Best Drama movies of 1971

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Simon Oakland, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Don Medford,

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.

Actors : Chun Shih, Billy Chan, Ying Bai, Feng Hsu,
Directors : King Hu,

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.

Actors : Daniel Ades, Richmond L. Aguilar, John Alderman, Julie Adams,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Actors : Jagoda Kaloper, Milena Dravic, Tuli Kupferberg, Ivica Vidovic,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

A homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.

Actors : Patrick McGoohan, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton, Vanessa Redgrave,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.

Actors : Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, William Tepper, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Nicholson,

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, ...

Actors : Judith Brown, Brooke Mills, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors.

Actors : Robert Lansing, Tony Musante, Scott Wilson, Kim Darby,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the 1948 British film...

Actors : Emy Storm, Allan Edwall, Jan Ohlsson, Lena Wisborg,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't ...

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, George Segal, Karen Black,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Actors : Peter Jeffrey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Omar Sharif, Jack Palance,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their ...

Actors : Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sidney Poitier,
Directors : Don Medford,

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Thora Hird, Stephanie Beacham, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Actors : Donald Sinden, Ian McShane, Richard Burton, Nigel Davenport,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his ...

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Florinda Bolkan, Michael Caine, Omar Sharif,
Directors : James Clavell,

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Rosanna Fratello, Cyril Cusack, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

Actors : Tracy Hyde, Mark Lester, Colin Barrie, Jack Wild,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. The story is told from the children's point of view.