A couple of films from 1971...
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La Classe Operaia va in Paradiso) aka Lulu the Tool (1971)
I picked up this Italian film when I was on holiday there last year, it stars
Gian Maria Volontè (from the Dollars Trilogy), features production design by Scorsese's own
Dante Ferretti and music by
Ennio Morricone, so it was a good bet I thought. It's an unglamorous portrait of working-class life in and around an Italian metal factory featuring worker misery, unfocused anger, anti-capitalist protests and union-strikes. Volontè is sensationally fiery in the lead role but I didn't love it overall.
Wake in Fright (1971)
An Australian psychological-Horror movie where the main character isn't beset by Zombies, or Vampires but by Australian men being really, really Australian
. A middle-class teacher yearns to get back to his cosmopolitan home in Sydney but instead gets sucked into a spiral of drink, gambling and violence in the sweltering heat of a small outback town. Like the more recent
'Get Out' the creep-factor is in the little details that feel off, being a stranger in a strange land. Very unsettling stuff.