Best Crime movies of 1971

Actors : Kit Ryder, Billy Gray, Bob Graham, Clifton Tip Fredell,
Directors : Floyd Mutrux,

A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.

Actors : Paula Shannon, Linda Van Compernolle, Brian Klinknett, Erica Bigelow,
Directors : Frank Howard,

A mixture of documentary footage and re-enactment scenes, some filmed on the action locations, of the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders committed by the gang known as the Manson Family.

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

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

Actors : Takeo Chii, Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

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 : 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 : Sherry Bain, Elizabeth Knowles, Alex Rocco, Arell Blanton,
Directors : Richard Kanter,

Pete and Stick, two juvenile delinquents just thrown out of a biker gang, break into a luxury house where they rape two women. They settle in the house, sell the valuables and kill a curious neighbor.

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 : 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 : Jean-Claude Bouillon, Paola Pitagora, Maurice Garrel, Nicoletta,
Directors : José Giovanni,

A small-time criminal wants to give up his life of crime. He performs a robbery with a friend, with similar feelings, and things go sour.

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 : 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 ...

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 : 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 : Keith Erickson, Jane Allyson, Jason Yukon, Orita De Chadwick,
Directors : William Rotsler,

Marco is the ambitious godson of a crime boss. His attempt to quickly rise to the top leads to his downfall.

Actors : Tiziano Cortini, Agnès Spaak, Luciana Gilli, Ray Danton,
Directors : Guido Malatesta,

Jimmy Logan, a detective, tries to retrieve a diamond of the British crown, stealed by the infidel chief of the English Secret Service. After carrying out dangerous investigations at ...

Actors : Shingo Yamashiro, Kyôsuke Machida, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Makoto Naitô,

overpopulation has forced the human kind to adapt in other planets Like Pluto. Now the humans must train soldiers like lieutenant Jonathan Tyberius and Leonard Schteinberg and send them off to Pluto but on their journey they fall in love..

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Stanley Baker, Georges Aminel, Henri Charrière,
Directors : Jean Herman,

Popsy double-crosses her older partner Silva. Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her "pop" wrong as they are both pursued by police.