Best Crime movies of 1971

Actors : Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Suzy Kendall, James Laurenson,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a ...

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Michel Bardinet, Ornella Muti, Irene Papas,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Two hippies find themselves on the run from the law and soon end up going undercover in a villa owned by a mysterious woman.

Actors : Jirina Bohdalová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová, Marie Rosulková,
Directors : Oldrich Lipský,

Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply ...

Actors : Leslie Caron, Mitchell Ryan, Alex Dreier, Warren Oates,
Directors : Paul Magwood,

A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.

Actors : Filiz Akin, Yilmaz Güney, Eris Akman, Refik Kemal Arduman,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Actors : Judy Huxtable, Christopher Sandford, Barry Evans, Susan George,
Directors : Pete Walker,

After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands...

Actors : Jackson Beck, Pamela Gruen, Devin Goldenberg, Allen Garfield,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

Actors : Rumi Aiki, Mitsuko Aoi, Noboru Andô, Hideyo Amamoto,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, a gangster gets released early - only to find that his ex-gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, bloodshed is bound to begin anew.

Actors : Herbert Kerr, Casey Donovan, Cheri Caffaro, Duane Tucker,
Directors : Don Schain,

A rich society girl is recruited to go undercover and expose a drug/blackmail/prostitution ring in her small town.

Actors : Gila von Weitershausen, Fernando Sancho, Hans Hass Jr., Thomas Hunter,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Among the passengers are a corrupt banker who is smuggling ...

Actors : Jess Walton, Paul Prokop, Clint Ritchie, Michael Ontkean,
Directors : Douglas Schwartz,

Siblings Kristy and Jeffrey are buying supplies at a remote desert gas station when some members of a biker gang come cruising in. The bikers recognize Kristy, who used to be the main ...

Actors : Sherry E. DeBoer, Robert F. Lyons, Richard Thomas, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Barry Shear,

Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmid ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of ...

Actors : Bill Cosby, George Spell, Leif Erickson, Gloria Foster,
Directors : E.W. Swackhamer,

After the Civil War, a black ex-union soldier, his wife, and his son settle in Arizona Territory to homestead and build their lives. At first, Caleb Revers race doesn't seem to matter, but then things change.

Actors : Lon Chaney Jr., Jennifer Bishop, Russ Tamblyn, Aleshia Brevard,

After a string of bad times with men, Sandy tries to kill herself. Co-waitress Libby saves her and takes her to meet some female friends of hers who live on a ranch in the desert. Grace, ...

Actors : Ray Barrett, Sinéad Cusack, James Booth, Joan Collins,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

A family plots to take its revenge on the man who raped and murdered their daughter.

Actors : Antonio Cantafora, Klaus Kinski, Marina Malfatti, Fred Robsahm,
Directors : Carlo Croccolo,

In Tombstone, a new sheriff vows to clean up the town of outlaws like the O'Hara brothers and is assisted by a strange lawyer who always carries two large law books with him.

Actors : Wayne Crawford, Don Craig, Robin Hughes, Abe Zwick,
Directors : Thomas Casey,

Stanley and Paul, a pair of friends on the run from the law, rent a house in the suburbs, where they decide the best way to lay low is for Paul to dress as a woman and pretend to be ...

Actors : Jan Murray, Martha Hyer, Richard Egan, Rick Jason,
Directors : Ferde Grofé Jr.,

Gang tries to take over small town to rob its banks.

Actors : Ruth White, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ...

Actors : Wakako Sakai, Kan'emon Nakamura, Komaki Kurihara, Tatsuya Nakadai,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers ...