# List of British films of 1971

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1971 (see 1971 in film):

## 1971

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1971 |||||
| 10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer | Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson | Crime | |
| The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Robert Fuest | Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten | Horror/comedy | |
| All the Right Noises | Gerry O'Hara | Tom Bell, Olivia Hussey | Drama | |
| And Now for Something Completely Different | Ian MacNaughton | Graham Chapman, John Cleese | Comedy | Remakes of sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus (series 1 and 2) |
| Assault | Sidney Hayers | Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay | Thriller | |
| Black Beauty | James Hill | Walter Slezak, Mark Lester | Drama | |
| Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | Seth Holt | Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir | Horror | |
| The Blood on Satan's Claw | Piers Haggard | Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden | Horror | |
| Bloomfield | Richard Harris, Uri Zohar | Richard Harris, Romy Schneider | Drama | Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Boy Friend | Ken Russell | Twiggy, Christopher Gable | Musical/comedy | |
| Bread | Stanley Long | Anthony Nigel, Peter Marinker | Musical | |
| Bronco Bullfrog | Barney Platts-Mills | Del Walker, Anne Gooding | Drama | |
| Burke & Hare | Vernon Sewell | Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews | Horror | |
| Carry On at Your Convenience | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims | Comedy | |
| Carry On Henry | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims | Comedy | |
| The Chairman's Wife | Gerry O'Hara | David de Keyser, Fiona Lewis, John Osborne | Drama | Short film |
| Clinic Exclusive | Don Chaffey | Georgina Ward, Alexander Davion | Comedy | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke | Drama | Number 81 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| Countess Dracula | Peter Sasdy | Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green | Horror | |
| Creatures the World Forgot | Don Chaffey | Julie Ege, Brian O'Shaughnessy | Adventure | |
| Crucible of Terror | Ted Hooker | Mike Raven, Mary Maude, James Bolam | Horror | |
| Dad's Army | Norman Cohen | Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier | Comedy | Spin-off of Dad's Army |
| The Devils | Ken Russell | Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave | Drama | |
| Diamonds Are Forever | Guy Hamilton | Sean Connery, Charles Gray, Jill St. John | Spy/action | |
| Die Screaming, Marianne | Pete Walker | Susan George, Barry Evans | Horror thriller | |
| Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde | Roy Ward Baker | Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick | Horror | |
| Dulcima | Frank Nesbitt | Carol White, John Mills | Drama | Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival |
| An Elephant Called Slowly | James Hill | Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers | Adventure | |
| Family Life | Ken Loach | Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean | Drama | |
| Flight of the Doves | Ralph Nelson | Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Stanley Holloway | Drama | |
| Freelance | Francis Megahy | Ian McShane, Gayle Hunnicutt | Thriller | |
| Friends | Lewis Gilbert | Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina | Romance | |
| Fright | Peter Collinson | Ian Bannen, Susan George, Honor Blackman | Thriller | |
| Get Carter | Mike Hodges | Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland | Crime | Number 16 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; Remake of this in 2000 |
| Girl Stroke Boy | Bob Kellett | Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern | Comedy/drama | |
| The Go-Between | Joseph Losey | Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox | Drama | Number 57 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; Palme d'Or winner |
| Gumshoe | Stephen Frears | Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw | Mystery | |
| Hands of the Ripper | Peter Sasdy | Eric Porter, Angharad Rees | Horror | |
| Hannie Caulder | Burt Kennedy | Raquel Welch, Robert Culp | Western | |
| I, Monster | Stephen Weeks | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | Horror | |
| Incense for the Damned | Robert Hartford-Davis | Patrick Macnee, Peter Cushing | Horror | |
| Kidnapped | Delbert Mann | Michael Caine, Lawrence Douglas | Adventure | |
| King Lear | Peter Brook | Paul Scofield, Irene Worth | Drama | |
| The Last Valley | James Clavell | Michael Caine, Omar Sharif | Drama | |
| Lust for a Vampire | Jimmy Sangster | Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford | Horror | |
| Macbeth | Roman Polanski | Jon Finch, Francesca Annis | Drama | |
| The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins | Graham Stark | Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman | Comedy | |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Charles Jarrott | Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson | Historical | |
| Melody | Waris Hussein | Jack Wild, Mark Lester | Romance | |
| Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Arne Sucksdorff | John Hurt, Hayley Mills | Adventure | |
| Murphy's War | Peter Yates | Peter O'Toole | World War II | |
| The Music Lovers | Ken Russell | Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music | |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Franklin J. Schaffner | Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman | Historical biopic | |
| The Night Digger | Alastair Reid | Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown | Thriller | |
| Night Hair Child | James Kelly (Andrea Bianchi) | Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger | Black comedy | |
| The Nightcomers | Michael Winner | Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham | Horror | |
| On the Buses | Harry Booth | Reg Varney, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis | Comedy | TV spin-off |
| Percy | Ralph Thomas | Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer | Comedy | |
| Please Sir! | Mark Stuart | John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson | Comedy | TV spin-off |
| Private Road | Barney Platts-Mills | Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson | Drama | |
| Psychomania | Don Sharp | Nicky Henson, Lee Ann Michelle, Roy Holder | Horror | |
| Quest for Love | Ralph Thomas | Joan Collins, Tom Bell | Sci-fi/drama | |
| The Raging Moon | Bryan Forbes | Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman | Romance | |
| Revenge | Sidney Hayers | Joan Collins, James Booth | Drama | |
| Secrets | Philip Saville | Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Powell | Drama | |
| See No Evil | Richard Fleischer | Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison | Thriller | |
| She'll Follow You Anywhere | David C. Rea | Kenneth Cope, Keith Barron, Hilary Pritchard | Sex comedy | |
| Sitting Target | Douglas Hickox | Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, Ian McShane | Crime drama | |
| The Statue | Rod Amateau | David Niven, Virna Lisi | Comedy | |
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | Dustin Hoffman, Susan George | Drama/thriller | |
| Suburban Wives | Derek Ford | Eva Whishaw, Peter May | Sex comedy | |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft | Drama | Number 65 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| The Tales of Beatrix Potter | Reginald Mills | Royal Ballet dancers | Dance | |
| A Time for Loving | Christopher Miles | Britt Ekland, Mel Ferrer | Drama | |
| To Catch a Spy | Dick Clement | Kirk Douglas, Trevor Howard | Spy/comedy | |
| A Town Called Hell | Robert Parrish | Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw | Western | Co-production with Spain |
| The Trojan Women | Michael Cacoyannis | Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave | Historical drama | Co-production with Greece |
| Universal Soldier | Cy Endfield | George Lazenby, Ben Carruthers | Drama | |
| Unman, Wittering and Zigo | John Mackenzie | David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer | Thriller | |
| Up Pompeii | Bob Kellett | Frankie Howerd, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray | Comedy | Based on the TV series |
| Up the Chastity Belt | Bob Kellett | Frankie Howerd, Graham Crowden, Bill Fraser | Comedy | |
| Villain | Michael Tuchner | Richard Burton, Ian McShane, T. P. McKenna | Crime | |
| Virgin Witch | Ray Austin | Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle | Horror | |
| Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil | Coming-of-age drama | |
| When Eight Bells Toll | Étienne Périer | Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins | Spy/action | |
| Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Curtis Harrington | Shelley Winters, Mark Lester | Horror | |
| The Yes Girls | Lindsay Shonteff | Sue Bond, Sally Muggeridge | Sex comedy | |
| Zeppelin | Étienne Périer | Michael York, Elke Sommer | World War I | |

## Most Popular Films of the Year at British Box Office

Source: Motion Picture Herald

### General Release

* The Aristocats
* On the Buses*
* Soldier Blue
* Carry on Loving*
* Dad's Army*
* Get Carter*
* There's a Girl in My Soup*
* Percy*
* The Railway Children*
* Up Pompeii*
* When Eight Bells Toll*
(* British film)

### Reserved Ticket Attraction

* Song of Norway
* Love Story
* Ryan's Daughter
* Paint Your Wagon
* Waterloo
According to another account the list was:
* The Aristocats
* On the Buses
* Soldier Blue
* There's a Girl in My Soup
* Percy
* The Railway Children
* Too Late the Hero
* Tales of Beatrix Potter
* Up Pompeii
* The Last Valley
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* When Eight Bells Toll
* Tora! Tora! Tora!
* Dad's Army
* Little Big Man

## Most Popular Stars

Source: Motion Picture Herald
* Richard Burton
* Steve McQueen
* Dustin Hoffman
* Michael Caine
* Oliver Reed
* Glenda Jackson
* Candice Bergen
* Clint Eastwood
* Frankie Howerd
* Jack Nicholson