Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover, Edward Cross, Rod Perry,
Directors : Lee Frost,

General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's ...

Actors : Milos Kopecký, Rudolf Hrusínský, Václav Lohniský, Michal Docolomanský,
Directors : Oldrich Lipský,

When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.

Actors : Tony King, Carl Lee, Paul Winfield, David Downing,
Directors : Ossie Davis,

Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem.

Actors : Ian McShane, Jill St. John, Edward Woodward, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Giampiero Albertini, Arthur Kennedy, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Actors : Paul Muller, Roger Darton, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.

Actors : Marc Porel, Richard Conte, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Suzanne Pleshette, Ossie Davis, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Dom DeLuise,

Three cops try to set up a sting by establishing their own Fencing operation. They have less than complete support from above and as they begin mingling more and more with the underworld ...

Actors : Jacqueline Giroux, Erik Estrada, Jo-Ann Robinson, Pat Boone,
Directors : Don Murray,

Crusading minister gets involved in the lives of members of a New York street gang.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Jennifer O'Neill, James Coburn, Skye Aubrey,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

At a Boston hospital, Dr. Carey becomes an amateur sleuth to help clear a colleague who's accused of botching an illegal abortion that kills a 15 year old girl.

Actors : Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy, Alain Delon, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Alain Jessua,

Doctors at a rejuvenation clinic discover a formula that will prevent aging. However, it involves harvesting the blood and body parts of young men, a process that the doctors aren't particularly averse to.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo, Franco Nero, Claudio Gora,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reaches everything and everybody. A police inspector and a deputy public ...

Actors : Denholm Elliott, Dudley Moore, Joan Greenwood, Peter Cook,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

A Sherlock Holmes spoof about a family that has been haunted for years by the curse of a horrible hound.

Actors : Diana Dors, Peter Cushing, Georgia Brown, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

Already three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, looking like suicides. However after a mysterious accident of a bus with the last three trustees and 30 ...

Actors : Blanche Kommerell, Erwin Geschonneck, Vlastimil Brodský, Henry Hübchen,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ...

Actors : Bernard Blier, Charles Gérard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to ...

Actors : David Niven, Timothy West, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Reynolds,

Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.

Actors : James Woods, Steve Railsback, Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are ...

Actors : Bo Svenson, Robert DoQui, Luke Askew, John Davis Chandler,
Directors : Earl Bellamy,

Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960's Tennessee.