Best Drama Films of 1971
Ten Days' Wonder
In this ponderous French ... the father's strange home, and uses his philosophical training to try to solve the mystery of the bloody hands. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
The Homecoming
This made-for-TV drama, based ... the Golden Globe Award for "Best TV-Movie" that year, and Neal won the "Best Actress" award for her performance. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Silent Running
Bruce Dern stars as ... Douglas Trumbull directs, Michael Cimino was one of the screenwriters, and Peter "PDQ Bach" Schickele wrote the musical score. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Der Händler der vier ... useless, a nothing -- exactly what his mother, his wife, and those around him set him up to be. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
In Search of America
The producers of In ... Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
The Nightcomers
Marlon Brando delivers a ... Not wanting their two favorite subjects to be separated, the children decide to take things into their own hands. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Death in Venice
Based on a novel ... by Dirk Bogarde is evidently intended to be Gustav Mahler, whose haunting music is featured on the film's soundtrack. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
The Panic in Needle Park
A couple loves heroin ... betrayals, and a "panic" after a major bust, the pair manages to stick together, the habit sealing their fate. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
German filmmaker Rainer Werner ... women grow to hate Alma for her acceptance of life as a sex object. Naïve Berta is ultimately humiliated. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Sunday Bloody Sunday
This British film examines ... the box office. The film's director and screenwriter, as well as Jackson and Finch, were nominated for Academy Awards. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Le Mans
Steve McQueen is ideally ... Le Mans, but withdrew from the project; it was then taken over by Lee H. Katzin of The Phynx. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
A Few Hours of Sunlight
Based on a melancholy ... he cannot conceal that he is bored with her. Devastated, and wishing to set him free, she commits suicide. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 01
The first season of ... aired in the US, allowing PBS to bill the remaining 13 as "the lost episodes" a few decades later! [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Rio das Mortes
Aimlessness and misplaced ambition ... idea and wishes her boyfriend would come to his senses, eventually threatening violence to prevent him from leaving her. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Jesús, el Niño Dios
The biblical story Jesus, ... gifts. They encounter King Herod who is consumed with jealousy in regard to the newly born Prince of Peace. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
J.W. Coop
Cliff Robertson wrote, produced, ... surprise, too. Coop wants and needs to win a national rodeo championship, despite all the new challenges he faces. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Summer of '42
A surprise success in ... of '42 was later novelized by Raucher, then followed up on screen by the less effective Class of 44. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Whity
In his 36-year life, ... Eventually, he has had all he can take; his manner of taking vengeance is what this film is about. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Dauria
A young and carefree ... side on which to fight, he soon finds out just how big of a place the world truly is. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Billy Jack
Actor/auteur Tom Laughlin created ... berserk. Thus begins an orgy of self-righteous violence, culminating with our hero being hunted down on a murder charge. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Evel Knievel
George Hamilton produced and ... in the lead, most fans prefer the real thing -- Knievel portraying himself in the later Viva Knievel! (1978). [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Macbeth
Perhaps William Shakespeare meant ... excellent first week, Macbeth ended up in the red, compelling Hugh Hefner to think twice about future motion-picture projects. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Persuasion
Adapted from Jane Austen's ... to win the Captain back. This TV version of Persuasion made its British TV bow on April 18, 1971. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Szerelem
This tender black-and-white Hungarian ... of the director, by octogenarian Lili Darvas, the wife of the famous Hungarian playwright and novelist Ferenc Molnar (1878-1952). [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Simon, King of the Witches
The target audience for ... The role of the Satanic cult leader is played by Ultra Violet, a celebrity in artist Andy Warhol's community. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Desperate Characters
Frank D. Gilroy's adaptation ... The film chronicles their emotional and psychological state through a series of interactions with each other and like-minded friends. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Jude the Obscure
This six-episode British TV ... title character, whose aspirations toward the priesthood are undone by his love for the licentious Sue Bridehead (Fiona Walker). [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Band of Assassins
The Japanese title of ... was one of the bread-and-butter pictures which Mifune made in order to afford to work in more prestigious fare. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Cisco Pike
This crime-drama follows the ... Though he wants to go straight, he is blackmailed by a crooked cop who forces him to sell marijuana. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Punishment Park
While Peter Watkins' films ... fact the odds have been stacked against them, the prisoners are being dealt an unfair hand along the trail. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Runaway, Runaway
In this drama, a ... away from home and gets romantically involved with a much older businessman. The film is also known as Runaway. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
In 16th-century Brazil, indigenous ... not able to avoid it. This Portuguese language film has extensive, though appropriate, nudity and some quite gruesome footage. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
St. Michael Had a Rooster
Anarchism, socialism, anarcho-socialism: there ... for his beliefs. Their disagreements are unimportant when it becomes clear that an even more radical scheme is brewing. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
The Cow
This highly symbolic Iranian ... is the glimpse it offers into a style of rural life which has gone unchanged for thousands of years. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
A Pozdravujte Vlastovicky
This film, chronicling the ... by any means hate them. Told with simple dignity, this film makes clear why Maruska became a national hero. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
El Derecho de Nacer
A land-owning aristocrat's daughter ... clues to his origins and begins to investigate. This Mexican-made Spanish language anti-abortion film has been dubbed into English. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
L'Insatisfaite
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Masterpiece Theatre [TV Series]
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Hogan's Goat
A television production of ... star-making role in Bonnie and Clyde. Other members of the cast include Rue McClanahan, Philip Bosco, and George Rose. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Previously filmed in 1940 ... hour-long episodes when it was shown as part of the American public-TV anthology Masterpiece Theatre beginning January 14, 1973. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Adrift on the Nile
A young journalist researching ... descent of debauchery while remaining blissfully unaware of the turmoil that will soon become to blindingly bright to ignore. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Cousin Bette
An embittered spinster rains ... gorgeous young niece, an infuriated Bette determines to make the lives of her pompous family members a living hell. [ best drama films - 1971 ]
Hawaii Five-O: Season 04
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Moby Dick
Mounted live and shot ... captain driven mad by his pursuit of an elusive whale. The production stars Jack Aranson as the monomaniacal Ahab. [ best drama films - 1971 ]Supplemental Navigation
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