Best Psychopath movies of 1971

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, Patrick Magee, 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 : Clint Eastwood, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jessica Walter,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.

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 : Claudio Camaso, Luigi Pistilli, Claudine Auger, Anna Maria Rosati,
Directors : Mario Bava,

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing ...

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Manuel Gil, George Hilton, Conchita Airoldi,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Laslo Benedek,

A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and ...

Actors : James Bolam, Mike Raven, Mary Maude, Ronald Lacey,
Directors : Ted Hooker,

An obsessed sculptor kills a young woman to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.

Actors : Ann Wells, Ramon Gordon, Kelley Swartz, Bo Brundin,
Directors : Kent Bateman,

Poor artist gets eye gouged out while committing a robbery. When his eye heals, he goes on a killing spree and cuts out women's eyes with a spoon.

Actors : Mitchell Ryan, Arthur Kennedy, Michael Moriarty, William Devane,
Directors : Edwin Sherin,

Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.

Actors : Helena Rojo, Jorge Luke, Cameron Mitchell, Isela Vega,
Directors : Alberto Mariscal,

A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.

Actors : Albert Simono, Daniel Moosmann, Jane Clayton,
Directors : Jean-Louis van Belle,

Daniel gets out of the hospital where he has been cured for "vampirical obsessions". But his life takes a weird turn as he transforms into a vampire and starts to kill women. Despite his ...

Actors : Valerie Van Ost, Patricia Leventon, Morris Perry, Simon Merrick,
Directors : Rodney Giesler,

An insomniac man who lives in a sterile urban environment has a strange waking dream one night in which he experiences a surreal adventure incorporating wild nature and sexual freedom.

Actors : Ching Tang, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung, Helen Ma, Chok Chow Cheung,
Directors : Wu Ma,

A bounty hunter who makes her living hunting outlaws finds herself the one being hunted when a psychopathic princess wants her dead.