Cold Sweat (1971)

In this adaptation of a Richard Mathieson novella, (also the basis of an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) Charles Bronson's Joe Martin must protect his wife and daughter from a criminal gang he used to drive for - they've come back into Joe's life seeking redress for a wrong they feel Joe committed against them.

★★★☆☆

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The Omega Man (1971)

Germ warfare in a Sino-Russian war turns everyone into Paul Bettany's character in The Da Vinci Code and it is up to an often shirtless Charlton Heston, the only person in the world not yet an eloquent albino with problematic life philosophies, to find a cure before this unrewarding scifi thriller, in which nothing much actually happens, ends up even longer than it already is.

★★☆☆☆

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The French Connection (1971)

Inspired by and informed by a real-life drug-ring-busting NYC cop, this 1971 police procedural won five academy awards for its atmospheric story of cops staking-out, shadowing and gun-battling with drug-smuggling bad guys and features Gene Hackman and Rob Schneider as the dogged cops, the N-word as its conspicuous self, and fluorescent red paint standing in as blood spill.

★★★☆☆

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Dulcima (1971)

A film with a weird Carry On beginning and an unpleasant, melodramatic finish, this Golden Bear contender tells the ugly story of young home helper Dulcima who upon discovering money tins in the home of her drooling, lecherous peeping tom farmer-boss, Mr Parker, changes her behaviour towards him while also falling Lady Chatterley-style for the strapping young gamekeeper in the cottage down the way.

★★☆☆☆

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Solaris (Solyaris) (1971)

A psychologist encounters a humanlike - um - lifeform on a space station in this austere, dreamlike sci-fi meditation on life, death, and what it is to be human.

★★★★★

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Wake In Fright (1971)

An English schoolteacher stuck in the Australian outback "city" of "the 'Yabba" has his mettle tested by characters who excessively drink, gamble, and kangaroo hunt, but interestingly, it seems to be a hint of homosexuality that finally breaks his resolve in this classic from 1971 depicting life in the Australian bush as a gothic nightmare.

★★★★☆

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