Best Movies of 1971
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Best Movies of 1971
TOP Movies: A Clockwork Orange (1971), The French Connection (1971), Dirty Harry (1971), Duel (1971), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Straw Dogs (1971), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), The Last Picture Show (1971), Wake in Fright (1971), Willard (1971), Harold and Maude (1971), Klute (1971), Shaft (1971), The Devils (1971), Summer of '42 (1971), Johnny Got His Gun (1971), Brian's Song (1971), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971).
List of Best Movies
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, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, insanity, dystopia, surrealism, gang, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, sociopath, murder ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
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:
atmospheric, tense, neo noir, breathtaking, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, heroin, drug smuggling, chase, car chase, violence, gangster, drug dealer, smuggling, drug lord, organized crime, police detective ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, washington d.c., manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
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180K
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, detective, bleak, controversial, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
serial killer, police, psychopath, gunfight, vigilante, police detective, violence, tough law enforcer, killer, urban, murder, zodiac killer ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, north america ...
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86K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Style:
road movie, creepy, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
car chase, desert, chase, truck, road rage, psychopath, driving, truck driver, duel, mysterious villain, on the road, pursuit ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
california, persia, usa, los angeles, canada
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
Style:
entertaining, sweet, light, melancholic, humorous ...
Audience:
toddlers, kids, family outing, horror for children, preschool
Plot:
witch, world war two, magic, curses spells and rituals, football, witchcraft, childhood, good versus evil, anthropomorphism, boy, animal, justice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1971, year 1940, 70s
Place:
england, fictional island, europe, london
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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:
disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, murder, home invasion, revenge, rape, violent, rape and revenge, sex, sexual assault, vigilante, rape turns to consensual sex, protective male ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1971
Place:
england, cornwall, britain, europe, united kingdom
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who’s guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
Style:
exciting, sexy, tense, saga, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
james bond, spy, 007, espionage, cat, car chase, casino, desert, chase, secret agent, ford mustang, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
las vegas, amsterdam, london, los angeles, nevada ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style:
period piece, freeze frame, thought provoking, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot:
judaism, dance, wedding, tradition, jewish culture, broadway, milkman, anti semitism, dancing, forbidden love, tradition versus modernity, butcher ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
ukraine, israel, russia, ussr, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The world is shocked by the appearance of two talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society; but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, saga, bleak, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, planet of the apes, ape, dystopia, time travel, spacecraft, gorilla, chimpanzee, outer space, spaceship, apocalypse, paradox ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1973, 70s, 18th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, pacific ocean, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, teen, crying, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, friendship, high school, self discovery, teenager, nostalgia, death, skinny dipping, elopement, teen angst, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1971, year 1952 ...
Place:
texas, usa, oklahoma, midwest, north america ...
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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, terrifying, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drunkenness, mining town, mental disorder, australian outback, sexism, beer, gambling, addiction, kangaroo, alcoholic, gay subtext, male nudity ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style:
feel good, visually stunning, light, surreal, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, tour guide, mischievous children, inventor, child protagonist, childhood, surrealism, child, river ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s, year 1971
Place:
germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, arizona ...
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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:
natural horror, suspense, scary, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, animal attack, eaten alive, rat, danger, murder, dangerous animal, investigation, social misfits, obsession, misfit, workplace ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
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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:
black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, funeral, older woman younger man relationship, eccentricity, misfit, old age, alienation, age difference, couples, cemetery, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1971
Place:
california, san francisco, bay area, usa
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33K
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, tense, psychological, suspenseful, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private detective, prostitute, obsession, conspiracy, call girl, missing person, private investigator, investigation, brutality, murder mystery, pimp, prostitution ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
Is relevant?
23K
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, tense, suspenseful, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
private detective, blaxploitation, gangster, lone hero, gang, mafia, brutality, organized crime, kidnapping, urban, hitman, gunfight ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, america, africa, harlem ...
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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:
psychological, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
inquisition, religion, priest, surrealism, politics, nun, nunsploitation, witch, torture, clergy, violent, folk horror ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times, year 2016, middle ages, year 1971 ...
Place:
france, london, europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, sex, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, summer vacation, older woman younger man, beach house, teenager, war widow, love story, teen angst ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971, 20th century, year 1942, 60s ...
Place:
california
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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:
disturbing, depressing, thought provoking, independent film, surreal ...
Plot:
anti war, hospital, disability, dream, body horror, haunted by the past, mute, soldier, patient, isolation, freak, amputation ...
Time:
near future, 1920s, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
colorado, france, los angeles, usa, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Style:
tear jerker, sad, non fiction, bad ending, depressing ...
Plot:
american football, friendship, football, nfl, friendship between men, cancer, bromance, friends, biopic, athlete, racism, american football player ...
Time:
20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
Biography of the last Russian Monarch, Tsar Nicholas II and his Tsarina, Alexandra.Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Style:
epic, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
czar, russian history, world war one, royalty, rise and fall, politics, political unrest, rebelliousness, state affairs, rebellion, coming of age, queen ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1971, 1910s ...
Place:
russia, siberia, crimea
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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, breathtaking, bleak, cynical, spaghetti western ...
Plot:
prostitution, gambler, mining town, snow, addiction, old west, wild west, female nudity, gambling, poker, call girl, winter ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 20th century, edwardian era ...
Place:
washington state, usa, washington d.c., seattle, vancouver
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
Style:
dark comedy, clever, black comedy, cult classic, talky ...
Plot:
hospital, midlife crisis, satire, medical, doctor, murder, dark humor, medicine, mental illness, insanity, suicide, sex crime ...
Time:
year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: 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, tense, grindhouse, cult classic, grim ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gangster, hitman, organized crime, investigation, british gangster, mafia, violent, murder, assassin, gangsta, vigilante ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
england, northern england, britain, europe, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
deadly virus, virus, disaster, medical, laboratory, science, race against time, plague, alien, pandemic, epidemic, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, distant future, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, north america
Is relevant?
57K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style:
philosophical, cult classic, bleak, mindfuck, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, dystopia, dystopian future, cyberpunk, brainwashing, escape, prison, dystopic future, alone in the world, fighting the system, androids and robots ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1971, 90s, 1920s
Is relevant?
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, bisexual man, female nudity, gay husband, doctor, lgbt, sex, glbt, open relationship, love triangle, art, bisexual ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, california
Is relevant?
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, driver, hitchhiker, on the road, road trip, radio station, on the run, chase, driving, reckless driving, rattlesnake ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
san francisco, california, colorado, utah, denver colorado ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug use, drug, heroin addict, drug addict, heroin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of pet, life philosophy, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, california
Is relevant?
40K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Style:
slapstick, humorous, sexy, political, black comedy ...
Plot:
satire, dictatorship, dictator, revolution, politics, political satire, rebellion, loser, fish out of water, political activism, misfit, rise to the top ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, latin america, south america
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