Films set in 1971

2018 film directed by Bryan Singer

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. It is the inaugural film in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Their purportedly real-life reports inspired The Amityville Horror story and the associated film franchise. The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family, who experienced increasingly disturbing events in their newly occupied farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.

2018 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

2007 film by David Fincher

2006 film by Kevin Macdonald

1998 film by Terry Gilliam

2017 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2018 film by Corin Hardy

2019 film directed by Gary Dauberman

The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut. Set in 1970, it tells the story of a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students who have nowhere to go during the school's Christmas holiday break. Filming took place from January to March 2022 in Massachusetts. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023.

2017 film by Ridley Scott

2014 film directed by Nicholas Stoller

2024 film directed by Walter Salles

2000 American sports film directed by Boaz Yakin

1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks

1971 film spin-off from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus directed by Ian MacNaughton

2008 film directed by Roger Donaldson

2008 film by Oliver Stone

1990 film directed by Adrian Lyne

2008 film by Pascal Laugier

2014 film by Clint Eastwood

Tigerland is a 2000 American war drama film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Colin Farrell. It takes place in a training camp for soldiers to be sent to the Vietnam War.

2018 film directed by Aleksei Alekseivich German

Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Inspired by Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, the film is a metafictional modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who, while prepping for a live broadcast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, is visited on Christmas Eve by a succession of ghosts intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The supporting cast includes Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane,

1989 film by Gus Van Sant

2024 film directed by Arkasha Stevenson

1993 film by Brian Gibson

2014 film by Tate Taylor

1996 film by Srđan Dragojević

1984 film by Charles Sellier

2017 film directed by Benny Boom

1999 film by Damien O'Donnell

1991 film directed by Martha Coolidge

2015 film directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez

2014 film by Yann Demange

1985 film by Kevin Reynolds

2006 film by Lasse Hallström

1972 film by Peter Yates

1973 Japanese Fantasy/Sci-Fi film by Jun Fukuda

2023 film directed by Anna Kendrick

2012 film by Olivier Assayas

1994 television film directed by John Frankenheimer

2017 Russian film by Anton Megerdichev

1987 film by David Hugh Jones

1988 film by Paul Bogart

Border is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language epic war film written, produced and directed by J. P. Dutta. Set during the India–Pakistan war of 1971, the film is based on the events of Battle of Longewala (1971). It stars an ensemble cast of Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Puneet Issar, Sudesh Berry and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in pivotal roles, along with Tabu, Pooja Bhatt, Rakhee Gulzar, Sharbani Mukherjee, Sapna Bedi and Rajiv Goswami.

2019 film directed by Jeff Tremaine

2023 film by Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle

1972 film by Kinji Fukasaku

2006 television film directed by John Shiban

Gunday () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language period action drama film written and directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The film stars Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Irrfan Khan in the lead roles. Set in 1971–1988 Calcutta, the film follows two best friends who are also outlaws that both fall in love with a cabaret dancer, which causes rivalry and misunderstandings between them while a police officer tries to take advantage of this situation to eliminate them.

2017 film by Michael Radford

2019 film directed by Robin Bissell

2011 film by Osamu Kaneda

2024 South Korean film

2002 film by Tareque Masud

2021 film directed by Byun Sung-Hyun

1974 film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura

2008 film directed by Lee Joon-ik

1974 film by Giuseppe Maria Scotese