Best Thriller movies of 1970s

Actors : Marilù Tolo, Salvo Randone, George Hilton, William Berger,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

A mysterious decapitation leads Inspector Peretti into a case of blackmail, deceit and the unsolved kidnapping of a young girl.

Actors : Shane Briant, Katya Wyeth, James Bolam, Rita Tushingham,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.

Actors : Antonio Iranzo, Alberto Dalbés, Claudio Undari, Emma Cohen,
Directors : Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent,

A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young ...

Actors : Judy Geeson, Simon Oates, John Paul, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

Actors : Jacques Herlin, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Actors : Don Marshall, Phyllis Davis, Ena Hartman, Marta Kristen,
Directors : Stephanie Rothman,

It's every man and woman for himself on an island where convicted murderers are dumped, rather than kept in prison.

Actors : Andrea Montchal, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Greta Schmidt,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power ...

Actors : Yul Brynner, Dirk Bogarde, Henry Fonda, Philippe Noiret,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

A soviet diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West.

Actors : Donald Pilon, Jean-Louis Roux, Christopher Plummer, Karen Black,
Directors : Harvey Hart,

A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.

Actors : Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Rochefort, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

Bart Cordell, is unanimously considered as a daddy's boy and an insignificant playboy. So, when he suddenly becomes head of his father's financial empire following his death, nobody ...

Actors : Yumi Kanei, Hiroshi Tsukata, Masakazu Tamura, Meiko Kaji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Bernard Le Coq, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jean Chapot,

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.

Actors : Harry Reems, Chesty Morgan, Richard Towers, Saul Meth,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers...

Actors : Jay North, Angel Tompkins, Anthony James, Marlene Schmidt,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, whose husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also...

Actors : Jean Martin, Michael Lonsdale, Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through ...

Actors : James Mason, Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Aram Avakian,

Independent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.

Actors : Duke Mitchell, Louis Zito, Vic Caesar, Lorenzo Dodo,
Directors : Duke Mitchell,

Mimi Miceli Jr. is, the son of a Mafia don who was exiled back to Sicily. He wants to get back into the family business and transplant it from New York to Hollywood. After the kidnapping ...

Actors : Yôko Shimada, Kensaku Morita, Gô Katô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Actors : Fabio Testi, Mariangela Melato, Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts the American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and brings him to a farm in ...

Actors : Ines Pellegrini, Martine Brochard, Andrés Mejuto, John Richardson,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A maniac killer in a red cape and hood is killing off American tourists on a tour bus by gouging out their eyeballs.