin Van Peebles,

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

Actors : Al Pacino, Richard Bright, Alan Vint, Kitty Winn,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.

Actors : Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Zohra Lampert, Gretchen Corbett,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.

Actors : John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Pat Heywood, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Based on the real-life case of the British serial killer John Christie, and what happened to his neighbors Tim and Beryl Evans.

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.

Actors : Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson,
Directors : Peter Watkins,

"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types ...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Kika Markham,
Directors : François Truffaut,

At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at...

Actors : Richard Dysart, Barnard Hughes, Diana Rigg, George C. Scott,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Sven-Olof Bern, Max von Sydow, Eddie Axberg,
Directors : Jan Troell,

In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. ...

Actors : Jovan Jovanovic, Ninetto Davoli, Vincenzo Amato, Franco Citti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Val Avery, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant.

Actors : Georgiy Vitsin, Radner Muratov, Evgeniy Leonov, Saveliy Kramarov,
Directors : Aleksandr Seryj,

A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless headpiece of Alexander the Great during an archaeological expedition. But after ...

Actors : Johanna Lawrence, Richard Ricci, Raymond Laine, Judith Ridley,
Directors : George A. Romero,

A young man returns to his home city of Pittsburgh and moves in with an older woman whom he begins to rely on for emotional and financial support.

Actors : Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Lee Grant, Barbara Harris, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.

Actors : Buck Henry, Lynn Carlin, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey,
Directors : Milos Forman,

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone...

Actors : Robert Pratt, Peter Fonda, Verna Bloom, Warren Oates,
Directors : Peter Fonda,

Harry returns home to his wife and farm after drifting with his friend Arch and has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties.