Best Drama movies of 1971

Actors : Björn Adelly, Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Siv Ericks,
Directors : Gustav Wiklund,

Young Lena is trapped in a complex situation of sex and lies.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Anisimova-Wulf, Yekaterina Mazurova, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ...

Actors : Filiz Akin, Yilmaz Güney, Eris Akman, Refik Kemal Arduman,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Actors : Goro Abashiri, Mitsufumi Hashimoto, Tarô Apollo, Shiro Demaemochi,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A subversive short film from director Shuuji Terayama.

Actors : Ken Howard, Dyan Cannon, Jennifer O'Neill, James Coco,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

While awaiting the outcome of her husband's surgery, Julie Messinger discovers he has been having affairs.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Mitchell Ryan, Alex Dreier, Warren Oates,
Directors : Paul Magwood,

A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.

Actors : Christos Zorbas, Maria Vassiliou, Koula Agagiotou, Giorgos Koutouzis,
Directors : Alexis Damianos,

In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life and suffocating societal relations.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : James Goldstone,

This is an excellent movie beginning for a young man growing up in Mobile with freedom of sailing and girls his age. His naval father goes off to war and relocates him to New Mexico where ...

Actors : Aytaç Arman, Kuzey Vargin, Yilmaz Güney, Müserref Tezcan,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while ...

Actors : James Bolam, Mike Raven, Mary Maude, Ronald Lacey,
Directors : Ted Hooker,

An obsessed sculptor kills a young woman to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.

Actors : Mervat Amin, Magda El-Khatib, Adel Adham, Imad Hamdi,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.

Actors : Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Suzy Kendall, James Laurenson,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a ...

Actors : Arap Celal, Ekrem Bora, Diclehan Baban, Lale Belkis,
Directors : Safa Önal,

Actors : Keith Erickson, Jane Allyson, Jason Yukon, Orita De Chadwick,
Directors : William Rotsler,

Marco is the ambitious godson of a crime boss. His attempt to quickly rise to the top leads to his downfall.

Actors : Ruth White, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ...

Actors : Luan Peters, Derek Aylward, Michael Latimer, Maurice Kaufmann,
Directors : Pete Walker,

A mercenary joins forces with 2 crooked cops in an attempt to steal a fortune in gold bullion from a corrupt Arab country.

Actors : Luc Ponette, Jan Decleir, Carlos van Lanckere, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jason Bernard, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Herbert B. Leonard,

Nineteen year old Jimmy Graham has grown up to be an angry young man based on his experiences, including not having either his mother or father in his life as he was growing up. When he was...

Actors : Candice Bergen, Marcia Rodd, Peter Boyle, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.

Actors : Dorothy McGuire, Jack Wild, Stanley Holloway, Ron Moody,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.