Best Crime movies of 1971

Actors : Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, Michael Bates,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, Andrew Robinson,
Directors : Don Siegel,

When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, T.P. McKenna, Susan George, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

Actors : John Osborne, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, Michael Caine,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Cleavon Little, Victoria Medlin, Barry Newman, Dean Jagger,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops.

Actors : Bruce Lee, James Tien, Marilyn Bautista, Maria Yi,

A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Ralph Meeker,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.

Actors : Melvin Van Peebles, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales,
Directors : Melvin Van Peebles,

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

Actors : John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Pat Heywood, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Based on the real-life case of the British serial killer John Christie, and what happened to his neighbors Tim and Beryl Evans.

Actors : Georgiy Vitsin, Radner Muratov, Evgeniy Leonov, Saveliy Kramarov,
Directors : Aleksandr Seryj,

A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless headpiece of Alexander the Great during an archaeological expedition. But after ...

Actors : Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Bud Spencer, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A musician is stalked by an unknown killer who's blackmailing him for an accidential killing of another stalker. But is everything what it appears to be?

Actors : Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson, Rock Hudson, John David Carson,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

California State Police Captain Sam Surcher investigates a string of teenage girl murders at Oceanfront High School.

Actors : Micheál MacLiammóir, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

Actors : Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, Scott Wilson, Kim Darby,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the 1948 British film...

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, George Segal, Karen Black,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Actors : Ian McShane, Donald Sinden, Richard Burton, Nigel Davenport,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his ...

Actors : Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sidney Poitier,
Directors : Don Medford,

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.