Best Movies of 1971
Most watched in 1971
A Clockwork Orange1971 · ★ 8.2 · 2h 17m
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971 · ★ 7.5 · 1h 40m
Dirty Harry1971 · ★ 7.5 · 1h 42m
Diamonds Are Forever1971 · ★ 6.4 · 2h 0m
The French Connection1971 · ★ 7.5 · 1h 44m
Duel1971 · ★ 7.4 · 1h 14m
#1 A Clockwork Orange (1971) · ★ 8.2 · 14,099 votes · 2h 17m · science-fiction, crimeIn a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the mu…
#2 Duck, You Sucker (1971) · ★ 7.7 · 1,224 votes · 2h 37m · westernAt 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, fa…
#3 Fiddler on the Roof (1971) · ★ 7.7 · 670 votes · 3h 1m · romance, dramaIn a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.…
#4 Harold and Maude (1971) · ★ 7.6 · 1,241 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, romance, dramaA deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.…
#5 The Last Picture Show (1971) · ★ 7.6 · 806 votes · 1h 59m · romance, dramaHigh school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wif…
#6 The Conformist (1971) · ★ 7.6 · 783 votes · 1h 48m · dramaA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.…
#7 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) · ★ 7.5 · 4,097 votes · 1h 40m · comedy, fantasy, familyWhen eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket t…
#8 Dirty Harry (1971) · ★ 7.5 · 2,850 votes · 1h 42m · action, thriller, crimeWhen 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…
#9 The French Connection (1971) · ★ 7.5 · 2,220 votes · 1h 44m · action, thriller, crimeTough 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.…
#10 Duel (1971) · ★ 7.4 · 2,136 votes · 1h 14m · action, tv-movie, thrillerTraveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while t…
#11 Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) · ★ 7.4 · 1,035 votes · 1h 58m · comedy, westernThe two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws.…
#12 Delusions of Grandeur (1971) · ★ 7.4 · 755 votes · 1h 48m · comedy, historyDon Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by…
#13 Straw Dogs (1971) · ★ 7.2 · 1,124 votes · 1h 56m · thriller, drama, crimeDavid 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 sma…
#14 And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) · ★ 7.2 · 609 votes · 1h 28m · comedyA collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.…
#15 Death in Venice (1971) · ★ 7.2 · 557 votes · 2h 11m · romance, drama, historyComposer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying wit…
#16 The Big Boss (1971) · ★ 7.1 · 873 votes · 1h 39m · actionCheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any…
#17 The Andromeda Strain (1971) · ★ 7.1 · 835 votes · 2h 11m · thriller, drama, science-fictionWhen 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…
#18 Vanishing Point (1971) · ★ 7.1 · 547 votes · 1h 45m · action, thriller, dramaKowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the ca…
#19 Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) · ★ 7.0 · 1,028 votes · 1h 57m · comedy, fantasy, adventureThree children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a t…
#20 Get Carter (1971) · ★ 7.0 · 590 votes · 1h 52m · thriller, crimeJack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police repor…
#21 The Beguiled (1971) · ★ 7.0 · 523 votes · 1h 45m · thriller, drama, warOffbeat 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 youn…
#22 Klute (1971) · ★ 6.8 · 541 votes · 1h 54m · thriller, drama, crimeA high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.…
#23 Bananas (1971) · ★ 6.7 · 850 votes · 1h 22m · comedyWhen 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.…
#24 Play Misty for Me (1971) · ★ 6.6 · 590 votes · 1h 42m · thriller, dramaA brief fling between a late-night radio disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening turn when another woman enters the picture.…
#25 Diamonds Are Forever (1971) · ★ 6.4 · 2,443 votes · 2h 0m · action, thrillerDiamonds 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…
#26 Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) · ★ 6.4 · 1,274 votes · 1h 38m · action, science-fictionThe world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until…
#27 THX 1138 (1971) · ★ 6.4 · 1,120 votes · 1h 26m · action, drama, science-fictionPeople 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…
#28 The Omega Man (1971) · ★ 6.2 · 641 votes · 1h 38m · action, thriller, dramaDue to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturn…