31. Diamonds Are Forever
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Sean Connery, Lana Wood, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Bruce Glover, Bruce Cabot
Plot: James Bond finds himself in Las Vegas on the trail of a diamond smuggling operation that is headed by his old nemesis, Blofeld.
32. Medea
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Actors: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clémenti, Paul Jabara
Plot: To become king, Jason goes to claim the golden fleece from stone age peoples, who are betrayed by their high priestess. She kills and surrenders herself to Jason and his crew. Her ambitions are soon to be also betrayed, as Jason falls in love with a princess.
33. Le Mans
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sport
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Actors: Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Fred Haltiner, Luc Merenda
Plot: Steve McQueen worked hard to bring this project to fruition: The Le Mans 24-hour endurance course is one of the world's toughest races. Michael Delaney is a driver who must overcome a terrible accident from the year before in order to bring his Gulf Team Porsche 917 to victory over chief rival the German Stahler in Ferrari 512LM.
34. They Call Me Trinity ( Lo chiamavano Trinità )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Enzo Barboni
Actors: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Farley Granger, Elena Pedemonte, Steffen Zacharias, Dan Sturkie
35. Deep End
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Actors: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors, Louise Martini
36. The Panic in Needle Park
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Actors: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Raul Julia, Kiel Martin
Plot: An unconventional love story set in Needle Park, a location in New York
City. Bobby (Pacino), a young addict who accompanies an artist named
Helen (Kitty Winn), falls in love together. Helen becomes acquainted with
the habits of Bobby and his methods of earning a buck.
37. Fata Morgana
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, James William Gledhill, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg
38. Vanishing Point
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Actors: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin, Paul Koslo, Robert Donner
Plot: Kowalski is delivering a 1970 Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco when he takes an insane bet to get the car there in 15 hours. Soon he is being hunted by police while a blind DJ, Supersoul, tries to guide him down the right path before he loses everything.
39. Claire's Knee ( genou de Claire, Le )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Rohmer
Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Michèle Montel, Gérard Falconetti
Plot: A mother tries to set up her underage daughter with a much older man.
40. Gamera vs. Zigra ( Gamera tai Shinkai kaijû Jigura )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Kôji Fujiyama, Reiko Kasahara, Isamu Saeki, Yasushi Sakagami, Eiko Yanami, Mikiko Tsubouchi
