Top Movies of 1971


The top movies of 1971 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

1. A Clockwork Orange

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering
Plot: In a futuristic British society Alex and his Droogs enjoy the finer things
in life: sex and violence. When Alex is arrested, he volunteers for a new
"aversion therapy" with the end result that violence and sex now make him
physically ill. Back in society he finds that things are much different.

2. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Mel Stuart
Actors: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Denise Nickerson
Plot: Willy Wonka is secretive candy maker who invites five lucky winners to enter a world of pure imagination.

3. The Last Picture Show

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman
Plot: A coming of age story about a men and women in a small Texas town during the 1950s.

4. The French Connection

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Bill Hickman, Roy Scheider, Sonny Grosso
Plot: During a drug smuggle with a French Connection, the NYC narcotics police division engulf themselves further with breaking up the smuggling process.

5. Dirty Harry

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, Andrew Robinson, John Mitchum, John Vernon
Plot: A ruthless cop who ignores all the rules and gets away with it, tries to track down a San Francisco serial killer.

6. Harold and Maude

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Ellen Geer, Tom Skerritt
Plot: A dying old woman obsessed with living and a living young boy obsessed with dying meet to form a bond that can't be broken.

7. Fiddler on the Roof

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris
Plot: Tevye is a milkman, a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia who tries to adhere to tradition while his daughters grow up and the world changes.

8. Duel

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Shirley O'Hara
Plot: A man plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with a driver of an 18-wheeler.

9. Brian's Song

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Buzz Kulik
Actors: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Bernie Casey, Shelley Fabares, David Huddleston

10. Macbeth

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride, Nicholas Selby
Plot: Roman Polanski's version of the Shakespeare drama that has a ruthless Scottish lord ascend the throne with help from a trio of witches and his wife. As his wife suffers from guilt and hallucinations, the king's son plots to expose him as a murderer.

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