List of Italian films of 1971
A list of films produced in Italy in 1971 :
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1870 | Alfredo Giannetti | Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni | drama | |
| Hunt Powers, Gordon Mitchell, Ray Saunders | Western | |||
| A come Andromeda | Vittorio Cottafavi | Luigi Vannucchi, Paola Pitagora | sci-fi | Television film |
| Amuck! | Silvio Amadio | Farley Granger, Barbara Bouchet | Giallo | |
| And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave | Craig Hill, Ángel Aranda, Fernando Sancho | Western | Spanish–Italian co-production | |
| Armiamoci e partite! | Nando Cicero | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Martine Brochard | Comedy | |
| Bad Man's River | Lee Van Cleef, James Mason, Gina Lollobrigida | Western | Spanish–Italian–French co-production | |
| Hunt Powers, Gordon Mitchell, Dino Strano | Western | |||
| Bandido malpelo | Eduardo Fajardo, George Garvell, Charo López | Western | Italian–Spanish co-production | |
| Bastard, Go and Kill | George Eastman, Lincoln Tate, Franco Lantieri | Western | ||
| Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Laura Betti | Thriller | |||
| Between Miracles | Nino Manfredi | Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato | Commedia all'italiana | Cannes award best first work. 2 Nastro d'Argento. Special David di Donatello |
| Black Belly of the Tarantula | Paolo Cavara | Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Barbara Bouchet, Rossella Falk | Giallo | |
| Blackie the Pirate | Enzo Gicca | Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, George Martin | adventure-comedy | |
| Black Killer | Fred Robsahm, Klaus Kinski, Antonio Cantafora | Western | ||
| Blindman | Tony Anthony, Ringo Starr, Lloyd Battista | Western | Italian–American co-production | |
| The Blonde in the Blue Movie | Steno | Lando Buzzanca, Pamela Tiffin | Comedy | |
| Brother Outlaw | Luciano Stella, Jean Louis, Sophia Kammara | Western | ||
| Bubù | Mauro Bolognini | Ottavia Piccolo, Massimo Ranieri, Gigi Proietti | Drama | |
| The Case Is Closed, Forget It | Damiano Damiani | Franco Nero, Riccardo Cucciolla, Turi Ferro | Crime-Drama | |
| The Case of the Scorpion's Tail | Sergio Martino | George Hilton, Anita Strindberg | Giallo | |
| James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak | Italian-French-West German co-production | |||
| Il clan dei due Borsalini | Giuseppe Orlandini | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia | Comedy | |
| The Clowns | Federico Fellini | Federico Fellini, Alvaro Vitali, | Comedy | Made for TV |
| Cold Eyes of Fear | Giovanna Ralli, Frank Wolff, Fernando Rey | Italian-Spanish co-production | ||
| Confessions of a Police Captain | Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo | |||
| Cross Current | Tonino Ricci | Philippe Leroy, Elga Andersen | Giallo | |
| Dead Men Ride | Fabio Testi, Charo López, José Calvo | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti | Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano, Björn Andrésen, Romolo Valli | Drama | Cannes Award. Gay interest. 4 BAFTA. 4 Nastro d'Argento. |
| Il Decameron | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Silvana Mangano | Erotic | Based on the novel Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio. First part of Pasolini's Trilogy of life, won prize at Berlin |
| The Deserter | Burt Kennedy | Ian Bannen, Richard Crenna | Western | |
| The Designated Victim | Maurizio Lucidi | Tomas Milian, Pierre Clémenti | Giallo | |
| Desert of Fire | Western | |||
| The Devil Has Seven Faces | Osvaldo Civirani | Carroll Baker, Stephen Boyd, George Hilton | Giallo | |
| The Devil's Nightmare | Jean Brismée | Erika Blanc, Jean Servais | Horror | |
| Dig Your Grave Friend... Sabata's Coming | Richard Harrison, Fernando Sancho, Raf Baldassarre | Spanish–Italian co-production | - | |
| Django's Cut Price Corpses | Giovanni Scarciofolo, John Desmont, Esmeralda Barros | Western | ||
| The Double | Romolo Guerrieri | Jean Sorel, Lucia Bosè, Ewa Aulin | Giallo | |
| Drummer of Vengeance | Ty Hardin, Craig Hill, Gordon Mitchell | Western | ||
| Duck, You Sucker! | James Coburn, Rod Steiger, Romolo Valli | Western | ||
| Durango is Coming, Pay or Die | Brad Harris, Jose Torres, Gisela Hahn | Western | ||
| I due assi del guantone | Mariano Laurenti | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia | Comedy | |
| E le stelle stanno a guardare | Anton Giulio Majano | Orso Maria Guerrini, Giancarlo Giannini | drama | Television film |
| Erika | Patrizia Viotti, Pierre Brice, Bernhard De Vries | Erotic drama | ||
| Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello | Sergio Corbucci | Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori, Vittorio Caprioli, Romolo Valli | comedy | |
| Eye of the Spider | Klaus Kinski, Antonio Sabàto, Van Johnson | Film noir | ||
| The Fifth Cord | Luigi Bazzoni | Franco Nero, Silvia Monti, Pamela Tiffin, Wolfgang Preiss | Giallo | |
| Finders Killers | Donal O'Brien, Gordon Mitchell, Pia Giancaro | Western | ||
| Hunt Powers, Klaus Kinski, Gordon Mitchell | Western | |||
| Four Candles for My Colt | Robert Woods, Olga Román, Mariano Vidal | Western | Spanish–Italian co-production | |
| Four Flies on Grey Velvet | Dario Argento | Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bud Spencer, Francine Racette | Giallo | |
| Four Pistols for Trinity | Peter Lee Lawrence, Ida Galli, Daniele Vargas | Western | ||
| Gang War | Steno | Carlo Giuffrè, Pamela Tiffin, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi | criminal comedy | |
| Erna Shurer, Adriana Bogdan, Marco Guglielmi | ||||
| A Girl in Australia | Luigi Zampa | Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone | Commedia all'italiana | David di Donatello best actress |
| Goodbye Uncle Tom | Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Gualtiero Jacopetti | Mondo film | |
| Gunman of 100 Crosses | Luciano Stella, Ray Saunders, Marina Malfatti | Western | ||
| Hands up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest | Peter Lee Lawrence, Espartaco Santoni, Helga Liné | Western | Spanish–Italian co-production | |
| He Was Called Holy Ghost | Vassili Karamesinis, Mimmo Palmara, Margaret Rose | Western | ||
| Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death | Wayde Preston, Marco Zuanelli, Rik Battaglia | Western | ||
| His Name Was King | Richard Harrison, Klaus Kinski | Western | ||
| Holy Water Joe | Ty Hardin, Lincoln Tate, Richard Harrison | Western | ||
| Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander, Anton Diffring, Valentina Cortese | Giallo | Italian–French–West German co-production | ||
| In the Name of the Italian People | Dino Risi | Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Yvonne Furneaux | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Io non spezzo... rompo | Bruno Corbucci | Alighiero Noschese, Enrico Montesano, Janet Ågren | Comedy | |
| Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman | Mark Damon, Krista Nell | Italian–French–Spanish co-production | ||
| Judge Roy Bean | , Jean Girault | Pierre Perret, Robert Hossein, Silva Monti | Western | Italian–French co-production |
| Kill Django... Kill First | Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Aldo Sambrell, Diana Lorys | Western | Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| Lady Frankenstein | Joseph Cotten, Rosalba Neri | Horror | ||
| Lady Liberty | Mario Monicelli | Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti, Danny DeVito | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Christian-Jaque | Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard | Western | French–Italian–Spanish–British co-production | |
| Let's Go and Kill Sartana | George Martin, Gordon Mitchell, Isarco Ravaioli | Western | ||
| Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow | Yuri Ozerov | Nikolay Olyalin | war drama | Won the 1972 All-Union Film Festival Grand Prix. |
| Liberation: Battle of Berlin/ The Last Assault | Yuri Ozerov | Nikolay Olyalin | war drama | |
| The Life of Leonardo da Vinci | Renato Castellani | Philippe Leroy, Giampiero Albertini | Biographical | Television film |
| A Lizard in a Woman's Skin | Lucio Fulci | Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel | Giallo | |
| Lobo the Bastard | Peter Martell, Lincoln Tate, Daniela Giordano | Western | ||
| Long Live Your Death | Franco Nero, Eli Wallach, Lynn Redgrave | Western | Italian-Spanish-German co-production | |
| Lover of the Great Bear | Valentino Orsini | Giuliano Gemma, Senta Berger | drama | |
| ' | Glen Lee, Virgil Frye, Venetia Vianello | Western | Mexican–Italian co-production | |
| Ma che musica maestro | Mariano Laurenti | Gianni Nazzaro, Agostina Belli, Franco & Ciccio | Musicarello | |
| Man of the East | Enzo Barboni | Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Harry Carey Jr. | Spaghetti Western | |
| Man of the Year | Marco Vicario | Lando Buzzanca, Rossana Podestà, Luciano Salce, Sylva Koscina, Bernard Blier | commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| The Man with Icy Eyes | Alberto De Martino | Antonio Sabàto, Barbara Bouchet, Faith Domergue, Victor Buono | Giallo | |
| Million Dollar Eel | Salvatore Samperi | Ottavia Piccolo, Lino Toffolo, Mario Adorf, Senta Berger | Comedy | |
| La morte cammina con i tacchi alti | Luciano Ercoli | Frank Wolff, Susan Scott | Giallo | |
| My Name is Mallory | Robert Woods, Gabriella Giorgelli, Teodoro Corra | Western | ||
| My Name Is Rocco Papaleo | Ettore Scola | Marcello Mastroianni, Lauren Hutton | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Anthony Steffen, Marina Malfatti, Erika Blanc | ||||
| Pierre Brice, Patrizia Viotti, Angela de Leo | ||||
| Nights and Loves of Don Juan | Robert Hoffman, Barbara Bouchet, Ira von Furstenburg | Italian-Spanish co-production | ||
| Oasis of Fear | Umberto Lenzi | Irene Papas, Ornella Muti | Giallo | |
| On the Point of Death | Mario Garriba | Fabio Garriba | drama | |
| Paid in Blood | Giovanni Scarciofolo, Donal O'Brien, Alfredo Rizzo | Western | ||
| Panhandle 38 | Toni Secchi | Scott Holden, Keenan Wynn, Delia Boccardo | Spaghetti Western | |
| Gianni Garko, Klaus Kinski, Gely Genka | Western | |||
| The Priest's Wife | Dino Risi | Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni | Commedia all'italiana | |
| In Prison Awaiting Trial | Nanni Loy | Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Lino Banfi | Prison drama | Berlin Award & David di Donatello for best actor |
| Il Prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste, convenzionata con le mutue | Luciano Salce | Alberto Sordi, Ida Galli, Pupella Maggio, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, Claudio Gora | Commedia all'italiana | sequel of Be Sick... It's Free |
| Red Sun | Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshirô Mifune | Western | French-Italian-Spanish co-production | |
| Return of Sabata | Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Giamppiero Albertini | Western | Italian-French-German co-production | |
| Roma Bene | Carlo Lizzani | Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Senta Berger, Michèle Mercier, Irene Papas | Giallo-Comedy | |
| Sacco e Vanzetti | Giuliano Montaldo | Gian Maria Volonté, Riccardo Cucciolla, Rosanna Fratello, Cyril Cusack | Bipoic, Politics | Based on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Cannes Award for best actor. 3 Nastro d'Argento |
| Savage Guns | Robert Woods, Gordon Mitchell | Western | ||
| Scipio the African | Luigi Magni | Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman | Commedia all'italiana | |
| A Season in Hell | Nelo Risi | Terence Stamp, Jean-Claude Brialy, Florinda Bolkan | Drama | |
| Secret Fantasy | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Laura Antonelli, Lando Buzzanca, Ferruccio De Ceresa | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Il sesso del diavolo - Trittico | Rossano Brazzi, Sylva Coscina, Maitena Galli | |||
| Richard Harrison, Cosetta Greco, Donal O'Brien | Western | |||
| Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead | Klaus Kinski, Victoria Zinny, Paolo Casella | Western | ||
| Short Night of Glass Dolls | Aldo Lado | Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach | Giallo | |
| Slaughter Hotel | Fernando Di Leo | Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee | horror | |
| Socrates | Roberto Rossellini | Jean Sylvère | Drama | |
| Something Creeping in The Dark | Farley Granger, Lucia Bosè | Horror | ||
| Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte | Michele Lupo | Gastone Moschin, Philippe Leroy, Lionel Stander, Franco Fabrizi, Ugo Tognazzi | Heist comedy | |
| La supertestimone | Franco Giraldi | Ugo Tognazzi, Monica Vitti | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Tara Poki | Meno Reitano, Aliza Adar, Ignazio Spalla | Western | ||
| Terrible Day of the Big Gundown | Sergio Garrone | George Eastman, Ty Hardin | Spaghetti Western | |
| That's How We Women Are' | Dino Risi | Monica Vitti, Carlo Giuffrè, Enrico Maria Salerno | Commedia all'italiana | |
| They Call Him Cemetery | Gianni Garko, William Berger, Christopher Chittell | Western | ||
| They Call Me Hallelujah | George Hilton, Charles Southwood | Western | ||
| They've Changed Their Faces | Adolfo Celi, Geraldine Hooper, Giuliano Disperati | |||
| Thirteenth is a Judas | Donal O'Brien, Maurice Poli, Dino Strano | Western | ||
| This Kind of Love | Alberto Bevilacqua | Jean Seberg, Ugo Tognazzi, Ewa Aulin, Angelo Infanti | romance-drama | David di Donatello Best Film winner |
| Tis Pity She's a Whore | Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Charlotte Rampling, Oliver Tobias, Fabio Testi | Drama | Based on 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford |
| Trafic | Jacques Tati | Jacques Tati | Comedy | |
| Trastevere | Fausto Tozzi | Nino Manfredi, Rosanna Schiaffino, Vittorio Caprioli, Ottavia Piccolo, Vittorio De Sica | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Trinity Is Still My Name | Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Harry Carey Jr. | Western | ||
| La vacanza | Tinto Brass | Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, Corin Redgrave | drama | |
| Vendetta at Dawn | George Eastman, Ty Hardin, Bruno Corazzari | Western | ||
| Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold | Pasquale Squitieri | Leonard Mann, Ivan Rassimov, Klaus Kinski | Spaghetti Western | |
| Vengeance Trail | Leonard Mann, Ivan Rassimov, Klaus Kinski | Western | ||
| W Django! | Anthony Steffen, Stelio Candelli | Western | ||
| We Are All in Temporary Liberty | Manlio Scarpelli | Riccardo Cucciolla, Philippe Noiret, Macha Méril, Lionel Stander, Vittorio De Sica | crime drama | |
| Web of the Spider | Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski | Horror | Italian–French–West German co-production | |
| The Working Class Goes to Heaven | Elio Petri | Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice, Luigi Diberti | Political drama | Palme d'Or winner. David di Donatello winner |
| Zorro, Rider of Vengeance | Carlos Quincey, Malisa Longo, María Mahor | Western | Spanish–Italian co-production | |
| Zorro, the Mask of vengeance | Carlos Quiney, Lea Nanni, Mariano Vidal Molina | Western | Spanish–Italian co-production |