Best Spy & Agent movies of 1970s

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Actors : Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Lana Wood, Charles Gray,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.

Actors : Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. Agent, whose lover he killed.

Actors : Roger Moore, Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee, Maud Adams,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

Actors : Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Lois Chiles,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Clint Eastwood, Jack Cassidy, George Kennedy,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

Actors : Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Actors : Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Actors : Edward Fox, Franco Nero, Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.

Actors : Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Glenda Jackson, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

Actors : Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Alan Arkin, Peter Falk,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Lee Remick,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A Russian officer is sent to USA to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Pierre Richard, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Yves Robert,

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Don Adams, Rhonda Fleming, Andrea Howard,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.

Actors : James Mason, Paul Newman, Harry Andrews, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : John Huston,

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.

Actors : Meadowlark Lemon, Julius Erving, Jonathan Winters, Jack Kehoe,
Directors : Gilbert Moses,

The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...

Actors : Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.

Actors : Roger Moore, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvesitite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly...