1971

1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
3. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
4. Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Trafic (Jacques Tati)
6. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
7. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
8. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
9. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
10. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)

Honorable Mentions:
Cat o' Nine Tails (Dario Argento), Whity (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Death In Venice (Luchino Visconti), Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), Four Flies On Gray Velvet (Dario Argento), Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols), Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes), The French Connection (William Friedkin), THX 1138 (George Lucas)