Best Crime movies of 1971

Actors : Mario Almada, Jorge Rivero, Daniela Rosen, Nadia Milton,
Directors : Toni Sbert,

On leaving prison, a former gang member faces a world of vendettas that drags him to a bloody path

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Abdurrahman Shala, Dunja Lango,
Directors : Vuk Vuco,

A Yugoslavian spoof of Dirty Harry and James Bond movies. A young inspector called Crazy Head goes after bandits that do not hesitate to use all kinds of vicious means in their shady ventures.

Actors : Jirina Bohdalová, Josef Bláha, Josef Vinklár, Jaroslav Marvan,
Directors : Jirí Sequens,

In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the ...

Actors : Elzbieta Kepinska, Henryk Bak, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Anna Górska,
Directors : Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki,

When Stanislaw Czermien is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real perpetrator. He suspects him to be his own brother, Witold.

Actors : Bohumil Smída, Josef Somr, Ilja Prachar, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : Dusan Klein,

Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from jail. Years ago, he sacrificed himself and confessed ...

Actors : Han Chin, Jeanette Yu Wei, Shirley Huang, Chia Essie Lin,
Directors : Umetsugu Inoue,

To prevent a drug ring from killing her brother, Chen Chih Wen surrenders to the police claiming she is guilty of trafficking drugs. She is sent to jail. Years later she joins fellow ...

Actors : Sérgio Britto, Leonidas Bayer, Rubens Abreu, Adolfo Arruda,
Directors : Domingos de Oliveira,

Two brothers kill their father, helped by their sister's fiancé.

Actors : Shingo Yamashiro, Tomoko Mayama, Tatsuo Umemiya, Naoko Fujiyama,
Directors : Makoto Naitô,

Umemiya stars as a sexist son-of-a-bitch yakuza involved with the sex business.

Actors : Freddy Quinn, Karin Dor, Volker Bogdan, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Arthur Maria Rabenalt,

One day the dive instructor Fred Norman, who works at a jet-set resort on the Costa Smeralda, is approached by Andrea Jacobs. She is the girl-friend of the gangster Harry Lang. Some years ...

Actors : Elsa Cárdenas, Patricia Ferrer, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Santo,
Directors : Federico Curiel,

SANTO CONTRA LA MAFIA DEL VICIO (Santo vs. the Vice Mafia) has the Masked Mexican wrestling legend battling a dangerous mob that has targeted various Mexican chemical plants for sabotage.

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 : Leon Niemczyk, Petar Slabakov, Nevena Kokanova, György Nagyajtay,
Directors : Todor Stoyanov,

The movie is set on a noisy street in a large Europiean city with tempting store windows and impressive buildings reaching for the sky, behind the facade of one of them is going on ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Makoto Satô, Tatsuya Fuji, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A uniformly excellent, no-no-nonsense, straightforward yakuza sage. This also has one of underrated and comparatively-unknown-in-the-west composer Kaburagi's most exciting and memorable ...

Actors : Jeong-hie Yun, Kung-won Nam, Mu-ryong Choi, Bong Choi,
Directors : Hyeon-cheol Ahn,

Jewel thief Cheol-woo evades the police by escaping to a remote island which he discovers to be populated entirely by widows.

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Junko Fuji, Shôtarô Hayashi, Tatsuo Endô,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

It is hard to think of another ninkyô yakuza film that leaves the main protagonist - a chivalrous female at that - in so much pain and sorrow, such an emotional abyss of desolation at the ...

Actors : Tomiko Ishii, Yukie Kagawa, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
Directors : Makoto Naitô,

As with actor Umemiya's TEIO pictures, this is a loosely-linked series.

Actors : Sung-il Shin, Jeong-im Nam,
Directors : Woo-yeol Jeon,

Sang-hyeon is accused of murder and smuggling by his former teacher who is now a police investigator.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Akiko Kudô, Tatsuo Endô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

A well-written saga of two gang bosses.

Actors : No-shik Park, Ji-hie Choi,
Directors : Tae-ho Seol,

Witnessing a car accident, Yong-pal takes the injured driver to a nearby hospital, but the victim's shoes get left behind in Yong-pal's car. Inside the shoes are smuggled gems. Gangsters ...

Actors : Bool-am Choi, Hie Mun,
Directors : Hyo-cheon Kim,

While on his way to beg money from his stingy uncle, Seong-min meets Han. Han comes up with a plan where they can kill the old man for the money instead, however Seong-min is unaware that ...