Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Doris Roberts, Shirley Stoler, Mary Jane Higby, Tony Lo Bianco,

An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Om Prakash, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

A tough and honest police officer clashes with a crime boss who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be his parents' murderer.

Actors : Carol Speed, Richard Pryor, Max Julien, Don Gordon,
Directors : Michael Campus,

Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the ...

Actors : Monica Gayle, Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Asher Brauner,
Directors : Jack Hill,

The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighbourhood.

Actors : Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...

Actors : Michiyo Ohkusu, Shingo Yamashiro, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Five warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each holds a part of information needed to complete the assassination of a mad clan leader.

Actors : Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, Scott Wilson, Kim Darby,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the 1948 British film...

Actors : Sven Wollter, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Håkan Serner, Thomas Hellberg,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

Police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve. They discover that Nyman was a very tough policeman who received ...

Actors : Perry King, Louis Gossett Jr., Clyde Kusatsu, Charles Durning,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Charles Bronson, John Houseman,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents.

Actors : Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bagot, Roland Amstutz, Michel Albertini, Yves Montand,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.

Actors : Capucine, Ugo Bologna, Anthony Quinn, Adriano Celentano,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

During the 1920s France, con-men Philip and Felice escape prison and join forces to swindle Philip's rich ex-wife Belle.

Actors : Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Terence Young,

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.

Actors : Akemi Negishi, Yôko Hori, Ryôko Ema, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Actors : Ian McShane, Donald Sinden, Richard Burton, Nigel Davenport,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his ...

Actors : Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Sidney Poitier, John Amos,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans but their tricks attract the mob's attention.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, George Segal, Karen Black,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Actors : J.A. Preston, Paula Kelly, Lawrence Cook, Janet League,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.