Best Investigation movies of 1970s

Actors : Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.

Actors : Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Earle Edgerton, Kaly Mills,
Directors : Leonard Kirtman,

A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers.

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Tamaki Katsura, Yôko Azusa, Yuri Yamashina,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

Actors : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

Actors : Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher, Tsilla Chelton, Marcel Marceau,
Directors : William Castle,

A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.

Actors : Tom Pittman, Bob Jones, Ray Lynch, Hal Reed,
Directors : Tom Hanson,

The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent, truck ...

Actors : Leonora Fani, Jeff Blynn, Gianni Dei, Michele Renzullo,
Directors : Mario Landi,

In Venice a detective is on the trail of a killer who commits a double murder (a married couple) then more grisly killings occur. Sex, drugs, gore and perversions are ingredients of this sadistic and sleazy giallo.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sacha Distel, Dominique Sanda, Carla Gravina,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

A strange series of murders are being committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissionaire Carella is in charge and tries desperately to find a missing link between all of these ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

Actors : Dana Wynter, Jay Silverheels, Michael Burns, Glenn Ford,
Directors : Gary Nelson,

A bounty hunter takes in the son of a man he killed.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Michèle Morgan, Philippe Léotard, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A very unorthodox police inspector is assigned to investigate a millionaire's mysterious death.

Actors : Ralph Bellamy, Forrest Tucker, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.

Actors : Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Eddie Egan, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Howard W. Koch,

After his suspension for the shooting death of drug runner, a New York City cop vows to keep the streets clean, any way he can.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Sylva Koscina, Annabella Incontrera, Farley Granger,
Directors : Roberto Bianchi Montero,

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Actors : Johnny Sekka, Peter Cushing, Alexander Davion, Patrick Macnee,
Directors : Robert Hartford-Davis,

A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that, wherever he has been, certain unsolved murders ...

Actors : Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, E.G. Marshall, Teresa Kelly,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state governor must decide on a person who will ...

Actors : Perla Cristal, Jean Seberg, Marisol, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Juan Antonio Bardem,

A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, Libuse Holeckova, Hana Brejchová, Jana Vanková,
Directors : Petr Schulhoff,

Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a...

Actors : Luanne Roberts, Buddy Pantsari, Julie Conners, John Alderman,
Directors : Jonathan Lucas,

A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Ralph Waite, Kathleen Cody, Dianne Hull,
Directors : Thomas J. Schmidt,

Two girls on their way to a hippie encounter session pick up a crazed Vietnam veteran, who might just be the serial killer who is murdering hippies in the area.