Year 1971 movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1971 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, independent film, atmospheric, suspenseful and cult classic films and TV shows about / with female nudity, sex, violence, death, cigarette smoking, blood, murder, nudity, bare breasts and breasts plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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year 1971 movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1971: Summertime (2015), Dirty Harry (1971), Children of War (2014), Tigerland (2000), Roma (2018), '71 (2014), Get Carter (1971), Duck, You Sucker (1971), Harold and Maude (1971), Johnny Got His Gun (1971).

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 6.7
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Summertime (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
Style: sincere, sexy, sweet, aesthetic, eros ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, mother daughter relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, lesbian love, feminism, female nudity, farmer, nudity, sisterhood ...
Time: year 1971, year 1976, year 2015, 70s
Place: indiana, paris france, france, europe
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 7.7
 167K
Dirty Harry (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in ...
Style: serious, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, police, psychopath, gunfight, vigilante, tough law enforcer, urban, investigation, murder, violence, city, urban setting ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
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Children of War (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Children of War is a movie based on the true events of the 1971 Genocide. Can we, in search of power, become animals? A genocide; neglected! The first use of rape as a weapon of war; undocumented! The lives of millions; unaccounted! The culprits; ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: brutality, islam, genocide, bangladesh liberation war, cruelty, independence, indo pakistani war, rape victim, women's rights, liberation, multiple storylines, women ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: bangladesh, india
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 6.9
 43K
Tigerland (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971
Style: realistic, tense, psychological, talky, harsh ...
Plot: military, boot camp, vietnam war, basic training, recruit, anti war, military base, insubordination, buddies, army, war, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1971, year 2000
Place: vietnam, louisiana, usa, kansas
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 7.7
 169K
Roma (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Style: black and white, touching, art film, art house, sad ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: maid, nanny, class differences, pregnancy, servant, routine, middle class, female protagonist, vacation, dating, professor, master servant relationship ...
Time: year 1971, 2010s, 70s, year 1970
Place: mexico city, nebraska, mexico
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 7.2
 60K
'71 (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, political, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, war, ira, soldier, military, survival, violence, brutality, wartime, chase, riot, tragedy ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century, year 2014
Place: ireland, northern ireland, britain
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 7.3
 37K
Get Carter (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, tense, cult classic, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, hitman, organized crime, investigation, mafia, murder, assassin, gangster, british gangster, gangsta, violent, vigilante ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: england, britain, northern england, europe, london
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Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 157 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national ...
Style: atmospheric, spaghetti western, intense, epic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, friendship, rape, cowboy, culture clash, redemption, chase, rebellion, cynicism, haunted by the past, two man army, motorcycle ...
Time: 1910s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: mexico, ireland, northern ireland, latin america, mexico city
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, suicide, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, funeral, eccentricity, existentialism, misfit, alienation, old age, depression, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
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Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, thought provoking, surreal, political ...
Plot: anti war, hospital, disability, dream, haunted by the past, mute, amputation, patient, freak, isolation, soldier, world war one ...
Time: year 1971, near future, 1920s, 1900s, 1910s ...
Place: france, colorado, los angeles, europe, usa
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, cynical, breathtaking, visual ...
Plot: prostitution, snow, prostitute, mining town, old west, wild west, gambling, winter, female nudity, small town, gambler, brothel ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century, 1890s, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, usa, washington d.c., seattle, vancouver
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man ...
Style: sexy, controversial, mind blowing, psychological, serious ...
Plot: gay, female nudity, bisexual man, lgbt, doctor, gay husband, love triangle, art, open relationship, artist, sex, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
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 6.6
 21K
Shaft (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Style: grindhouse, stylized, tense, harsh, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, blaxploitation, gangster, lone hero, gang, anti hero, mafia, organized crime, urban, gunfight, hitman, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, america, africa, harlem ...
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Angels Hard as They Come (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of crazy bikers meet up with a group of drug-addicted hippies in a small town, but the two roving factions are soon at odds with one another and chaos ensues.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot: biker, hippie, motorcycle, gang, on the road, motorcycle chase, drug dealing, tough heroes, psychopath, bike, exploitation, jail ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
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 7.2
 19K
The Beguiled (1971)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the ...
Style: southern gothic, suspense, psychosexual thriller, sexual, period piece ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, sexuality, revenge, looking for sex, boarding school, unrequited love, macabre, seduction, obsession, manipulation, school ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1800s, 1860s
Place: mississippi
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Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
Style: controversial, sexy, depressing, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: mate swapping, sex, college, sexual awakening, relationships, coming of age, friendship, love triangle, battle of the sexes, sexual content, friends, depression ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, vietnam, asia, usa
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, psychology, surrealism, gang, dystopia, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, brutality, sociopath ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1971, year 1995, 70s ...
Place: britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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Two English Girls (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: 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 the house where she lives with her mother and her sister ...
Style: art house, erotic drama, romantic, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, nudity, sex, love, abuse, relationships, women, crazy love, loss of virginity, unrequited love, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1900s, year 1971, 70s, 20th century, pre world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy, europe, wales
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The Devils (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Style: disturbing, controversial, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: religion, surrealism, inquisition, priest, nun, nunsploitation, witch, politics, torture, clergy, witchcraft, convent ...
Time: 17th century, year 1971, medieval times, year 2016, middle ages
Place: france, europe, london, england
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The French Connection (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
Style: detective, neo noir, atmospheric, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroin, gangster, drug dealer, organized crime, car chase, investigation, chase, smuggling, drug lord, drug smuggling, police, drug ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, israel, brooklyn new york city, washington d.c. ...
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The Go-Between (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Style: sexy, disturbing, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, coming of age, class differences, summer, literary, love, first love, landscape, children, cricket, new love, trippy ...
Time: victorian era, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: england, america, europe
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 7.1
 29K
Klute (1971)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This acclaimed thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. Detective John Klute is hired to follow Daniel, and eventually begins a ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, detective, tense, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: private detective, prostitute, conspiracy, missing person, obsession, murder, investigation, pimp, prostitution, call girl, loneliness, perversity ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state
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 7.6
 14K
Wake in Fright (1971)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into ...
Style: independent film, disturbing, art house, christmas horror, controversial ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mining town, christmas, drunkenness, sex, animal cruelty, gay subtext, teacher, beer, male nudity, kangaroo, gambling, australian outback ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: australia, oceania
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Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
Style: art house, depressing, existential, realistic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artist, minimalism, female nudity, suicide, mental disorder, betrayal, erotica, post war, social outcast, existentialism, love, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century
Place: paris france, france
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Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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.
Style: sexy, disturbing, touching, sentimental, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: incest, mother son incest, coming of age, sexual initiation, oedipus complex, mother son relationship, sex, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, love, incestuous sex ...
Time: 1950s, year 1971, year 1954, 20th century, 50s
Place: france, israel, europe, indochina, paris france
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 7.4
 64K
Straw Dogs (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style: controversial, bleak, psychological, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual abuse, home invasion, rape, rape and revenge, violent, revenge, murder, small town, vigilante, sexual assault, sex, rape turns to consensual sex ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: england, cornwall, britain, europe
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The Emigrants (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 191 min.
Story: 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. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and ...
Style: epic, romantic, inspirational, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: immigrant, journey, immigration, religious persecution, emigration, sea voyage, farm hand, starvation, refugee, nordic, boat, death ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1840s, 1850s
Place: minnesota, america, europe, eastern europe
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Vanishing Point (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, independent film, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience: manly
Plot: car chase, car, on the road, hitchhiker, hippie, driver, desert, road trip, chase, radio station, on the run, truck ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place: san francisco, utah, california, colorado, nevada ...
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 7.6
 27K
Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
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 6.2
 5K
Willard (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. (And their increasing number of ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, danger, exploitation, eaten alive, rat, psychopath, murder, dangerous animal, animal attack, misfit, investigation, obsession ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
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