Favorite Films of 1971

A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.

After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.

A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.

The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.

When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Shortly after moving to Vienna, Austria with her diplomat husband, a woman is stalked and terrorized by a mysterious razor-wielding maniac, with people around her getting killed one by one.

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.

While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.

A reporter and a blind puzzle writer investigate a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company conducting secret genetic experiments, finding themselves targeted by the killer.

Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

A musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.

A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.

After a doctor commits suicide when his research using human embryos is terminated, his widow seduces then kills the four physicians she holds responsible for his downfall.

Two girls on the run get lost in the French countryside, and wind up in a haunted chateau occupied by an ailing vampire and his servants.

A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.

The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.

Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.

A rich, mentally-unstable man, who has a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his late wife, sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.

In Turkey, a lesbian vampire - who uses an erotic nightclub act to find new victims - lures a lawyer to her private island under the pretense of resolving an inheritance issue.

A doctor investigates the murders of several women at a lakeside resort. His investigation leads him to believe that a vampire is responsible for the murders. He sets out to track the vampire down.