1971

A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)

Doc (Frank Perry)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
Shaft (Gordon Parks)
Cuadecuc-Vampire (Pere Portabella)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
The Blood on Satan's Claw (Piers Haggard)
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)

Don Juan (Jan Svankmajer)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
Company Limited (Satyajit Ray)

Honorable mention: The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini), A Fistful of Dynamite (Sergio Leone), THX 1138 (George Lucas), Vampyros Lesbos (Jesus Franco)