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Movies: Popular Movies of 1971

Movies in chronological context: 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade. The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. ()

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A Clockwork Orange(1971)

NC-17
| 2h 17min | Science Fiction, Crime
4.1/5 (with 6,035 votes)

In 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 music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory(1971)

G
| 1h 40min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 1,467 votes)

When 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 that will make him a winner.

Dirty Harry(1971)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,238 votes)

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.

Diamonds Are Forever(1971)

PG
| 2h | Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 1,058 votes)

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.

The French Connection(1971)

R
| 1h 44min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 934 votes)

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.

Duel(1971)

PG
| 1h 30min | Action, Thriller, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 844 votes)

Traveling 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 the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.

Harold and Maude(1971)

3.8/5 (with 550 votes)

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 having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.

Duck, You Sucker(1971)

2h 37min | Western
3.9/5 (with 540 votes)

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 bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

Trinity Is Still My Name(1971)

PG
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Western
3.7/5 (with 454 votes)

The 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.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes(1971)

G
| 1h 38min | Action, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 434 votes)

The 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 the apes attempt to escape.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks(1971)

3.5/5 (with 417 votes)

Three 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 trainee witch.

THX 1138(1971)

R
| 1h 26min | Science Fiction, Action, Drama
3.2/5 (with 397 votes)

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 first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

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Straw Dogs(1971)

R
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 388 votes)

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 ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

The Andromeda Strain(1971)

G
| 2h 11min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 350 votes)

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 Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, ...

Bananas(1971)

PG-13
| 1h 22min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 306 votes)

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.

The Big Boss(1971)

R
| 1h 40min | Action
3.6/5 (with 302 votes)

Chen is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.

Delusions of Grandeur(1971)

PG
| 1h 48min | Comedy, History
3.7/5 (with 296 votes)

Don Sallust is minister of the King of Spain. It is a being disingenuous, hypocritical and greedy that collects the taxes himself, he turns in part to his advantage. He is hated by the people he oppresse.Accusé by Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery. Decided to revenge, it comes in contact with his nephew seducing Caesar ...

The Conformist(1971)

1h 48min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 282 votes)

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

The Omega Man(1971)

PG
| 1h 38min | Science Fiction, Action
3.1/5 (with 276 votes)

Due 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, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

The Last Picture Show(1971)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 273 votes)

High 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 wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.

Fiddler on the Roof(1971)

G
| 3h 1min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 231 votes)

In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.

And Now for Something Completely Different(1971)

PG
| 1h 28min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 212 votes)

A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.

The Cat o' Nine Tails(1971)

1h 52min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.4/5 (with 208 votes)

A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.

Death in Venice(1971)

2h 10min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 204 votes)

Composer 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 with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

Play Misty for Me(1971)

R
| 1h 42min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 199 votes)

A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.

Walkabout(1971)

PG
| 1h 35min | Adventure, Drama
3.7/5 (with 199 votes)

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 harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

Get Carter(1971)

R
| 1h 52min | Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 190 votes)

Jack 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 report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

A Bay of Blood(1971)

1h 25min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 189 votes)

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

Vanishing Point(1971)

R
| 1h 39min | Action, Drama
3.6/5 (with 189 votes)

Kowalski 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 car there in less than 15 hours.

Shaft(1971)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 183 votes)

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

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