Best movies of 1971

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 : 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 : Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, John Wayne,

In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Big Jake McCandles' grandson and hold him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.

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 : 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 : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Yanti Somer, Enzo Tarascio,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

Bambino tries to teach his brother Trinity how to become an outlaw, but the two wind up saving a pioneer family and breaking up an arms ring instead.

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 : Peter Cushing, Mary Collinson, Madeleine Collinson, Dennis Price,
Directors : John Hough,

A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Katy, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.

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 : 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 : Jack Elam, Suzanne Pleshette, Harry Morgan, James Garner,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

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

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

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

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

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 : Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, John Bennett, John Bryans,
Directors : Peter Duffell,

An anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the UK.