Comedy Movies
Bread (1971)
On their way home from the Isle of Wight Pop Festival, Jeff, Trev and Mick along with girlfriends Marty and Cathy decide to pitch a tent on private land. In…
Please Sir! (1971)
Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistc teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once…
Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin’ (1971)
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’ is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was filmed in…
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile students, and an awkward male is frustrated…
Bananas (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.
Tora-san the Good Samaritan (1971)
Summer of ’42 (1971)
Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends — Hermie, Oscy and Benjie — are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with…
The Whistling Cobblestone (1971)
The week-days of a youth-camp, playing democracy, are depicted in this documentarist satire. Due to faulty organisation, the Budapest high-school students get only working tools, but no work to do….
The Married Couple of the Year Two (1971)
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his…
Taking Off (1971)
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away….
Melody (1971)
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
Play It Again Charlie Brown (1971)
Play It Again, Charlie Brown is the seventh prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. This non-holiday Peanuts special centers on Lucy,…
Deep End (1971)
London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.
Animal Treasure Island (1971)
A Japanese adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, featuring animals as the majority of the cast. By chance Jim comes upon a map of Treasure Island. He leaves the…
Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy (1971)
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post – an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network. With his eye…
Dad’s Army (1971)
Dad’s Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad’s Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based…
A New Leaf (1971)
After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
The Sporting Club (1971)
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
Cold Turkey (1971)
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don’t want them to win, and try everything they can…
One More Train to Rob (1971)
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the…
Percy (1971)
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him…
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy (1971)
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she’s widowed….
Little Murders (1971)
A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.
How to Frame a Figg (1971)
Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after…
The Statue (1971)
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he’s a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt’s celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to…
The Plot Against Harry (1971)
Deadpan, small-time Kosher Nostra mobster Harry Plotnick goes meshugga when he gets into the catering biz with his ex-brother-in-law.
A Severed Head (1971)
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband’s best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in…
Tora-san’s Shattered Romance (1971)
Say Hello to Yesterday (1971)
Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train.