Best Thriller movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : Joop Doderer, Richard Attenborough, Derek Jacobi, 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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 : Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Leslie Nielsen, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : William Girdler,

A battle for survival as hikers encounter a chemically imbalanced forest.

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 : Sean Connery, Cornelia Sharpe, Albert Paulsen, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Influential Arab diplomat becomes the target of numerous assassination attempts, when he announces his plan to make peace with Israel by letting them join the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

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 : Mario Scaccia, Mimsy Farmer, Jho Jhenkins, Maurizio Bonuglia,
Directors : Francesco Barilli,

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Actors : Roger Moore, Alastair Mackenzie, Hildegard Neil, Hugh Mackenzie,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

Harold Pelham encounters a duplicate of himself in the aftermath of a car crash. After that moment, his life is upset.

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 : 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 : Robert Hossein, Dyan Cannon, Omar Sharif, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
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.