8.5

A Clockwork Orange

1971, UK, USA

• Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor, Madge Ryan, John Savident, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, Pauline Taylor, Margaret Tyzack, Steven Berkoff, Lindsay Campbell, Michael Tarn, David Prowse, Barrie Cookson, Jan Adair, Gaye Brown, Peter Burton, John J. Carney
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Protagonist Alex is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.

  8.1

Mihai Viteazul

1971, Romania, France, Italy

• Actors: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu, György Kovács, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Nicolae Secareanu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Aurel Rogalschi, Ioana Bulca, Septimiu Sever, Florin Piersic, Klára Sebök, Mircea Albulescu, Emmerich Schäffer, Alexandru Herescu, Fory Etterle, Colea Rautu, Constantin Codrescu, Jean Lorin Florescu, Emil Liptac, Radu Nicolae, Florin Scarlatescu, Mihai Mereuta, Valentino Dain, Corneliu Gîrbea, Papil Panduru, Dinu Gherasim, Florin Blanarescu, Dan Dobre
• Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Sergiu Nicolaescu
• Available languages:
  • Romanian Romanian.

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pätrascu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.

  8.1

The Last Picture Show

1970, USA

• Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Sharon Ullrick, Randy Quaid, Joe Heathcock, Bill Thurman, Barc Doyle, Jessie Lee Fulton, Gary Brockette, Helena Humann, Loyd Catlett, Robert Glenn, John Hillerman, Janice E. O'Malley, Floyd Mahaney, Kimberly Hyde, Noble Willingham, Marjorie Jay, Joye Hash, Pamela Keller, Gordon Hurst, Mike Hosford, Faye Jordan
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Peter Bogdanovich
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry).

  7.8

Dirty Harry

1970, USA

• Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, John Larch, John Mitchum, Mae Mercer, Lyn Edgington, Ruth Kobart, Woodrow Parfrey, Josef Sommer, William Paterson, James Nolan, Maurice Argent, Jo De Winter, Craig Kelly, Ann Bowen, George Burrafato, Joy Carlin, Bill Couch, Jana D'Amico, Tony Dario, Diane Darnell, Diana Davidson, Vince Deadrick Sr., Chuck Dorsett, Al Dunlap, Larry Duran, Denise Dyer
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Don Siegel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.

  7.9

The French Connection

1970, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale, Bill Hickman, Ann Rebbot, Harold Gary, Arlene Farber, Eddie Egan, André Ernotte, Sonny Grosso, Benny Marino, Patrick McDermott, Alan Weeks, Al Fann, Irving Abrahams, Randy Jurgensen, William Coke, The Three Degrees, Frank Adonis, Gilda Albertoni, Sheila Ferguson, Sarina C. Grant, Joe Lo Grippo, Melonie Haller, Valerie Holiday, Eric Jones, Charles McGregor
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): William Friedkin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.

  7.8

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

1971, USA

• Actors: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Leonard Stone, Denise Nickerson, Nora Denney, Paris Themmen, Ursula Reit, Michael Bollner, Diana Sowle, Aubrey Woods, David Battley, Günter Meisner, Peter Capell, Werner Heyking, Peter Stuart, Dora Altmann, Rudy Borgstaller, Tim Brooke-Taylor, George Claydon, Pat Coombs, Frank Delfino, Malcolm Dixon, Stephen Dunne, Michael Gahr, Rusty Goffe, Kurt Großkurth, Shin Hamano
• Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
• Director(s): Mel Stuart
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen. Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring?

  7.8

Fiddler on the Roof

1971, USA

• Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, Neva Small, Paul Michael Glaser, Ray Lovelock, Elaine Edwards, Candy Bonstein, Shimen Ruskin, Zvee Scooler, Louis Zorich, Alfie Scopp, Howard Goorney, Barry Dennen, Vernon Dobtcheff, Ruth Madoc, Patience Collier, Tutte Lemkow, Stella Courtney, Jacob Kalich, Brian Coburn, George Little, Stanley Fleet, Arnold Diamond, Marika Rivera, Mark Malicz
• Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
• Director(s): Norman Jewison
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of 'shtetl' life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

  7.7

Duel

1971, USA

• Actors: Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Alexander Lockwood, Amy Douglass, Shirley O'Hara, Lucille Benson, Carey Loftin, Dale Van Sickel, Lou Frizzell, Jacqueline Scott, Shawn Steinman, Dick Whittington
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Steven Spielberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

While traveling through the desert for an appointment with a client, the businessman David Mann from California passes a slow and old tanker truck. The psychotic truck driver feels offended and chases David along the empty highway trying to kill him.

  7.7

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1970, USA

• Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Antony Holland, Hugh Millais, Manfred Schulz, Jace Van Der Veen, Jackie Crossland, Elizabeth Murphy, Carey Lee McKenzie, Thomas Hill, Linda Sorenson, Elisabeth Knight, Janet Wright, Maysie Hoy, Linda Kupecek, Jeremy Newson, Wayne Robson, Jack Riley, Robert Fortier, Wayne Grace, Wesley Taylor, Anne Cameron
• Genre: Drama, Western
• Director(s): Robert Altman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.

  7.5

And Now for Something Completely Different

1971, UK

• Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Lesley Judd, King George VI, Richard Nixon, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Ian MacNaughton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A collection of re-filmed sketches from the first and second series of the cult TV comedy show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Includes such classics as "Nudge, Nudge", "Hell's Grannies", "Killer Cars", "Dead Parrot", "Lumberjack Song", "Blackmail" and "Upper Class Twit of the Year".

  7.4

Xin du bi dao

1971, Hong Kong

• Actors: David Chiang, Ching Lee, Lung Ti, Feng Ku, Sing Chen, Lei Cheng, Chung Wang, Kang-Yeh Cheng, Chun Chin, Hak On Fung, Hsia Hsu, Ha Huang, Pei Chi Huang, Wei Hu, Hsiung Kao, Wei Lieh Lan, Chiu Lee, Shang Yun Liang, Heng Li, Chia Yung Liu, Kang Liu, Wai Lo, Chia Wen Pao, Lao Shen, Yan Tsan Tang, Ching Ho Wang, Kuang Yu Wang, Ching Wong, Chi Chin Wu, Shi-Kwan Yen
• Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Cheh Chang
• Available languages:
  • Polish Polish.

Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he proves with just the help of his friend Chung-Chieng, when he crosses his path with a beautiful girl in need, Pao Chiao. Even against impossible odds, he will prove a great warrior.

  7.2

The Andromeda Strain

1971, USA

• Actors: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien, Eric Christmas, Mark Jenkins, Peter Helm, Joe Di Reda, Carl Reindel, Ken Swofford, Frances Reid, Richard Bull, John Carter, Paul Ballantyne, Ivor Barry, Joe Billings, Michael Bow, Walter Brooke, Susan Brown, Jan Burrell, Dee Carroll, Duke Cigrang, Michael Crichton, Lisa Daniels
• Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Robert Wise
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A U.S. Army satellite (Scoop VII) falls to earth near Piedmont, New Mexico. The recovery team experiences difficulties as it becomes clear that the satellite has performed its intended function all too well, and has brought back something from space. A team of scientists is assembled in a high-tech, underground facility to identify and defeat the "enemy" before it is too late.

  7.2

Vanishing Point

1970, USA, UK

• Actors: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin, Paul Koslo, Robert Donner, Timothy Scott, Charlotte Rampling, Gilda Texter, Anthony James, Arthur Malet, Karl Swenson, Severn Darden, Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Lee Weaver, Cherie Foster, Valerie Kairys, Tom Reese, Owen Bush, John Amos, Val Avery, Rita Coolidge, David Gates
• Genre: Action, Drama
• Director(s): Richard C. Sarafian
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and highway patrol they start a chase to bring him into custody. Along the way, Kowalski is guided by Supersoul - a blind DJ with a police radio scanner. Throw in lots of chase scenes, gay hitchhikers, a naked woman riding a motorbike, lots of Mopar and you've got a great cult hit from the early 70's.

  7.2

Klute

1970, USA

• Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Vivian Nathan, Morris Strassberg, Barry Snider, Betty Murray, Jane White, Shirley Stoler, Robert Milli, Anthony Holland, Fred Burrell, Richard B. Shull, Marc Malvin, Rosalind Cash, Jean Stapleton, Jan Fielding, Antonia Rey, Robert Ronan, Richard Russell Ramos, Jerome Collamore, Candy Darling, Kevin Dobson, Veronica Hamel, Richard Jordan, Margaret Linn
• Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
• Available languages:
  • English English.

John Klute's friend has totally disappeared. The only clue a connection with a call girl, Bree Daniels. Klute taps her phone in order to gain evidence against her to blackmail her into helping him find his friend. While Klute searches, someone is stalking Bree.

  7.2

Summer of '42

1971, USA

• Actors: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell, Robert Mulligan, Walter Scott
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Robert Mulligan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.

  7.0

Play Misty for Me

1971, USA

• Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Irene Hervey, James McEachin, Clarice Taylor, Don Siegel, Duke Everts, George Fargo, Mervin W. Frates, Tim Frawley, Otis Kadani, Brit Lind, Paul E. Lippman, Jack Kosslyn, Ginna Patterson, Malcolm Moran, Cannonball Adderley, Cannonball Adderley and His Quartet, Don Hamilton, Robert S. Holman, Johnny Otis, Walter Spear
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Clint Eastwood
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Disc jockey Dave Garver attracts the amorous attentions of a demented fan named Evelyn Draper. Evelyn lets Dave pick her up at a bar; later at her apartment Evelyn admits that she is the cooing caller who repeatedly asks Dave to play the Erroll Garner classic "Misty." From then on, the film is a lesson in how one casual date can turn your whole life around. Evelyn stalks Dave everywhere, ruins his business lunch, assaults his maid, mutilates his house and all of his belongings, and finally threatens to butcher his girlfriend Tobie Williams. You'll never be able to hear that song again without looking over your shoulder.

  7.0

The Panic in Needle Park

1971, USA

• Actors: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Kiel Martin, Michael McClanathan, Warren Finnerty, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Raul Julia, Angie Ortega, Larry Marshall, Paul Mace, Nancy MacKay, Gil Rogers, Joe Santos, Paul Sorvino, Arnold Williams, Vic Ramano, Bryant Fraser, Dora Weissman, Sully Boyar, Florence Tarlow, Rutanya Alda, Anthony Palmer, Anthony Caso, Jeffrey Walker
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Jerry Schatzberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in "Needle Park" in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves. She becomes addicted too, and life goes downhill for them both as their addiction deepens, eventually leading to a series of betrayals. But, in spite of it all, the relationship between Bobby and Helen endures.

  7.0

Viva la muerte

1971, France, Tunisia

• Actors: Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques, Jazia Klibi, Suzanne Comte, Jean-Louis Chassigneux, Mohamed Bellasoued, Víctor García, Fernando Arrabal
• Genre: Drama, War
• Director(s): Fernando Arrabal
• Available languages:
  • French French.

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

  6.8

Murphy's War

1971, UK

• Actors: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Ingo Mogendorf, Harry Fielder, George Roubicek
• Genre: War, Drama, Action
• Director(s): Peter Yates
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He lands on the shore somewhere on the river Orinoco delta and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat that has floated up by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louie, the islands Government Administrator.

  6.7

Diamonds Are Forever

1971, UK

• Actors: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Putter Smith, Bruce Glover, Norman Burton, Joseph Fürst, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Leonard Barr, Lois Maxwell, Margaret Lacey, Joe Robinson, David de Keyser, Laurence Naismith, David Bauer, Sammy Davis Jr., Sid Haig, Marc Lawrence, John Abineri, Ray Baker, Ed Bishop, Nicky Blair, Larry J. Blake, Ed Call, George Lane Cooper, Dick Crockett
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Guy Hamilton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

James Bond's mission is to find out who has been smuggling diamonds, which are not re-appearing. He adopts another identity in the form of Peter Franks. He joins up with Tiffany Case, and acts as if he is smuggling the diamonds, but everyone is hungry for these diamonds. He also has to avoid Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, the dangerous couple who does not leave anyone in their way. Ernst Stavro Blofeld isn't out of the question. He may have changed his looks, but is he linked with the heist? And if he is, can Bond finally defeat his ultimate enemy.