Best Cop movies of 1970s

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 : Akiko Nishina, Keiko Kishi, Kôji Kita, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. ...

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Gastone Moschin, Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

A cop is consumed with the desire to get revenge on the crook who shot his wife to death during a robbery. The crook in question is Marseilles who is trying to assemble funds for his own retirement.

Actors : Ligia Diniz, Paulo Gracindo, Paulo Guarnieri, Cristina Aché,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracts a serial killer of taxi-drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, ...

Actors : Louis Julien, Dora Doll, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Under the influence of drugs, a teenager, Eddy, kills a policeman. His father, Jacques, pleads extenuating circumstances and nearly succeeds in gaining the confidence of the policeman's widow. But the press reveals that Jacques is an ex-gangster who has spent time in prison.

Actors : Rosie Stone, Frank Bannon, Joshua Bryant, Linda York,

Two Los Angeles detectives are assigned to track down and arrest a brutal rapist-murderer terrorizing the city. Their job is complicated by the fact that the killer is able to avoid capture because he can pose as a woman.

Actors : Floy Dean, Teresa Graves, Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth,
Directors : Jack Arnold,

Private detective investigated a series of murders connected with a drug ring in Venice, California.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Masaru Shiga, Janet Hatta, Eiko Matsuda,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A tough-as-nails cop from Okinawa investigates a savage murder in Tokyo's nightlife district. Originally dismissed as a bumpkin, he soon proves more savvy than the local police.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Elke Sommer, Ray Lovelock, Ettore Manni,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

An undercover cop goes to jail to infiltrate a gang and uses his assignment to get revenge.

Actors : Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only...

Actors : Frank Wolff, Raf Vallone, Gillian Bray, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, intellectually disabled woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the...

Actors : Ferdinando Murolo, Luc Merenda, Enzo Cannavale, Adolfo Lastretti,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

Police Commissioner Dario Mauri investigates the activities of a drug ring led by Don Domenico Laurenzi.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Richard Egan, Bradford Dillman, Leslie Nielsen,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amsterdam drug cartel, who wants out of the ...

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Claude Jade, Frederick Stafford, Femi Benussi,
Directors : Germán Lorente,

Sandro, a detective, finds his wife strangled. His girl-friend Tiffany, who works as photographer, makes a "Blow up" from a photo, what Sandro finds beside the victim. Sandro and Tiffany ...

Actors : Perry King, Tisa Farrow, George Kennedy, Don Stroud,
Directors : William Fruet,

The members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up murdered. The police soon begin to suspect that he is in fact the killer. He knows he isn't, and must find the real killer ...

Actors : Peter De Anda, Raymond St. Jacques, Percy Rodrigues, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Mark Warren,

Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black ...

Actors : Alan Lake, Mary Millington, Glynn Edwards, Gavin Campbell,
Directors : Willy Roe,

Two detectives are drawn into the world of porn, while investigating murders of centrefolds...

Actors : Morgan Woodward, Timothy Bottoms, Bo Hopkins, Susan George,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.

Actors : Shinsuke Ashida, Keiko Matsuzaka, Tetsuya Watari, Tarô Shigaki,
Directors : Azuma Morisaki,

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works ...

Actors : Susan O'Connell, Garry Goodrow, Max Gail, Michael Paul Chan,
Directors : Murray Mintz,

The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a ...