Thriller Movies of 1971
Klute
The first part of his "paranoia trilogy," Alan J. Pakula's 1971 thriller details the troubled life of a Manhattan prostitute stalked by one of her tricks. ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Someone Behind the Door
Larry (Anthony Perkins) is not someone it is wise to cross, as his wife Frances (Jill Ireland) discovers. In this ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
The Andromeda Strain
The "Andromeda Strain" is a deadly ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
This cult movie classic, also known as Schizoid, is a psychodrama murder mystery thriller involving LSD, psychoanalysis, lesbianism, and having at least one extremely gory dream sequence which involves eviscerated dogs. The ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Shattered Silence
Michael Douglas made his TV-movie debut in When Michael Calls. The film wastes no time in establishing its premise: the possibility that someone long dead may be trying to communicate with the living. ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Dirty Harry
"You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete
Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders. After he investigates the ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Play Misty for Me
Play Misty for Me marked Clint Eastwood's debut as a director, and it gave him the then-unusual ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Straw Dogs
Sam Peckinpah examines the instinctual capacity for violence in his controversial 1971 film, ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Bad Cop Chronicles #1: Confessions of a Police Captain
A mild-mannered police commissioner (Martin Balsam) is frustrated at every attempt to capture a political crimelord with legal ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
The Organization
Police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) returns to finds himself in hot water with the police over his acceptance of help from a neighborhood anti-drug group. The group has done some ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
This eerie low-budget chiller has recently released mental patient Jessica (Zohra Lampert) moving to a Connecticut farm with her husband and some friends. But a strange girl named Emily is at the ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
The Devil With Seven Faces
Carroll Baker, the blond starlet best known for her role in Baby Doll, ended her career in a number of Italian giallo thrillers including A Quiet Place ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Duel
Driving down a deserted Southern California highway at a safe and sane 55 miles per hour, David Mann (Dennis Weaver) steps on the pedal to pass a large gas trailer truck. Moments later, the truck is back, ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
See No Evil
This riff on Wait Until Dark is a mixed bag but still manages to offer a few surprises. Brian Clemens' script starts off with a clever premise and offers some ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Caged Terror
This mildly pornographic film (it has a lot of nudity) is widely noted for ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
The Cat O' Nine Tails
In this flawed mystery-thriller from flamboyant horror director Dario Argento, Karl Malden portrays a blind man who joins forces with a ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Cold Eyes of Fear
An ex-convict comes after the nephew of the judge who put him away years ago. ~ John Bush, All ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Endless Night
This mystery, adapted from an Agatha Christie story, tells the tale of an ambitious British chauffeur who marries his American employer, one of the richest women in the US and persuades her to buy a palatial country estate. She ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Fright
In this violent, grim thriller, a baby-sitter's routine job turns out to be anything but when she and her young charge are terrorized by an escaped mental patient who bursts in ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Lust for a Vampire
This is one of three Hammer films loosely based on Sheridan LeFanu's book Camilla, which gives the standard vampire story a lesbian twist. The other two films are The Vampire Lovers and Twins of Evil. In this film, Count Karnstein, through a ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
George Hilton stars in this devilishly entertaining giallo thriller ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
The Tormentors
When a group of young degenerates rape and kill his family, a vengeful man takes action. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
What the Peeper Saw
Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first wife (Marcus's mother) died ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Inn of the Frightened People
This dark drama unfolds in an unnamed community outside of London, where a beleaguered and grief-stricken tavern owner named Jim Radford (James Booth copes with the rape and ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
Graveyard of Horror
A perennial late-night cable TV item, this quirky Spanish horror oddity involves a mad scientist whose latest misguided experiment transforms him into a hirsute, grave-robbing ghoul who ... [ Thriller movie - 1971 ]
