Movie Releases by Score
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1.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
June 24, 1971
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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The Last Picture Show
October 22, 1971
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
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Dirty Harry
December 23, 1971
When an individual known as 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan (Eastwoood) is assigned to track down and deal with the psychopath. "Iknowwhatyou're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've only got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"
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Two-Lane Blacktop
July 7, 1971
2 men drag-racing across the U.S., in a '55 Chevy. Dennis Wilson's the mechanic, James Taylor's the driver.
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Walkabout
July 1, 1971
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
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Klute
June 25, 1971
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.
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Get Carter
March 18, 1971
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
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Play Misty for Me
November 12, 1971
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
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A Clockwork Orange
December 20, 1971
Kubrick makes of Anthony Burgess' celebrated novel a savage and satiric morality play centering on Alex (McDowell), who fights, robs, rapes and kills like any concsienceless predator. Captured and imprisoned, he undergoes treatment to condition him "safe", a "clockwork orange" healthy and whole on the outside - but crippled within by reflex mechanisms beyond his control. (Warner Bros.)
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Carnal Knowledge
June 30, 1971
Chronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and befriend one another in college.
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THX 1138
March 11, 1971
LUH 3417, a disenchanted surveillance worker, consciously stops taking her mandatory drugs — medication that suppresses emotions — and gives placebos to her roommate, THX 1138. Now free to feel, the two fall in love, but find themselves on the run for breaking laws of conformity.
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The Panic in Needle Park
July 13, 1971
Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.
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Daughters of Darkness
October 22, 1971
A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
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Straw Dogs
December 22, 1971
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
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The Hospital
December 14, 1971
An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
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Bleak Moments
January 1, 1971
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
April 23, 1971
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
May 21, 1971
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society; but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
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Bananas
April 28, 1971
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
June 30, 1971
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
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Fiddler on the Roof
November 3, 1971
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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Shaft
July 2, 1971
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Harold and Maude
December 20, 1971
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
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The Anderson Tapes
June 17, 1971
After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.
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Vanishing Point
March 13, 1971
During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops.
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The Andromeda Strain
March 12, 1971
A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread.
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
December 13, 1971
An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in WWII.
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Diamonds Are Forever
December 17, 1971
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.
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29.
The Omega Man
August 1, 1971
Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race.
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30.
Billy Jack
May 1, 1971
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
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The Devils
July 16, 1971
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.
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Titles with fewer than 7 critic reviews are excluded.