Movies released in 1971| 10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer |
| Abominable Dr. Phibes, The | Robert Fuest |
| And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave | Juan Bosch |
| Anderson Tapes, The | Sidney Lumet |
| Andromeda Strain, The | Robert Wise |
| Anonymous Heroes, The | Chang Cheh |
| Bananas | Woody Allen |
| Bat Pussy | |
| Bay of Blood, A | Mario Bava |
| Beast in the Cellar, The | James Kelley |
| Beast of the Yellow Night, The | Eddie Romero |
| Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Robert Stevenson |
| Beguiled, The | Don Siegel |
| Beguiled: The Storyteller, The | Clint Eastwood |
| Big Boss, The | Lo Wei |
| Black Belly of the Tarantula, The | Paolo Cavara |
| Blood and Lace | Philip S. Gilbert |
| Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | Michael Carreras, Seth Holt |
| Blood Legacy | Carl Monson |
| Blood of the Dragon | Kao Pao-shu |
| Blood on Satan's Claw, The | Piers Haggard |
| Blood Shack | Ray Dennis Steckler |
| Blood Suckers | Robert Hartford-Davis, Julian More |
| Blood Thirst | Newt Arnold |
| Bloodstained Butterfly, The | Duccio Tessari |
| Blue Hour, The | Sergei Goncharoff |
| Born to Win | Ivan Passer |
| Bracia | Grzegorz Królikiewicz |
| Brain of Blood | Al Adamson |
| Brian's Song | Buzz Kulik |
| Brotherhood of Satan, The | Bernard McEveety |
| Cake of Blood | Emilio Martínez Lázaro, Jaime Chávarri, Francesc Bellmunt, José María Vallés |
| Case Is Closed, Forget It, The | Damiano Damiani |
| Case of the Scorpion's Tail, The | Sergio Martino |
| Cat in the Hat, The | Hawley Pratt |
| Cat o' Nine Tails, The | Dario Argento |
| Catlow | Sam Wanamaker |
| Ceremony, The | Nagisa Ōshima |
| Champions of Justice, The | Federico Curiel |
| Chandler | Paul Magwood |
| Christmas Martian, The | Bernard Gosselin |
| Chrome and Hot Leather | Lee Frost |
| Cisco Pike | Bill L. Norton |
| Clockwork Orange, A | Stanley Kubrick |
| Cold Eyes of Fear | Enzo G. Castellari |
| Columbo: Murder by the Book | Steven Spielberg |
| Commercial War | Keiichi Tanaami |
| Conformist, The | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Corpse Grinders, The | Ted V. Mikels |
| Countess Dracula | Peter Sasdy |
| Creatures the World Forgot | Don Chaffey |
| Crimson Charm, The | Wong Fung |
| Crocus | Suzan Pitt |
| Crucible of Horror | Viktors Ritelis |
| Cut-Throats Nine | Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent |
| Daughters of Darkness | Harry Kümel |
| Deadly Duo, The | Chang Cheh |
| Death by Invitation | Ken Friedman |
| Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti |
| Death Walks on High Heels | Luciano Ercoli |
| Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi |
| Designated Victim, The | Maurizio Lucidi |
| Devil with Seven Faces, The | Osvaldo Civirani |
| Devils, The | Ken Russell |
| Diamonds Are Forever | Guy Hamilton |
| Dirty Harry | Don Siegel |
| Doc | Frank Perry |
| Doctors' Wives | George Schaefer |
| Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde | Roy Ward Baker |
| Dracula vs. Frankenstein | Al Adamson |
| Drive, He Said | Jack Nicholson |
| Drugs, Drinking, and Driving | |
| Duck, You Sucker | Sergio Leone |
| Duel | Steven Spielberg |
| Duel, The | Chang Cheh |
| Duel for Gold | Chor Yuen |
| Duel of Fists | Chang Cheh |
| Dusty and Sweets McGee | Floyd Mutrux |
| Eggshells | Tobe Hooper |
| Elaan | K. Ramanlal |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor |
| Evel Knievel | Marvin J. Chomsky |
| Eye for an Eye | Alberto Mariscal |
| Eye of the Spider | Roberto Bianchi Montero |
| Fearless Fighters | Wu Min-hsiung |
| Female Bunch, The | Al Adamson |
| Fifth Cord, The | Luigi Bazzoni |
| Five Desperate Women | Ted Post |
| Forced to Fight | Sun Yang |
| Four Flies on Grey Velvet | Dario Argento |
| Four Times That Night | Mario Bava |
| Fourth Victim, The | Eugenio Martín |
| French Connection, The | William Friedkin |
| Fright | Peter Collinson |
| Gamera vs. Zigra | Noriaki Yuasa |
| Get Carter | Mike Hodges |
| Godzilla vs. Hedorah | Yoshimitsu Banno |
| Going Home | Herbert B. Leonard |
| Goodbye Uncle Tom | Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi |
| Gushing Prayer | Masao Adachi |
| Hands of the Ripper | Peter Sasdy |
| Hannie Caulder | Burt Kennedy |
| Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby |
| Here Comes Peter Cottontail | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| House That Dripped Blood, The | Peter Duffell |
| Hunting Party, The | Don Medford |
| I Don't Know | Penelope Spheeris |
| I Drink Your Blood | David E. Durston |
| I Eat Your Skin | Del Tenney |
| I, Monster | Stephen Weeks |
| In the Eye of the Hurricane | José María Forqué |
| Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, The | Anthony M. Lanza |
| Invincible Eight, The | Lo Wei |
| Jade Faced Assassin, The | Yan Jun |
| Jennifer on My Mind | Noel Black |
| Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo |
| Just Don't Fuck! | Carole Roussopoulos |
| King Eagle | Chang Cheh |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula |
| Lady Frankenstein | Mel Welles, Aureliano Luppi |
| Lady Hermit, The | Ho Meng-Hua |
| Lady Professional, The | Kuei Chih-Hung, Akinori Matsuo |
| Lady with a Sword | Kao Pao-shu |
| Lake of Dracula | Michio Yamamoto |
| Last Picture Show, The | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Last Run, The | Richard Fleischer |
| Legend of Frenchie King, The | Christian-Jaque |
| Let's Scare Jessica to Death | John D. Hancock |
| Light at the Edge of the World, The | Kevin Billington |
| Little Murders | Alan Arkin |
| Lizard in a Woman's Skin, A | Lucio Fulci |
| Maid in Sweden | Dan Wolman |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman |
| Metastasis | Toshio Matsumoto |
| Million Dollar Duck, The | Vincent McEveety |
| Mission Impossible | Joseph Kuo |
| Murder of Fred Hampton, The | Howard Alk |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | Gordon Hessler |
| Necrophagous | Miguel Madrid |
| New Leaf, A | Elaine May |
| New One-Armed Swordsman, The | Chang Cheh |
| Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The | Emilio Miraglia |
| Night of Dark Shadows | Dan Curtis |
| North of Superior | Graeme Ferguson |
| Oasis of Fear | Umberto Lenzi |
| Octaman | Harry Essex |
| Omega Man, The | Boris Sagal |
| On Any Sunday | Bruce Brown |
| Organization, The | Don Medford |
| Panic in Needle Park, The | Jerry Schatzberg |
| Peace Killers, The | Douglas Schwartz |
| Pinocchio | Corey Allen |
| Point, The | Fred Wolf |
| Point of Terror | Alex Nicol |
| Pretty Maids All in a Row | Roger Vadim |
| Quit Your Life | Park Nou-sik |
| Raging Moon, The | Bryan Forbes |
| Red Sun | Terence Young |
| Return of Count Yorga, The | Bob Kelljan |
| Return of Sabata | Gianfranco Parolini |
| Return to the Future | Sabin Bălașa |
| Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy | René Cardona |
| Severed Head, A | Dick Clement |
| Shadow Whip, The | Lo Wei |
| Shaft | Gordon Parks |
| She Killed in Ecstasy | Jesús Franco |
| Shiver of the Vampires, The | Jean Rollin |
| Short Night of Glass Dolls | Aldo Lado |
| Six Assassins | Jeong Chang-hwa |
| Slaughter Hotel | Fernando Di Leo |
| Some of My Best Friends Are... | Mervyn Nelson |
| Something Creeping in the Dark | Mario Colucci |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | Paul Newman |
| Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things | Thomas Casey |
| Stalls of Barchester, The | Lawrence Gordon Clark |
| Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh, The | Sergio Martino |
| Strangler, The | Paul Vecchiali |
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah |
| Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 | Toshiya Fujita |
| Summer of '42 | Robert Mulligan |
| Support Your Local Gunfighter | Burt Kennedy |
| Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | Melvin Van Peebles |
| Swingin' Stewardesses, The | Erwin C. Dietrich |
| Sympathy for the Underdog | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Tarkan and the Blood of the Vikings | Mehmet Aslan |
| Telephone Book, The | Nelson Lyon |
| They Have Changed Their Face | Corrado Farina |
| They Might Be Giants | Anthony Harvey |
| THX 1138 | George Lucas |
| Todd Killings, The | Barry Shear |
| Touch, The | Ingmar Bergman |
| Touch of Satan, The | Don Henderson |
| Trafic | Jacques Tati |
| Tricia's Wedding | Milton Miron |
| Twins of Evil | John Hough |
| Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman |
| Vampyros Lesbos | Jesús Franco |
| Vanishing Point | Richard C. Sarafian |
| Velvet Vampire, The | Stephanie Rothman |
| Vengeance of a Snowgirl | Lo Wei |
| Villain | Michael Tuchner |
| Viper Brothers, The | Sadao Nakajima |
| Wake in Fright | Ted Kotcheff |
| Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg |
| Web of the Spider | Antonio Margheriti |
| Welcome Home, Soldier Boys | Richard Compton |
| Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman, The | León Klimovsky |
| Werewolves on Wheels | Michel Levesque |
| What's the Matter with Helen? | Curtis Harrington |
| When Eight Bells Toll | Etienne Périer |
| White Rat | Steven Mullin |
| Wild Rovers | Blake Edwards |
| Willard | Daniel Mann |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Mel Stuart |
| Wolves, The | Hideo Gosha |
| Woman of Fire | Kim Ki-young |
| Women in Cages | Gerardo de Leon |
| Women in Revolt | Paul Morrissey |
| WR: Mysteries of the Organism | Dušan Makavejev |
| Zaat | Don Barton |
| Zodiac Killer, The | Tom Hanson |