Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela, Charly Bravo, Vicente Parra,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Tisha Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

Everyone figures Lou Ford, a small-town, Montana, deputy sheriff, to be a normal, good-old-boy kind of regular Joe. But no one knows about "the sickness" that drives him to kill.

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Gian Maria Volontè, Charles Cioffi, Silverio Blasi,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.

Actors : Renzo Palmer, Fabio Testi, Orso Maria Guerrini, Vincent Gardenia,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.

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 : Betty Pei Ti, Charlie Chin, Jackie Chan, Qiu Yuen,
Directors : Mu Chu,

Incriminating evidence against a gang is left in a cab when a gang member dies in it. The gang chases the innocent cab driver, who receives help from the dead gangster's sister - a tough police woman.

Actors : Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Yayoi Watanabe, Reisen Ri, Mikio Narita,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.

Actors : Ken Goodlet, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus, Mick Jagger,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Based on a true story, Ned Kelly is unable to support his family in the Australian outback, he turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw ...

Actors : James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine,
Directors : Robert Parrish,

When a US intelligence agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with turns out to be an old friend.

Actors : Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Actors : Judith Brown, Jennifer Gan, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier,
Directors : Gerardo de Leon,

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Lino Ventura, Julien Guiomar, Victor Lanoux,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit...

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 : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Dobrescu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

Set in post war Romania, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war is now a police detective and sets about clearing his city of gangsters and black marketeers.

Actors : Louise Lasser, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman, James Caan,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to ...

Actors : Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King, Fred Williamson, Pam Grier,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince ...

Actors : Barry Newman, Dolph Sweet, John Vernon, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. By setting himself up as a criminal, he plans to get close to a ...

Actors : Gordon Jackson, Denholm Elliott, Bette Davis, Robert Wagner,
Directors : David Greene,

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Fuji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.