Best award winning movies with rigorous directing from 1971

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with rigorous directing from 1971! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with rigorous directing from 1971, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The French Connection (1971)

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.

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1971-10-09 | Action / Crime

Cast

Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey

Rating

rating icon 7.525
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    cat-and-mouse
  2. Ranked #15 for
    hard-nosed
  3. Ranked #39 for
    vehicular carnage

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2 The Last Picture Show (1971)

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.

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1971-10-03 | Drama

Cast

Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd

Rating

rating icon 7.639
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #101 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #118 for
    scrawny
  3. Ranked #127 for
    critically acclaimed

Trailer

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3 Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

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1971-07-01 | Drama

Cast

Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson

Rating

rating icon 6.636
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #160 for
    dated
  2. Ranked #205 for
    cinema verite
  3. Ranked #231 for
    smug

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4 Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

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.

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1971-11-03 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Topol, Norma Crane

Rating

rating icon 7.702
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #120 for
    lumberjack
  2. Ranked #134 for
    great soundtrack
  3. Ranked #142 for
    jukebox musical

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5 Death in Venice (1971)

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.

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1971-03-05 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #45 for
    decadent
  2. Ranked #89 for
    bloated
  3. Ranked #103 for
    lugubrious

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6 The Hospital (1971)

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.

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1971-12-14 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

George C. Scott, Diana Rigg

Rating

rating icon 6.571
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #76 for
    Black Comedy
  2. Ranked #142 for
    pin-up girl
  3. Ranked #155 for
    seriocomedy

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7 Family Life (1971)

A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.

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1971-11-17 | Drama

Cast

Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #42 for
    great to watch with a loved one
  2. Ranked #62 for
    cinema verite
  3. Ranked #154 for
    confusing

Trailer

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8 The Decameron (1971)

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.

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1971-08-25 | History / Drama

Cast

Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    bawdy
  2. Ranked #61 for
    decadent
  3. Ranked #65 for
    blasphemous

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9 A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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?

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1971-12-19 | Science Fiction / Crime

Cast

Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee

Rating

rating icon 8.206
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #88 for
    futuristic society
  2. Ranked #124 for
    therapeutic
  3. Ranked #129 for
    orwellian

Trailer

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10 Klute (1971)

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Info

1971-06-23 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland

Rating

rating icon 6.78
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #75 for
    like Mr. Brooks
  2. Ranked #76 for
    gruesome murder
  3. Ranked #122 for
    stoic

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