Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Rossella Falk,
Directors : Paolo Cavara,

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black ...

Actors : Anjanette Comer, Marianna Hill, Ruth Roman, Susanne Zenor,
Directors : Ted Post,

A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.

Actors : Patrick O'Neal, Mary Woronov, James Patterson, Astrid Heeren,
Directors : Theodore Gershuny,

A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Bo Hopkins, Shelley Winters, John Huston,
Directors : Ovidio G. Assonitis,

A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.

Actors : Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden, Pam Grier,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, ...

Actors : Norman Burton, Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford,
Directors : Vernon Zimmerman,

A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.

Actors : Jerry Delony, Uschi Digard, Dyanne Thorne, Max Thayer,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

In the vast deserts of the Middle East, the lascivious tigress Ilsa joins the white flesh slavery ring of a maniacal sheikh overlord.

Actors : Charles Aznavour, Maria Rohm, Stéphane Audran, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Actors : Mia Farrow, Robin Bailey, Dorothy Alison, Diane Grayson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A young blind woman is pursued by a maniac while staying with family in their country manor.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.

Actors : Enrico Maria Salerno, Flavio Bucci, Gianfranco De Grassi, Macha Méril,
Directors : Aldo Lado,

A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.

Actors : Joop Doderer, Derek Jacobi, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.

Actors : Radoslav Brzobohatý, Gustav Opocenský, Jirina Bohdalová, Miroslav Holub,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of ...

Actors : Howard Ross, Edwige Fenech, Ira von Fürstenberg, William Berger,
Directors : Mario Bava,

A small group of people come to an island to relax but soon find themselves trapped on the island with a murderer in their midst.

Actors : Clotilde Joano, Claude Piéplu, Michel Piccoli, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's ...

Actors : Corinne Cléry, Franco Nero, Joshua Sinclair, David Hess,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to a sanctuary. In return he agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, George Hilton, Julián Ugarte,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers.

Actors : Robert Walden, Deborah Winters, Mark Goddard, Zalman King,
Directors : Jeff Lieberman,

A bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?

Actors : Michel Constantin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Sergio Sollima,

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.