Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Kayoko Shiraishi, Meiko Kaji, Yukie Kagawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid-70's New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister.

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Anita Strindberg, George Hilton, Ida Galli,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Moses Gunn, Anthony Perkins, Berry Berenson,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.

Actors : Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier, Fred Williamson, Jim Brown,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of ...

Actors : Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

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 : Maribel Martín, Cristina Galbó, Lilli Palmer, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Narciso Ibáñez Serrador,

A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.

Actors : Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Stéphane Audran, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

Actors : François Maistre, Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, Paolo Giusti,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves...

Actors : Robert Hossein, Dyan Cannon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

In 1970s Athens a group of professional burglars plan an emerald heist from the home of a gem collector but the corrupt Greek police inspector Abel Zacharia is on their trail.

Actors : Gino Santercole, Tomas Milian, Laura Belli, Henry Silva,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps the daughter of a rich man, prompting a hardened detective to work outside the law to pursue him.

Actors : George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero,
Directors : Aldo Lado,

A young girl is brutally murdered somewhere in France. Sometime later, the same thing happens to the daughter of a well-known sculptor. This time the parents (the sculptor and his wife) ...

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Jean Négroni, Patrick Fierry, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before ...

Actors : Bill Cosby, Ta-Ronce Allen, Rosalind Cash, Robert Culp,
Directors : Robert Culp,

Bill Cosby and Robert Culp ("I Spy") are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted "film noir." Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.

Actors : Woody Strode, Henry Silva, Mario Adorf, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but ...

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Nino Castelnuovo, Femi Benussi, Solvi Stubing,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by...

Actors : Roger Moore, Bradford Dillman, Ray Milland, Susannah York,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudine Auger, Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective ...

Actors : Mireille Darc, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Alain Delon,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

One early morning deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano ...