List of LGBT-related films of 1971
This is a list of lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender or queer -related films released in 1971. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.
Films
Title
Director
Country
Genre
Cast
Notes
Bananas
Woody Allen
United States
Comedy
Woody Allen , Louise Lasser , Carlos Montalbán
The Boy Friend
Ken Russell
United Kingdom United States
Musical, comedy
Twiggy , Christopher Gable , Max Adrian
Based on the musical of the same name by Sandy Wilson
A Casa Assassinada
Paulo Cesar Saraceni
Brazil
Drama
Rubens Araújo, Norma Bengell , Nelson Dantas , Joseph Guerreiro, Leina Krespi, Carlos Kroeber , Augusto Lorenzo, Tetê Medina and Nuno Veloso
a.k.a. The Murdered House
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Dario Argento
Italy France West Germany
Thriller
James Franciscus , Karl Malden , Catherine Spaak
a.k.a. Il gatto a nove code
Clinic Exclusive
Don Chaffey
United Kingdom
Erotic
Georgina Ward, Alexander Davion
Daughters of Darkness
Harry Kümel
Belgium France West Germany
Horror
Delphine Seyrig , Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen and Andrea Rau
a.k.a. Les Lèvres Rouges , Le Rouge aux Lèvres
Death in Venice
Luchino Visconti
France Italy
Drama
Dirk Bogarde , Mark Burns , Marisa Berenson , Björn Andrésen , Silvana Mangano , Romolo Valli , Nora Ricci , Franco Fabrizi , Carole André , Sergio Garfagnoli and Luigi Battaglia
Based on the novella of the same name by Thomas Mann
a.k.a. Morte a Venezia
Diamonds Are Forever
Guy Hamilton
United Kingdom United States
Action, thriller
Sean Connery ,Jill St. John , Charles Gray , Lana Wood , Jimmy Dean , Bruce Cabot
Don't Deliver Us from Evil
Joël Séria
France
Drama
Jeanne Goupil , Catherine Wagener
Loosely based on the Parker-Hulme murder case
a.k.a. Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal
Fortune and Men's Eyes
Harvey Hart
Canada United States
Drama
Wendell Burton , Michael Greer , Zooey Hall, Danny Freedman , Larry Perkins, James Barron, Lázaro Pérez and Jon Granik
The Friends
Gérard Blain
France
Drama
Philippe March, Jean-Claude Dauphin , Nathalie Fontaine, Yann Favre, Dany Roussel, Claude Larcher, Hélène Zanicolli, Christian Chevreuse, Martin Pierlot, Liliane Valais and Vincent Gauthier
a.k.a. Les Amis
Girl Stroke Boy
Bob Kellett
United Kingdom
Comedy, drama
Joan Greenwood , Michael Hordern , Clive Francis , Peter Straker , Patricia Routledge , Peter Bull
Based on the play Girlfriend by David Percival
I'm Going to Get You, Elliott Boy
Ed Forsyth
Canada
Prison drama
Ross Stephanson, Maureen McGill, Abdullah the Butcher
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Rosa von Praunheim
West Germany
Documentary, Drama
Berryt Bohlen, Bernd Feuerhelm, Ernst Kuchling and Norbert Losch
a.k.a. Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt
Lust for a Vampire
Jimmy Sangster
United Kingdom United States
Horror
Ralph Bates , Barbara Jefford , Suzanna Leigh
The Music Lovers
Ken Russell
United Kingdom
Drama
Richard Chamberlain , Glenda Jackson
Based on Beloved Friend , a collection of letters edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck
La noche de Walpurgis
León Klimovsky
Spain West Germany
Horror
Paul Naschy , Gaby Fuchs, Barbara Capell, Andrés Resino, Yelena Samarina , José Marco, Betsabé Ruiz, Barta Barri , Luis Gaspar, Ruperto Ares, María Luisa Tovar, Julio Peña , Patty Shepard and Eduardo Chappa
Released in the United States as The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman , and in the UK as Shadow of the Werewolf
Pink Narcissus
James Bidgood
United States
Drama
Terence Stamp , Jean-Claude Brialy , Florinda Bolkan , Nike Arrighi
A Season in Hell
Nelo Risi
Italy
Drama
Don Brooks, Bobby Kendall and Charles Ludlam
Based on the life and death of the poet Arthur Rimbaud and his troubled relationship with the poet Paul Verlaine
The Shiver of the Vampires
Jean Rollin
France
Horror
Sandra Julien , Jean-Marie Durand, Jacques Robiolles, Michel Delahaye, Marie-Pierre Castel , Kuelan Herce, Nicole Nancel and Dominique
a.k.a. Le Frisson des Vampires , also released in English under several other names.
Some of My Best Friends Are...
Mervyn Nelson
United States
Drama
Fannie Flagg , Rue McClanahan , Candy Darling , David Drew , Tom Bade, Jim Enzel, Jeff David, Nick Denoia, Clifton Steere, James Murdock (credited as David Baker), Paul Blake , Carleton Carpenter , Robert Christian , Dick O'Neill , Gary Campbell, Gil Gerard , Lou Steele , Uva Harden, Ben Yaffe, Gary Sandy , Peg Murray and Sylvia Syms
Sunday Bloody Sunday
John Schlesinger
United Kingdom
Drama
Peter Finch , Glenda Jackson , Murray Head , Peggy Ashcroft , Tony Britton , Maurice Denham , Bessie Love , Vivian Pickles , Frank Windsor , Thomas Baptiste , Richard Pearson , June Brown , Hannah Norbert, Harold Goldblatt , Russell Lewis , Marie Burke , Caroline Blakiston , Peter Halliday , Jon Finch , Robert Rietti , Douglas Lambert, Nike Arrighi , Edward Evans , Gabrielle Daye and Esta Charkham
Twins of Evil
John Hough
United Kingdom
Horror
Peter Cushing , Kathleen Byron , Mary Collinson , Madeleine Collinson , Damien Thomas and David Warbeck
Vanishing Point
Richard C. Sarafian
United States United Kingdom
Action, drama
Barry Newman , Cleavon Little , Dean Jagger , Victoria Medlin, Karl Swenson , Lee Weaver , John Amos , Tom Reese , Paul Koslo , Robert Donner , Owen Bush , Bill Drake , Severn Darden , Delaney Bramlett , Bonnie Bramlett , Bekka Bramlett , Rita Coolidge , Patrice Holloway , David Gates , Anthony James , Arthur Malet , Timothy Scott , Gilda Texter and Charlotte Rampling
Vampyros Lesbos
Jesús Franco
Spain
West Germany
Horror
Ewa Strömberg , Soledad Miranda , Andrea Montchal , Dennis Price and Paul Müller
a.k.a. Las Vampiras
The Velvet Vampire
Stephanie Rothman
United States
Horror
Celeste Yarnall , Michael Blodgett and Sherry Miles
a.k.a. Cemetery Girls
Villain
Michael Tuchner
United Kingdom
Crime, thriller
Richard Burton , Ian McShane , Nigel Davenport , Fiona Lewis , Joss Ackland , T. P. McKenna , Donald Sinden , Cathleen Nesbitt , Colin Welland , Tony Selby , Del Henney , John Hallam , James Cossins , Anthony Sagar , Clive Francis , Elizabeth Knight and Shirley Cain
Based on the novel The Burden of Proof by James Barlow
Whity
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
West Germany
Drama, western
Günther Kaufmann , Hanna Schygulla , Katrin Schaake, Harry Baer , Ulli Lommel and Ron Randell
Women in Revolt
Paul Morrissey
United States
Comedy, drama
Candy Darling , Jackie Curtis , Holly Woodlawn , Jonathan Kramer, Michael Sklar , Maurice Braddell , Johnny Kemper , Martin Kove and Frank Cavestani