Best Cop movies of 1970s

Actors : Roy Scheider, Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Terence Alexander, Edward Fox,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, Andrew Robinson,
Directors : Don Siegel,

When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just an asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night ...

Actors : Britt Ekland, Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento,
Directors : Robin Hardy,

A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.

Actors : Orazio Orlando, Gianni Santuccio, Florinda Bolkan, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Elio Petri,

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

Actors : Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Albert Finney,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Bradford Dillman, Harry Guardino,
Directors : James Fargo,

Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with.

Actors : Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Richard Cox, Karen Allen,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Clint Eastwood, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul,
Directors : Ted Post,

Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Fernando Rey,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.

Actors : Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Robert Moore,

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

Actors : Burt Kwouk, Lesley-Anne Down, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

Actors : Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Clint Eastwood, William Prince,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from Las Vegas to Phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. But a lot of people are literally betting that they won't make it into town alive.

Actors : Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Christopher Plummer, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau is put on the case when the Pink Panther diamond is stolen, with the Phantom's trademark glove the only clue.