Nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley fulfills his Dashiell Hammett love by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye. Year 1971.
| Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Director: Stephen Frears |
| Writer: Neville Smith |
| Actors: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule |
They seemed invincible until they pushed one man too far…but to destroy them he has to join them! Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: David L. Hewitt |
| Writer: James Gordon White |
| Actors: James Craig, Chris Noel, Anthony Eisley, William Dooley |
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. Year 1971.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Thriller |
| Director: Gordon Parks |
| Writer: Ernest Tidyman (screenplay), John D.F. Black (screenplay), Ernest Tidyman (novel) |
| Actors: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John |
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 … Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Robert Mulligan |
| Writer: Thomas Rogers (book), Jon Boothe (screenplay), George Sherman (screenplay) |
| Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Ruth White |
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Alan J. Pakula |
| Writer: Andy Lewis, David E. Lewis |
| Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider |
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate. Year 1971.
| Generes: Crime, Thriller |
| Director: Mike Hodges |
| Writer: Mike Hodges (screenplay), Ted Lewis (novel) |
| Actors: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne |
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. Year 1971.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: William Friedkin |
| Writer: Ernest Tidyman (screenplay by), Robin Moore (based on the book by) |
| Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco |
With his wife and daughter being held hostage, a seasoned ex-military man is involved in a shady smuggling operation to save his family. Year 1970.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Terence Young |
| Writer: Dorothea Bennett, Jo Eisinger, Richard Matheson (novel), Shimon Wincelberg |
| Actors: Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason, Jill Ireland |
Witnessing an assassination, a boy claims the assassins are hunting him. With his older sister, the pair escape numerous attacks and are aided by their grandfather and a resourceful young … Year 1970.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: John Hough |
| Writer: Ronald Harwood (screenplay), John Harris (novel) |
| Actors: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Jeremy Kemp |
A violent gangster seeks refuge from the mob in the Bohemian home of a former rock star. Year 1970.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg |
| Writer: Donald Cammell |
| Actors: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton |
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy. Year 1970.
| Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Richard Quine |
| Writer: Elmore Leonard (novel), Elmore Leonard (screenplay) |
| Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, Melodie Johnson |
Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case. Year 1970.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Director: Sidney J. Furie |
| Writer: Sidney J. Furie, Harold Buchman |
| Actors: Barry Newman, Harold Gould, Diana Muldaur, Robert Colbert |
Dirty Dingus Magee and his old rival Hoke Birdsill take turns at being either lawman or outlaw and being rivals or partners in crime, depending of the circumstances. Year 1970.
| Generes: Comedy, Romance, Western |
| Director: Burt Kennedy |
| Writer: David Markson (book), Tom Waldman (screenplay), Frank Waldman (screenplay), Joseph Heller (screenplay) |
| Actors: Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Lois Nettleton |
A penniless musician is unwittingly forced to trade places with a look-alike diamond merchant/thief causing a comedy of errors by everyone involved. Year 1970.
| Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime |
| Director: Manmohan Desai |
| Writer: Smt. Jeevanprabha M. Desai (story), Prayag Raj (dialogue) |
| Actors: Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Vinod Khanna, Faryal |
Detective Harry Clegg must track down the crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders. Year 1970.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Lindsay Shonteff |
| Writer: Lewis J. Hagleton (original story), Lewis J. Hagleton (screenplay) |
| Actors: Gilbert Wynne, Norman Claridge, Gilly Grant, Noel Davis |
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in. Year 1970.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Barbara Loden |
| Writer: Barbara Loden |
| Actors: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes |