Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Ta-Ronce Allen, Bill Cosby, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : François Maistre, Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, 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 : Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Soumitra Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

The musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.

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 ...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Marie-France Pisier, John Beck,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.

Actors : Robin Gammell, Hal Holbrook, Ken James, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Peter Carter,

Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.

Actors : Annie Cordy, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's ...

Actors : Andreas Mannkopff, Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Herbert Fux,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

Actors : James Westmoreland, Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence,
Directors : Robert Hammer,

A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.

Actors : Richard Crenna, Cassie Yates, Andrew Prine, Joanna Pettet,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A doctor buys a Civil War era dilapidated mansion and hires a few friends to fix it up but the mansion is haunted.

Actors : Alexandra Bastedo, John Hurt, Peter Cushing, Gwen Watford,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his...

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, Stephen Furst,
Directors : Danny Steinmann,

A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement.

Actors : Ryouko Ima, Yayoi Watanabe, Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

In order to investigate her mother's strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti, Marino Masé,
Directors : Emilio Miraglia,

When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends. Is the killer their ancestor,...