The Best Movies Of 1971

The head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency when most of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite. A group of scienti...

Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to fi...

Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder.

Jan Dibbets begins with an image of the sky, then moves the camera down and films a field in undulating movements. The horizon swings diagonally and the field fills the image. With his camera movement...

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. There are mists of acid and sludge that may not be enough to defeat the toxic menace...

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with several electronic cameras. As Schroeter would recall, "I a...

A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden

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

The mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness, was brought back to England by two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Cor Beck. The prophecy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue...

A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.

Harry Callahan is known for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement, and when a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, he is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventua...

After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant.

A hooker named Flame (Candy Samples) teaches her teenage daughter Flower (Suzanne Fields) the tricks of the trade in this soft-core film.

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 reporter fr...

Sworn-brothers expert martial artists are the targets of a mysterious killer, which seems to bear a grudge against them for what happened several years ago.

Hong Kong superstar Jimmy "One Arm Boxer" Wang Yu stars as the Bamboo blade, China's top swordsman. His services are rendered by the Imperial treasury who want him to infiltrate a powerful gang of Hig...

Three children were forced to stay with an eccentric spinster after being evacuated from London during World War II. The children get over their initial fears when they learn she is a witch.

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When he learns of his brother's death, he travels to attend the funeral. Carter refused to accept the police report of his brother's suicide and wen...

The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and culture. But that same culture was about to disappear with the count...

In Mexico, a mad general is leading his own war against the Church. Priests are rounded up, churches burned down and religion outlawed. The suffering of one pious catholic priest could bring the tide ...

A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of a Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft.

The young Petrukha couple live in a village - a kind, docile husband and strict wife. Soon, twins are born to them.

The U.S. is depicted in this fictional documentary. President Nixon declared a state of emergency because the prisons are at capacity. Most of the prisoners who are connected to the antiwar movement a...

Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want...

Joanna Lumley and Penny Brahms star as notorious prostitutes Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley faced with the challenge of seducing the seemingly impossible in this 1970s sex comedy

The Madonna del Pollino - It is one of the most archaic festivals in Basilicata. The faithful walk to the church after a strenuous journey. The manifestations of religious faith alternate with particu...

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, is followed by a mysterious man after receiving strange phone calls. He tried to catch up with his persecutor but in the struggle he accidentally stabbed him. He run...

A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young ...

"I made this film when I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, after graduating from Smith a semester early. It was my reaction to California. "Sweeping the Clouds Away" is sung by Charles "Buddy" ...

Fifteen years old Sasha is dreaming about adventures, falling in love and doesn't know that WWII is approaching...

Flyer & Magic Sword is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Stanley Fung.

Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.

The chronicles of an ambitious and self-made young man as he rises his way up the corporate ladder.

Amal Basu, who decides to visit his hometown, meets Lila on the train. When he goes to his friend Nabendu's home, he learns that Lila is his sister and a smuggler.

Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big jump.

A British teenager spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on a young woman. In order to impress Marian, Leo becomes the go-between, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted, a ...

The world is shocked by the appearance of three 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 hu...

A reporter and a retired journalist are trying to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to secret research done by a pharmaceutical company. The two are going to become targets of the ki...

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery, set out on a perilous journey to America in hopes of a better life.

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 with a fate worse than death as a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes,...

A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations.

Diamonds can be sold again in the international market after being stolen. James Bond went on a mission to find out who was guilty. The mission takes Bond to Las Vegas where he meets Blofeld.

Small town gal Wendy resorts to prostitution after moving to New York City. Wendy gets busted by corrupt vice cop Vince and winds up spending 90 days in jail. In the wake of finishing her sentence, We...

An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

A short documentary, charting Bangladesh's quest for freedom from Pakistan.