Best Drama movies of 1971

Actors : Orson Welles, Mathieu Carrière, Michel Bouquet, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Harry Kümel,

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo, Franco Nero, Claudio Gora,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reaches everything and everybody. A police inspector and a deputy public ...

Actors : Jean Tissier, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is ...

Actors : Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Lawrence Douglas, Vivien Heilbron,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

In 18th century Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, David Balfour claims his inheritance from his uncle who has him shanghaied on a ship where David meets fugitive Jacobite rebel Alan Breck.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Jean-Claude Drouot, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Kevin Billington,

A ruthless pirate captures the keeper of a lighthouse, somewhere in north Argentina. His goal is obvious and horrific. He plans to control the lighthouses signals in a way that the passing ships will be crushed on the rocks.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Katharine Hepburn, Irene Papas, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.

Actors : Kate Jackson, David Selby, Lara Parker, Grayson Hall,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches.

Actors : David Abraham, Rajesh Khanna, Sujit Kumar, Tanuja,
Directors : M.A. Thirumugham,

Orphaned Raju, in the company of four elephants, has to perform with them at street corners, in order to keep alive. Slowly he amasses a fortune, and is able to build his own private zoo, ...

Actors : Sherry E. DeBoer, Bob Balaban, Paul Appleby, Carol Arthur,
Directors : John Erman,

A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.

Actors : Uschi Glas, Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence,
Directors : James Hill,

When farmer Evan's mare has a fine son, he promises the black stallion to his son Joe. The youngster enjoy growing up as playmates. Alas, once the good squire is buried, his mean heir, who ...

Actors : Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Fudeko Tanaka, Yukiko Kobayashi,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

Actors : Éva Leelössy, Zoltán Latinovits, Éva Ruttkai, Margit Dajka,
Directors : Zoltán Huszárik,

An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town has a doctor whose wife can not forget...

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada, Yu Wang,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart?

Actors : David Chiang, Ching Lee, Feng Ku, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he ...

Actors : Don Brooks, Bobby Kendall, Charles Ludlam,
Directors : James Bidgood,

An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.

Actors : Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis, Jonathan Kramer,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

This film is a satire of the women's liberation movement, staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a ...

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Tatyana Tkach, Lyudmila Saveleva,

The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ...

Actors : Strother Martin, George Kennedy, James Stewart, Anne Baxter,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

In 1935, after 40 years in a West Virginia prison, three released convicts wish to open a legitimate business using the 25 thousand dollars earned in jail but a crooked prison guard in cahoots with the town banker plan to defraud them.

Actors : Orson Welles, Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the ...

Actors : Sean Bury, Toby Robins, Anicée Alvina, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

A rich English boy meets an orphaned French girl and as they become friends, create a world that is far away from the adult world we live in.