Drama Movies of 1971
Under Milk Wood
This film is a faithful rendition of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' last major poem, Under Milk Wood. It affectionately examines the day-to-day life of the inhabitants of a small Welsh fishing village. The poem is ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women is a film of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, which is a highly mannered, ritual-like stage play. It was not easy to transform it into a movie while remaining faithful to the ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Memorably described by Pauline Kael as "a beautiful pipe dream of a movie," Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller reimagines the American West as a muddy frontier filled with hustlers, opportunists, and corporate ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Ten Days' Wonder
In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be the least of ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
The Homecoming
This made-for-TV drama, based on the book by Earl Hamner ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
The Last Picture Show
Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Silent Running
Bruce Dern stars as the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a group of space stations that are sent into orbit. The Earth has been stripped clean of foliage, and the greenhouse contains ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is about the deterioration of a man's soul. Fruit vendor Hans (Hans ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
In Search of America
The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but there sure are plenty of loose plot ends. Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
The Nightcomers
Marlon Brando delivers a respectably creepy performance in the Michael Winner directed The ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Death in Venice
Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity. While visiting Venice, Bogarde falls in love with a beautiful young boy ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
The Panic in Needle Park
A couple loves heroin as much as they love each other in Jerry Schatzberg's grim drug drama. After an illegal abortion at the behest of her faithless lover (Raul Julia), lost innocent Helen (Kitty Winn) ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Sunday Bloody Sunday
This British film examines the choices individuals must make when confronted with a romantic relationship which is rewarding but does not offer them everything they want. In this sympathetic and psychologically precise drama, Alexandra Greville ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Le Mans
Steve McQueen is ideally cast as a champion race car driver, participating in the famed 24-hour race headquartered in Le Mans, France. Though dedicated to Going for the Gold, McQueen finds time to romance widowed Elga ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
A Few Hours of Sunlight
Based on a melancholy romance by Francoise Sagan, this film recounts the circumstances of a relationship from start to tragic finish. Among other things, it features an early film appearance by Gerard Depardieu in ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 01
The first season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place from November 1903 through June 1909, an era popularly known as "Edwardian" in honor of King Edward VII. Fans of the ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Rio das Mortes
Aimlessness and misplaced ambition take two friends in unexpected directions in this made-for-TV drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Michel (Michael Konig) ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Jesús, el Niño Dios
The biblical story Jesus, el Nino Dios offers a look at the birth of ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
J.W. Coop
Cliff Robertson wrote, produced, directed and acted the lead in this film about a rodeo performer. The rodeo footage ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Summer of '42
A surprise success in 1971 ($20 million worth of "surprise"), The Summer of '42 is a coming-of-age piece, ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Two-Lane Blacktop
A '55 Chevy takes on a '70 GTO in a race across the Southwest in Monte Hellman's cult favorite. The Driver (James Taylor) and the Mechanic (Dennis Wilson) phlegmatically slouch from race to race, pitting their gray Chevy against any ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Whity
In his 36-year life, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder made some 40 films. He is perhaps ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Dauria
A young and carefree Cossack competing with a neighborhood rival for the love of a beautiful girl is forced to grow up faster than expected when World War I breaks out in this romantic Russian war drama from director Viktor Tregubovich. ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Billy Jack
Actor/auteur Tom Laughlin created the character of Billy Jack in the motorcycle flick The Born Losers. Wandering Christlike through the Southwest, ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Evel Knievel
George Hamilton produced and stars in this appealing bio-pic about real-life stunt daredevil Evel Knievel. Knievel's famous motorcycle stunts and early life are remembered in flashback by the performer in the moments ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Macbeth
Perhaps William Shakespeare meant to have Lady Macbeth perform her sleepwalking scene in the nude -- it was this X-rated scene and the ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Persuasion
Adapted from Jane Austen's final novel, the five-part British drama series Persuasion starred Anne Firbank as Anne Elliot, a young woman dangerously close to becoming an "old maid." Seven years earlier, Anne had allowed her opinions to be ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Szerelem
This tender black-and-white Hungarian drama takes place in the '50s. A woman's (Mari Torocsik) husband has been arrested by the Hungarian secret police and imprisoned as a dissident. The young wife lives with ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Simon, King of the Witches
The target audience for this supernatural thriller is never ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Desperate Characters
Frank D. Gilroy's adaptation of Paula Fox's novel Desperate Characters stars Shirley MacLaine as Sophie, a freelance book translator who leads a comfortable life in Brooklyn with her lawyer husband Otto (Kenneth Mars). Because of their crumbling ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Jude the Obscure
This six-episode British TV adaptation of the classic Thomas Hardy novel finds Robert Powell as the title character, whose aspirations toward the priesthood are undone by his love for the licentious Sue Bridehead ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Band of Assassins
The Japanese title of Band of Assassins was Shinsengumi, which pinpointed the assassins in question. The Shinshen was a covert military organization in the employ of the 19th-century Japanese aristocracy. To protect their decadent ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Cisco Pike
This crime-drama follows the exploits of a rock star who is finally freed from prison after being convicted of drug dealing. Though he wants to go straight, he is blackmailed by a crooked cop who forces him to sell marijuana. ~ Sandra ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Punishment Park
While Peter Watkins' films of the 1960s reflected the political turmoil and tumult of that decade, 1971's Punishment Park ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Runaway, Runaway
In this drama, a teen-age girl runs away from home and gets romantically involved with a much older businessman. The film is also known as Runaway. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
In 16th-century Brazil, indigenous people of all sorts far-outnumbered Europeans, and the natives had difficulty in sorting out the different varieties and politics of Europeans. Even ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
St. Michael Had a Rooster
Anarchism, socialism, anarcho-socialism: there were enough different varieties of these three political philosophies to fuel hundreds of political movements in late 19th-century Europe. This Italian film looks at the life of one committed ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
The Cow
This highly symbolic Iranian drama (shot in black-and-white) revolves around the most important figure in a remote rural village. That figure is the village's sole cow, owned by Mashdi ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
A Pozdravujte Vlastovicky
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
El Derecho de Nacer
A land-owning aristocrat's daughter has gotten pregnant. Her boyfriend deserts her when ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
L'Insatisfaite
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Masterpiece Theatre [TV Series]
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Hogan's Goat
A television production of the highly acclaimed William Alfred play that marked Faye ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Previously filmed in 1940 and 1950, Thomas Hughes' classic novel Tom Brown's Schooldays was given its most faithful rendering in this British-miniseries adaptation. Set in the 1820s, the story focused on Tom Brown (Anthony ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Adrift on the Nile
A young journalist researching a story on a group of hedonistic middle-aged friends is outraged to discover just how socially disconnected the group has become as ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Cousin Bette
An embittered spinster rains vengeance upon her wealthy family after a beautiful niece steals her handsome protégé in this classic BBC drama based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac and ... [ Drama movie - 1971 ]
Hawaii Five-O: Season 04
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